Locally Owned Dumpster Rental in Brockton Since 2011

Brendan Teixeira grew up here, in a 1900 two-family off Belmont Street that his grandparents bought when the shoe factories were still the reason anyone moved to Brockton, and went to work for a Brockton remodelling crew out of high school. He spent most of his twenties in basements and attics, tearing out plaster and lath, stripping shingles in June, breaking out old flatwork, and pulling down porches and back stairs from Montello out to Campello, 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 plaster and lath off two rooms weighs far more than the pile looks, or that the spoil out of a footing dig taken down to the 48-inch frost line will hit 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 2011 he bought a used roll-off truck and four cans, parked them on 1109 Montello St in the Montello district on Brockton’s north side, a short run to Route 24, and started answering the phone himself. Brendan still takes most of the calls and still runs the dispatch board. The first job was a shingle tear-off on a two-family off Pleasant Street 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 man at the supply counter who mentions that the dumpster people actually showed up. Then two things settled it: winter, when one nor’easter puts a run of roof, ceiling and tree work on the books over a weekend and every crew in the South Shore wants a can in the same fortnight; and the spring thaw, when the frost lets go, water gets into basements across the two- and three-family streets, and landlords, families and estates 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. 15 years on we run a small fleet, we still dispatch out of Brockton, 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 an image 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 off Belmont Street, Pleasant Street and Court Street have a single shared drive between two houses and a maple limb too low for the arm, which three-deckers in Montello and along Main Street toward Campello have a rear yard the truck cannot reach, which downtown and Salisbury Square addresses have no driveway at all, which gravel and dirt pads a loaded truck should not commit to for a day or two after a thaw, which kerbside spots are gone until the ploughed snow goes, which addresses just across the line are actually Stoughton, Avon or Easton and answer to a different town hall and a different county, that a condominium association rather than the City decides where a can may sit, and roughly what a 1900 two-family with a full basement, a packed attic, a back shed and three generations of storage produces when it finally gets cleared out. It means that when a nor’easter comes through the South Shore 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, plaster and lath, and spoil out of a footing dig taken to the 48-inch frost line all hit payload while the box still looks half empty; forgetting that a two-family has a full basement and a full attic in it, so a cleanout that reads like a 20 on the ground floor is really a 30 once the stairs are counted; assuming the kerb will absorb the overflow, when Brockton caps household collection at one barrel per family unit a week, does not collect construction debris or doors at all, and tells residents to hire private haulers for cleanouts, cabinets, sheetrock, pipes, bathtubs, stumps, soil and asphalt; and putting a mattress, a bag of textiles or loose gypsum wallboard into a load that then fails at the gate, which under the Massachusetts waste bans is the hauler’s problem as much as the customer’s. Every one of those is avoidable with one honest conversation before delivery.

We have cleared full basements and attics out of two-families that had not been emptied since the 1970s, three-decker turnovers in Montello where a unit changes hands and forty years goes out in a fortnight, ice-dam damage where the ceilings, the insulation and half the plaster came down before the roof went back on, porch and back-stair rebuilds where the posts came up with their footings still attached, basement work alongside an old heating oil tank that had to come out under an FP-292 permit before anything else moved, storm limb wood run as clean separate loads of maple, oak, ash and white pine after a nor’easter, kitchen and bath gut-outs where the cabinets and sheetrock the City will not take went straight into the can, foundation and bulkhead digs that went out by weight rather than volume, restaurant and retail fit-outs along Main Street and Belmont Street, and estate cleanouts where a family had a fortnight to empty a house. We have also had a load turned away at the gate over a single mattress, which is exactly why we ask what is going in the box. 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 Massachusetts
• 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 the Massachusetts waste disposal bans at 310 CMR 19.017, with mixed construction and demolition loads routed to a permitted C&D processing facility rather than to disposal, and clean vegetative debris 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.