The Village of Malverne on Tuesday is set to auction off the oldest member of its six-vehicle sanitation fleet — a 2001 Mack rear-load garbage truck with more than 140,000 miles on it.

The department has ordered seven electric rear loader garbage trucks, custom-made by Mack and costing more than $523,000 each, with delivery slated for the spring.

The city says, in order to meet the ongoing "service failures" caused by Waste Pro, it's leasing nine rear-loader garbage trucks. The city is also in the process of hiring people to operate those ...

Toms River's Public Works Department uses 20 automated and five conventional (rear-loading) trash trucks to pick up garbage, along with nine automated and nine rear-loading recycling trucks, he said.

One of the main problems with alleyway collection is that it often requires the use of rear-load garbage trucks with a driver and two contract laborers riding on the back. Not only are those ...