Bright and shiny

It seems that local refuse haulers are upgrading their fleets as some bright and shiny new units have been spotted recently.


Miller Group has a base in Enfield, NS where this unit was spotted late last month.

 Mack with McNeilus front loader was making a coffee stop which gave me time to grab a photo. The lifting arms are full retracted.

On the Halifax peninsula, REGroup had this one emptying bins along the Halifax waterfront.
 

By the time I got turned around to catch this one, it was speeding off to its next stop, with the lifting arms partially retracted. The low cab forward Pete, with cab quarter windows, also carries a front loading McNielus packer body.

 

McNeilus seems to have cornered the market for packers around here. The company, founded in 1970, also makes transit mixers. It has been part of the Oshkosh Corp since 1997, along with London which was acquired in 2006.

I posted this one earlier in the month, but it was such an impressive rig I decided to post it again just to complete the trio of the most prominent refuse haulers in the area. GFL Environmental (Green For Life) has the brightest trucks.

 Another Pete with McNeilus packer, this one a twin steer, still manages to get around some very tight spots in downtown. It may not be as new as the other two, but is still pretty clean.

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