A slide of my old Terberg truck

[spitgalore]

Our wastes have been split into (black bin) garbage, recycles again split into (small green bin) kitchen waste, (large green bin) garden waste & blue bin (glass, plastics, papers, cardboard). Is it the same in your country? Thanks for sharing.

[Griffencph]

In Copenhagen, household waste and (news)paper is separated. Bottles are collected in public containers. Chemicals are picked up when needed. I believe the newspaper trucks carry a custom built "toolbox" under the body for batteries that are usually put in a small box on the wall.

Bulky waste is picked up from pavement by rearloader or put in a container if over 4 m3 of waste. Garden/greens is in container. Each house has one free bulky + one free green a year, pay for the rest.

[trashratt]

great video...I saw a front end loader here in Toronto once sink into the pavement....it was the fault of the city!

[Leohart1919]

very nice

[Griffencph]

Thanks, it was a h*** of a mess getting the janitor to understand that it was his insurance that had to pay, since he pointed out the place and signed the paper saying it was his responsibility...

[Leohart1919]

AT LEAST THEY PAID THATS GOOD

[sixstringpsyco]

garbage being driven by garbage....poetic no?

[Griffencph]

I don't know if it's been shredded yet, but it has not had plates on since 2004 I think, and parts have been taken to keep the two others rolling. The last died summer 2006.

[MitchellM15]

Tight squeeze in that first pic! Hate to drive through there!

[Griffencph]

Over the winter I'll have to scan my "scrapbook" photo flipover to PC. I'll show you things tighter than that!

I just wish I had better quality photos from our most hated "challenge".

Just packing the mirrors wasn't enough. I even had to open the windows to get that extra centimetre on each side. Else the mirror or the window would crack...

[Trashman242]

Cool chassis! Never seen a Terberg before! Nice collection of pictures!

[Griffencph]

At that time I was told there were about 15 Terberg trucks registered in Denmark. That's for a 5 million people country, and they all drove in our 1.1 mio people capital.

They mainly make large scale trucks today, like 8x8 tube transporters for Alaska oil companies etc.

Most of the trucks have Volvo cabins.

typing terberg-benschop dot nl should get you to their site (dutch and UK language)

[Trashman242]

Yeah I actually was looking at it right after I posted that comment...Neat company!

[spitgalore]

I was touring in Hong Kong 35 years ago & saw all their taxis were MERCEDES BENZ & all their trucks & buses were ENGLISH MADE. I visited Hong Kong 5 years ago. All their taxis were JAPANESE and all their buses were VOLVO.  Their trucks were INTERNATIONAL BRANDS.

[Griffencph]

Most trucks I've seen in HK are Hino, Isuzu and Mitsubishi. I'm a bit surprised I've not seen any Dong Feng (chinese), it would have been the closest choise.

I also see all european brands except for Renault, but I didn't recognize any american brands. They still have Seddon Atkinson trucks (british) out there, I've never seen them anywhere else, not even in London!

All the taxis I've seen are Toyota Crown, many driving on LPG.

[ClassicRefuseTrucks]

Very impressive...driving modern equipment in old cities obviously presents many challenges!

[Griffencph]

That truck would be about 19 years old at that time, so I wouldn't call it "modern", but if someone put a new environmentally correct engine in it, I'd be driving it again. The last of our Terberg trucks was taken off duty in 2006, ironically the oldest of those we had ranging from february 1984 to 1993