The City of Thompson will be taking more time than normal to collect residential garbage for the next couple of weeks.

The City’s primary residential refuse truck began suffering engine issues last week, which has led to collecting garbage and recycling with the same truck.

Director of Public Works Wayne Koversky says that while the process will take longer, pickups will still happen within the day.

“We are running shifts until 9:30 each day, on Friday the shift runs until 7:30. So we’re just encouraging the public to leave their carts out until the end of the day. It is late, it’s in the evening, but we do have a scheduled shift that’s going to be doing the collection.”

Koversky also said that the part they need to fix the engine is en route, and they expect it to be delivered in the next two weeks.