How to Play
Drive your route, grab curbside bins with the truck’s arm, and tip your loads at the transfer station before your shift ends at 10:00 AM. Short tutorials with animated demos appear the first time a route introduces something new, and you can replay them from How to play on the title screen or in the pause menu.
Controls
On phones and tablets, on-screen buttons steer, drive, brake, and grab. Hold brake to back up.
With a keyboard:
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| W A S D or arrow keys | Drive. Hold brake to back up |
| Space | Grab a bin |
| U | Open the garage (at the transfer station) |
| H | Horn |
| P or Esc | Pause |
| M | Mute |
Grabbing bins
The right-side arm is quick. Bins on the left side are handled by your helper on the back step. Pull up close to a bin and grab it to load it into the hopper.
Tipping your load
Stop in the orange bay at the transfer station to empty the hopper. Only emptied pickups count toward your stars, so don’t let the whistle catch you with a full truck.
From Route 2 on, blue recycling bins and boxes go to the blue bay at the recycling center. Recycling tipped at the orange bay is landfilled and costs 4 points per cubic yard.
What costs you
| Oops | Points |
|---|---|
| Hitting something too fast | −10 |
| Driving on a lawn or through a park | −15 |
| Letting an overflowing bin spill before you reach it | −20 |
| Running over a kid’s bike | −20 |
| Driving into the pond | −30, your whole load, and a tow back to the yard |
| Hitting a car | −50 |
Routes
Pass a route (one star) to unlock the next. Pass Route 5 to win.
- Maple Street: the basics
- Downtown: dumpsters, parked cars, and recycling
- Rainy Tuesday: slippery roads and dogs
- Holiday Week: double bins, overflowing bins, and bikes in the road
- The Big One: a map twice the size with every hazard
The garage
Pickups and emptied loads pay cash. Spend it in the garage on upgrades (a bigger hopper, hydraulics, helper training, engine, reach, and auto-grab) and on paint colors.
Free play
Turn on Free play on the route menu to drive any unlocked route with no clock, no score, and no cash. The setup card has three toggles: bins (keep coming back, clean the town, or none), traffic, and oops messages.