Hauling Secrets

If you’re a new reader, here’s a little bit about how Hauling Secrets has taken shape since I first wrote the About page and the first post in January.

This is a blog about waste hauling. About the industry in general, and about the particular style of waste hauling practiced by me and my coworkers here in Anytown, USA. There’s a sort of culture to our workplace, and I think sometimes it can be special.

I can’t tell you how many times people say to us, “I bet you guys see some interesting things.” Yes, we do. And here on this blog, we’re beginning to catalog them. Things like rare Nazi propaganda, a phrenology exam from 1855, scary clown pictures, advertisements for blowjob devices, and buckets of dead mice. That’s just the beginning.

And we get an interesting view of American culture in general from our end of the wastestream. The joke about archaeologists is that they study people’s garbage. Well that’s what haulers do too. A kind of archaeology or anthropology of the present.

Occasionally I scan the news for hauling or waste-related items, like the growing threat presented by space debris, the EPA’s release of municipal solid waste numbers, and government crackdown on human waste collection in India. Or I reveal a little bit about this behind-closed-doors industry, such as who picks through your garbage after you put it out on the curb.

In the Pornface category, I post semi-weekly pictures of the faces of porn models from the pages of magazines we’ve come across while hauling.

Dear Lee Chin contains excerpts from the diary of a teenage girl from the year 1979.

The other categories should be pretty self-explanatory. And more categories will be coming as we continue to expand and refine our little blog and get new haulers involved and so on.

I am a hauler, not a coder or web designer. This site is old-fashioned I guess in that it’s a blog that concentrates on sharing and archiving compelling content. The Wordpress blogging platform was easy enough to set up and tweak for a novice like me. But I apologize if this site’s code doesn’t validate or its design offends. Haulers don’t make much, and our budget for this is $0. I’ve had to learn it by doing it, starting from scratch.

So far the blog has not been worksafe, but I pledge to keep at least the front page images G-rated from now on, with warnings before clicking to the uncensored stuff.

We like comments. Since we (try to) write this blog anonymously, comments are one of the only ways we can tell there are people out there reading. And they give us incentive to keep writing and keeping track of this stuff. You don’t have to be registered to comment, but your first comment is held in moderation before it’s posted so we can make sure it’s not spam.

That about wraps it up. We hope you enjoy the blog. And if you know of any haulers who might want to contribute their stories here, please tell them about our site or have them write hauler AT haulingsecrets DOT COM. Thanks.