Rich Civic Times
RANDOLPH, Utah. July 9, 2018. The Rich County Sanitation Department needs a new side loading garbage truck. Director Lynn Weston told commissioners that because of the delayed maintenance of the existing two trucks and the increased heavy use there is now only one usable truck.
“We cannot get our job done in the summer with one truck even if we run two shifts. The broken truck is 15 years old. I asked the PeterBilt Truck Company to present numbers for a new truck. The state doesn’t have a garbage truck contract, but PeterBilt does most of the cities truck business,” Weston said.
Representatives of PeterBilt said that they have some stock trucks due to be finished in August. They have a few available. The new truck will cost $260,000. They have a municipal lease that will break it up into yearly payments without a large end buyout.
A new truck would allow the department to double up in Garden City on holiday weekends. Commissioner Bill Cox said that Weston needs to get two additional bids if it isn’t on state contract. Lynn Weston agreed to do that.
Commission Norm Weston said that the county needs a new truck. Lynn Weston also noted that garbage enclosures that HOA are building are being built too close to dumpsters and the trucks cannot get in to empty the bins.
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