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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Jason.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
How are you. I'm hanging in there. Dean Martin, Jeff,
good see you too, you too. Tell us about what
you thought last week. What a game? What a game, man,
What a game? What a game. I was standing in
the end zone watching the Bulldogs come down through there,
and I thought were fixing the tied up. I get
I bet you Coach More goes for two.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I think he said he was.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And then, man, we had that deflection and it was
only a deflection. It was kind of a deflation. It
just kind of took the wind own of sales. But
it's a good ball game all around. The Bulldogs. Man,
they showed they're showing a lot of promise. I'm excited.
I was really, really uh happy with the attitude of
coach More after the game. He says, you know, this
(00:39):
is not a moral victory. We got work to do.
We're gonna see him again in the playoffs. I thought
that was that was a bold statement, and I thought
it was a great statement on his part.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I can play for you right now.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I got it on the p Yeah you know what
which end zone were you were you in watching that?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I was, I was by the old scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Could you tell could you hear how loud? I mean,
like Jason, I'm gonna tell you something. I was on
the on the Auburn sideline at that point on that
end zone. It's deafening down there. I mean, they've got
one of.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The best, the best.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And I talked about this both ways.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
In high school.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They allowed the bands to play, so it's legal. You
can't hear run there, so I don't. I mean, it's
incredible the way the student's behind you and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You got the band. Now, he was in the end
zone with the band, That's what I'm talking about. He
was above that.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I'm just asking, could you hear I don't know
how it sounded up high?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Could you hear how loud it was? It was extremely loud.
It sounded like just a great football it was, you
know it was I won't say it was the you know,
something similar to.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Jordan No No high school.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
For me on that field to listen to that, it's
it's the loudest I've heard.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Of Most of our score was in that.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was just because I went down to I walked
down there and that's the ring the other end zone,
and so I kind of went down there and I
was like, wow.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
And they were always real nice to our cheerleaders when
they'd run across with the O H. Chess flags, you
know after we score, you know, the sweet I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Sure they were, but my point, it was just really
noisy down there.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know they were. I noticed Jeff down here in
the corner him.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And he was right below you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's right, But I have some concerns. You know, you
your your your rain jacket was royal.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Here we got here, I'm gonna I'm gonna ahead, I'm
gonna lay it on the line. A bunch of people
asked me that the Orthopedic Clinic outfits media, and that's
the color they gave, and that's.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The color I had. But what side I was on
was one and great what what? But underneath I was I.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Was all funny.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
He got he got nailed, but it had that Orthopedic
Clinic logo on it. But it was great, great atmosphere,
great game, was super armed, command of winning.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And so what's going on? Like environmental services? You know,
we got a we're evolving every day. Every day, We're
we're trying to meet the needs of our community. We've
got some people that are retiring, so we're getting some
new people in there, and I'm real excited about a
new person that's coming into work for us starting the
twenty third. And I think you'll recognize the name of
(03:12):
my new office administrator is Drusilla Gagleona, all right, and
so I'm real excited about that family. That's a very athletic.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's just he's a wonderful lady.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, sir, And I think she's going to do a
great job and she will, uh so real excited about that.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
She might take your job.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
She probably could, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Who was the gentleman that was with you last week
on a ban show?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That was Jerry Wiggins.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He's my guy. He's my guy that picks up the time.
What do you call that when you trash?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
That's bulk trash, bolt trash.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He didn't, he didn't do the cans he does. That's garbage. Yeah,
he's retiring, retiring a good guy. He is, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's solid working for the city for twenty five years.
He's never gonna win any races, but he's always going
to do a great job. And I just wanted people
to recognize, you know, his years of service and give
him his props on that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Let me tell you what unlike about him. First, he's
an incredible individual with a huge heart. Number two, he
will get out and sweep up.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Now let me tell you something. When you one hundred
and five in the middle of July and you on
a side street and you see a guy with a broom,
I went, Jerry, if I had you know my point
where he was.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Doing right, he shouldn't have to sweep if you bag it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
This was this was like now people have limbs fault that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He could have left it, but no, he got out
and was sweeping it. And I said, Jerry, that's doing that.
He said, well, that's what they I was supposed to do.
