Wasting No Time To cut $100 million in overhead and get Waste Management growing, Miller is: -- Eliminating 1,200 management and support positions -- Reducing the number of trucks in the fleet -- Establishing a vehicle-replacement policy that would add new trucks more often -- Consolidating 250 local operations into 39 regional groups -- Updating information systems to coordinate marketing, sales, and customer-service data -- Speeding up the retirement of founder and Chairman Buntrock to yearend -- Adding new outside directors DATA: BUSINESS WEEK Return to main story

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