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?!

Probably because the complaints from people not getting their bins emptied because there isn’t time to do everyones if they don’t start til 9.30 outnumbers the complaints from people held up for a couple of minutes on the school run.

why don’t you get together with the neighbours and offer to take your bins to the waste facility yourself when it’s more convenient to you?

Never ever heard it called a dustcart, and I’m not young, and have lived in a number of different UK regions.

always been the bin lorry. It’s a lorry what deals with bins, it doesn’t collect dust.

Well, I know what it does 🤣 I was brought up in Hertfordshire, was always called a dustcart.

You want the vans to crush rubbish in total silence now?

My FIL was a bin man in the days before wheelie bins, where they were picking up a metal bin, taking off the lid, tipping it manually into the crusher and replacing it by a gate, with lid— now that was a brutal job, and in his late eighties he has all the lingering health issues you’d imagine.

A child near where I live was also killed by one recently.

And I assume the dust part comes from the word dustbins.

Yes, but in the same way that in Victorian times ‘night soil man’ was the euphemism for the workers who came around to remove the human excrement from pit lay rinse and cesspits.

It wasn’t ‘soil’ they were taking away, it was faecal sludge. Just like the dust cart doesn’t collect ‘dust’.

I know it doesn't.

https://news.stv.tv/east-central/bin-lorry-which-killed-alloa-pedestrian-had-extensive-blind-spots-fatal-accident-inquiry-hears

What went in the dustbin after sweeping the floors or when the dustbag of a vacuum cleaner was emptied?

Food waste went to dogs, chickens, rabbits or pigs (latter in a swill bucket). Rags, metal and suchlike went to the rag n bone man. No vast amounts of plastic packaging, no bin bags, no clinker from the hearth, no cat litter, no nappies. It would have been largely broken glass/other broken things, paper, card. And dust. Lots of it.

Dust wasn't a euphemism for anything.

No one’s suggesting otherwise, just that it’s a euphemism, not a regionalism.

Don’t really see the issue. If they wake you up, they soon pass, and then you go back to sleep.

Oh for gods sake learn what a joke is.

None of those people were even out of bed on our street when the van was here.

And 'shouting' referred to the vehicle shouting 'vehicle reversing' over and over. Not the humans working hard

I expect you would want church bells and cockerels silenced if you moved to the country.
Some people refuse to understand that someactions are for the benefit of society, not there to make their lives difficult.

The vehicle announces it is reversing every time it is reversing. The driver doesn't put it on when he or she thinks there might be a person behind them.

And it's not SHOUTING there's no point it being a whisper is it.

Then where you grew up was clearly heavily influenced by American English.
My Grandparents, who would be all well into their 100s if they were still alive today (so I’m guessing much older than you) and who all came from different counties, called them dustbin lorries -because they emptied dustbins into them. Over the years we shortened “dustbin” to “bin”, so we mostly call them “bin lorries” now

It's to rudely awaken you. On other days you can get up when you want.

I suggest having a cup of tea, putting your trousers on and thinking about leaving the house.

I am shocked and appalled that no one else has said this, four pages in. What is the world coming to?

There’s no guarantee of that week in week out though and it’s far better for it to be automatic then at someone’s judgement re time to start it and it being forgotten etc

Off to the park soon, to feed the sparrers? I find it gives me an enormous sense of well being.
Unlike those joggers, that go rahnd and rahnd and rahnd...

Other alternatives:

Join a local political party; stand for election; win; become indispensible to the political council group; become the cabinet member for environment; change the bin timetables to avoid any and all schools and large work places between 08.30 and 09.00

or

On bin day, leave for work a bit earlier

Hilarious.

Exactly!

It's got nothing to do with your Vorsprung durch Technik, you know.

In fairness that bin lorry was travelling at speed in the city centre with a driver who was unwell and had lost control of the vehicle. He should never have been driving given he'd taken several turns like that.

That said these guys do a difficult job, have lots of H&S rules to follow and op sounds like she just doesn't want to hear the plebs do their working class jobs