Your advice for a rolloff business truck?

Naw it was started by one guy with one side load trash truck and 200 garbage cans, over 24 years he built it up to 3 side loads 6 front loads 9 roll offs a fork truck (for del of front load tanks) a flatbed with knuckle crane, a bobcat.... i joined in around year 12 to 14, i left to run my own truck, a few years later he cashed out to the big green clean machine (WM) for something north of 20 million...

 

As for speed of growth.. he added 2 roll off and 1 front load during my 8 years.. we had more than a thousand dumpsters alone.. i know a few other one truck startups, most got to 2-5 trucks in less than 5-8 years, but they all worked with either part time retired guys or cross work with other small companys to build.. the step up from one to two trucks or two to three is hard if you cant keep the truck busy at first...

 

Legal? Not sure, i did i a dump out 3 times, one a privite customer, box full of houshold trash, was supose to demo. Bossman talked to them. Said pay a extra 200 over the phone or cash to the driver, he will give you a recipt. Cus. Said no. Get the dumpster off my property or i will call in as ilegaly dumped in my yard. Boss man told me to tell the customer their payment will be refunded within 2 hours, open the door and pick up the box. 20 yards of junk. Right there on the front lawn. Had to drive 3 blocks away just to close the door.... he was chasing me on foot.... another was a overloaded concrete box, no big... just spilled out half of it. Took what they paid for. The third was a ilegal load. Customer didnt know you couldnt dispose chem waste with us. Lots of paint and other crap.. once i put a full dumpster cross ways in front of a business owners personal house to force him to pay... that was dicy... not all that legal... but sometimes it works. I would not advise this tho.... we had a few coustomers that were cash and carry. I.e. dont drop without payment or dont pick without...

 

Naw he was under level, it was clay and concrete packed in tight, basicly it was a solid 12 yard block... thought i was gonna blow the main cable, and i have picked up 15 ton boxs....

 

Yeah, mostly they ran tall boys, 20 or 30 yard that is only 18 feet long, just taller. Just gotta know you max load weight. Most singles have a tag around here. Kept up for fuel when not needed