Recycling truck drops boxes causing hazard on US-460, Montgomery County VA


A recycling truck dropped hundreds of boxes along westbound US-460 in Virginia. The boxes scattered across the road created a traffic hazard for vehicles heading toward the landfill. Authorities were notified and the road was monitored to manage the situation.
Audio|Source: Montgomery County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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I have several collars reporting a Blue Ridge recycling truck.
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Covering westbound 460.
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Amizers losing,
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but they buy hundreds of boxes all over 460.
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Vehicles headed toward the landfill.
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It's a blue ridge or something truck up.
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Flatwatered westbound 460 at the dip.
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Chris is third.
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I'm still heading westbound.
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Again, losing.
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Pledge of Boxes all over the roadway.
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Now for the left, 30.
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MCPD.
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41, Army.
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41, Army.
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41.
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I'm going to go back and start at 460 here, running street.
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At back, make sure that's a traffic hazard.
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Yeah, you might want to go all the way back to 81 there in your phone branch.
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Yeah.
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CPD.
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139 R.B.
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139 R. 39. 39.
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39.
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I logged the wrong unit 1041 this morning.
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I think I said 90, it's actually 95, it's 1041, not 90. Good.
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1040. 104.
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MCPD. MCPD.
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745.541.
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That's that, Raleigh for running, and you're good.
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Yeah, I'm gonna start down there and falling branch come back up.
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Hopefully there's smaller box.
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CPD
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Is my review, Cresdenberg, 202?
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Good
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I have a pinnick on the west.
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It's a reference to protective order control house support.
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Temple.
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DPD. C.P.D.
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T-3-5 in Urb.
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Two years off.
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The right lane is back open.
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8,
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number two, three, and four.
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10 and 4, 1134.
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V. PD.
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One-nine five, intervie. NERP. V.
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D.P.D.
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One-95.
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Can you show me in the service?
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10.1.2.
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They're going to be boxes that have been smashed together.
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Most are already getting flowing on the roadway when he'll continue up through.
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Okay, I'll go ahead and notify VDOT.
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MCPD.
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41, I'm notified VD.
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If you just want to tell them that most of the boxes are right there at the top of the dip, I haven't seen very many symptoms.
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I've come up with peppersberry.
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