Silverado Canyon - Residential (WM)

Waste Management of Orange County services the unincorporated franchise area of Silverado Canyon using some pretty unique garbage trucks. Due to all the extremely tight, one lane streets, WM has to use these Amrep shuttle trucks to collect garbage and green waste from the homes located in the Canyon. Recycling carts have to be brought to the main street for larger, full size ASLs to service them, so many people just opt for the one-pass system.

(0:00) - 102285: Here is one of the two shuttle trucks that work in the Canyon. Victor is out here every Thursday going through the narrow streets. Super nice driver who didn't mind us following him around even though the streets he serviced were so tight we couldn't even pass on foot! I liked this truck a lot because the arm is a lot more loose, and so it flips lids a little more easily. We followed this truck for a good 30 minutes to 1 hour and this was all the footage I got because of how hard it was to get shots. One cool story about this truck is that it was supposedly sent up to WM of Ukiah for a month which is quite a journey!

(0:21) - 207932: Martin runs the front loader that empties out the shuttle bodies throughout the day. The truck he's in is the best running Mack MR Wittke at Irvine. We've seen it in action on a commercial route before, so good to see it's still performing very well. These Wittkes are typically used for heavy duty routes so I'm glad to see that they bring one of these into the Canyon rather than a "Think Green, Think Clean" Amrep FL.

(1:18) - 103919: Here is WM's newest shuttle truck! Amrep did a really good job with this truck. It hoists the body on much quicker than the Freightliner and seems to actually have a lot of power, especially for a CNG truck. I was a huge fan of the whole POD system so this was a nice throwback to that. Would have been so cool if Oceanside got a fleet of shuttle ASLs like this haha. This truck was actually in a really bad accident a few years back, but it got a completely new cab and chassis so I'm glad it's still around. Sal told us that he and all the other Silverado drivers would rather work out in this area than in Laguna Beach, which was a huge surprise to hear because this area looks extremely difficult!

(8:13) - 104521: One of three full size ASLs that collects carts from the main roads in the area. It was funny seeing them collect out here because they literally take up the entire road even though it's a two lane highway!

(8:18) - 103919, 102285, and 207932: Here is another clip of Martin, Sal, and Victor emptying out the bodies before heading into Silverado for yet another round of emptying carts. They were extremely behind today because both shuttles had problems in the morning so they didn't start until 10 AM. Usually, there's a little more action with an Insta-Bin truck bringing containers and another FL dumping the bodies and bins but the scheduling was so off that we didn't get to see that.

Thanks to all the awesome drivers at WM of Orange County for letting us film and follow them throughout the route! Another thanks to Moises for inviting me out here and driving us around through the canyon, and to Lucas for route info. Definitely the strangest route I've been to!