Collections and Transfer

Up and Running

By Sean Kilcarr

The right specifications and maintenance strategy can help fleets maximize equipment life, while minimizing expensive downtime and expensive repairs....

Out of Harm's Way

By Jennifer Grzeskowiak

The industry is stepping up its efforts to keep its workers safe....

Boxcar Blues

By Chaz Miller

For the last four years, state and local officials, private and public sector haulers, and environmentalists have been united in an intense battle over...

Analyze This

By Sean Kilcarr

When you visit the doctor's office for a checkup, one of the first things the nurse does is draw blood from your arm, because blood tests are an easy...

Code Remedy

By Barry Shanoff

Who says you can't fight city hall and win? Sometimes yes, it hurts to say this you can even do it without a lawyer. Just ask Joseph Vince of Garfield...

On Board

By Alice P. Jacobsohn

The environmental industry associations (EIA) elected three new members to its Board of Trustees on Nov. 7. Starting in January 2008, Charles Appleby,...

Old Tannenbaum

Steven Averett, Managing Editor

According to the national christmas tree Association (NCTA), between 28 and 30 million natural Christmas trees will be sold in the United States during...

Go with the Flow

BY CHRIS CARLSON

The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Md., has issued a statement on flow control and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in...

The High Cost of Doing Business

By Michael Fickes

Recently, the peoria disposal co. (PDC) in Peoria, Ill., acquired a small hauler. Among the new customers that came with the acquisition were residents...

Closing Ranks

By Chris Carlson

Officials of waste industries USA, Raleigh, N.C., are looking to take the company private. They say being publicly traded has narrowed the company's investment...

Rigs in Space

By Chris Carlson

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently approved a grant request from the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA)...

Return Trip

By Barry Shanoff

Federal law does not necessarily preclude all state regulation of operations and conditions at sites where solid waste is loaded onto rail cars, according...

On the Map

By Michael Fickes

Not long ago, a school bus and a refuse collection truck from LeMay Enterprises Inc. in Tacoma, Wash., collided. The school bus driver said the LeMay...

Double Duty

By Jennifer Grzeskowiak

Maybe you're considering taking on a fully automated residential route, but only have a fleet of front loaders. Or, perhaps you're bidding on a residential...

Keeping Tabs

By Bruce A. Hooker

Editor's note: This article continues the driver safety series that appeared in the April, June and September issues. Previous articles focused on driver...

Queen of Carts

Deanna Hart, Assistant Editor

Each trash can that Santa Fe, N.M., garbage truck driver Laurie DeHerrera approaches for pick up presents a new challenge. For nearly seven months, DeHerrera...

UPDATES

Trail King Industries, Mitchell, S.D., opened a new manufacturing plant in Fargo, N.D., which spans 160,000 square feet and employs 175 workers. Sonocco,...

Avoiding the Sting

By Chris Calson

Canadian garbage collectors have to deal with an entirely new job hazard wasps. The Edmonton Sun has reported that the city's waste management department...

Glad Tidings

By Steven Averett

Trash bag ads on garbage trucks help NYC anti-litter campaign....

Bet on Reno

By Michael Fickes

Haulers come up aces in a challenging waste market....

Future Fuels?

By Stephen Ursery

From Time to Time, You will Hear of a solid waste company converting its fleet to the use of alternative fuels. In late September, Allied Waste Industries'...

Contract Intact

By Kate McGinn

Crafting a service agreement that will protect your firm...

Oy Canada

By Barry Shanoff

Flow control hits the land of the maple leaf....

HAUL TALK

By Steven Averett

The 11th Plague Threats of fire and brimstone not keeping the congregation in line? There's nothing like a special delivery of flaming garbage to snap...