How do they match: Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors

  • Truck Driver
  • Front Load Trash Truck Driver
  • Garbage Truck Helper
  • Roll Off Truck Driver
  • Roll Off Container Truck Driver
  • Sanitation Truck Driver

  • Collect and dump refuse or recyclable materials from containers into truck. May drive truck.

  • Clean trucks or compactor bodies after routes have been completed.
  • Communicate with dispatchers concerning delays, unsafe sites, accidents, equipment breakdowns, or other maintenance problems.
  • Dismount garbage trucks to collect garbage and remount trucks to ride to the next collection point.
  • Drive trucks, following established routes, through residential streets or alleys or through business or industrial areas.
  • Fill out defective equipment reports.
  • Inspect trucks prior to beginning routes to ensure safe operating condition.
  • Operate equipment that compresses collected refuse.
  • Operate automated or semi-automated hoisting devices that raise refuse bins and dump contents into openings in truck bodies.
  • Refuel trucks or add other fluids, such as oil or brake fluid.
  • Sort items set out for recycling and throw materials into designated truck compartments.

  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
  • Operate packing or other material processing equipment.
  • Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
  • Report vehicle or equipment malfunctions.