Waste Management - GI Industries and their awesome Mack LE/Amreps have continued to keep things entertaining in Thousand Oaks throughout 2019. I can easily say that these are my favorite garbage trucks on the road but unfortunately, only a few of the LNG ones remain and their days are limited. Hope you enjoy this compilation of some of my favorite drivers out of this yard, featuring 8 Macks and glimpses of 2 Peterbilts.
(0:00) - 101525: It was almost a year ago when I found out the crazy Gerry Medina was given this truck. 101525 is a former WM San Gabriel/Pomona Valley truck (old phone number still on the side), so it's extra special to me. I used to see this truck around Arcadia doing green waste so I'm glad I finally filmed it. It took a while to finally catch Gerry in this truck, but I am very happy I did! On this day back in August, he was running the truck harder than I have ever seen which made for some very entertaining video. I had never noticed before but the tailgate on this truck is only partially painted yellow too, so that was a nice little touch that makes it different from the other ones GI has.
(3:57) - 101494: This is another truck I've been wanting to catch from GI for a while. When GI repainted this truck, they used oil based paint and so even today, the paint looks very fresh on the body. So along with the chrome bumper and old WM signboard, it stands out as one of the nicer Octos that they have. Behind the wheel is Jose Santiago (1 of 3 brothers at GI). Him and his brothers all run these Macks very well - always love filming them.
(6:07) - 101584: On the most recent trip to GI in September, Mike and I were surprised to see Gerry running in yet another Octo! 101584 was previously driven by a veteran GI driver, and so it was kept it terrific shape until he got a new truck. Gerry got it when 101525 went down and he ran it extremely hard on this day! He knows we enjoy seeing him run trucks like this so he flipped a few extra lids for us! Always a great time seeing him!
(8:30) - 101630: Back at the beginning of August, Kevin and I saw this truck in one of the areas we usually see trucks during the late afternoon. We followed it to its route section and were surprised to see it doing greens! Turns out he was helping 105626 on the route, so that's why he was flipping lids. Behind the wheel is Alex Gutierrez, one of the relief drivers from Anderson. He's the same badass driver from Mike's MR/Able Body video. SUPER cool guy with 25 years of experience, who later told us he put the tag axle down on purpose because it makes the truck look cooler, "like a lowrider", on video haha! 101630 is another ex-WM San Gabriel/Pomona Valley truck. Unfortunately it's had its share of issues over the years and you'll notice here that it continuously shut off.
(12:04) - 102811: Here's GI's infamous 102811 again but with a different driver behind the wheel! Nacho recently retired, and so GI's awesome Jose Villa was training a new driver on the route. Jose runs all these Macks SUPER well and revs very hard. I was happy we caught him on this truck. Not sure if it still runs regularly anymore unfortunately.
(14:37) - 101466: This is a clip from 2016 of Gerry in his old truck, 101466. This clip is actually from the very first time I got to see Gerry on route! He used 66 for a couple years before the truck pretty much gave out and could no longer handle Thousand Oaks' many hills.
(15:13) - 106213: This was the very first Anderson Octo that GI painted. My brother and I stumbled upon it back in June and was surprised to see it in TO! Juan Diaz is a long time Anderson driver and currently can be found all over helping on different routes. The truck looked so good with the fresh paint!
(17:19) - 101334: Jose Santiago in the ex-Blue Barrel truck #101334. It's in rough shape (probably worse now, not even sure if they still have it) and none of the drivers like using it.
Thanks to all the awesome employees at WM/GI for making this video possible! And another big thanks to Bryan, Moises, Mike and Kevin for making some of these trips possible. One of my favorite videos I have made to this day and I hope you all enjoy too. Comments are much appreciated!
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