Clutch performance: Loveland cleans up at statewide Road-E-O

Clutch performance: Loveland cleans up at statewide Road-E-O

They don’t call Ben Bonner the “Swiss Army knife” of heavy equipment for nothing. When he realized no one from Loveland had signed up for the front-load division at the 2025 Colorado Road-E-O — a truck his department doesn’t even use — the 14-year Loveland solid waste operator made a game-day decision to jump in. “When it comes down to it, if you can drive that truck, you can drive that truck,” Bonner said, pointing to the side- and rear-load so…