Service area
Where We Deliver — Arlington, Tarrant County & the DFW Metroplex
Seventeen cities and communities, delivered daily from our yard at 1200 N Commercial Blvd, just off the I-20 corridor in south Arlington between Matlock Road and Collins Street. Every one below has its own page with local placement notes, permit guidance, landmarks and driving routes.
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At a glance
Distance and access from our yard
| City / community | County | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Prairie | Dallas County | 10 miles east of our Commercial Boulevard yard | I-20 east from the Matlock Road entrance for the south end and the Joe Pool Lake side |
| Mansfield | Tarrant County | 9 miles south of our Commercial Boulevard yard | US-287 south-east from the I-20 interchange, in past the Debbie Lane exits |
| Kennedale | Tarrant County | 7 miles west of our Commercial Boulevard yard | I-20 west from the yard to the Kennedale-Sublett Road exit |
| Pantego | Tarrant County | 6 miles north-west of our Commercial Boulevard yard | Matlock Road north to Park Row Drive, then west to Bowen Road |
| Dalworthington Gardens | Tarrant County | 5 miles north-west of our Commercial Boulevard yard | Matlock Road north to Arkansas Lane, then west |
| Fort Worth | Tarrant County | 18 miles west of our Commercial Boulevard yard | I-20 west across the southern side of the city for Wedgwood and the south-west quadrant |
| Grapevine | Tarrant County | 22 miles north of our Commercial Boulevard yard | SH-360 north the whole way, then east on SH-114 into town |
| Euless | Tarrant County | 14 miles north of our Commercial Boulevard yard | Collins Street (FM-157) north, which becomes Industrial Boulevard in Euless |
| Bedford | Tarrant County | 15 miles north of our Commercial Boulevard yard | Collins Street (FM-157) north through Euless and on into Bedford |
| Hurst | Tarrant County | 15 miles north of our Commercial Boulevard yard | SH-360 north to SH-183 west, then north on Precinct Line Road |
| Irving | Dallas County | 18 miles north-east of our Commercial Boulevard yard | SH-360 north out of Arlington to SH-183 east into south Irving |
| Cedar Hill | Dallas County | 18 miles south-east of our Commercial Boulevard yard | I-20 east from the yard to US-67 south, then off into town |
| Burleson | Johnson County | 22 miles south-west of our Commercial Boulevard yard | I-20 west to I-35W south, off at the Alsbury Boulevard exits |
| Crowley | Tarrant County | 20 miles west of our Commercial Boulevard yard | I-20 west past Kennedale to I-35W south, then west on FM-1187 |
| Forest Hill | Tarrant County | 11 miles west of our Commercial Boulevard yard | I-20 west from the yard, straight through to the Forest Hill exits |
| Viridian | Tarrant County | 12 miles north of our Commercial Boulevard yard | Collins Street north the length of Arlington to the Green Oaks Boulevard junction |
| Downtown Arlington | Tarrant County | 6 miles north of our Commercial Boulevard yard | Collins Street north to Abram Street, then west into the core |
Local knowledge
Why the jurisdiction matters more here than most places
Every city here runs its own rulebook
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it, and on most Arlington lots that is easy — the drives are wide and the setbacks are generous. Put it in the street or the right-of-way instead and you are into a permit process, and here that is city by city rather than county-wide: Arlington, Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Kennedale, Fort Worth, Euless, Bedford, Hurst and Irving each run their own desk. In Arlington there is no permit called a dumpster permit — nothing in the published code names roll-off containers at all — but that is not the same as no permit needed. Streets and Sidewalks §6.01 prohibits obstructing a sidewalk, median, curb, shoulder, street or public right-of-way, so anything that takes a lane or affects traffic flow needs a Temporary Traffic Control Permit from Public Works: allow a minimum of three business days, keep the traffic control compliant with the Texas MUTCD, and note the $500 a day fine the city publishes for non-compliance. In state right-of-way — a TxDOT frontage road — TxDOT approval comes before the city's. Construction in the right-of-way itself goes through the Public Right-of-Way Permit, Right-of-Way Division, (817) 459-6634. There is no Arlington ordinance limiting how many days a container may sit and no screening requirement; the practical exposure on a long-sitting box is nuisance and outside-storage enforcement, and the nuisance chapter §2.02(M) expressly exempts building materials stored in a workmanlike manner alongside an active building permit, so pulling the permit is itself the defence. The jurisdiction trap is the enclaves: Pantego and Dalworthington Gardens are separate incorporated towns surrounded by Arlington, with their own permitting and their own household hazardous waste rules — a Dalworthington Gardens or Crowley resident needs a voucher and pays $47 at the Fort Worth collection centre, while an Arlington resident goes free. In the HOA and master-planned parts — Viridian, and the newer south Arlington subdivisions — the CC&Rs commonly govern where a container may sit and for how many days, so check with the association before delivery. Out on the rural edges toward Kennedale, Crowley, Burleson and past Mansfield, tell us where the septic tank, the drain field and the well head sit, because a loaded box does not belong on any of them; inside Arlington, Grand Prairie and Fort Worth that never comes up. Gated entrances, long lanes and cattle guards are the other thing worth mentioning on the phone. Rules get amended, so confirm with the city or with Tarrant County before you book, and call Texas811 two working days before anything gets dug, as Utilities Code Chapter 251 requires. See the Arlington permit guide.