And so Jason, Jerry's good people.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But you know, I don't miss that now. I know
you've got new people coming.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But and we talked about like holidays, you know you
can lee it shouldn't be it. I didn't know, but
sometimes at the holidays, you know, people trying.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To get rid of stuff in the yard.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But you said that was all right in a little
bit therener away.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We kind of looked another way after after Christmas, and
we understand that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But you know, typically yeah, typical weeks in September or whatever.
You know, you shouldn't be over filled with can And
the other thing that we're dealing with, even on Jerry's side, is, uh,
we've got some folks that want to put garbage on
the curve. Well that's littering. Uh you know, you just
you can't put bag garbage on the on the curve.
(05:27):
And uh so you know your sense.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Now let's get a little bit of CS in here.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, then you got to call it animal control because
every cat that's raccoon and then yeahs off everything.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
One of the major reasons why we don't allow that.
What we know, so our our mindset is this, we're
gonna pick it up. Uh, you know, big bulky items, couches,
you know, different things like that, big TV boxes. Yeah,
that's trash. Put it over there, any trash pile. Don't
put it next to you. You can expecting somebody to handle that.
That's not work.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I can speaking. Didn't now I would, though, I mean,
but I can't. It ain't gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It won't. They won't go. That's balk trash. You put
it over here, you know, five to eight feet away
from you. Can not propped up against you can, or
laying on top of it. People like to do that.
That aggravates us to death because that slows down the
whole process. And so we're working through those things right now.
We're we're trying to educate the community as of things
you can and can't do.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I didn't know the lid.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You educated me, Jason. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean, I just never.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Man, I sit on mine because they have a tendency
if a breeze comes up, they'll flip on.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
As I learned that with him, And I told you, Man, I'll.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Get I'll put man I almost sit on. Did you
know it was a law?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I did not know. But it's twenty five dollars to.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
See there, So I'm glad he brought it up. I
know what you're saying, common sense.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I'm so proud that they pick up. They come everywhere
every Wednesday. They can buy my neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And if I have.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Something like and I and I'll be honest with you,
I'll try to wait till Tuesday afternoon before I put
it out there.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
If I got something, I put it up.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
At the house except for bags and leaves, but like
a box or something, because I don't want it to
blow in my neighbor's yard.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They even come to us. I think that's just that's.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Just common courtesy. Mark that has nothing to do with
a lot. That's just been taking care of your neighbors.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Know that people need to you know.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I'm I've never had that issue, and I have gotten
I've gotten home from the show before and see bag
blowing in the street or receipts.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Trash, and you know, of course I'm going to go.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Unless it's three hours down from it right there around me,
I'm gonna go pick it up and put it in
my garbage can.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And I always look at it and I know it
ain't mine because I.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Know what I buy, I know what what uh uh
things that I use in my household. I know if
it's mine or not. If it's mine, I'm very sorry.
I try not to put loose garbage in my can occasionally,
like if I've just cut in my backyard, which I
cut pretty regular, I'm putting that grass in there instead
of bagging it and putting out by the street. And
(07:59):
it's just me and my I could probably go every
other week and put my can out by the road.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
If I chose to, if I missed a week, it
would be okay. Now, when I had kids, I've had
to run them down.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I had to put the can in the back of
my truck and run the you know, because I forgot
to put it down. Hey man, how I backed up
into this. I forgot to put it out. But Jeed,
he's a good guy too. He's waited on me, say hey,
I got one thing. You give me a second. Oh yeah,
go ahead, you know, now I get it out there
to the road.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we're getting a little more advanced, you know, to
help with accountability on our end, and on the residence
side too. Is there's a lot of technology and resources
available to us nowadays, and so our garbage trucks are
going to be outfitted with six additional cameras that show
all different angles, and we're gonna have panic buttons so
(08:43):
that whenever we pull up to a residence and whatever
that residence address may be, our operator can hit that
button and they can dictate and take a video if
there's no can at such and such a dress, and
it catalogs opposite, it's a red marker on our on
our map and then an office admin person will address that,
(09:06):
send that over to OPENLAC Power Services and have that person.
