You might want to read the article again. It is not Peachtree City who hires the trash haul service, it is the Peachtree Citizens who do!

I'm sorry, but you are just out of it! PTC authorizes who is to haul the trash, and of course they get paid what the town will let them charge.
Any time the town wants, they can buy some trucks, put drivers on them and collect the trash. Might even get a better deal at the land fill.

I don't know how much a new one costs, but looking quickly online such trucks from 1998 with about 40,000 miles on them were a little over $50,000 each.

Then you have to buy the trash containers and all the other equipment. Hire mechanics, have a shop capable of working on them, set up billing and such and so on.

Expensive venture.

So, while doable, is it advisable?

Of course it is doable. $10.00 per household per month times 10,000 households times twelve months, equals $1,200,000 income per year. We build libraries, police stations, buy fire equipment, etc., at far greater expense and less payout.
It would require our paid officials to work harder to run it, however, which may be the unfeasible part.

Not as much money as you are thinking.

10,000 homes requires 2,000 to be serviced per day. So, how many trucks would that require?

I don't know but just throw out 10 as a number. At, say, $100,000.00 per truck you spent a million right there.

Now, just two men per truck, really should be 3, is at least 800 man hours per week. At just $10.00 per hour that is $8,000 per week and $416,000.00 per year.

Ad in gas, maintenance, mechanics, buildings and so on and that 1.2 million isn't very impressive.

The marginal return comes from having more trucks per maintenance facility and such. 10 trucks has a very poor marginal return.

So, again, doable yes, but realistic?

Since PTC has absolutely no interest in this headache, we are wasting our time, anyway. But if there is no money in it, why does a dozen companies want the franchise?
I'm afraid your numbers are terrible. A truck can do a subdivision of about 100 in about and hour and one-half with two men----one man can, with a special truck and designated pick-up spots at each house. Three men? You must be union or work for the town? Need about 4-5 leased trucks with maintenance agreements. I assume we already have a repair shop for emergencies? Wasn't this the place where some of the mechanics were stealing gas and parts last year? It is the same reason we don't want to run the Tennis Center and the Amphitheater, it takes work and experience, and imagination, and less coffee breaks and time off.