How many sanitation vehicles are there in New York City?

Here is some interesting information on the plowing after the last storm:

“There is, however, a more sinister explanation: a union-engineered work slowdown. Sanitation Department supervisors reportedly told snow removal employees, in so many words, to slack off on the job in order to stick it to City Hall. Actually, two unions were involved, and may have worked in concert with one another: 1) the Sanitation Officers Association, which also goes by the name of Service Employees International Union Local 444; and 2) the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, also known as International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 831. Union officials insist that the cleanup was slow because the work crews were short-handed. But they are facing a bombshell revelation that undercuts this claim.

Last Wednesday, New York City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens) announced that three Department of Sanitation plow workers, accompanied by two Department of Transportation supervisors on loan to the Sanitation Department, came to his office and confessed the slow response times were no accident. Halloran said the whistleblowers “didn’t want to be identified because they were afraid of retaliation.” The councilman got specific: “They were told [by supervisors] to take off routes [and] not do the plowing of some of the major arteries in a timely manner. They were told to make the mayor pay for the layoffs, the reductions in rank for the supervisors, shrinking the rolls of the rank and file.”

puts on her Jersey accent Hey…. it’s a question that ya just don’ ask. touches her nose longways with her index finger