Waste Management of San Diego runs a massive fleet of front loaders to service their commercial stops in San Diego county. The fleet has a solid variety of old and new trucks, and combined with many fast drivers, it sure was fun seeing them hard at work. Here are six trucks running in Downtown, North Park, and Rancho Bernardo.

(0:00) 205851: Back in January, Alex and I were poking around in Rancho Bernardo. I had told him one of my goals for the day was to find one of El Cajon's iconic MR/Wittkes, so when we pulled into the center and spotted this, I was excited. Behind the wheel is the very skilled Frank Avila. I LOVE how he runs this truck, very smooth and quick. I was impressed how he managed to empty all the overloaded bins without spilling anything! Frank told me that he was given a new Autocar some time last year, but he didn't like it and asked for his Mack back. Smart choice!

(5:37) 211352: Here's my favorite truck in the El Cajon fleet the oneofakind 211352! This truck is a 2011 Mack MRU with a 2009 Amrep body. Mack did a demo with WM with a new LNG chassis back in 2009, but it didn't go too well and the truck was retired just two years later. So, the body was taken off and placed onto this newer 2011 CNG chassis. Once we discovered this truck was in the El Cajon yard, many of us have tried to find it, but with how big their operation is, that was really difficult. I was able to connect with the driver, Eddie Miranda, back in December and finally get some video of this truck! Eddie is another awesome driver who runs the truck nicely. He too really likes the Macks he had driven a dual axle MR/Wittke for many years before getting a Peterbilt. He didn't like it as much and finally switched to this truck once it opened up. The Downtown route has some cart stops, so I was glad to be able to get some video of that in action.

(14:04) 263584: Back in September 2018, Moises and I made an attempt to find 211352. We knew the general area the truck was going to be working in, but couldn't find it. Instead, we got to meet Uzi Merino in this LE/Wittke. I actually didn't know El Cajon had this particular truck, so that was an awesome surprise! About six months after I filmed this, Uzi was given the MRU/Amrep, but handed it over to Eddie when he changed routes.

(15:01) 211922: Ricardo Aguilar does the recycling route opposite Frank in Rancho Bernardo. Ricardo was filmed years ago doing residential in 4s Ranch, so it was awesome to meet him myself. He keeps 922 really clean and runs it really nice!

(16:54) 263580: This LE/Wittke was helping on Ricardo's route. I love how nice this truck looks with the "Think Green, Think Clean" paint scheme so I wanted to grab a couple clips.

(18:17) 214600: 4 of these LNG 520/Amrep FLs were originally destined for Fresno, but somehow, El Cajon got their hands on them along with a bunch of LNG ACX/Amrep ASLs. Interesting to see and a nice change from the ACX/Amrep FLs that flooded SoCal the past couple years.

Thank you to all the awesome drivers from Waste Management of San Diego! Another thanks to Alex and Moises for making this video possible.

Enjoy! Comments are always appreciated.