On 1st July 2019 I got around to a couple councils to video the brand new collection trucks that had started working, one of which was Burwood who appointed JJ Richards as the service provider. At the time I was excited to see what the company had on the road out there, being the first Sydney contract win for a while and the first location in this city where they would deploy their new generation Volvo side loaders. When I tracked down a couple trucks doing the main roads early on that Monday, I couldn’t have been more deflated with what I saw, just a couple plain white vehicles with “Burwood Council” in small black font on the body. I learnt there was a last minute decision by council to not go ahead with planned body livery, so this was an interim effort until they settled with the blue scheme seen on the trucks today. Nonetheless, it was cool to get a look at these vehicles in person and to see them very fresh on their first shifts.
JJs operates three identical side loaders for wheelie bin collections, they all do garbage on their first load and then come back and do the same run over again for either recycle or garden waste depending on the fortnight. They also have a rear loader out there which collects clean-up and bulk bin garbage from certain unit blocks - an UrBin/Econic combo in the generic JJR paint scheme, which appeared to be reallocated from the company’s trade waste department. Prior to this new contract, Cleanaway was in charge of emptying the three bins in Burwood, initially only doing garbage and green waste from around 2011/12, before also taking on the recycling in 2017 which had been a JJR job for many years. All Burwood waste services except recycling were done in-house in the past, including garbage, green waste, clean-up and commercial, but from around 2010 the council gradually palmed off the job to contractors.
The first half of the video shows unit 1946 with the new signage, at work on a Friday in Burwood itself in 2020, while the last two clips are of 1941 doing the first rubbish rounds in Croydon Park on day one in 2019, shown clean and shiny. I planned to get green waste to put alongside this garbage footage, but things didn’t work out. Cheers to both drivers for being all good with me following along. The first time I actually encountered the JJR bosses who were out and about checking on things, I was sighted and enquired with, but all was good when I mentioned I was a friendly fellow company employee from the Willoughby contract! haha Anyway not the most exhilarating footage here, this is the last you’ll see of a Richards/Volvo from me too as there's already enough of them on KZitem. There are two higher quality videos of these same trucks posted by “The Australian Garbologist” which are worth watching, otherwise in my uploads you can find plenty of the former Burwood side arms.
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