Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Having filmed every other hauler in SLO County over the past couple years, I always seemed to ignore Paso Robles Waste and Recycle. I just figured that since I had only ever seen Bridgeports from them, Bridgeports were all they ran, with the exception of a newer 520 Automizer and a mini Heil PT1000. When I thought about their standardized fleet of Bridgeports, I only accounted for front and side loaders and completely forgot about the possibility of rear loaders. The funny thing is that I always had a feeling that PR was hiding something cool that I didn't know about, so of course I took a couple drives by the yard to see what I could find. Each time I saw a fleet of what I knew they had plus this "McNeilus" rear loader.
In fact, I had seen this Trooper several times before I even realized what it was. I had seen it twice while I was driving around North County so I never got a good chance to really look at it. The first time I saw it was in a park on a break, so I took a quick glance at the front as I drove by and dubbed it the McNeilus by the front view of the body. The next time I saw it was from behind on a side road as I was driving down the freeway and thought it was a New Way RL based on the shape of the tailgate - and therefore assumed they had 2 full size rear loaders. It wasn't until about a month ago that a driver from Paso who was a fan of my videos reached out to me via email telling me about this Bridgeport Trooper that they run. At that point, I knew that what I had seen all those times was certainly the Trooper and as you can imagine I felt very stupid.
The Bridgeport Trooper is in no doubt one of the rarest RLs produced in modern times, as the model just simply never took off. I believe it was a custom order to begin with, and even at that, they might have discontinued the design entirely within the past couple of years or so. Despite it being so uncommon, at first glance it is easy to fail to recognize it for what it is. With the body identical to a McNeilus and a tailgate almost identical to a New Way's, at the right angle you might totally pass it off as one or the other similar to what I did. With these older Troopers you really gotta look at the details (i.e. no McNeilus cutout on the front of the body) to correctly identify it.
As you can see this is only the 25th Trooper that Bridgeport built back in 2005, and is likely one of only a handful still in existence. The only other company known to run these is Western Disposal in Colorado, and even then they only have one or 2 as far as I know. If any of you guys know of other companies that run Troopers, please let me know!
Huge thanks and shoutout to Kevin from PRWR for notifying me about this truck and to both him and Wayne for letting me follow them around Paso that morning! And if this truck isn't cool enough, their spare is a Volvo Bridgeport Front Loader with a bucket that I hope to catch them in at some point as well.
PS: Thanks for 20K + subs!!
Having filmed every other hauler in SLO County over the past couple years, I always seemed to ignore Paso Robles Waste and Recycle. I just figured that since I had only ever seen Bridgeports from them, Bridgeports were all they ran, with the exception of a newer 520 Automizer and a mini Heil PT1000. When I thought about their standardized fleet of Bridgeports, I only accounted for front and side loaders and completely forgot about the possibility of rear loaders. The funny thing is that I always had a feeling that PR was hiding something cool that I didn't know about, so of course I took a couple drives by the yard to see what I could find. Each time I saw a fleet of what I knew they had plus this "McNeilus" rear loader.
In fact, I had seen this Trooper several times before I even realized what it was. I had seen it twice while I was driving around North County so I never got a good chance to really look at it. The first time I saw it was in a park on a break, so I took a quick glance at the front as I drove by and dubbed it the McNeilus by the front view of the body. The next time I saw it was from behind on a side road as I was driving down the freeway and thought it was a New Way RL based on the shape of the tailgate - and therefore assumed they had 2 full size rear loaders. It wasn't until about a month ago that a driver from Paso who was a fan of my videos reached out to me via email telling me about this Bridgeport Trooper that they run. At that point, I knew that what I had seen all those times was certainly the Trooper and as you can imagine I felt very stupid.
The Bridgeport Trooper is in no doubt one of the rarest RLs produced in modern times, as the model just simply never took off. I believe it was a custom order to begin with, and even at that, they might have discontinued the design entirely within the past couple of years or so. Despite it being so uncommon, at first glance it is easy to fail to recognize it for what it is. With the body identical to a McNeilus and a tailgate almost identical to a New Way's, at the right angle you might totally pass it off as one or the other similar to what I did. With these older Troopers you really gotta look at the details (i.e. no McNeilus cutout on the front of the body) to correctly identify it.
As you can see this is only the 25th Trooper that Bridgeport built back in 2005, and is likely one of only a handful still in existence. The only other company known to run these is Western Disposal in Colorado, and even then they only have one or 2 as far as I know. If any of you guys know of other companies that run Troopers, please let me know!
Huge thanks and shoutout to Kevin from PRWR for notifying me about this truck and to both him and Wayne for letting me follow them around Paso that morning! And if this truck isn't cool enough, their spare is a Volvo Bridgeport Front Loader with a bucket that I hope to catch them in at some point as well.
PS: Thanks for 20K + subs!!
