Thanks to Waste Management BC, heavy mechanics students at Vancouver Island University have four large garbage trucks to work on while they learn their trade.
According to VIU, the donation will enable students to work on modern trucks. Previously much of the equipment students learned on is more than 25 years old, and is becoming outdated.
Instructor Brad Jannaway says the donation came after a visit with Waste Management’s BC fleet manager Jeffry Siemens. The company decided to donate four garbage trucks that were about to be sold off. The company even paid to have three of them towed from Victoria to the Nanaimo VIU campus.
Jannaway says the trucks will help train trades foundation students and Level 4 Truck Transport students.
