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Floyd R. Turbo

(33,286 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:01 AM Jul 2025

I call BS! I have to wear a seatbelt but the fireman is allowed to

hang off the back of the truck!

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I call BS! I have to wear a seatbelt but the fireman is allowed to (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2025 OP

Get yourself True Dough Jul 2025 #1

🤗🛴 Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2025 #2

So do the garbage men Alpeduez21 Jul 2025 #3

Not Here! ProfessorGAC Jul 2025 #4

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2025 #5

True Dough

(27,314 posts)

1. Get yourself

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:54 AM

Jul 2025

a nice scooter!

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,286 posts)

2. 🤗🛴

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:10 PM

Jul 2025

Alpeduez21

(2,073 posts)

3. So do the garbage men

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:20 PM

Jul 2025

Freedom is free if we can’t all do it!

ProfessorGAC

(77,297 posts)

4. Not Here!

Reply to Alpeduez21 (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:35 PM

Jul 2025

There's only one person per truck.
The trucks have lift forks to grab the big bins and dump them.
95%+ of their stops, they don't even have to get out of the truck.
They do take one "big" item per week that is not in the bin. If it's something really bug like a couch or refrigerator, they ask to call ahead. They send a supervisor out to meet them at that address and help load it.
It's a way less physically taxing job than it used to be. I still wouldn't want to do it, but it's not the body beater it once was.

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,286 posts)

5. 🤗

Reply to Alpeduez21 (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:42 PM

Jul 2025

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