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Amazing Facts About Your Sanitation Department
- Camas has four sanitation workers driving automated side loaders.
- Our crew picks up in excess of one million pounds of refuse/month, which is equal to 490-700 tons/month.
- All in a day…. The most garbage picked up in one day by our four-man crew - was 76.9 tons in 10 hours and 15 minutes, including trips to the transfer site.
- Our trucks can empty a garbage can in six seconds (or less), with the lid shut and the can back in place.
- Our trucks can compact at an average of 5 to 1 (ie, they can compact 5 garbage cans worth of material into the space of one can) the trucks have an eighteen cubic yard hauling capacity.
- It takes under three minutes to empty the truck at the transfer site (after weighing in).
- The truck's lift arm can lift up to one ton.
- The trucks have cameras to show the material emptying out of the cans, which helps the driver know when a can is empty.
- All of our trucks have cameras on the rear of the truck to aid in backing up safely.
