Locally Owned Dumpster Rental in Arlington Since 2012

Andre Reyes grew up here, in a 1970s brick ranch off Bowen Road that his grandparents bought while Arlington was still doubling every decade and the subdivisions were pushing south into pasture, and went to work for a Arlington remodelling crew out of high school. He spent most of his twenties in garages and attics, stripping shingles in June, breaking out drives and old flatwork, and hauling fences, decks and patio build-outs from Woodland West out to Kennedale, watching the same problems repeat themselves. The container never came when it was supposed to. When it did, the invoice had grown. Nobody ever warns a homeowner that the wet clay spoil out of a set of foundation pier holes weighs far more than the pile looks, or that broken flatwork hits legal transport weight in a box that still looks half empty, so the can that sounded generous on the phone is at payload while it is half full, and then it sits in the driveway too heavy to move.

In 2012 he and his brother Marco bought a used roll-off truck and four cans, parked them on 1200 N Commercial Blvd in south Arlington, off the I-20 corridor between Matlock Road and Collins Street, and started answering the phone themselves. Andre still takes most of the calls and Marco runs the yard and drives, and between them they hold the dispatch board. The first job was a shingle tear-off off Green Oaks Boulevard for a homeowner whose previous hauler had cancelled twice while the crew stood on the roof waiting. She still calls us, and she still tells the story.

Word moved the way it does here — through contractors, through neighbours, through the guy at the supply counter who mentions that the dumpster people actually showed up. Then two things settled it: hail, when one spring line puts a year of roof, fence and tree work on the books in an afternoon and every crew in the DFW Metroplex needs cans in the same fortnight; and the rental calendar, when UTA lets out in May, leases roll over across the blocks around campus, and landlords and estate families all want a container inside the same three weeks. We added trucks as the calls came in rather than borrowing against volume we did not have yet. 14 years on we run a small fleet, we still dispatch out of Arlington, and the phone still rings at a desk with somebody local behind it.

Why we care about getting the quote right

The dumpster industry has a reputation problem and it is largely self-inflicted. Low teaser rates, a tonnage allowance buried in the fine print, then a bill with an overage charge nobody explained. We priced against that from day one. When you call, we ask what you are throwing away, what it weighs, how long you need it and where it is going. Then we give you a number that includes delivery, pickup, the rental window and disposal. If we think you are about to order the wrong size, we say so — even when the wrong size is the more expensive one.

What being local actually buys you

It is not a slogan. It means our dispatcher knows which blocks in Woodland West, Fielder and along the Bowen corridor have original single-car drives too narrow to take a 30 and live oak limbs too low for the arm, which houses in the old downtown core off Abram and Center have no driveway at all, which older lots are still served off the back alley, which gravel and dirt pads a loaded truck should not commit to for a day or two after a spring rain line, which addresses on an Arlington street are actually in Pantego or Dalworthington Gardens and answer to a different city hall entirely, which HOA neighbourhoods out through Viridian want the placement agreed in writing first, and roughly what a 1,900 square foot brick ranch with a two-car garage, a packed attic and thirty years of shed behind it produces when it finally gets cleared out. It means that when a hail line comes across the DFW Metroplex and half the county wants a container in the same week, our trucks are already here.

We have seen the mistakes so you do not have to

The four that cost people the most money, in order: sizing by volume when the debris is dense, because broken concrete, brick, block and wet clay spoil out of pier holes all hit payload while the box still looks half empty; treating a re-roof as a volume job when it is a weight job counted in squares and layers, so a tear-off that reads like a 20 is really a smaller heavy can; assuming the kerb will absorb the overflow, when the city caps brush and yard waste at roughly 2 cubic yards a week and will not collect construction debris or roofing shingles at all; and heaping a load proud of the rails so it cannot be tarped before a spring gust front scatters half of it down the street. Every one of those is avoidable with one honest conversation before delivery.

We have cleared whole subdivisions of hail tear-offs in a single week, pier spoil and slab breakout off foundation repairs where the load went out by weight rather than volume, fence and deck tear-offs where the posts came up with their footings still attached, rental turnovers and student move-outs through the blocks around UTA inside the May window, garage and attic clears in houses that had not been emptied since they changed hands, short-term rental refreshes in the Entertainment District pocket where the furniture turns over on a schedule, builder punch-out cans out through Viridian and the newer south Arlington subdivisions, restaurant and retail fit-outs along Division, Cooper and Collins, drives, aprons and patios broken out and replaced, storm limb wood run as clean separate loads after a spring or October line, and estate cleanouts where a family had a fortnight to empty a house. Every one of those loads behaves differently at the scale house, and knowing that in advance is most of the job.

Credentials and cover

• Licensed to haul solid waste in Texas
• Full commercial general liability and auto cover — certificates available on request for GCs and property managers
• Workers’ compensation cover for every driver on the road
• Material taken only to permitted, licensed transfer and disposal facilities
• Compliance with Texas disposal rules under 30 TAC §330.15 and with City of Arlington collection and landfill requirements, with clean green waste kept as a separate load on every job

Contractors and property managers: ask for our COI when you set up an account. We can usually have it emailed the same day.