Service area
Where We Deliver — Brockton, Plymouth County & the South Shore
Seventeen cities, towns and Brockton districts, delivered daily from our yard at 1109 Montello St, in the Montello district on the north side of the city and a short run to Route 24. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Bridgewater | Plymouth County | 7 miles south of our Montello Street yard | Main Street south through the middle of Brockton and on into North Main Street at the West Bridgewater line |
| East Bridgewater | Plymouth County | 9 miles south-east of our Montello Street yard | Centre Street east out of Brockton and south on the local roads into Elmwood |
| Abington | Plymouth County | 6 miles east of our Montello Street yard | Centre Street east out of Brockton, which runs straight at the Abington line |
| Whitman | Plymouth County | 7 miles south-east of our Montello Street yard | Route 27 south-east out of Brockton, which runs straight into Whitman |
| Stoughton | Norfolk County | 7 miles west of our Montello Street yard | Route 27 north-west out of Brockton, straight through to Stoughton centre |
| Avon | Norfolk County | 3 miles north of our Montello Street yard | Main Street north out of the Montello district straight into Avon |
| Holbrook | Norfolk County | 6 miles north-east of our Montello Street yard | Main Street north through Avon, then east on the local roads into Holbrook |
| Randolph | Norfolk County | 7 miles north of our Montello Street yard | Route 24 north to the Route 139 exit, then west into the middle of Randolph |
| Easton | Bristol County | 8 miles south-west of our Montello Street yard | Belmont Street west out of Brockton toward the North Easton line |
| Bridgewater | Plymouth County | 13 miles south of our Montello Street yard | Route 24 south from the Route 27 interchange to the Bridgewater exits |
| Raynham | Bristol County | 16 miles south-west of our Montello Street yard | Route 24 south from the Route 27 interchange to the Route 44 exit |
| Taunton | Bristol County | 19 miles south-west of our Montello Street yard | Route 24 south from the Route 27 interchange to the Taunton exits |
| Rockland | Plymouth County | 9 miles east of our Montello Street yard | Route 24 north to Route 139 east, which runs through the middle of Rockland |
| Hanson | Plymouth County | 11 miles south-east of our Montello Street yard | Route 27 south-east out of Brockton through Whitman and into the southern part of Hanson |
| Halifax | Plymouth County | 15 miles south-east of our Montello Street yard | Route 106 east through West Bridgewater and East Bridgewater, straight into Halifax |
| Montello | Plymouth County | Our own district — the yard is at 1109 Montello Street, on Brockton’s north side | Montello Street itself, which runs past the yard gate north and south |
| Campello | Plymouth County | 4 miles south of our Montello Street yard | Main Street south from the yard, through downtown and straight on into Campello |
Local knowledge
Why the jurisdiction matters more here than most places
Every city and town here runs its own rulebook
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it, and on a Brockton two-family that usually means the driveway with boards down. What surprises people is that private property does not put you outside the permit question. 527 CMR 1.00, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Fire Safety Code, Table 1.12.8.5 lists “rubbish containers > 6 cubic yards” as a permitted activity, with the head of the fire department as the issuing authority. Every roll-off we own is over six cubic yards, so the permit question reaches a 10 yard in a driveway just as much as a 40 yard on a commercial site. The one exemption is a container delivered and removed within a single business day. The code also requires containers to be marked with the company name and an emergency telephone number, which ours are. The placement rules Massachusetts fire departments publish under NFPA 1 Chapter 19 are stricter than the national ones: at least 10 feet from combustible walls, openings or overhangs — not the 5 feet most US dumpster content repeats — no closer than 20 feet to an intersection, no closer than 10 feet to a hydrant, and where the box sits beside a building, the top of it at least 5 feet below any window. It must not block egress or fire-apparatus access, or sit under a fire escape. In Brockton, call Fire Prevention on 508-583-2933 and ask how they handle a container at your address. For the public way there is no published City of Brockton container permit — the DPW publishes a Street Opening Permit and a Public Works Construction License, which cover street openings and driveway cuts rather than obstructions — so if the box has to sit in the street, start with DPW Engineering on 508-580-7139. The fragmentation is the other half of it: Massachusetts has 351 cities and towns and no county layer running solid waste, so West Bridgewater, Stoughton, Randolph, Whitman and Easton each answer the same question differently, and the towns around us straddle three counties — Plymouth, then Norfolk for Stoughton, Avon, Holbrook and Randolph, and Bristol for Easton, Raynham and Taunton. Out on the rural edges — Halifax, Hanson, Raynham and parts of Easton — tell us where the septic tank, the leach field and the well head sit, because a loaded box does not belong on any of them; inside Brockton, Taunton or Randolph that never comes up. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Dig Safe on 811 or 888-344-7233, as M.G.L. c.82 §40 requires, with enforcement by the Department of Public Utilities Pipeline Safety Division on (617) 305-3537. See the Brockton permit guide.
