Eighteen-month-old Daniel Connell, of Gowrie, loved trucks, particularly garbage trucks and the Gowrie garbage men were well aware of it.
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Thirty-three years ago, Daniel's mother wrote to The Canberra Times to tell us of the friendship between Daniel and the garbos.
"My praise and thanks to the Gowrie garbos. Every Tuesday and Friday, my 18-month-old son who enjoys any and every chance to see trucks waits patiently by the window for the first glimpse of his favourite. He is never disappointed, there is always a special wave and smile (some times a beep on the horn). What a terrific way to start a little boy's day", she wrote.
Mr Geoff Eather, the operations manager for Waste Hawke, the company which services the Gowrie area, said that the men on the trucks took special notice of children.
It was quite common for children to be attracted to the trucks because of their flashing lights and the activity of the men running around them.
The drivers acknowledged the children in a number of ways, sometimes blinking the headlights and beeping the horn, occasionally, throwing stray tennis balls.
The truck which Daniel waited for each week was driven by Mr Ray Cadona.