Veolia, the rag and bone men and subtlety

At 6:30am this morning I heard, from quite a way off, a large lorry barreling down my street and over the humps at high speed making quite a racket. Being up at the time I opened the door to watch a Veolia/Haringey liveried rubbish truck sail by so fast I was unable to get the registration number, despite running straight into he street. However I've managed to get these ones "recently":

18/10/2011 06:00 - VX05 FJD Veolia/Haringey council truck

20/10/2011 06:00 - VX05 FJD Veolia/Haringey council truck

04/11/2011 06:10 - VK08 UDE Veolia/Haringey council truck

05/11/2011 07:55 - VU11 HRN Veolia/Haringey council truck

Obviously none of them travelling so fast I could not read their registration plates and yes, I just got bored after a while wondering what the point was. If they are not collecting rubbish they should not be anywhere near my street as both Willoughby Rd and Wightman Rd are 7.5t access only.

Then at 7:10 this morning I get the official Veolia "small" truck that goes around collecting all the purple rubbish bags that they leave at the usual dumping spots. Have you ever noticed that you need to see the rag and bone men but those little Veolia trucks are real attention getters? It's as if there is a man inside the cage shaking it and shouting "We're collecting the f**king rubbish!!!!". The cages on the back shake and rattle loudly as they pootle along our poc marked and humped streets.

Veolia, how about a bit more subtlety? I bet the rag and bone men would use a bit of lagging if they had cages like yours.