Comment by thenthenthen
12 hours ago
> The only reliable signal is that they arrive at 6 a.m. sharp in trucks specifically engineered to maximize acoustic output.
This gave me a chuckle. It seems almost every where in the world this is true. Ofcourse it is quiet outside around that time, amplifying the effect, but I am always amazed why loud things always need to happen so early. Maybe I should become a morning person, but prefer dark, silent nights for concentration.
> It seems almost every where in the world this is true.
The metropolitan area near me have had electric trash trucks for some years (https://www.sustainabletruckvan.com/renault-trucks-clean-cit...), which when you walk near them, are shockingly silent, for how large and bulky they still are. I'm not sure how many been deployed, the "old" ones are still all over the place, and noisy as everywhere else, but surely these "Renault Trucks E-Tech D and D Wide electric trucks" they talk about must have been deployed elsewhere too?
In my area half the issue is cars being parked on the way, which is why the truck has to approach the bins in reverse, which is particularly loud.
The other half is buildings being spaced 7m apart, because that's the minimum allowable at this height. The echo is enormous.
That being said it's still more tolerable than the people absolutely punching it through our 30km/h street with their modified exhausts and windows rolled down - as if the point for them was to lose hearing as fast as possible.