Refuse truck from Salford

 For several years the mainstay of Charnwood's refuse truck fleet consisted of Mercedes-Benz Econics which replaced the preceding Dennis Eagle rubbish lorries in 2011. But as time wore on, the fleet required some supplementary vehicles, including some of the old Dennis Eagles the Econics had replaced (some of which looked rather the worse for wear!), as well as a few vehicles from elsewhere, including this Dennis Eagle which came from Salford (the rubbish lorries had marks on them, but these were very faint). 

The first picture was taken on the 10th of May 2016, while the other three pictures were taken on the 14th of August 2018, all on Wordsworth Road.


Here's a somewhat enhanced version of the image above:




P.S. I haven't seen this rubbish lorry since the new rubbish lorries arrived last year, but Google Earth satellite imagery taken in June this year shows what appears to be a green rubbish lorry in a corner of the depot off Granite Way in Mountsorrel. Could this be it? And if so, then what's happening to it? Examining the historical imagery, it has appeared in the same spot in every satellite image since September 2019.

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