A2Z was contracted by the Housing Authority
of Baltimore City, doing business as HABCO to provide 30 yd
containers and to haul demolition debris on a as needed basis.
The HABCO job supervisor would call
A2Z’s dispatcher and request as many as 15 trucks to
haul demolition debris from a work site to a designated landfill.
The drivers would line up on site at a pre-designated time,
usually 7:00 am to be live loaded. Each driver, one at a time,
would back onto the work site, lower it’s can to the
ground and wait to be loaded. The operator on site, a third
party contractor, would then load the 30 yd container with
construction debris. When loaded, the driver would load the
can on it’s back, and drive to the designated landfill
to dump it’s load. When empty, the driver would return
to the work site for another load; repeating the cycle till
the end of the work day. Working in the inner city requires
placing containers in tight, crowded areas. The driver needs
to pay close attention to his surroundings in order to place
the container safely.
Each work site was different. One site
might be an emergency tear down, a single frame house, needing
only 2 or 3 trucks to haul the debris for 1/2 a day. The next
work site might be a housing project with 300 houses to be
torn down. A project like this would require every available
roll-off truck for weeks at a time. Some tear downs were single
town houses in the middle of a row of houses. This type unit
would require precision demolition in order not to damage the
property of others. Other teardowns were complete rows of townhouses.
The number of roll-off trucks required for the task would change
accordingly.
Another type of hauling provided under
the contract was with stationed containers at various sites
throughout the city. For example, The Housing Authority of
Baltimore City needed a 30 yd container placed at a housing
project on Orleans St. So the driver placed the can where directed
and left the can on site. The Housing Authority of Baltimore
City would direct their own work crews to use these containers
for disposal of construction debris removed from repair projects
in the area. A2Z would have as many as 35 containers placed
throughout the city for the disposal of construction debris
of city repair projects. When the containers were full, the
housing project agent would call to have the container emptied.
A2Z would deliver an empty container and take the full container
to the designated landfill for disposal. This action is commonly
known as a switch out. It would be a common practice for a
single driver to be dispatched from site to site for the Housing
Authority of Baltimore to switch out containers throughout
the city. Larger sites, such as headquarters for a city department,
may have three or four cans on site, while the housing projects
would only have one can on site.