Basically we'll pick we're gonna come back and pick it
up after the fact. But it's gonna cost ten dollars
to do that because you know it, right now, we're
working off basically about one hundred and eighteen to one
hundred and twenty dollars man hour. So for every hour
that one in my staff employees works, it costs us
(09:29):
about one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty
dollars an hour to do that. That's fuel insurance wages,
you know. So if we have to turn around and
do these things because of the resident not putting their
can out, you know, it starts to add up. It's
not very efficient, and so we we're going so we
get a lot of phone calls, hey you miss my
(09:49):
can or they didn't pick up my garbage, and a
lot of times it's because that truck just went over
the hill and they heard it and they run the
can out there. We're willing to help, we're gonna pick
it up, but I'm just trying to get this out
that listen, we're gonna have a show accountability that and uh,
you know, we're not ever not going to pick it up.
We'll circle back around and get it. But sometimes it's
(10:13):
not our fault. And yes we admit when yeah, well
we've missed the road. We're sorry, we're gonna come back
and get that road. But again, we get a lot
of things that get dumped on us and blamed for
that a long yeah exactly, no pun intended, that aren't
necessarily are our problems. You know.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I like that though, Jason, that self account that's accountability
for your drivers.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
To the right thing.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I'm the world's worse about putting it out a day
early because of a holiday on Monday.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know, I'm like, man, what have I done? And
I get I get home and it ain't empty. I said,
did they miss me?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And then I go, well, we give grace on those
holiday weeks too, because it's confusing.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, no, no, no, I just leave it out because
I know you're coming the next day. Yeah, and I
know you don't call it. It's always the day later.
So that's and I believe you told us.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Jason.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
By the way, Jason Spoon with us like Envirus Mental
Services with the City of like it you're on the
mark on Fox Sports nine ten thirteen ten, sixteen minutes
past the hour. Justin Jones, Boreguard head coach will be
joining us close to the bottom of the hour. You
mentioned there could be and I don't want to jump
ahead of anything, but I didn't think I saw lead
or an email or something. You may have mentioned it
about maybe some changing schedule could.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Be coming up.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, I want to jump the gun, Jason, so tell
me if I need to.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You know, we're still in the planning stages for that.
And so one of the things on trash is we're
looking at maybe going to five routes instead of six.
Right now, we have six routes and we're covering a
lot of ground and there's a lot of wasted time there.
So we're thinking about going to a five route system.
And those guys don't particularly pick up on a day
(11:44):
like you're used to, like a Wednesday or something. We'll
start on Monday and we run the whole place and
if we get done, if we get through the ward
on Wednesday, that we turn right back around and start
back where we started on Monday, and we'll just constantly
be picking up the trash, looking at doing things like that,
and we're going to adjust our garbage routes. Some of
our garbage routes now are a little top have you.
(12:07):
I've got some guys that are picking up well over
a thousand cans, and you know, even the best garbage
operators only going to do one hundred, one hundred and
ten cans in an hour, So if you're doing over
a thousand cans, literally, you can't do that in an
eight hour period. So we're looking to go that's right,
So we're looking at maybe going to four tens. Still,
(12:28):
we're picking up trash four days a week like we've
always done, but it allows us to kind of move
some things around. And before we make any changes like that,
we will make the residents, will notify all them and
push that out on social media and on radio and
on our websites and everything, so that everybody's kind of
aware of what's about to happen. And this is a
(12:51):
few months down the road. We're just right now starting
to pick through these routes and seeing where we can
maneuver certain areas to make a mesh with what we
have so that we're not sending trucks back and forth
and uh, but but but there's some changes coming and
uh hopefully to create a little more efficiency for us
and also for the resident.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
How many cans can you pick up before the truck's
full just can't get any more?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It depends on on on the day. Now, rainy days
like this, loads are gonna get heavy because we're dumping
a bunch of water in there. Uh. But most of
the time, our guys are getting some A lot of
times they can get through nearly through their route. Uh,
they can get anywhere from five to eight hundred cans,
depending on the amount of garbage. Okay, And so that's
(13:36):
is that.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I just wonder how much they hail.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You know, roughly about were on average. Now we have
heavier loads that sometimes bump up to ten tons, but
on average, our garbage trucks are jumping anywhere from six
and a half to eight tons. Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
The truck's compacted, they do them. I've never I never
paid attention to that. I can remember when they used
to come by and you you had two guys.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Hanging on the back.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
We still have one of those, okay, and they would
you know, empty the old silver cans, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But our plans are to go to a little bit smaller,
more maneuverable truck because our city is growing by people, uh,
but we're not getting any bigger, and so the places,
the tight spaces corners with some of our older trucks
are much larger and bulkier and more comersome to drive.
