A backing accident happens much more than most trucking companies realize; although current insurance company estimates put the average repair cost at approximately $8,000 per incident, there is a darker and often more tragic cost when the object hit by a backing truck is a person. Five hundred people die and another 15,000 are injured every year from backing accidents. How do experienced truck drivers suddenly find themselves ... READ MORE
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When it comes to clearing a site, wood and vegetative waste often represent significant volumes of materials. Disposing of wood and vegetative waste by landfilling simply does not make economic sense for most site clearing operations. Our friends at Air Burners, Inc. have provided this special report to discuss the challenges and opportunities for dealing with wood and vegetative waste for site clearing operations. Air Curtain Burners, also ... READ MORE
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Boswell Oil Company serves the only locally owned, full-service waste solutions provider in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia. The waste solutions provider serves residential, commercial, and industrial clients in the area. They operate 26 waste collection trucks. In late 2011 and early 2012, the waste provider was having a problem with their competitive brand hydraulic and engine oil not holding up. The hydraulic packer systems in their ... READ MORE
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The waste organics industry is changing the way landfill supervisors and transportation managers are operating. With initiatives like the US EPA’s Sustainable Management of Food, the repurpose, reuse, and redistribution of organic material will pose a significant challenge to our industry. How to manage this change from a transportation perspective will be as critical of a component to the whole process as any other. ... READ MORE
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Fires are a problem in the waste industry. Between June of 2017 and May of 2018, there were 368 reported fire incidents in waste and recycling facilities in the United States and Canada. That's more than one a day! With reasonable assumptions, we believe there are six times that amount of fire incidents occurring in waste facilities annually. According to Jim Olson, SVP of Safety at Republic Services, ... READ MORE
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Your equipment is being damaged by contaminants in the oil that you probably can’t even see. Particles are typically measured in microns. A micron is one millionth of a meter, which is equal to 0.000039 inches or 9.906e – 5 centimeters. Most people cannot see something that is smaller than 40 microns. 82 percent of mechanical wear is caused by particle contamination. Save your equipment, extend its life. ... READ MORE
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As of May 2018, all new vehicles with a GVWR of less than 10,000 pounds—including buses and on-road trucks—must be equipped with rear visibility technology to comply with the FMVSS 111 mandate. This final rule by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is part of an ongoing effort to reduce an average of 210 fatalities and 15,000 injuries caused by reversing vehicles each year.
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Solid waste fleet managers are turning to cutting-edge technologies to optimize collections, maintenance, reporting and other operations. Here are among the top five, designed to help boost productivity, performance, efficiency and safety. ... READ MORE
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The construction industry has seen steady growth over the past decade, fueled by significant building and infrastructure projects. Finding skilled crane and heavy equipment operators is increasingly difficult. A 2017 poll indicated that over 75% of construction firms were having trouble finding skilled equipment operators. Operators need to be trained; however, training can be risky. Vehicle/equipment accidents are the leading cause of workplace deaths on construction worksites. Placing inexperienced ... READ MORE
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While modern landfills are well-engineered facilities designed, operated and monitored to ensure compliance with federal regulations, fugitive malodors often persist. Incoming waste haulers and naturally produced landfill gas as well as organic decomposition exposed on the working face combine to release many different gases such as methane, CO2, ammonia, sulfides and various other unpleasant odors into the near, and often downwind, airspace. This report addresses how advances in odor ... READ MORE
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Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted by human activities in the United States. Nearly 20% of those emissions come from landfills. Landfill gas to energy represents an opportunity not just for improving air quality by capturing methane, but also an additional revenue stream that can be in place long after landfill operations cease. MSW Management compiled this special supplement to highlight key areas in capping landfills, ... READ MORE
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Managing municipal solid waste is more than landfilling: publicity, education, engineering, long-term planning, and landfill gas waste-to-energy are specialties needed in today's complex environment. We've created a handy infographic featuring 6 tips to improve landfill management and achieve excellence in operations. ... READ MORE
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Few people in the world these days thoroughly understand the federal government’s ever-changing, on-and-off soil erosion control regulations. Consider these contradictions, inconsistencies, and incongruities ... READ MORE
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