As for genral advice, make sure your do's and dont's are clear to the costumer, and stick to them. I.e. charging extra for yard waste that is put in with demo, or appliances/tires/gas cans, we charged 50 bucks for a gas can or tire, 200 for appliances or yard waste. The reason is most people think its tip and go where you dump, they dont realize you pay extra for all the stuff they are trying to get away with..
If winter is slow in your area, try to get set up as a snow hauler,
Pick a time that your rent covers, and charge per day beyond that i.e. 400 bucks for a 20 yard for genral demo, for a week. They say they need it 3 more days, ok 30 bucks a day or 50, whatever. That dumpster can make 400 if its not at thier house, they need to pay to keep it. Obviously a big repete coustomer would get that charge "waved" for thier repete business.
If they throw garbage in it, charge em a extra 150 for the trouble, or theyccan sort through it.
Get a account at every tip station and landfill in your area, we went wherever it was cheaper, sometimes we dumped by the yard, sometimes by weight.
Like snow hauling, remember your a dump truck too, so hauling a load of sand or whatever is no trouble.
When getting off the ground, you may want to make a deal with one or two other smaller operations, "hey bill, i got time to kill, got any work?" You may have to do it cheaper than if the account was yours, but if it gets you operating costs covered for the day, everything else is gravy. May be able to borrow dumpsters if your short to... just a few thoughts, i will add more as i think of them
Your advice for a rolloff business truck?
Discussion in 'Waste Removal and Garbage Truck Driver Forum' started by Fredy, Feb 12, 2016.
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Have a good property damage wavair, make sure the property OWNER signs them. This will protect you at some point.
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They are pretty small, so I don't think you would need a very large truck. Maybe a ramp for the one with the crutches?
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Buy shrink wrap, use it to wrap up the bottom gap of a dumpster thatcis leaking product.
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Good one KMG365 and thanks for the great advice street beater.
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Well we had 9 trucks, a min of 7 to 8 a day per truck, as much as 12. But that includes drop off, pick ups, and dnr. (Dunp n return). We probly pushed over 15 hundred boxs. I would say a good number is a min of 8 a day for a one truck operation. Reason being you have to figure your per operating hour cost of running the truck. So let me give you a example with non realistic but easy to follow numbers. Ok my driver costs me 100 a day, and the truck costs 400 a week, and it burns 100 dollars a day in fuel, and 20 a day for insurance, and anorher 30 for random crap, future mant. Road tax, inspections excc..so the truck costs me 1650 a week, ok so thats 42 bucks a hour for a 8 hour day, in reality probly gonna be a 10 or 12 hour day, so 33 to 35 dollars a hour that the truck has to produce to be solvent. Not profitable, just solvent. Ok we have a number, about 400 dollars a day to keep it simple. Easy right? Well lets do the math, lets say to be competitive you are charging 350 dollars for a 20 yard for construction demo, ok lets go with 6 boxs a day all 20's all demo. 3 del, and 3 pickups, so your making 1050, take your 400 off the top, now 650, ok now tipping fee's, 3 boxs, 2 with shingles, one with a bath remodel waste. So maybe you get lucky on the heavy ones and you can dump by the yard, say 10 bucks a yard, so your paying for size not volume, thats gonna be 400 for the two shingle boxs, down to 250, and the bath remodel is 2,5 at 40 a ton, so thats 100. Down to 150 in the black. Now you see why you have to be a stickler on charging for extras, do this exersise with your local numbers. Then you will be close to a good working model, our goal was a average of 1 box a hour, so you may del 2 in a hour and take 2 hours for a dnr, still at 1 per hour average. 20 yards are by far the most popular for home owners, bath, kitchen, roof, pretty much a 20. Garage clean out, moving trash, a 20. Brush clean up, a 20. Concrete is a 10 or 15, large construction is 30 yards all day long, also repete business boxs are 30's go look behing largs mfg business, bet you find a 30 yard for random big crap... 20's and 30's for sure, unless you get into trash and recyling, then you need 40 yard recever box's, and for the business, trash is good. Trash is year long, trash doesnt care about winter slow down, trash will be there forever...
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And 40 recicevers make a little money by rent cost, you charge a monthly rental on the box, and a "slightly" reduced dump charge since there renting a box.
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And depending on your area, you may make money on both ends of recycle boxs, we charged rent on the recevers, a cost per dump, and the recycler payed us for the cardbord....
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One last thing about my number exersise that is also not including tax, business insurance excc... we had a rough goal of generating 100 dollars a hour, i think we costed around 60 a hour to run, so best case was a gross proit of 400-450 a day per truck. Sounds great, but it didnt happen everyday, and 1 steer tire replacment would wipe out the profit from 1 truck. Poof. We also had a office, staff exccc.. millions a month in and out...
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