If your doing routes that are around 12 miles in length (as mine are) then your looking for one person about 23 hours to complete that going by how big my round is (2,000+ houses) now it takes 3 of us about 6 hours to complete that 12 miles and if its realy bad like monday 12 hours and there were 4 of us.
Theres no way one driver could do a whole route like that by himself theres loaders out there they may just be pulling out on another road.
It doesnt matter how automated the trucks are the lorry can still only handle 2 wheelie bins at a time, and single bin work is very slow, in the time it takes to do one road using just the bin methord i can easily have done 3 or 4 roads using bags.
The lorries i have worked on you just put the bin to the bin lift and then it does it automaticaly but it can still only handle two bins at a time and takes around 30 seconds to clear before we can load the next two, in which time the lorry cannot move because saftey features means that the lorry must be put into nutrel gear before it can use the bin lifts.
with bags i can load the lorry while its moving and we only have to select nutrel to blade itwhich means we are on the go all the time non stop realy.
As a dustman i know about these things
