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Originally Posted By: of troyhaulier is a new one to me..
hauler, yes, but trucker is more common.
and there is also Carter--in NYC metro area, private sanitation companies are carters.
carting is commercial/private garbage removal.
City/county services are garbage men (or nicer, and used by the guys themselves, san men. (from sanitation)).
Truckers are Truckies here in enzed.
And the guys who used to collect the roadside rubbish bins were known as dusties. It was customary at Christmas time to leave the dusties a bottle or Two of your local brew.
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