A Broken Arrow toddler loves trash pickup day in his neighborhood. Every Friday morning just after sunrise, it's time for trash to be picked up from the Fulton home. “Do you see the trash truck ...

Rudy Wien has several garbage truck toys. Rudy Wien’s love of garbage trucks has blossomed into a wonderful friendship with his family’s neighborhood trash collector, Carlos de Santiago.(Cliff ...

Instead of toys or bounce houses, he wanted something that might make other kids hold their noses. "We were actually able to convince Waste Management to come to his birthday party," Patrick shares.

In one of Rudy’s toy garbage trucks, the driver even has a name: Carlos. “I don’t think we’ll ever look at trash trucks the same way,” said Ellory Wien. “I see a garbage truck and I ...