JJ Richards Queanbeyan

G’day all, some of you know I took a 3 day road trip up to ACT/NSW and filmed a load of things. Queanbeyan was one of the planned councils to visit found just outside the ACT border to the North it features a nice area with loads of housing and rural places. A small fleet of 5 trucks Recycling- 1 1X 35m3 Iveco Acco JJRE Recycle body Green Waste - 1 1X 24m3 refuse body Iveco Acco - JJRE Garbage -3 (one truck does a load of green and one a load of recycling) 3X 24m3 Refuse body Iveco Acco - JJRE The fleet features the nice green scheme featured in the video 4 of the old JW O’Sullivans trucks had, very nice to see a JJs Council with this type of signage and body colour since now they go boring white sad ay. The contract started up in 2015 due to long time waste contract holder JW O’Sullivans Rural Waste for forfeiting the contract which is a small company based in Queanbeyan, the company still exists but is now in the C&I game and covers all around ACT Queanbeyan and small rural towns up all the way up to Goulburn. The company had the contract for 40 years (1975-2015) which is a record amount of time. In the contract JW O’Sullivans states they take bin delivery duties too and supply bins they use Sulos for garbage bins since 2003 and also recycling and greens since 2003 before they used Otto for split bins and nylex for garbage. Timeline 23 of April 1975 Start of the contract for Queanbeyan with JW O’Sullivans fleet of 10 RLs 14 of January 1982 Crate Recycling starting (bottles and paper) collected by RL International JP5 And JP6 15 of June 1984 New 240L nature green (some dark green) Nylex bins rolled out for general waste serviced by International JP5 and JP6s 5th of November 1994 Split Bin Recycling rolled east and west (east bottles west paper from the front north) collected by international Mkiii and old accos 29m3 DARTs collecting them. Also SLs started servicing garbage 4X2 international and old accos MkIIIs. 15th of January 2003 Commingled Recycling starts dividers removed from split bins, green waste starts garbage 240s used become green waste bins. New 140 and 240 red lid sulo 2s rolled out for garbage. 6th of November 2007 JWO Sullivan’s starts using Hinos instead of Iveco Accos, and buys their last 2 Accos two 2007 4X2 Accos on a 18m3 GenV one for garbage one for recycling 23 of April 2015 JW O Sullivan’s contract comes to end due to a forfeit by the company to give up in residential collection and start going C&I JJ Richards awarded contract fleet of 5 rolled out in green scheme signage on Accos. May 15th 2016 Queanbeyan City Council and Palerang Shire Council are amalgamated together and merge under NSW pledge to shorten the number of councils the new name QPRC (Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council) was born. JW O’Sullivans ran a fleet of 8 side loaders for the Queanbeyan contract 7 full time and one spare. Recycling Trucks - 2 - (The 4X2 Acco does one load of greens to) 1X 29m3 Green 2007 Hino MkIV Recycler 1X 18m3 Green 2007 Iveco Acco 4X2 GenV Green Waste Trucks - 1 1X 2003 Blank White Hino MkIV 22m3 MkIV standard Garbage Trucks - 4 1X 2000 Blank White 18m3 Iveco Acco MkIV 1X 1997 Blank White 18m3 Iveco Acco MkIII - International 1X 2007 Green Hino 18m3 GenV 1X 2007 Green Iveco Acco 18m3 GenV Spare Truck 1X 1994 Blank White International 18m3 MkIII Now onto to the video, here we see 4 of the fleets trucks garbage trucks #1508 and #1509 recycling truck #1514 and green waste truck #1511 all working in the suburb of Karabar on a Monday morning #1508 was filmed a month earlier on a Monday afternoon on its last streets for the day. Enjoy the video thanks! PS I never intended for the video to be 23 mins long it just happened. Thanks to the 3 drivers for letting me film (first 2 trucks (garbage) had the same driver in them) and Palerang run their own in-house service both councils merged all that happened was a name change.