Unsightly trucks should toe the clean line

• Clivebenss

  16 Aug 11, 06:35

  Aug 16, 2011 - ST Forum

  WHILE residents strive to keep neighbourhoods clean, the unsightly and odorous waste collection trucks plying housing estates and shopping areas put an unpleasant blot on such efforts.

  The picture shows a typical dirty-looking waste collection truck plying Katong, with waste still sticking out. The authorities should ensure that waste collection trucks are clean on and off the road.

  The military requires all vehicles cleaned at the last parade task before they are on the road. The Land Transport Authority also requires that contractors' lorries are washed before taking the road.

  Shouldn't waste collection trucks adhere to the same rules?

  Ang Chin Guan

   
• Clivebenss

  16 Aug 11, 12:57

  no response from 711.

  

• ditzy

  16 Aug 11, 12:59

  So waste collection trucks are meant to be clean? For real?

• Loor

  16 Aug 11, 13:02

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  So waste collection trucks are meant to be clean? For real?

  
  yar - and the collectors in the truck need to wear suit and tie otherwise image not good in public.

• SevenEleven

  16 Aug 11, 13:16

  

  They shld lived with their chute 2 storey high
• fudgester

  16 Aug 11, 13:23

  This made me LOL:

  The military requires all vehicles cleaned at the last parade task before they are on the road.

  So.... Veolia/Colex/Jakob Altvater/SembCorp must all conduct last parade?

  And do Stand By Rubbish Truck?

  

• sbst275

  16 Aug 11, 17:59

  Army exercise vehicles cannot be muddy on the road?

• ditzy

  16 Aug 11, 19:40

  No, cannot be muddy on the road. LTA rules.
• Clivebenss

  17 Aug 11, 22:48

  Originally posted by SevenEleven:

  

  They shld lived with their chute 2 storey high

  did you forget and drive the tai tais to Katong in your rubbish truck?

  

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  17 Aug 11, 22:54

  now now, garbage truck now everyday got parade one ah????

  

• Clivebenss

  23 Aug 11, 11:31

  NEA acts on unsightly garbage truck

  Aug 23, 2011 - ST Forum

  WE THANK Mr Ang Chin Guan for his letter ("Unsightly trucks should toe the clean line"; Forum Online, last Tuesday).

  The truck was under the public waste collector (PWC) serving the Katong area and was on its daily round of refuse collection. Keeping its trucks clean and washed is part of the service obligations under the PWC contract.

  We have since issued a warning to the PWC. Residents in this area can also look forward to new and better-designed refuse collection trucks from November following a new tender agreement with the PWC.

  Ong Seng Eng

  Director, Waste & Resource Management Department

  National Environment Agency