(14:25):
So we're we're looking to kind of make a transition
into a little more maneuverable truck, a little bit smaller,
still going to haul that six and a half to
seven and a half ton, uh, but just an easier
truck for the operator to be in. And that's going
to lessen the stress on them so that their their
jobs already stressful enough, so if I can get them
(14:47):
a more comfortable, more maneuverable truck, something easier to drive,
then that that that goes back to operator health and
we want to keep those guys, you know, is low
stress level and mental mental heal health as good as
we can.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well, all the trucks look new. You're gonna get rid
of these news. They keep them clean.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We've got some that are about every day. That's one
reason we got washed bays and they wash them every day.
And uh, but we we do have three new trucks
that are, you know, within a year old. But our
older trucks, some of them are getting close to eight
nine years old.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I never thought of that, but it looks I mean,
you know, it looked like a year or two old
some of them see it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
The guys have always done a great job, always done
a great job with with keeping the outside clean. And uh,
the white helps us out too, because it doesn't show.
You know, if we had dark, gray or black trucks,
it might be a different story. But the white seems
to stay.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You see him right down the road and you don't
think garbage, you think environmental services.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's right, that's right. Jason's good to see you, buddy.
Appreciate what you do.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We'll look forward to hearing with you every Thursday, or
at least two weeks and Thursday and Bulldogs home game
this week with Jack.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
They all to be able to handle jail, I hope.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So I feel like I don't want to put no
who do op the enterprise.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's gonna be a that'd be a good ball. It's
gonna be good, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Jason, thank you for what you do, buddy. I appreciate it.
Thank you all for sir, we'll.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
See in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Jason Spoon OPLI like Environmental Services Director on the mark,
and you can hear Jason and Van Riggs with a
Bulldog tailgate show presented to you by OPLA Like Environmental Services,
six o'clock every Friday before Bulldog Football
Good morning, Jason.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
How are you. I'm hanging in there. Dean Martin, Jeff,
good see you too, you too. Tell us about what
you thought last week. What a game? What a game, man,
What a game? What a game. I was standing in
the end zone watching the Bulldogs come down through there,
and I thought were fixing the tied up. I get
I bet you Coach More goes for two.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I think he said he was.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And then, man, we had that deflection and it was
only a deflection. It was kind of a deflation. It
just kind of took the wind own of sales. But
it's a good ball game all around. The Bulldogs. Man,
they showed they're showing a lot of promise. I'm excited.
I was really, really uh happy with the attitude of
coach More after the game. He says, you know, this
(00:39):
is not a moral victory. We got work to do.
We're gonna see him again in the playoffs. I thought
that was that was a bold statement, and I thought
it was a great statement on his part.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I can play for you right now.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I got it on the p Yeah you know what
which end zone were you were you in watching that?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I was, I was by the old scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Could you tell could you hear how loud? I mean,
like Jason, I'm gonna tell you something. I was on
the on the Auburn sideline at that point on that
end zone. It's deafening down there. I mean, they've got
one of.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The best, the best.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And I talked about this both ways.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
In high school.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They allowed the bands to play, so it's legal. You
can't hear run there, so I don't. I mean, it's
incredible the way the student's behind you and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You got the band. Now, he was in the end
zone with the band, That's what I'm talking about. He
was above that.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I'm just asking, could you hear I don't know
how it sounded up high?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Could you hear how loud it was? It was extremely loud.
