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Floyd supervisors approve staff to seek and buy recycling box truck up to $65,000
Summary
The board authorized staff to go to bid and to purchase a recycling box truck (with lift gate) up to $65,000, citing high rental costs and aging county vehicles. The county also authorized design/bids for a new tipping building at the transfer station.
Supervisors authorized county staff to seek bids and purchase a recycling box truck with a tuckaway liftgate for up to $65,000, citing rising rental costs and frequent breakdowns of the county’s existing box trucks.
At the meeting staff said the county has spent thousands on rental trucks after its fleet experienced repeated failures. “We’ve been spending a quarter of a box truck on rentals,” a county solid-waste staff member said, describing heavy rental costs since December. Board members and staff discussed…
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