Locally Owned Dumpster Rental in Melbourne Since 2015

Wes Collins grew up off Babcock Street in a block house his grandparents bought when Melbourne was still filling in around the cape, and went to work for a Space Coast remodeling crew out of high school. He spent most of his twenties gutting kitchens, tearing off roofs and pulling pool decks from Palm Bay to Titusville, watching the same problem repeat itself. The container never came when it was supposed to. When it did, the invoice had grown. And nobody ever warned a homeowner what a barrel tile roof or a terrazzo floor actually weighs, so the overage landed before the dust settled.

In 2015 he bought a used roll-off truck and four cans, parked them on 5060 Industry Dr off Wickham Road, and started answering the phone himself. The first job was a tile tear-off in Eau Gallie 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 on a coast this size — through contractors, through neighbours, through the guy at the supply counter who mentions that the dumpster people actually showed up. Then the storms came through and settled it: when half of Brevard needs a container in the same week, people remember who answered. We added trucks as the calls came in rather than borrowing against volume we did not have yet. 11 years on we run a small fleet, we still dispatch out of Melbourne, 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 off Eau Gallie Boulevard have drives too short to take a 30, which Melbourne Beach and Indialantic lots have a pool cage over the only clear approach, which sand lanes toward Malabar and Grant-Valkaria a loaded truck cannot commit to after a wet-season week, and roughly what a 1,900 square foot block house produces when the barrel tile comes off and the terrazzo comes up. It means that when a storm tracks up the coast through Brevard, Indian River and Volusia counties and half the region wants a container in the same week, our trucks are already here.

We have seen the mistakes so you do not have to

The three that cost people the most money, in order: ordering by volume when the debris is dense, forgetting that a square of concrete barrel tile runs three to four times what a square of shingle does, and setting a container on a short paver or shell drive that was never built to carry it. Every one of those is avoidable with one honest conversation before delivery.

We have cleared whole streets of storm-damaged roofs in a single week, twisted aluminium screen enclosures and pool cages off beachside lots from Satellite Beach to Melbourne Beach, water-damaged drywall and cabinetry stripped out of Rockledge and Palm Bay houses inside the 48 hour mould window, terrazzo and tile pulled out of mid-century Eau Gallie and Melbourne Village homes, restaurant and retail fit-outs along Wickham Road and out at The Avenue Viera, pool decks and driveways broken out and re-poured, palm fronds and hedge trimmings run as clean separate loads out toward Malabar and Grant-Valkaria, and garages, attics and Florida rooms packed with two decades of bikes, tools and holiday boxes. 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 Florida
• 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 Florida disposal rules and yard-trash separation on every load

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