Pennsylvania's crackdown on trash trucks put so many trucks out of service that in some places, garbage was left on the side of the road.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, state police found safety violations on 86 percent of the nearly 2,000 trucks they inspected during the "Operation Clean Sweep," which began May 21 and ended eight days later. More than 500 trucks and more than 100 drivers were put out of service.
In addition, inspectors from the state Department of Environmental Protection looked at more than 34,000 trucks, and found more than 2,400 with environmental violations such as improper covers, leaking loads and lack of fire extinguishers.
Some garbage customers had to wait to get their trash picked up because so many trucks had been pulled off the road, the paper reported. Waste Management, the region's biggest waste hauler, told the paper that 35 to 40 percent of the approximately 200 trucks at its North Huntingdon operation outside of Pittsburgh were put out of service. The Department of Environmental Protection said as much as 65 percent of the company's fleet was taken off the road for repairs.
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