Well I found another transferred ASL to the Antelope Valley yard last Friday. Actually it found me, typically I get told about any new ASL to the yard pretty quickly but the way I found this one was by hearing a Peterbilt outside collecting my trash. I decided to get up and look at the number since Petes aren’t usually on my route, but the tree out front wound up covering it. I was about to dismiss it when the fact that the cab was the older Pete design without the rear window caught my eye. I knew only one of our trucks had this, and it was pretty obvious that it wasn’t 103853 at work.
So I went outside and was greeted by David with a gigantic smile in unit 104422. He said that he got given this truck for the day and that he loved it. I mentioned I had never seen it before and he said he hadn’t either but that it probably came from somewhere down below. This leads me to believe this truck has probably been here less than a week now and that it just hadn’t been found out about much yet.
I noticed the Valley Garbage sticker on the door which was an unusual division that I was so unfamiliar with I couldn’t even guess where it was from. I had a few ideas in my head but they were not where it wound up actually being from. Thanks to the WMmaster, Aaron himself, I found out it’s from the Santa Maria, CA yard. Commonly known as Health Sanitation Services (HSS) around the industry.
Some unique things about this truck I noticed was that the truck has the standard “Moto Mirrors” not typically found on WM trucks of this era. I was wondering if our shop did that as when 104684 showed up a few months ago, several drivers complained about the mirrors on it. Eventually the street side set was replaced to fix it. However it turns out the mirrors were like this at HSS too. The engine on it is the exact same as our 2017 Pete 320s, Cummins ISL-G. One thing David pointed out to me that he said was his favorite part was that this truck was built before WMs Amreps were de-rated. So it is rated to hold 11.19 tons as opposed to 10.25 like his regular truck. He said that extra ton was the difference between doing 2 loads on Fridays vs 3.
Between that and the arm being faster than 334 David was finished with his route at 3pm as opposed to the 5pm he has been finishing at. He said he’s going to ask if he can make this his permanent truck from now on. So hopefully that winds up working out. I was getting used to 334 but needless to say this truck was definitely better. 334 is currently out of service waiting for a new arm motor to arrive since the last one got fried a week or so ago. We’ll see what David shows up in next week. Hopefully it’s this truck haha
Big thanks to David for letting me film!
Bigger thanks to anyone who actually read this entire description. Harvard style!
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