Trash not getting picked up

[Shiphted 4]

So i have 2 garbage lots and its always empty. All roads are connected and everything seems right with it, but everyone keeps complaining yet i cant seem to get it to work. Ive demolished them and remade them but no to avail. Any ideas?

[jpsurratt2005 4]

Have you added any additional garbage trucks?  One truck can only remove so much garbage.  When you select the edit button on the trash dump it will show on the right side of the screen how many trash cans you are picking up out of the total that you have.  It's a good way to reference how many more trucks you will need.

[snake117 18]

You're not the only with this problem. I maxed out my trash dump with all the garages and it seemed effective, but for only half my city. I have a street car and bus system that are maxed out as well and still don't really improve traffic conditions, so my garbage trucks can never make it to the other side of the city.

[DrKing2020 8]

Turn on the garbage data layer and watch the system work for a day. The problem is that all the trucks start in the same place and collect the nearest garbage instead of starting in different areas of the city. They stop working at night so they may not be reaching the far side of the city. The solution is to add more trucks and and improve traffic conditions so they can get where they need to go.

[županijski nadzornik 1]

I added a giant fleet to the support cities next door to my main RES/COM. It worked for a while. Then I saw a divergence in the behavior of Trash vs Recycling.

Trash trucks continue to work somewhat well. Still follow their noses too much and act like lemmings.

 

But now the Recycling trucks sent to the big city are at a dead stop. At first they didn't manage to get near the high rises and the university for any pick ups. Then the recycled started to pile up.

 

Now I can't see anything but trash trucks coming in to help. No recycling ever show up to collect out of town. I had to tear down some RES to build trade depot to get rid of all that mountain of recycling. I can't revive the recycling trips.

[županijski nadzornik 1]

After watching the trucks go around and around I think Glassbox has a flawed decision tree.

 

It should have a logic string that goes like this:

 

At my current intersection,

Was the last vehicle of my type full or empty?

f full, continue to the next conditional rule.

If not full, which way did the last vehicle of my type go?

Which way did the one before him go?

Pick the direction not taken by either.

Go to next conditional rule.

 

That would solve all the lemming behavior. And give you a reasonable chance at hitting every street.

[Nenya80 0]

I have a similar problem. I have two dumps, each with 8 extra truck garages. The trucks go out, and then drive around the entire city, but do not pick up any trash. They stop at a place with a blinking trash icon, but their load stays at 0/5 tons and they move to the next stop. It's killing my city.