It sounded like just a great football it was, you
know it was I won't say it was the you know,
something similar to.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Jordan No No high school.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
For me on that field to listen to that, it's
it's the loudest I've heard.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Of Most of our score was in that.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was just because I went down to I walked
down there and that's the ring the other end zone,
and so I kind of went down there and I
was like, wow.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
And they were always real nice to our cheerleaders when
they'd run across with the O H. Chess flags, you
know after we score, you know, the sweet I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Sure they were, but my point, it was just really
noisy down there.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know they were. I noticed Jeff down here in
the corner him.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And he was right below you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's right, But I have some concerns. You know, you
your your your rain jacket was royal.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Here we got here, I'm gonna I'm gonna ahead, I'm
gonna lay it on the line. A bunch of people
asked me that the Orthopedic Clinic outfits media, and that's
the color they gave, and that's.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The color I had. But what side I was on
was one and great what what? But underneath I was I.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Was all funny.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
He got he got nailed, but it had that Orthopedic
Clinic logo on it. But it was great, great atmosphere,
great game, was super armed, command of winning.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And so what's going on? Like environmental services? You know,
we got a we're evolving every day. Every day, We're
we're trying to meet the needs of our community. We've
got some people that are retiring, so we're getting some
new people in there, and I'm real excited about a
new person that's coming into work for us starting the
twenty third. And I think you'll recognize the name of
(03:12):
my new office administrator is Drusilla Gagleona, all right, and
so I'm real excited about that family. That's a very athletic.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's just he's a wonderful lady.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, sir, And I think she's going to do a
great job and she will, uh so real excited about that.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
She might take your job.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
She probably could, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Who was the gentleman that was with you last week
on a ban show?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That was Jerry Wiggins.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He's my guy. He's my guy that picks up the time.
What do you call that when you trash?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
That's bulk trash, bolt trash.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He didn't, he didn't do the cans he does. That's garbage. Yeah,
he's retiring, retiring a good guy. He is, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's solid working for the city for twenty five years.
He's never gonna win any races, but he's always going
to do a great job. And I just wanted people
to recognize, you know, his years of service and give
him his props on that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Let me tell you what unlike about him. First, he's
an incredible individual with a huge heart. Number two, he
will get out and sweep up.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Now let me tell you something. When you one hundred
and five in the middle of July and you on
a side street and you see a guy with a broom,
I went, Jerry, if I had you know my point
where he was.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Doing right, he shouldn't have to sweep if you bag it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
This was this was like now people have limbs fault that.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He could have left it, but no, he got out
and was sweeping it. And I said, Jerry, that's doing that.
He said, well, that's what they I was supposed to do.
And so Jason, Jerry's good people.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But you know, I don't miss that now. I know
you've got new people coming.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But and we talked about like holidays, you know you
can lee it shouldn't be it. I didn't know, but
sometimes at the holidays, you know, people trying.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To get rid of stuff in the yard.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But you said that was all right in a little
bit therener away.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We kind of looked another way after after Christmas, and
we understand that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But you know, typically yeah, typical weeks in September or whatever.
You know, you shouldn't be over filled with can And
the other thing that we're dealing with, even on Jerry's side, is, uh,
we've got some folks that want to put garbage on
the curve. Well that's littering. Uh you know, you just
you can't put bag garbage on the on the curve.
(05:27):
And uh so you know your sense.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Now let's get a little bit of CS in here.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, then you got to call it animal control because
every cat that's raccoon and then yeahs off everything.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
One of the major reasons why we don't allow that.
What we know, so our our mindset is this, we're
gonna pick it up. Uh, you know, big bulky items, couches,
you know, different things like that, big TV boxes. Yeah,
that's trash. Put it over there, any trash pile. Don't
put it next to you. You can expecting somebody to handle that.
That's not work.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I can speaking. Didn't now I would, though, I mean,
but I can't. It ain't gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It won't. They won't go. That's balk trash. You put
it over here, you know, five to eight feet away
from you. Can not propped up against you can, or
laying on top of it. People like to do that.
That aggravates us to death because that slows down the
whole process. And so we're working through those things right now.
We're we're trying to educate the community as of things
you can and can't do.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I didn't know the lid.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You educated me, Jason. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean, I just never.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Man, I sit on mine because they have a tendency
if a breeze comes up, they'll flip on.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
As I learned that with him, And I told you, Man, I'll.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Get I'll put man I almost sit on. Did you
know it was a law?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I did not know. But it's twenty five dollars to.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
See there, So I'm glad he brought it up. I
know what you're saying, common sense.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I'm so proud that they pick up. They come everywhere
every Wednesday. They can buy my neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And if I have.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Something like and I and I'll be honest with you,
I'll try to wait till Tuesday afternoon before I put
it out there.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
If I got something, I put it up.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
At the house except for bags and leaves, but like
a box or something, because I don't want it to
blow in my neighbor's yard.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They even come to us. I think that's just that's.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Just common courtesy. Mark that has nothing to do with
a lot. That's just been taking care of your neighbors.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Know that people need to you know.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I'm I've never had that issue, and I have gotten
I've gotten home from the show before and see bag
blowing in the street or receipts.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Trash, and you know, of course I'm going to go.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Unless it's three hours down from it right there around me,
I'm gonna go pick it up and put it in
my garbage can.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And I always look at it and I know it
ain't mine because I.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Know what I buy, I know what what uh uh
things that I use in my household. I know if
it's mine or not. If it's mine, I'm very sorry.
