Low Count Garbage Trucks

[AdManny9]

Xbox Series X/S- Remastered
There are enough (or even more than enough) recycling centers in my city but garbage has piled up all over the city. Garbage trucks sent out by the recycling centers are low. Almost all are sending 3/15. I tried adjusting(raising) the budget but it has however failed to solve the issue.

 

[RenengadeDragon]

How large a city? What is your traffic flow % ? Any other problems occuring, like incomplete vehicles. Which garbage collection service do you use?

 

[AdManny9]

How large a city? What is your traffic flow % ? Any other problems occuring, like incomplete vehicles. Which garbage collection service do you use?

I use mostly recycling centers and my traffic flow is at least 82%

 

[RenengadeDragon]

Good. Again , how large a city? And are your vehicles complete? Trying to determine if you hit vehicle limit. It might occur in larger cities with a lot of traffic. Tractors/trucks spawning without trailers, or incomplete trains/metros spawning are signs. If so then services (garbage/death care)will not spawn vehicles to. Your traffic flow % increases as the game stops spawning vehicles properly. If so then there are things that can be done to help.

 

[KirkXYZ]

How large a city? What is your traffic flow % ? Any other problems occuring, like incomplete vehicles. Which garbage collection service do you use?

Yes. My city is the same way. Garbage trucks are non existent. Also police, fire, and ambulances are non existent. My city was at 170,000 and declined in population quickly to 120,000.

 

[KirkXYZ]

Good. Again , how large a city? And are your vehicles complete? Trying to determine if you hit vehicle limit. It might occur in larger cities with a lot of traffic. Tractors/trucks spawning without trailers, or incomplete trains/metros spawning are signs. If so then services (garbage/death care)will not spawn vehicles to. Your traffic flow % increases as the game stops spawning vehicles properly. If so then there are things that can be done to help.

What can be done?

 

[RenengadeDragon]

If you have hit vehicle limit, there are some things you can do to possibly save your city.
*Bicycles count as vehicles, get your citizens to use Mass Transit.
*Reduce the amount of vehicles your Mass Transit uses. Example, a Super Bendy Bus is 3 30 seat buses. If you have 10 on one line, then it is actually 30 vehicles. I use a lot of 60 seat double deck buses( Airport DLC and Vehicles of the World CCP) and the 70 seat bus from the Railway of Japan CCP. You should look at all types of Mass Transit to see if you can reduce how many your using, there are several sizes of Trams.
*Set up a Cargo Train network to move cargo over distances. Be mindful they are wonky to work with. With practice they can be very effective.
*Reduce some services around your city, I reduce Post Service to 50% to reduce how many trucks are spawned. Do you really need Taxis, one vehicle moving one cim, but cooler than a pocket car.
*But probably the most helpful thing you can do is optimize your traffic flow %. Any place you have heavy traffic flow, see if you can improve the flow. Improve your Highway connections. Give them more options to get where they want to go. Proper Lane Hierarchy and Biffa style lane math helps a lot. If your not familiar with this idea, watch Biffas YouTube fix your city series. He explains it well.
*Every city is different, I have one that has hit limit 3 times before, but I'm struggling to get it under control again. It may be time to dezone some areas to reduce traffic to save it.
* I have had more problems in some maps. I believe it's the outside connections not being able to spawn/despawn fast enough. In cinematic camera view at night, I could see a traffic mess in the fog. Or maybe I build to fast. So maybe go slower when necessary.
I hope this helps.