Refuse Fleet Depends on Aluminum Trailers
Enviro Recyclers Inc. uses East Genesis smooth-sided aluminum refuse trailers like this one to haul trash and recycling. Photo: East Manufacturing
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Dell Walker has been in business for some 30 years, hauling everything from rock and stone to sand and mulch. Today, his company, Enviro Recyclers Inc., is primarily involved in hauling from transfer stations to landfills for Waste Industries in the Fairburn, Georgia, area, south of Atlanta.
It’s an intrastate company, generally hauling within 100 miles with about 25 Mack trucks and about 30 East trailers.
“I grow my company in my area whenever [Waste Industries is] growing their company,” Walker explains. Waste industries owns landfills and transfer stations. “They’re also into recycling, so we haul recycling with our trailers also. Cardboard, glass, plastic, stuff like that we do haul with our trailers.”
And for all his business, Walker uses East trailers, citing dependability, resale value, and customer service as key factors in his choice of company.
Charlie Benton, Walker’s sales rep at East, explains that Walker started out in the concrete business, hauling rock and stone. When that company sold, he opened up a transfer station, and sold it to Waste Industries — with the provision that he would haul the garbage.
“From point A to point B, we run about 90 miles from where we pick up the trash to the landfill,” Walker says. “These trailers deliver three to four loads a day and we run over 1,000 tons a day — about 25 tons per trailer load,” mostly residential trash.
“I want to haul as many tons on a trailer as I can” and still stay legal, he says. “That’s why aluminum is the only way to go.”
He uses the East Genesis aluminum refuse trailer for his transfer station operations for a number of reasons. Foremost is the light weight of the aluminum trailer. …Read the rest of this story
