During this upload we’re based in the western suburbs of Sydney, seeing two of the side loaders operated by Fairfield City Council. In this area the council does all domestic collections in-house with its own staff and fleet, operating a big group of waste compactors with blue bodies and white cabs. For many years the side loader machinery here has consisted of MacDonald Johnston and Iveco products, with the 2016 model GenV/ACCOs starring in this video being no exception. However, the most recent truck orders have seen a switch to Isuzu for the side loader cab chassis and Merc Benz for the big rear loaders, yet the MJ/Bucher body tradition continues.
I wanted to return to Fairfield for some modern footage, showing the newer side lifts in action with the cool blue scheme and council branding on clear display in daylight. So on a Monday in August 2020, I got out there to locate truck 544 knocking over a recycling run in Lansvale during sunrise, then later in the morning I found truck 578 completing the remainder of a garbage run in Old Guildford. I’ve previously uploaded three videos of Fairfield recycling from when the job was contracted out to WSN/SITA, before the council brought it back in-house in 2015. I also haven’t really shown much of the garbage collection from this location, which is an old system weekly 240L bin service, where household rubbish and garden waste goes into the same bin together.
