It took me forever to finally get these Port Stephens trucks here on KZitem! After many years of waiting, some failed efforts and a potentially successful plan for the last day of 2007 getting screwed up by my sister, I managed to capture footage of the Solo RR trucks, during the long weekend in April 2009, which have been working in Port Stephens since the early 1990s!
Prior to 2005, Port Stephens was using Solo's famous weekly collected split bin garbage/recycling collection system. The trucks that collected these split bins were ancient SCORR System / International Accos, which I may add were the first type of Solo split bodies ever used in Australia. Unfortunately, I only ever managed to get one picture of one of the old trucks (which was washed out by the early morning sun) and no videos as I had no digital camera back then.
When 2005 came, Port Stephens had to renew their waste contract, and ended up changing the single split bin service to the 2-bin-system (1 for recycling and 1 for garbage/organics). This also saw the replacement of the old trucks with brand new SPARRC Systems for recycling week, as well as some standard SOLO Systems to accompany some of the later ex-SCORRs for garbage only week. The recycling continued to end up at Thiess' Thornton MRF and the garbage/organics continued being sent to the Bedminster Waste Composting facility at Raymond Terrace.
Here we see one of the 5 single pass trucks collecting the garbage and recycling early on a Monday morning. The body and system is almost identical to the one in my Maitland video, except the forward / backward movement of the diverter panel is what keeps the waste streams seperate and there is no need for the water jet. I'd like to give a big thanks to the driver for letting me film, please rate and comment. Be sure to check out the other Port Stephens videos I have uploaded, including further footage of this truck, the litter bins collection and some action from garbage only week.
The Four Systems:
SOLO - Single Operator Loading Operation
SPARRC - Single Pass Automated Refuse & Recyclables Collection
SCORR - Simultaneous Collection of Recyclables & Refuse
SCRAP - Simultaneous Collection of Recyclables & Paper
Body Make: Jaysolo Compactor (Solo RR Model)
Model: SPARRC System
Chassis: Iveco Acco
Council: Port Stephens City
Contractor: Solo Resource Recovery
Collection Type: Garbage / Commingled Recycling
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