ACT Trucks Heading Out

We’ve got ourselves another trucks-leaving-the-yard video this week, which I took years ago in 2012 while visiting the ACT. Back then Cleanaway and SITA had their depots to service the ACT and Queanbeyan regions based just a few properties away from each other in the industrial suburb of Hume. Upon SITA/SUEZ picking up the ACT residential collections contract, they moved out of the area to a brand new and larger site to park their substantial fleet. I was unable to capture even the basic variety of garbage trucks on video operating in the area in the past, so the next best thing I could do was pictures and some clips of the trucks leaving their homes. I achieved this as best I could early on a Monday morning, getting up around 1am so I could be outside on the street for the earliest departures. There was definitely a big variety of equipment working in the area back then, a lot of which would have been well and truly retired by now, just a bummer I wasn’t able to try and catch a few of the special/rare ones in action. I won’t even bother going into the makes/models, maybe see what you can identify out of what is seen exiting and driving down the road. Unfortunately the available street lighting wasn’t the greatest during the early hours, so visibility sucks until sunrise in the second half of the video. We watch some SITA machinery taking off from the start, and then we see the majority vehicular action from the Cleanaway operations.