Reply #136: In chicago garbage trucks have 3 person crews [View All]

[AngryAmish]

Driver, two guys who wheel the cart over to the truck and hit a button for the machine to dump it.

Obviously, one wants to be the driver because you sit all day out of the elements listening to the radio.

Most other municipalities have two man crews for the same job.

Private trucks have one man crews. They wheel dumpsters by themselves over to the truck - much harder than the garbage cans in Chicago.

Bottom line: the injury and disability rate is a joke and everyone knows it. In IL every worker has the right to get their own treatment, which means going to certain doctors who will let them off work. I see it all the time. Eventually the City will ask for their own medical review but that is months down the line.