Summer is ending and school will be starting back up soon. Penn Waste would like to remind the communities we service to take precautionary measures when near our garbage trucks to ensure a safe environment. Here are some safety tips to help keep our communities safe:
Keep Your Distance – Garbage trucks are bulky with many blind spots. Keeping your distance will ensure we can see you AND no debris hits you, your children or your vehicle should it accidentally fall out of our truck. Please stay back at least 30 feet. Also, do not let your children go near or climb on the truck.
If you cannot see the driver’s eyes, they most likely cannot see you.
Proceed Carefully – If you must pass a garbage truck, do so with extreme caution. Make sure none of our employees or pedestrians are nearby and there is no on-coming traffic.
Stay Calm – Getting frustrated and having road rage will not make our trucks move any faster. Irrational behavior will only lead to any accident.
Stay Alert – Garbage trucks stop and start often due to the nature of our business, which is why it is important not to be distracted near one. If you hear a back-up alarm, move away from the truck.
It takes a garbage truck twice as along as a passenger car to stop which is also, why it is important to keep your distance.
Penn Waste is committed to the safety of our employees and the communities we service. Please drive carefully around our vehicles and be extra vigilant since children will be returning to their bus stops soon.
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Week of July 4, 2022: Due to the 4th of July holiday falling on a Monday, all residential waste and recycling collection will be delayed by one day the week of July 4th. Monday customers will be serviced Tuesday. Tuesday customers will be serviced Wednesday, and so on for the remainder of the week. Penn Waste wishes all of our customers a safe and happy holiday!
Collection Update: Memorial Day 2022 – During the week of the Memorial Day Holiday (5/30), all Residential Penn Waste collections will be delayed one (1) day. Monday (5/30) customers will be collected on Tuesday (5/31). Tuesday customers will be collected on Wednesday and so on for the remainder of the week through Saturday.
The following municipalities yard waste collection will be delayed by one week, occurring on 6/11/22, due to the holiday:
Carroll Township
Conewago Township
East Pennsboro Township
Fairview Township
Newberry Township
Susquehanna Township
Penn Waste wishes all of our customers a safe and happy holiday!
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Friday, April 15, 2022 – All Penn Waste routes will be operating on a normal collection schedule on the Good Friday holiday. Please place your waste and recycling curbside on your regularly scheduled collection day.
Monday, April 18, 2022 – All Penn Waste routes will be operating on a normal collection schedule the week following the Easter Holiday. Please place your waste and recycling curbside on your regularly scheduled collection day the week of April 18th.