What does it take to operate a sanitation truck? I decided to give it a try.

Reporter Logan Ramsey attempts to operate a sanitation truck. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

POCATELLO — The EastIdahoNews.com team are highlighting different jobs in our area this year and today, we’re workin’ it as a Sanitation Operator.

Tom Kirkman, the Pocatello Deputy Director of Public Works, showed me how to check the truck and make sure it was safe to take out on the road. Casey Pratt, Operations Supervisor, then showed me how to operate the truck safely and effectively.

Kirkman also took me to the Fort Hall Mine Landfill and helped me understand just how critical the job of a Sanitation Operator is.

“After looking at the complexity and scale of the landfill you can understand how much waste is taken everyday and if that wasn’t being disposed of properly it would just be strewn about through our community making it not only unsafe but very unattractive,” Kirkman said.

See what it takes to be a Sanitation Operator above.

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