What does the Garbage truck driver do with all the garbage he picks up? Does he have like a big back yard?

Question

Do you think he goes through it and takes out the good stuff. Do his kids have to help him each night go through it? Do you think he pays them to help or do they just get to pick out what they want?

Answer 1

I think he drives his truck directly to the landfill, dumps the load per his employer's instructions, takes the truck to the service garage, gets in his own car, goes home and takes a shower.

Answer 2

In little towns the driver may be the owner-operator with his own truck. Yes if he sees something he likes as part of his pickup he may put it aside tied onto his truck. Before he brings the truck to the town dump he looks over that salvaged item and thinks if he wants it. When he comes home it can join the other treasures that he has collected (sometimes in his yard as one of our neighbors used to do). Sometimes he gives it as a gift to his kids (my wife once had a girl in her first grade class who was always bragging about what her dad had brought home for her). Nowadays with prices for metals like copper and brass so high it would probably pay to keep an eye out for salvageable wires and pipes that could be resold by the pound for top dollar.
If he does have a big back yard it was something he bought for his family using the really-decent wages he earns at a job that many people don't want. Using his backyard for active trash is probably too nineteenth century for anyone except those in the most rural of locations.