The waste bans, and where it actually goes
Massachusetts bans more material from disposal than almost any state in the country, and the rule bites on transfer as well as on burial. Under 310 CMR 19.017: leaves since 1991, yard waste since 1992, white goods, containers, paper and cardboard, cathode ray tubes since 2000, asphalt pavement, brick and concrete since 2006, ferrous and non-ferrous metal since 2006, wood since 2006 from landfills though a waste-to-energy plant may still take it, whole tires from landfills, clean gypsum wallboard since 2011, and mattresses and textiles since 1 November 2022, plus commercial food waste over half a ton a week. Two corrections worth carrying: asphalt shingles are not on that list, only asphalt pavement, and only CRTs are listed, not electronics generally. Both the generator and the hauler are liable, with penalties running to $25,000 a day for repeat violations, which is exactly why we ask what is going in the box before we quote. A mixed demolition load is still legal — you do not have to sort on site — but it has to go to a permitted C&D processing facility working to the state Minimum Performance Standard, a diversion rate of 20 percent through 2025 and 2026, rising to 25 percent by 2030. The one thing to pull out first is clean gypsum wallboard, which has to be removed before transfer, so keep it separate. On the city side, there is no landfill and no municipal transfer station in Brockton. Kerbside collection is contracted to Republic Services and reaches only 1–5 family homes paying the trash fee — condominiums and businesses are not served at all: one barrel per unit per week to a 50 lb limit, official green pay bags at $5 per roll of four for anything beyond that, recycle carts at $55, and barrels off the street by 11pm. Yard waste is kerbside but seasonal — every other week from 6 July to 30 October, weekly from 3 November to 12 December, loose in barrels or paper kraft bags — and the city is blunt that yard waste in plastic bags or Brockton Pay Bags will not be picked up. Bulk is one free item a week, then $20 prepaid each for a mattress, a couch or a TV. What the city will not touch is our whole market, in its own words: no construction debris and no doors, and for property cleanouts, cabinets, sheetrock, bathtubs, pipes, stumps, rocks, soil and asphalt, residents “must hire private haulers.” The Recycle Depot, 300 Oak Hill Way, Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 3:00pm, is residents-only and takes household recyclables, textiles, tires, CRTs and appliances — but no construction debris. It handles paint and household chemicals 1 April to 31 October only, $8 a gallon for non-residents, and runs a free Paint Swap Shed; PaintCare does not operate in Massachusetts, so the national advice about returning leftover paint to a retailer does not apply here. And the city does not rent roll-off containers. Details from the City of Brockton and MassDEP. See where it goes.
Full basements, and what comes out of them
The single fact that governs work here is the 48-inch frost line. The Massachusetts residential code sets it statewide, so footings reach four feet whatever is built on top of them — and once a crew has dug four feet, the extra cost of a full basement is small. That is why New England pre-war housing is essentially all full-basement, and why a cleanout in Brockton starts a floor below where a sizing guide written for the south or the south-west would start. The basement and the attic are the cleanout. What comes up the bulkhead stairs of a 1900 two-family is storm windows, paint tins, a workbench, a chest freezer, joint-compound buckets, decades of furniture and the previous owner’s everything. The same frost depth is why a footing, a deck or a fence line produces more spoil than anyone expects, and why the spoil comes out wet: frost heave, the spring thaw and plain groundwater are the ground story here, and what they generate — soaked drywall, carpet, panelling, ruined stored goods, broken concrete and brick out of a cellar floor — is heavy for its volume. On the housing stock itself, Brockton is more a two-family city than a triple-decker city: the two-and-a-half storey sidehall two-family was the standard working form from the 1860s, and three-deckers arrived after 1895, concentrated in Montello and along Main Street toward Campello. Anything pre-1978 carries lead paint under the federal RRP rule and the Massachusetts Lead Law, administered by the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program on (800) 532-9571. Anything pre-1980 can carry asbestos in pipe insulation, floor tile, mastic and cement shingle, and we cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container, ever. Knob-and-tube wiring is common enough that Mass Save pays to have it and vermiculite removed before a house is insulated. Houses of this era were commonly balloon-framed, which is worth checking before demolition because of the uninterrupted stud cavities.
