Mohawk Refuse

07/23/2026

Note: this is not my picture or post but I was unable to share so I screenshot the story.

Please respect the men and women out there working the hard hours. When you see a garbagetruck pulled off to the side connection trash, both legally and in terms of common sense, you are supposed to slow way down and go around with caution. The law states that you're supposed to treat it the same as you would a police car on the side of the road with it's lights on. We deserve to go home to our families at the end of the day. Get your nose out of your phone and slow down. There are far too many of these stories.

07/11/2026

Good morning, Friday customers. This message is for you especially Grass Lake and Michigan Center. We had scheduled maintenance on Mark's garbage truck this week and then BOTH of the backup dump trucks went down during the workday. We're out getting everything caught up now. Very sorry for the delay. Have a beautiful weekend

05/26/2026

A couple of reminders. We do not delay pickups for holidays. If you are a Wednesday customer, you will be picked up on Wednesday, for instance.

Secondarily, as I tried to clearly illuminate in the newsletter last month, I AM DOING THE MATH FOR YOU on your invoices. As I'm currently processing the June invoices, I see that I now have folks that normally get the quarterly discount correct taking an extra $3 off. PLEASE PAY THE AMOUNT ON THE INVOICE. Obviously, these are minor discrepancies and they'll be on the next invoice but it does slow me down while getting the paperwork done. If you could please pay the amount written on the invoice, that would be great - the quarterly discount is applied already on the part where it says (or $93 quarterly). That's the point of me typing that out every month. LOL. I don't know how I could've made it any more clear. The rates are on the website and on the invoice, every time. You don't need to add or subtract from that number. Thank you!

EDIT: That paragraph above was not intended to be bossy or rude. Lol. I just reread and wanted to clarify. I was attempting to just be very descriptive. I hope it reads that way. 😊

I appreciate y'all and I hate to beat a dead horse. I'm just trying to make this as clear as possible. If there's something that isn't clear and easy to understand on your invoice, please reach out and I will explain and, if needed, make changes to the format.

04/10/2026

Hey Vandercook, we're on our way. We had some mechanical snafus on Wednesday and we've been playing catch up since. I do apologize for the inconvenience. Mark will be there soon.

02/03/2026

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01/21/2026

I just wanted to send a PSA. Whatever day your trash gets picked up, we'll be there just like always unless some disaster has occurred in which case we would post a delay here.

If it's normally picked up at 9 AM and it's now noon, we're running the route differently, started at a different time, had to manage trucks in this extreme cold, are dealing with terrible roads, or whatever else but we will be there. We're always there.

I get a LOT of phone calls when Mark isn't there right when a customer expects him to be but please be aware that he's managing 150-200+ stops per day. Please be patient, especially this time of year.

Of course, that doesn't preclude us from making a mistake now and then and if it's actually late in the day and we haven't been there, that's when it's a good time to shoot me a text.

For our Wednesday customers, he will likely be well behind your normal time for the foreseeable future as he's currently covering both my route as well as his due to my knee surgery yesterday.

Thanks for your understand!

01/17/2026

Good evening, all. This message is specifically for the Michigan Center customers and a few stops between Grass Lake and Center.

Mark is on vacation for a couple of days so I am trying to cover for him as well as my regular work. That, combined with my current physical limitations (surgery is this Tuesday for a new ACL, meniscus repairs, etc.), I was unable to finish the Friday garbage route. I just hit a point of exhaustion.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience. I will be back out first thing in the morning, so feel free to leave it out. If any critters make a mess overnight, I'll clean that up as well.

Thanks for understanding!

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01/08/2026

Good morning, Team Mohawk.

We had a customer that left this payment for us a couple of weeks ago. It was taped to the garbage bin. Unfortunately, they forgot to write name or address on the envelope. Mark noticed the text on the envelope and assumed it was the address, so he also didn't write it down. Therefore, I have no idea who this was from.

If you recognize this envelope which had tape on both sides, please send me a message and let me know how much cash was in it so I can get it credited to your account.

Thanks and I hope you're all having a wonderful week and enjoying this brief warm up.