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Presumably since the cans get emptied so much less often they can get big savings by skipping 3rd street entirely because none of the cans is reporting full.
by tsotha 14y ago
Presumably since the cans get emptied so much less often they can get big savings by skipping 3rd street entirely because none of the cans is reporting full.
- VLM 14y agoMaybe, but they still have to drive past the 3rd street cans on the way from the full cans on 2nd street to the full cans on 4th street. I'm thinking windshield time is much larger than emptying time. Basically garbage truck drivers probably spend a lot more time driving than hoisting trash cans. Its like the mailman argument. If I don't get any mail today, my mailman can't magically teleport past my house. True he does save the time of opening a box and tossing some sorted mail in, but that action only takes a tiny fraction of the time of walking 100 feet past my property. A registered mail transaction takes a LONG time like 5 minutes and if more people got registered mail (or fewer got junk mail) then the ratio would flip and he'd save huge time.
- tsotha 14y ago>Its like the mailman argument. If I don't get any mail today, my mailman can't magically teleport past my house. No, but he can save a lot of time by not turning down your street at all.