MEDINA, Ohio – The city’s finance committee has given the green light for the purchase of a new plow truck and garbage truck which will replace older vehicles within the fleet.
Service Director Nino Piccoli requested the purchase of a 2027 freightliner plow truck during a recent finance committee meeting.
“This will replace a 2002 model that has seen better days, but since the new purchase will be a 2027 model, we likely won’t have that until the 2026-27 winter season so the old truck will still be in service for this season,” he said. “So, this plow truck will be looking at 25 years when it goes out of service.”
Piccoli said the entire cost of the truck along with the plow, hitch and tailgate totals $238,449.
“This is actually about a $61,000 savings because the initial quotes we were seeing were for $300,000,” he said.
Piccoli also requested authorization for the purchase of a 2026 Freightliner rear load garbage truck. He said this will replace a roughly 12-year-old vehicle.
“We don’t get the same longevity out of our sanitation trucks,” he said. “These vehicles run hard year-round, probably five or six days a week and we get about 15,000 hours out of the motors.”
But Piccoli said the sanitation department specifically chose this model because the panel walls are made of a thicker metal than previous vehicles, so they hope the truck will have a longer useful life.
“If we keep the service up on these vehicles, hopefully we can save them for as long as possible,” Council President John Coyne said.