I try not to put loose garbage in my can occasionally,
like if I've just cut in my backyard, which I
cut pretty regular, I'm putting that grass in there instead
of bagging it and putting out by the street. And
(07:59):
it's just me and my I could probably go every
other week and put my can out by the road.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
If I chose to, if I missed a week, it
would be okay. Now, when I had kids, I've had
to run them down.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I had to put the can in the back of
my truck and run the you know, because I forgot
to put it down. Hey man, how I backed up
into this. I forgot to put it out. But Jeed,
he's a good guy too. He's waited on me, say hey,
I got one thing. You give me a second. Oh yeah,
go ahead, you know, now I get it out there
to the road.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we're getting a little more advanced, you know, to
help with accountability on our end, and on the residence
side too. Is there's a lot of technology and resources
available to us nowadays, and so our garbage trucks are
going to be outfitted with six additional cameras that show
all different angles, and we're gonna have panic buttons so
(08:43):
that whenever we pull up to a residence and whatever
that residence address may be, our operator can hit that
button and they can dictate and take a video if
there's no can at such and such a dress, and
it catalogs opposite, it's a red marker on our on
our map and then an office admin person will address that,
(09:06):
send that over to OPENLAC Power Services and have that person.
Basically we'll pick we're gonna come back and pick it
up after the fact. But it's gonna cost ten dollars
to do that because you know it, right now, we're
working off basically about one hundred and eighteen to one
hundred and twenty dollars man hour. So for every hour
that one in my staff employees works, it costs us
(09:29):
about one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty
dollars an hour to do that. That's fuel insurance wages,
you know. So if we have to turn around and
do these things because of the resident not putting their
can out, you know, it starts to add up. It's
not very efficient, and so we we're going so we
get a lot of phone calls, hey you miss my
(09:49):
can or they didn't pick up my garbage, and a
lot of times it's because that truck just went over
the hill and they heard it and they run the
can out there. We're willing to help, we're gonna pick
it up, but I'm just trying to get this out
that listen, we're gonna have a show accountability that and uh,
you know, we're not ever not going to pick it up.
We'll circle back around and get it. But sometimes it's
(10:13):
not our fault. And yes we admit when yeah, well
we've missed the road. We're sorry, we're gonna come back
and get that road. But again, we get a lot
of things that get dumped on us and blamed for
that a long yeah exactly, no pun intended, that aren't
necessarily are our problems. You know.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I like that though, Jason, that self account that's accountability
for your drivers.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
To the right thing.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I'm the world's worse about putting it out a day
early because of a holiday on Monday.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know, I'm like, man, what have I done? And
I get I get home and it ain't empty. I said,
did they miss me?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And then I go, well, we give grace on those
holiday weeks too, because it's confusing.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, no, no, no, I just leave it out because
I know you're coming the next day. Yeah, and I
know you don't call it. It's always the day later.
So that's and I believe you told us.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Jason.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
By the way, Jason Spoon with us like Envirus Mental
Services with the City of like it you're on the
mark on Fox Sports nine ten thirteen ten, sixteen minutes
past the hour. Justin Jones, Boreguard head coach will be
joining us close to the bottom of the hour. You
mentioned there could be and I don't want to jump
ahead of anything, but I didn't think I saw lead
or an email or something. You may have mentioned it
about maybe some changing schedule could.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Be coming up.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, I want to jump the gun, Jason, so tell
me if I need to.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You know, we're still in the planning stages for that.
And so one of the things on trash is we're
looking at maybe going to five routes instead of six.
Right now, we have six routes and we're covering a
lot of ground and there's a lot of wasted time there.
