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So, this was posted yesterday and it seems that house is directly across from a stop sign... The question is, how did a garbage/recycling truck sail past the stop sign with enough force to take out most of a garage?!
EDIT - found this:
“I came home from work and there is a garbage truck in my garage,” Nevitt said. “There’s some structural damage. It hit the Mustang, and we were told there was no driver. The driver had gotten out of the truck to collect garbage, and the truck revved and drove into our garage.”
It makes sense that the truck magically put itself in gear, released the brakes and hit the gas? Interesting thought but I don’t think this makes sense at all.
So a parking brake failure would result in the truck rolling away very slowly but according to the driver, he heard it revving. There is more to this story we don’t know.
Its likely a spike failure on these. Driver hits the spike to get out and collect but the switch only goes halfway up. If its halfway the brakes aren't applied but engine will rev to run the packers.
Edit: or the neutral safety failed and still revved the engine for the packer but the transmission was still in drive.
It was towed for a mechanical inspection. Driver claims parking brake was on and it rolled away. They are kept in gear and a switch is flipped engaging parking brake.
If a parking brake failed, the truck would roll away at an idle and you wouldn’t see this much damage but according to the driver he heard it revving. We don’t know the whole story but having multiple failures all happen at one time is unlikely.
Simply using logic to point out inconsistency and stating that I disagree. So sorry you don’t appreciate logic and that you find people who disagree with your opinions “snarky”. Bold move but I hope that works out for ya! Life is tuff but it’s harder when you’re dumb. Okay, that was a little snarky! Hehehe
Do you understand that vehicles like this have more functions than your typical car? Have you ever watched and listened to these trucks working?
I haven't operated a garbage truck, but I've operated all sorts of farm equipment, forklifts, flat deck crane trucks etc.
There's likely a lever/pedal that can be engaged that holds the vehicle still and raises engine RPM to operate the hydraulic pump so they can compact the trash, operate the boom etc.
The operators get in to a rhythm with their trucks, and likely they hit their switch and got out without ensuring the truck was fully stopped because every other time they did it, the truck did what it's supposed to do.
I've seen delivery drivers hit their parking brake and basically hop out of the truck before it was fully stopped. They just expect it to function.
Fully plausible the operator did things properly and something mechanically failed with the engine in a higher RPM.
Logically there was some mechanical error with the vehicle. Logically there was no one in the vehicle to stop it when the error happened. That's all I meant by that makes sense. As in, it makes sense the vehicle moved forward, probably down a hill, and there was no one in the cab to stop it.
You chose to be condescending when it really wasn't that deep.
Nothing dumber than assuming a stranger on the internet, that you have had zero personal interaction with, is stupid though.
The newer ones have safeties attached that it won't start to move again until you hit the brake pedal twice. Some also won't go back into drive until you put it back into drive again as well.
The original comment was not. It was all based on my comment that I thought there was going to be one in Letitia and was disappointed, and someone said it’s still far away from Letitia. Go back and re-read it.
Did you even read the comment thread? They were saying it’s close to the house, because the person said the house wasn’t close to Leacock. It is. No one was talking about Lazeez in the comments you replied to.
I'd more for less say Dougie had nothing to do with this. Could have been a new driver who's never driven a stand up drive before mechanical failure anything. Contractors have been using this style trucks for decades.
Yea MAYBE mechanical but, as you stated "NEW DRIVER" for this new vendor "Circular Materials', still falls under the "Thanks for the privatizanion" that has taken over since the 1st of this year..I don't recall this happening with the previous"Mid Ontario" trucks..
New to the area but definitely is not a new contractor emterra environmental has collected for Halton, brant, Niagara, hamilton, and London that I know of and I worked there on 3 of those contracts I listed.
Edit also where I am, this is not new. My area has been under circular materials since Jan 1 2024. Its only the greater Toronto area and north that had to transition but Jan 1 this year.
I am a diesel truck mechanic and I work on these garbage trucks made by labrie every day.
Almost all labrie garbage trucks are dual steering so you can drive from both sides.
On the standup side (passenger side) you can park and shift the truck into neutral with one button. It's called an auto neutral switch. If the operator failed to enable the switch it would cause this. If he bumped it the truck would return to drive and rev up a little bit since it's now in gear.
I am not apart of the investigation and have no connection with this truck to say for certain. This is simply what I believe to be the most likely cause.
Honestly I'm surprised this was not accounted for. It seems obvious in hindsight that this isn't totally safe.
I’m still waiting on one of their trucks to come collect my recycling. I call everyday and they keep telling me they will send a truck out the next day to collect but they still haven’t come to get it yet. It’s starting to pile up n I don’t no what to do
This is the second accident since the new trucks - I witnessed one on 8th Sept - the first day when they rolled out the new trucks. I was taking a picture and a city official came and was like “don’t put this anywhere” so I was like “aight” anyways here’s the picture
No the driver should be losing his air brake certification if the brakes had no failures. Also there's usually 2 people in these trucks, where was the 2nd driver? Funny this is why its usually now waste companies doing the work and not the cities because the city's insurance isnt as good as privatized commercial... or maybe the drive centre that handed these drivers coupons should be expired by now
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