Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors — Career Decision Dashboard

Typical tasks

• Inspect trucks prior to beginning routes to ensure safe operating condition.
• Drive trucks, following established routes, through residential streets or alleys or through business or industrial areas.
• Refuel trucks or add other fluids, such as oil or brake fluid.
• Dump refuse or recyclable materials at disposal sites.
• Fill out defective equipment reports.
• Operate automated or semi-automated hoisting devices that raise refuse bins and dump contents into openings in truck bodies.
• Dismount garbage trucks to collect garbage and remount trucks to ride to the next collection point.
• Operate equipment that compresses collected refuse.