Beta: Garbage trucks problem

[Joman]

My garbage trucks for small containers are assigned to technical services. They go to one single collection point and load the garbage and then drive to unload.
Why don't they continue to drive to the next collection point until they are full before going to unload?
They can load 10t but only get 2t.
I have so many trucks but the containers at the collection points are full because of this. Is there a way to get it to work efficiently?

[Joman]

Maybe I should use lines instead of the technical services...

[MrKrabs]

I will check what my garbage trucks are doing.

[kyonkun]

I think you'll find that garbage trucks only empty the garbage once it achieves a certain level of fullness, as though the technical office were a DO set to load at 60% or something. Thus, the fact that your garbage trucks are making very small loads to the collection point implies that you don't need that many trucks.

[Monarchco]

Originally posted by Joman:

My garbage trucks for small containers are assigned to technical services. They go to one single collection point and load the garbage and then drive to unload.
Why don't they continue to drive to the next collection point until they are full before going to unload?
They can load 10t but only get 2t.
I have so many trucks but the containers at the collection points are full because of this. Is there a way to get it to work efficiently?

It depends on the location.

If a trash truck is going to a residence, it'll only go to that residence and then leave.
If a trash truck is going to a small bin point, itll go to that point, and then continue visiting several other points before going to the drop off.

It has to do with only targeting full bins.

[Joman]

The bin points for small containers have much less capacity than the trucks.
When a truck only goes to one bin point, it can't get full load. Therefore it should go to several bin points in a row (like in real life).

Alternatively, I could set up a route manually. I will try this, when I play next time.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by Monarchco:

It has to do with only targeting full bins.

Which encourages you to build container or waste bin collective pick up points, that are far more likely to have a full bin or container.

And you can reduce the load on a single waste processing building that way too, to have citizens separate their waste before pickup so the waste truck can directly deliver that waste to that specific type waste processing building without going through various separating steps with a lot of transport.

[Joman]

Oh no, the stands for small garbage containers can not be used in a manually created route (line).

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by Joman:

Oh no, the stands for small garbage containers can not be used in a manually created route (line).

With a ( or several ) Technical Services buildings doing that all on automatic, why should you use a route ?

I set some manual routes, but only on industries that produce specific waste or produce far to much for the automatic Technical Service controlled waste trucks frequency of pickup.

[Joman]

I wrote that above.

[melkij]

Actually, a garbage truck for small containers can receive a new task for collecting garbage (of the same type) from another site after loading. But it happens infrequently: either another garbage truck has already begun to go there or not enough garbage accumulated to pick up.