Afternoon Recycling -
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Jumped at the opportunity to film 71169, means I now have footage of both ex Devonport Isuzus.
A few months back, Veolia purchased 2 Isuzus of differing specs from Devonport City Council to add to their southern fleet. Needing new vehicles but being held back by 12+ month wait times for new vehicles, they took the opportunity to cop these two little low kilometre units. I am unaware what Devonport City Council have replaced these with, I know they also had an Isuzu GenV 18 but I don't know if they sold that off as well or not.
71168 is a fairly standard FV series Isuzu, which is Isuzu's medium duty series which are designed for light tip trucks and garbage trucks. 168 is specced with the 300hp motor which is pretty industry standard for carrying the smaller bodies, or sometimes larger for recycling.
However interestingly, 71169, which is slightly newer than 168, is an FX series which is Isuzu's heavy duty range, running a 350hp motor which seems to run a bit better than the 220Kw motors (it also has some extra safety and nice to have features). My guess is that DCC bought this to trial more power to battle the topology of the area. This motor seems to handle the Bucher auto rev better than the weaker motor, and the truck doesn't have the loud air brake sounds of the FV series. 169 doesn't have a reverse beeper either which is interesting as I thought it would be a requirement for Veolia's strict safety standards.
Both trucks share some of the first Gen6 18m bodies, although as @TassieGarbo mentioned, 168 seems to have a longer arm than the standard 18m.
This truck has been filmed by @GunzelingGarbo102 whilst in ran for the council which is definitely worth a watch, Veolia has done very little to this truck besides giving it some branding and safety stickers. The last few months will have been this trucks first time picking up recycling, packs pretty good because of the smaller bins.
Cheers for watching and reading!
Love the sound of it
awsome work
Cheers mate
Back in Devonport we had it in garbage cause the accos did recycling but now we got dennises on fogo , garbage and recycling
Amazing video mate
@@garbagetrucksofsanmarcosca thanks mate
Cool mate, I just found an old euro 3 side pak that DCC used to have
I also found an old Circular Head euro 4 S2 or S3 Spak
Awesome
Ah yeah, do you have a photo
What will happen to these trucks and omder ones when the new ones arrive why are they getting more how old are these and what type of truck will they be getting @wasteintasmania
Nice one mate! I like how even though the top taillights are in a different spot, the mounting holes are still in the normal place haha. The FX Isuzu does seem to have a lot more go than the other one aye. I find it odd that these newer style of trucks/engines almost always seem to struggle a lot more than the E5 and older Accos, even though the singles are only 260 or 280hp on them. Might be the extra emissions gear or somthing having an effect. Great filming as always too mate - cheers!
@@TassieGarbo cheers mate! Haha I noticed that, I wonder why they put them there. Yeah it is interesting, I wonder how much adding all the emissions control and being as fuel efficient as possible strips back the raw torque output. Its amazing how much the Volvo Buchers struggle compared to the Euro 5 Cummins Ivecos, the 280s can barely climb hills when full.
Thanks mate!
First time capturing this truck and driver too i reckon.
Sure was
Nice one mate! Nifty little truck this one, good to see veolia getting some 'new' trucks haha. First Isuzus they’ve gotten in a long time! I guess it makes sense to keep older units running if there in good condition, especially with what you stated with long wait times for new trucks, They’ve jumped up a bit in their numbering, from 71122, must have some other new units somewhere. I noticed this one is a 165/350, and 71168 is a 165/300, the arm on this truck looks a bit off, is it slightly longer than normal? has it possibly come of a 22m? I do prefer these older SPORT xx bodies over the newer SPORT SLxx bodies, come to think of it, did they ever produce the XTreme body for a single axle configuration? I can only recall seeing them on standard dual axle setups.
Goes pretty good on recycle, with the smaller bins, I find it funny that pretty much every bin has glass in it lol.
Very enjoyable watch, can’t wait for the video of 71168 on garbage. I'm hanging around to see one of these Isuzus on greenwaste.
Cheers mate
Cheers mate! Sure is, 71, 168 and 169 are the first "new" side loaders the southern depot's seen since 71114 and 71117 in 2020. These Isuzus are some of the best conditioned trucks we have and some of the lowest Kms. We've received quite a few new rearloaders recently, there's a Eurocargo around which is 71127 and a Hino which is 71134, no clue what the others are though.
I see what you mean about the arm looking off, it looks even more off on 168, although the arms look the same so I assume it's just due to chassis model differences. They seem longer than the standard 18m arm, I believe Darebin's old Ivecos run 29m arms, they look too small to be 25m arms so I'd say you might be right.
These Gen6 18s seem to be more of an update with new features rather than a body redesign like the Sport SL series.
I believe there wasn't an Xtreme offered on a 4x2, there used to be a longer version of the single axle body when they were under MacDonald Johnston, I believe a 20m body, that still fit on the 4x2 (71063 was one). But I believe this was an option once Bucher acquired MJ. For a few years that wasn't an option, it seems the Xtreme was a successor to that, followed by the now SL200 introduced with the body redesigns. The SL240 is an updated shorter wheelbase version of the 25m, but I haven't been able to work out if they still sell a Gen6 25m, I haven't seen one and it seems like a dumb idea so I'd say the answers no.
It's amazing how area dependent that is, there are areas in Kingston with much less glass per bin on average. Thanks mate, will get that out soon. I am to, pretty rare for the 18m to be on FOGO but if I ever see it I'll be sure to get some footage!