The city commission will also consider purchasing a $425,000 side loader garbage truck, a cost that would come in the 2024 fiscal year that begins July 1, 2023.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County is working on going green with fully electric automated side loaders. The county received $2 million dollars in grant to help pay for these trucks.

Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a prototype of a new side-loading garbage truck that will be used to lift large trash containers in an effort to get bags off the streets. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons For ...

Sanitation workers currently haul trash bags off sidewalks and into the backs of garbage trucks. But to collect and empty larger trash bins, the city needs trucks with side-loaders, according to a ...

Side-loaders have a large mechanical arm that can be controlled from inside the cab to grab cans, haul them up over the side of the truck, and dump them into the “hopper” where trash goes.

Columbus’ 40 new side-loader trucks are hitting streets to usher in an automated era in trash and refuse collection. Here’s the plan.