Nor’easters, ice dams and the calendar
Winter sets the shape of our year. Brockton runs 137.5 nights a year at or below freezing and 22.6 days that never get above it, on 49.88 inches of precipitation and roughly 30 to 45 inches of snow in a normal winter, with enormous year-to-year variance — the January 2022 blizzard put 29 inches on Norton and 30 on Quincy, and the February 2026 storm broke records across southern New England. Summer, by contrast, is mild: an average high of 82.1°F in July and 80.6°F in August. What the cold produces is work. February to April is ice-dam season — the code requires an ice barrier under new roofing here for a reason — which means roof leaks, wet ceilings, and insulation and plaster torn out of the floor below. April to June is the thaw: basement water, foundation repair and yard clean-up, with a gap worth knowing about, because kerbside yard waste does not start until early July, so spring clean-up debris has no city route at all. June to September is the renovation, roofing and demolition season, and the only window when the Recycle Depot takes paint and chemicals. August to October is the tail of hurricane season: Brockton sits about 20 miles inland, so there is no surge here, but tropical systems come through roughly once a decade and the damage is downed maple, oak and white pine, torn shingles and week-long power failures — Bob in 1991 is the last one that really knocked this part of the state over. October to December is the last window before the ground freezes, and yard waste goes weekly from 3 November. Then December to February: nor’easters, roof loads, burst pipes and interior work. Access moves with all of it. Snowbanks and the plough windrow narrow a driveway that took a 30 yard in October, ice on a sloped approach decides where a truck can safely set down, and a gravel or dirt lane out toward Halifax, Hanson or Raynham stays soft for days after the thaw. On a soft approach we would rather move you a day than leave ruts you will look at for years.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Brockton?
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 Brockton. 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?
Brockton plus roughly a 20-mile radius, which reaches across three counties, because Massachusetts town lines pay no attention to county ones. In Plymouth County that is West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Abington, Whitman, Bridgewater, Rockland, Hanson and Halifax, plus the Montello and Campello districts of Brockton itself. North and east into Norfolk County it is Stoughton, Avon, Holbrook and Randolph. West and south into Bristol County it is Easton, Raynham and the city of Taunton. The flat rate is the same throughout — the county changes whose desk you deal with, not what we charge. 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 Halifax, Hanson or Raynham?
Yes, with a conversation first. Long gravel and dirt lanes, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, low maple and white pine limbs, and ground that stays soft for days through the spring thaw all affect which container we can get in and where it can safely sit. Out on those rural edges — Halifax, Hanson, Raynham and parts of Easton — tell us where the septic tank, the leach field and the well head are, so the box does not go over any of them. Inside Brockton, Taunton or Randolph none of that comes up. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Brockton do you cover?
All of it. The yard is at 1109 Montello Street, in the Montello district on the north side, so Montello, downtown and the Main Street corridor south to Campello are short runs, and Route 24 puts the rest of the city inside twenty minutes. Belmont Street and Pleasant Street carry us east and west; Centre, Court and Quincy Street cover the east side; Oak Street and D.W. Field Park, Forest Avenue and the high school, School Street and City Hall, West Street and the fire headquarters, Commercial Street and the station, and the Thatcher Street overlay district are all a few minutes from one another. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone: a two-family with a shared drive off Main or Pleasant is a different job from a single-family with a wide apron, the fire code wants ten feet between the box and any combustible wall or opening, and through the winter the snowbanks decide more than the driveway does. Give us the address and we will have it sorted before the truck leaves.
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Need a dumpster in Brockton today?
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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