Louisville, Ky. (WDRB) -- Bullitt County Public Schools owned one garbage truck, but now that truck has been sold at auction.
The school district's superintendent Jesse Bacon said the garbage truck sold for $52,000 on Tuesday on a government surplus website.
WDRB Investigates showed how the district paid over $100,000 for the garbage truck hoping the district would save money by hauling its own trash.
But three months into the garbage program, the truck's dumpster crashed onto the truck's cab.
The district decided to cuts it losses, and after fixing the truck, put it up for sale.
"We quickly found out why school districts don't get into the sanitation business when they don't have to," Bacon said in previous interview. "It was way more complex than we anticipated."
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