Where it actually goes
Texas has no statewide ban on yard waste going to landfill, whatever a national guide may have told you: 30 TAC §330.15 does not list it, and the City of Arlington says outright that bagged leaves picked up at the kerb are not recyclable and go straight to the landfill. The real constraints here are what the city will and will not take at the kerb, and what the load weighs at the scale. Arlington moved to automated carts in February 2024 — a 95-gallon cart as standard, 65-gallon on request, up to two extra carts at $6.89 a month, one single collection day, and a minimum $37 fine if the orange "Oops" tag escalates — and the caps are the point: roughly 2 cubic yards of brush and yard waste a week, limbs cut to 4-foot lengths, nothing over 6 inches in diameter, bundles under 50 pounds, plus about 2 cubic yards of bulky items, with seasonal bagged leaves from the week after Thanksgiving into the first week of January. The line that matters most: construction debris and roofing shingles cannot be collected curbside, and the city says contractors bear responsibility for hauling those away. Our loads go to the Arlington Landfill, 800 Mosier Valley Road, Euless — one facility, city-owned and Republic-operated, Monday to Saturday 7:00am to 4:30pm, (817) 354-2305. Arlington Water Utilities account holders who own their home get three free drop-offs a year there; contractors, landlords and apartment tenants are outside that programme. Clean brush kept as a separate load with no lumber, wire or trash mixed into it gets ground for mulch rather than buried, so it is worth keeping clean. Paint, solvents, automotive fluids, batteries and pool chemicals never ride in a container: the Fort Worth Environmental Collection Center, 6400 Bridge Street, takes them Thursday and Friday 11am to 7pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm, free to Arlington residents with no voucher, once a month, residential only — call 817-392-1234 first about anything you are unsure of. PaintCare does not operate in Texas, so the national advice about dropping leftover paint at a paint retailer does not apply here; latex can be dried out and put in the trash, oil-based goes to the collection centre. Details from the City of Arlington and TCEQ. See where it goes.
The ground moves — and what that changes
Arlington houses sit on a slab. The city had 7,692 people in 1950 and 44,775 by 1960, so essentially the whole place was built from the mid-1950s on, which is the slab era: slab-on-grade dominates, pier-and-beam survives only in the small pre-1950 core around downtown, and basements are very rare in North Texas — expansive clay makes a below-grade wall an engineering problem, and with no frost line forcing a deep excavation a basement is pure added cost. So a cleanout here draws from the garage, the attic, the shed, the side yard and the back patio rather than a floor below, and a sizing guide written around a lower level will oversize the job every time. What matters instead is what the slab sits on, and that changes over a few miles: Eagle Ford shale weathering to expansive clay, Woodbine sand and clay, Austin Chalk along the escarpment toward Grand Prairie, and Trinity and Village Creek alluvium through the middle. That is why foundation performance varies street to street. The USDA soil survey gives Houston Black 40 to 60 percent clay and cracks half an inch to four inches wide, twelve inches or more deep, open 90 to 150 days a year. The soil shrinks away from the slab perimeter through July and August, autumn rain returns, the perimeter heaves — that annual cycle, not one event, is what cracks slabs here. When the repair comes, what goes in the box is pier and tunnel spoil, wet clay that is very heavy for its volume, broken concrete from slab breakouts and interior access holes, and the flatwork and landscaping pulled for perimeter access.
