Malcolm Hoar wrote:
Aside from the risks of injury/damage from the weights,
bear in mind that many of the modern garbage trucks with
the robot arms to lift/empty the bins are also equipped
with weight sensors. If the total weight of the bin
exceeds a preset threshold, it won't be emptied.


They must not be that advanced in Charlotte, NC. I was barely able to roll a
neighbor's can out for him once, it was so stuffed with construction waste
including cement blocks, etc. The city's trucks emptied it just like any other.
Must have made one hell of a noise when all the cement block hit the interior of
the truck.

We just have the one guy on the truck. He drives it and operates the arm.
Nobody ever physically touches a can except for the homeowner. And once the
crap's in the truck, it's like it never happened, even if the payload was
officially contraband. The driver isn't going to wade into the detritus just to
fish out your cement blocks.


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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com