FRIDAY AUGUST 14, 2009
11:10 AM

There has been a small problem with the knuckle boom truck that the city bought on Tuesday night. The truck that we had purchased does not meet our specs. It was the company's fault and they have agreed to have a demonstrator truck here on Sunday for us to use until the truck we bought can be delivered. The truck we bought should be here within two weeks. The company will not charge us for the use of their demonstrator.

Our new residential truck in in Little Rock. The truck will be delivered to the Mack dealer in Jonesobro on Monday. They have to fully check out the truck. That should take at the most two days. They should deliver it to us the latter part of next week.

We have received the information sheets about residential trash and they have been placed in plastic bags. We plan to distribute them starting next Monday. We will keep our old truck for a few days. During that time we plan to have our drivers become familiar with the new truck before we release our old truck.

I know that there will be some problems as we implement this new way of dumping the cans, but after a few days I expect it to go smooth.

Monday we have an individual coming to make routes for the new truck. The day of pickup will not change, but the time of the dumping will change. I anticipate a number of calls during the first few days of operation.

I took Pat to her heart doctor in Memphis for her annual check up. She got an excellent report. In fact the doctor told her that she did not need to come back for two years.