Only 4 DPW drivers picking up trash
RESIDENTS complaining of uncollected trash in their backyards shouldn’t be surprised with the poor performance of the Department of Public Works because only four regular truck drivers are currently providing service to Guam’s 19 villages.
DPW had earlier announced that it had only four working garbage haulers. But the Solid Waste Division declared in its latest status report to the federal court that, for the whole month of September, only three drivers worked, with an extra driver, taking paternity leave and one going off-island.
For the month of October, four drivers provided service to residential villages.
The amount of garbage collected from residential areas was dramatically reduced from an average of 22.1 loads per day to 14.9 loads per day when DPW stopped renting private trucks from Lujan Co’s, Angoco Trucking, 4Js and JMC.
The last time that it rented private trucks was on Sept. 10, and this is why complaints from villages of uncollected trash started the last week of September.
