Why do bin vans flash and shout so obnoxiously?

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They're travelling at 1mph supervised by 4/6 men and it's 6:30 am. Who the fuck is in danger of being run over exactly?!

I'm not sure the lorries are supervised by 4/6 men, I think they're supervised by the driver, the other workers are focussing on emptying the bins into the lorry. They're certainly not specifically looking out for people who might be about to get run over. The driver is probably trying not to run over his crew though. Maybe they did ask the workers what would make their job safer and they said flashing lights and clearly audible alerts.

Just as a matter of curiosity, when did we start saying bin lorry instead of dustcart? Definitely showing my age here, I still say dustcart 😆

Why do you think? It’s pedestrians that are the issue not other cars and they are dangersous with moving parts, and a driver who can’t see all around the truck. The other workers are collecting the refuse, they aren’t necessarily looking out for people walking g to close to or crossing in front or behind the truck.
it’s once a week for most people. Suck it up!

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Theres always one post…

Who the fuck is in danger of being run over exactly?!

Lets see…
-They are
-Children
-Animals
-Elderly
-People rushing into work
-Absolutely anyone at all

They are of course. Not everyone lives in a quiet cul de sac. People live on busy main roads and they have bins too. They have to get out of the truck on these roads with cars speeding past and impatient drivers taking chances so as not to be stuck behind them. Often in dark and wet conditions with poor visibility.

Our first collection on bin day is from the food waste guys, at 7am. They don't shout at all. They are really very quiet considering, like the whispering binmen from the Heineken advert all those years ago.

When my food waste bin got nicked, they brought me new one the next week, no questions asked.

They're not even allowed to accept Christmas boxes these days.

Oh, ffs!
That went completely over your head.
I know it's aibu, but dear god, people

I live in a cul de sac adjacent to a secondary school. The bin men have to reverse into the street off the other road where the school is. They need to make as much noise as possible because the kids cross the entrance to my street without looking on their way up to the school.

Oops - missed that one!

If you’re from Glasgow then you’re probably pretty familiar with the damage and devastation a bin lorry can cause.

I think she was joking. Personifying the trucks.

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They are when they are reversing

You haven't acknowledged any of the posts pointing out it's for their safety as well though.

I can only assume that's because she doesn't care about them

Too right!

They are such large dangerous machines. I know a woman locally whose husband died, a few years ago, driving away from his own house he was still reaching to put on his seatbelt, drove into the back of the bin lorry, went through the windscreen into the mechanism. There was also a horrible news story about a drunk man who has been put in a bin, while comatose, by his friends.

They do a great job round here. I just wish the council would rearrange the time of their round so they aren't clogging up the high street during the morning school run. We live near a massive secondary school and the traffic is a nightmare for around 10 minutes and then dies down again. The bin lorry is always there, right in the middle of it, causing total gridlock. I'm trying to leave my house to go to work in the opposite direction and once a week I sit there grinding my teeth!

Have you suggested it to them?

I have written to the council, yes. To no avail.

It's fairly well established that several tons of metal coming into contact with a human body can have a fatal outcome.

Round here, the binmen. Stupid fucking idiots who can't wait 2 minutes for the bin lorry to move drive up and along the pavement. One bin man was recently hospitalised after being run over by a wanker pulling such a move. The local council often share videos of these fuckers going round them over pavements - so putting many lives at risk.

Our bin men collect general household waste every other Friday (alternating with recycling) at 7.20 - 7.30 on the dot. They're very prompt and only really severe weather or staff shortages knock them off their routine.

At this time of the year in my corner of north east England, it's still very murky at that hour, even when the weather's clear and the dust-carts need all the alerts and flashing lights they can get. Households are waking up, people are getting in their cars, delivery vans are arriving, postie is enroute and there are far more vehicles around than the narrow terraces (circa 1890s) in our neighbourhood were built for. The original planners would have had horses and carts in mind, not tons of metal and internal combustion engines, so the terrain is a lot more dangerous than it looks. I don't mind the noise, it's not particularly disruptive - we're up at that time anyway - and it lets us know the bin men are about and we'll be able to retrieve our wheelie bin from the back alley by the time we're dressed.

What a rubbish council

Because getting rudely awakened by the dustman is a British tradition (cf Blur).