Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors

Collect and dump refuse or recyclable materials from containers into truck. May drive truck.

Job Task

• Provide quotes for refuse collection contracts.
• Communicate with dispatchers concerning delays, unsafe sites, accidents, equipment breakdowns, and other maintenance problems.
• Dismount garbage trucks to collect garbage and remount trucks to ride to the next collection point.
• Drive to disposal sites to empty trucks that have been filled.
• Drive trucks along established routes through residential streets and alleys, or through business and industrial areas.
• Operate automated or semi-automated hoisting devices that raise refuse bins and dump contents into openings in truck bodies.
• Operate equipment that compresses the collected refuse.
• Sort items set out for recycling and throw materials into designated truck compartments.
• Tag garbage or recycling containers to inform customers of problems such as excess garbage or inclusion of items that are not permitted.
• Clean trucks and compactor bodies after routes have been completed.
• Fill out any needed reports for defective equipment.
• Inspect trucks prior to beginning routes to ensure safe operating condition.
• Keep informed of road and weather conditions to determine how routes will be affected.
• Refuel trucks and add other necessary fluids, such as oil.
• Organize schedules for refuse collection.

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