A Long Island garbage truck driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash Thursday. “Xavier Angulo Espinoza was driving a garbage truck eastbound on Sunrise Highway Service Road, near Southern State ...

Called a front loader, the machine lifts and dumps larger trash containers used at businesses and apartment buildings over the front of truck using automated forks. The new system is meant to be safer ...

TransferManager is not particularly intelligent: it matches buildings to trucks with no regard for efficiency, emergency priority, district boundaries -- or whether the route is actually reachable.

Accident-prone hothead actor Alec Baldwin’s sob story about a hulking garbage truck causing him to crash his wife’s car has been backed up by cops in the Hamptons, according to a report. Baldwin, 67, ...

The driver of a garbage truck noticed smoke coming from the vehicle Monday morning as it traveled down Route 39 in Hershey, Dauphin County.The driver pulled into the parking lot at the intersection of ...

A garbage truck's load caught fire in Sacramento County on Tuesday morning, authorities say. California Highway Patrol says the incident happened just before 7 a.m., with the garbage truck coming to a ...

Garbage trucks don't just haul away our rubbish — they break it up and compress it, making room for the huge volumes they collect every day. To do this, they sometimes use a blade that rotates quickly ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A fire was sparked after a garbage truck crashed into a parked car in a driveway at a Cobb County home Wednesday evening, fire crews said. According to Cobb County Fire officials, ...

A garbage truck slammed into an antique shop that is a beloved community fixture in the west Chicago suburb of La Grange Park. Police said around 8:10 a.m., a Lakeshore Recycling Systems garbage truck ...

A garbage truck driver crashed into a suburban antique store Thursday morning, causing damage to the storefront and road closures, authorities said. Around 8:10 a.m. Thursday, a Lakeshore Recycling ...