The city's garbage trucks drivers will no longer be operating in the "Stone Age".
Refuse Commissioner Randy Breitenfeld told KMOX's Jade Aubrey that until now, the city's garbage truck drivers have been using printed, paper maps to follow their routes every day.
"We've been living in the Stone Age forever," Breitenfeld said. "That's why I said enough is enough, we have to do something."
Truck drivers will soon have tablets to follow their trash routes. The tablets will be mounted inside of the garage trucks, allowing for drivers to view them hands-free.
"It will list every route on there so any driver can get their tablet and get any route. It would identify exactly how to run that route," said Breitenfeld.
Breitenfeld said the tablets should be assigned this week and the mounts will all be installed by October. The new technology was entirely funded through city grants.
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City garbage truck drivers have been using physical maps for their routes until now.
City garbage truck drivers have been using physical maps for their routes until now.