North Texas weather and the calendar
Spring is the busy end of our year. April and May are the severe season: the National Weather Service count for the Fort Worth area is 555 tornadoes in April and 525 in May since 1950 — about seven a year in each, roughly 55 percent of the annual total — with a genuine secondary peak in October (145) that most writers miss. The hail window runs March into June, and hail is what fills the calendar: Texas leads the nation for hail, 902 events in 2025, with more than 235,000 Texas homes damaged that year, and DFW sits in the highest-risk tier. That is what puts shingles, fence panels and limb wood on the ground, and it is why a light load has to sit below the rails and covered. Heat is the summer constraint. July averages a 95.6°F high and August 95.8°F, with 20.2 days a year at 100°F or more — the first around 1 July, the last around 27 August — so tear-offs, attic work and container loading all slow through those weeks and we set early where we can. Winter is a short ice and hard-freeze problem, not a snow problem. DFW sees 29.2 nights a year at or below freezing, and when it goes wrong it goes wrong hard: February 2021 bottomed at −2°F with 139 consecutive hours below freezing and 5.0 inches of snow, and the January 2023 event dropped 1.3 inches of sleet at DFW with 88 straight hours at or below freezing. Those cost days, not months. Ground matters more than season: wet clay is heavy for its volume on the scale ticket and ruts under a loaded wheel, and a gravel or dirt approach out toward Kennedale, Crowley or past Mansfield can stay soft for a day after a line of storms. On a soft approach we would rather move you a day than leave marks you will look at for years.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Arlington?
No. Every city and community listed on this page sits inside our standard service area and the flat rate is the same as it is in Arlington. Delivery, pickup, your rental window and disposal up to the agreed tonnage are all in the number we quote you on the phone.
How far do you actually go?
Roughly a 25 mile radius from our Commercial Blvd yard, which covers Tarrant County end to end and reaches into Dallas, Johnson and Ellis counties — Fort Worth, Forest Hill and Crowley to the west, Grapevine, Euless, Bedford and Hurst to the north, Irving and Grand Prairie east, Cedar Hill south-east, and Mansfield, Kennedale and Burleson south, plus Viridian in north Arlington and the Pantego and Dalworthington Gardens enclaves inside the Arlington street grid. Most of that is Tarrant County; Grand Prairie is primarily Dallas County, Irving and Cedar Hill are Dallas, and Burleson is primarily Johnson — which changes whose desk you deal with but not our rate. We go further for multi-container jobs and contractor accounts. If your address is not on the list, call and ask — and if we cannot reach you we will usually know who can.
Can you deliver out to Kennedale, Crowley or past Mansfield?
Yes, with a conversation first. Long gravel and dirt lanes, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, low live oak and cedar elm limbs and a wet clay approach that ruts under a loaded wheel all affect which container we can get in and where it can safely sit. Out on acreage on those rural edges, tell us where the septic tank, the drain field and the well head are so the box does not go over any of them, and mention any cattle guard on the way in. Inside Arlington, Grand Prairie and Fort Worth none of that comes up. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Arlington do you cover?
All of it. The yard is at 1200 N Commercial Blvd in south Arlington, off the I-20 corridor between Matlock Road and Collins Street, so south Arlington and the Little Road, Green Oaks, Sublett and Bardin corridors are short runs. Downtown, UTA and the Abram, Center and Division streets run straight up Collins, Cooper or Fielder; north Arlington, the Entertainment District and Viridian come off I-30 at Collins or Eastchase Parkway; the east side rides SH-360 across to Randol Mill, Pioneer Parkway and Arkansas Lane; and US-287 clips the south end past Kennedale-Sublett Road. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone: the newer subdivisions have two and three-car drives that take anything we own, the pre-1950 streets around downtown have narrow original single-car drives and sometimes an alley behind, and in the HOA and master-planned parts the CC&Rs may set how many days the box can stay. Give us the address and we will have it sorted before the truck leaves.
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Tell us what you are clearing out and we will tell you the right size and the flat price to put it in your driveway. No forms, no waiting on an email — just call and we will sort it out in a couple of minutes.
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