{"id":88,"date":"2016-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/report-vehicle-maintenance-issues-plague-sanitation-companies\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:34:22","slug":"report-vehicle-maintenance-issues-plague-sanitation-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/report-vehicle-maintenance-issues-plague-sanitation-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: vehicle maintenance issues plague sanitation companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under a bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-private-garbage-trucks-unsafe-maintenance-issues-article-1.2676855\" target=\"_blank\">currently<\/a> being considered in New York City, private sanitation companies would have the exclusive right to collect trash in established zones. The idea behind the legislation is to make the city\u2019s oversight of sanitation trucks easier. Oversight is a particular problem with respect to sanitation truck maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of the problem can be seen in a recent report which found that most of the safety violations involving private sanitation companies in New York amount to maintenance failures. According to the report, almost half of all private sanitation trucks from New York City\u2019s top 20 sanitation companies, had to be put out of service for maintenance problems over a two year period. In one case, a company\u2019s out-of-service rate was 86 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to some in the industry, employers in sanitation work are failing to maintain their fleets and are thereby putting their workers and other motorists at risk. When it comes to maintenance, problems can pop up in a number of areas, from balding tires to nonfunctional brakes to broken or missing lights or windshield wipers. \u00a0Depending on the traffic and weather conditions, such maintenance errors can create deadly circumstances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/report-vehicle-maintenance-issues-plague-sanitation-companies\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Report: vehicle maintenance issues plague sanitation companies\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a bill currently being considered in New York City, private sanitation companies would have the exclusive right to collect trash in established zones. The idea behind the legislation is to make the city\u2019s oversight of sanitation trucks easier. Oversight is a particular problem with respect to sanitation truck maintenance. Evidence of the problem can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-accidents","tag-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Report: vehicle maintenance issues plague sanitation companies &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; June 22, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Report: vehicle maintenance issues plague sanitation companies - Truck Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/report-vehicle-maintenance-issues-plague-sanitation-companies\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Report: vehicle maintenance issues plague sanitation companies &#8212; 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