So we're thinking about going to a five route system.
And those guys don't particularly pick up on a day
(11:44):
like you're used to, like a Wednesday or something. We'll
start on Monday and we run the whole place and
if we get done, if we get through the ward
on Wednesday, that we turn right back around and start
back where we started on Monday, and we'll just constantly
be picking up the trash, looking at doing things like that,
and we're going to adjust our garbage routes. Some of
our garbage routes now are a little top have you.
(12:07):
I've got some guys that are picking up well over
a thousand cans, and you know, even the best garbage
operators only going to do one hundred, one hundred and
ten cans in an hour, So if you're doing over
a thousand cans, literally, you can't do that in an
eight hour period. So we're looking to go that's right,
So we're looking at maybe going to four tens. Still,
(12:28):
we're picking up trash four days a week like we've
always done, but it allows us to kind of move
some things around. And before we make any changes like that,
we will make the residents, will notify all them and
push that out on social media and on radio and
on our websites and everything, so that everybody's kind of
aware of what's about to happen. And this is a
(12:51):
few months down the road. We're just right now starting
to pick through these routes and seeing where we can
maneuver certain areas to make a mesh with what we
have so that we're not sending trucks back and forth
and uh, but but but there's some changes coming and
uh hopefully to create a little more efficiency for us
and also for the resident.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
How many cans can you pick up before the truck's
full just can't get any more?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It depends on on on the day. Now, rainy days
like this, loads are gonna get heavy because we're dumping
a bunch of water in there. Uh. But most of
the time, our guys are getting some A lot of
times they can get through nearly through their route. Uh,
they can get anywhere from five to eight hundred cans,
depending on the amount of garbage. Okay, And so that's
(13:36):
is that.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I just wonder how much they hail.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You know, roughly about were on average. Now we have
heavier loads that sometimes bump up to ten tons, but
on average, our garbage trucks are jumping anywhere from six
and a half to eight tons. Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
The truck's compacted, they do them. I've never I never
paid attention to that. I can remember when they used
to come by and you you had two guys.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Hanging on the back.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
We still have one of those, okay, and they would
you know, empty the old silver cans, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But our plans are to go to a little bit smaller,
more maneuverable truck because our city is growing by people, uh,
but we're not getting any bigger, and so the places,
the tight spaces corners with some of our older trucks
are much larger and bulkier and more comersome to drive.
(14:25):
So we're we're looking to kind of make a transition
into a little more maneuverable truck, a little bit smaller,
still going to haul that six and a half to
seven and a half ton, uh, but just an easier
truck for the operator to be in. And that's going
to lessen the stress on them so that their their
jobs already stressful enough, so if I can get them
(14:47):
a more comfortable, more maneuverable truck, something easier to drive,
then that that that goes back to operator health and
we want to keep those guys, you know, is low
stress level and mental mental heal health as good as
we can.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well, all the trucks look new. You're gonna get rid
of these news. They keep them clean.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We've got some that are about every day. That's one
reason we got washed bays and they wash them every day.
And uh, but we we do have three new trucks
that are, you know, within a year old. But our
older trucks, some of them are getting close to eight
nine years old.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I never thought of that, but it looks I mean,
you know, it looked like a year or two old
some of them see it.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
The guys have always done a great job, always done
a great job with with keeping the outside clean. And uh,
the white helps us out too, because it doesn't show.
You know, if we had dark, gray or black trucks,
it might be a different story. But the white seems
to stay.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You see him right down the road and you don't
think garbage, you think environmental services.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's right, that's right. Jason's good to see you, buddy.
Appreciate what you do.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We'll look forward to hearing with you every Thursday, or
at least two weeks and Thursday and Bulldogs home game
this week with Jack.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
They all to be able to handle jail, I hope.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So I feel like I don't want to put no
who do op the enterprise.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's gonna be a that'd be a good ball. It's
gonna be good, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Jason, thank you for what you do, buddy. I appreciate it.
Thank you all for sir, we'll.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
See in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Jason Spoon OPLI like Environmental Services Director on the mark,
and you can hear Jason and Van Riggs with a
Bulldog tailgate show presented to you by OPLA Like Environmental Services,
six o'clock every Friday before Bulldog Football
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