
Commercial Frontload Garbage Trucks
Heavy-duty workhorses for dumpster routes — bars, restaurants, retail, industrial. Built for high pickup counts and long days.
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Preferred Truck and Equipment helps garbage companies, recycling companies, and fleet operators across Northern California and Western Nevada keep their trucks working, serviced, and ready for the route.
Serving Northern California since 1979.
Call Preferred Truck and EquipmentWe help you choose the right Heil waste and recycling truck for your route, your fleet, and the way your crews actually work. Frontload, rear load, sideload, and electric — we'll walk through what fits.
Request Sales InformationService support for waste and recycling trucks, with a practical focus on reducing downtime. Routine maintenance, repairs, and the kind of hands-on help fleets need when a truck has to be back on route tomorrow.
Schedule ServiceParts support for garbage and recycling trucks. We'll help identify the right parts for your unit and, when it makes sense, arrange installation support so the part actually gets on the truck.
Order PartsHeil refuse trucks configured for the work your crews actually do — from heavy commercial routes to fully electric residential sideload.

Heavy-duty workhorses for dumpster routes — bars, restaurants, retail, industrial. Built for high pickup counts and long days.
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Automated frontload trucks configured for residential cart routes where consistency and operator safety matter every block.
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Flexible rear loaders for mixed routes, alley pickups, and accounts that still depend on a crew working off the back of the truck.
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Single-operator sideload trucks built for high-density residential cart routes. Efficient, repeatable, and easier on drivers.
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Fully electric sideload refuse trucks for fleets moving toward zero-emission routes without giving up real-world route performance.
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PT&E works with garbage companies, recycling companies, municipal fleets, and private waste haulers throughout Northern California and Western Nevada. We're a regional dealer — not a call center — and we know the routes, the yards, and the equipment our customers run.
Three locations keep us close to the fleets we support: Livermore, Sacramento, and Pleasanton.
Decades of working with garbage and recycling fleets across the region.
Three locations across the Bay Area and Sacramento — we're around when you need us.
We are full experienced with bumper to bumper repairs, chassis swaps, and full body rebuilds.
One company that knows the truck from spec sheet to swing arm.
Authorized support for a manufacturer that's been building refuse equipment for 125 years.
We focus on keeping trucks earning, not on selling you something you don't need.