Need help with putting together a business plan

What will your market bear as far as price per pick-up and what are current cartage rates?

 

The SBA and SCORE are excellent resources.
Having launched 7 businesses in 15 years, I will tell you a few things...
Know your business inside and out, forward and back. If you have no direct experience, don't do it.
Estimate costs at 25% over what you think they'll be
Estimate revenue at 75% of what you think.
Think bare bones to start. Debt is lethal.
Keep a full year cash reserve. You'll burn through it in 6 months.
Launching a business is ultimately a race.... A race to become profitable before you go broke.
Find out who's already doing what you wanna do, and imitate them.
Learn what they're succeeding at, and where they fail. Then fix it for your own business model.
Estimate 10% of existing clients getting on board, not 40%.
Locate your dumps, and negotiate better rates . Yes, they will negotiate, if you're a consistent user.

 

If you're commercia , there's different rates.
You're thinking wrong.
Generally, it's a per ton rate for commercial carrier .
You gotta wrap your head around these things, or you'll die a quick death in business.
Now, that said, if you want my assistance in talking you through business basics, I can consult for you, but I won't do it for free.
I spent years and tens of thousands of dollars learning the lessons, got the PhD in the school of hard knocks, and loved it for the most part.
There's basic business principles, tax laws, local, state, and federal law, and a myriad of other rules and regs you need to know BEFORE you start dumping money into this.
Most research you can do for free, but you gotta do the leg work.
There ain't no easy road.
Diligence beforehand prevents pain afterward.

 

@TNSquire Well said, great advice!

 

Here in Cal you cant just start up a trash company as far as customers concerned, not residential at least maybe on the commercial side, roll-offs , bins that sort of thing, also check out the environmental sides of the business. Doing Recyclables maybe easier to get into, residential and commercial, also may have less competition.