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Because it's brilliant. They need to do both: Drive a big truck around the city streets pushing a plow to clear them of snow and ice And Drive a big truck a
by iancmceachern 4y ago
Because it's brilliant.
They need to do both:
Drive a big truck around the city streets pushing a plow to clear them of snow and ice
And
Drive a big truck around to collect garbage
It's much more efficient to do both at the same time, use the same trucks and skilled labor to run them.
It's a classic two birds one stone situation
- moffkalast 4y agoActually hold on, we can also put people on these trucks. They can also serve as busses! And wait, attach a trailer and they can also replace semi trucks! Just use one truck to do all city related things, how neat is that? /s You can just go on, making it less and less efficient each step.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThankfully the physical requirements to turn a garbage trunk into a snow plow are minimal. And it's more inefficient to have an idle fleet for huge parts of the year than to use slightly awkward plows.
- iancmceachern 4y agoYou literally just described a pickup truck, the highest selling car/truck in America. They're used as busses, all kinds of repair trucks, they can go in railroad tracks, etc. Point is, a truck that plows snow and a truck that is a trash truck are mostly the same thing. You take a diesel cab truck chassis, and add either a plow or a trash compactor to it. It's also easy to add both. It's not as if the trash trucks in cities that don't use them to plow are some highly specialized thing. They're the same trucks as new york has, just no plow. A plow bolts on.
- simmonmt 4y agoNit: They don't do both at the same time. The trucks are either plowing snow or they're picking up trash. That's why the trash piles up until the snow is cleared. After big storms you can end up with pretty epic piles of garbage collecting on sidewalks.
- iancmceachern 4y agoThanks, true. Still get the economy of not having to buy twice as many big trucks