(EP. 3) New Trash Business - Getting Rid Of Problem Clients & Looking At Competitors
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- My wife and I started a trash pickup company when Waste Management left our county. These videos will serve as an in-depth playlist that covers the growth and operations of the business.
The items we use for the business:
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Copper Creek Cuts is a lawn care and landscaping business in Florida with a goal to entertain and educate.
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My wife and I started a trash pickup company when Waste Management left our county. These videos will serve as an in-depth playlist that covers the growth and operations of the business.
The items we use for the business:
95 Gallon Can Liners: amzn.to/45HeOdt
Back Brace: amzn.to/3znkYmU
Wireless Magnetic Strobe Lights: amzn.to/3zlJULH
Hi-Vis Arm Sleeves: amzn.to/3zhGRUu
Hi-Vis Balaclava: amzn.to/4cHf4LA
Yard Signs: lddy.no/1k1nj
Instead of bag liners you could make a stipulation, that the customer bags all their trash, save yourself the time and hassle of lazy entitled customers. Remember the customer is always right, in opinions of taste. I have a few lifting totes on route, that are oversized by city by-law, I refuse to physically pickup and tell the resident to bag everything or it's on them if it's not taken. They signed the contract bro remember that, in this industry favors become norms unless you put your foot down.
You'll always hemorrhage money starting a new trash route, whether with older equipment repairs( you financed a trailer), learning to efficiently route the map, finding the call locations(not a real problem for you, as you know the customer personally), a bypass to seat belts in a "This vehicle stops often" sign(check local laws) and once your wife becomes more comfortable driving, you can hop out closer to the can and she could pull the trailer towards saving some walking. ✌️
Ps: from working as a trainer, there's a lot to cover and something always get forgotten.
Seems like the liners are a must until you get something to lift the whole can and dump it.
Agreed! Next week's video shows the disaster that was the lifting arm.
@@CopperCreekCuts O boy. Probably gonna be fun to watch but wasn't very much fun for you then 😅 hope you can figure something out.
@@CopperCreekCutsdang I was excited to see what you engineered. I think there are hydraulics or a big ole lever in your future
@@CopperCreekCuts was it not a better job then the liners?
Hey man , Enjoying watching your videos all the way from Australia. Those wheelie bins the way we call them are awesome in orange. I'm a garbage truck driver here and I know it's a big expense and everything and also know that your trialling things out . But I recon that a small rear load garbage truck would be awesome to have then there would be much less issues. Hopefully once you get a couple hundred customers you go down that path . Also ypu wouldn't need to go to the tip as much due to the material being compacted .
I was super disappointed when I opened that other video and saw it was ASMR.
Glad to hear brads sultry tones and informative narration again in this video.
All is right with the world again.
ASMR on Friday evenings (trailing the current videos by ~3 weeks), voiceover and most current happenings on Saturday mornings! Different content for different folks!
I'm just here again for the Toucans. lol
LOL I will try to keep them coming!
I also love the toucans and I’m happy they will continue
If your rig has a large fuel tank, the weight of your rig could change significantly depending on how full your tank might be. Could be that's why they want you to weigh coming and going each time.
Yeah but that logic would apply to the big trucks as well.
@@CopperCreekCuts unless the big trucks are willing to accept a full fuel tank pre-dump weight.
Are you making a video of the fabrication process of installing your new tipping arm? I think that would be cool. BTW: I'm really enjoying your story of starting a new business, I admire your hard-work, optimism and positivity. I wish you nothing but success.
I bought a pre made version for a different application. I have no time or skills for fab. This was the cheapest and quickest way to get a proof of concept for an arm lifter and it showed some issues with the whole idea of an arm on a dump trailer. Next week's video delves into it.
@@CopperCreekCuts I own a waste disposal company out here in Texas and do 450 stops a week by hand in a dump trainer as well so I am very much looking forward to the tipping arm video 😂
@@CopperCreekCuts Years ago, when I started watching UA-cam videos, if you told me that not only would I watch videos of a guy picking up trash, but would eagerly await his next release I would have asked what you're smoking and where can I get some. But here I am, eagerly waiting for trash day.
Adding a small water reservoir w a hose to the trailer somehow might be handy for the few cans that are gross (or have fire ants lol) on pickup days. Could possibly be done w a gravity fed or manual pump system
Good tip!
Too funny, just had another comment mention this last week. Technically it is further by a few minutes, but doesn't matter because I found out it is where I am supposed to be going, so you will see it starting next week!
Install a battery cut-off switch. 1/4-a-turn to deactivate the battery at the battery post is much quicker, plus you’ll wear out the threads of the Controller eventually.
Good tip!
@@CopperCreekCuts I was thinking the same, my suggestion would be to fabricate a holster on the side panel of the compartment to cradle the remote.
I didn't even think about the trash blowing out of the trailer because of the "sides" 🤦 good catch 🤓☝️ really enjoying this series of videos of your new business 👍
Thanks man! I don't blame you! :D
Brad... was just watching your latest vid and all of a sudden it went private? Oh well. Look, forget the haters. They don't matter, I've been in trash biz for 16 years. Keep going forward. Your doing great! Couple things I noticed, absolutely love the orange cans! Very smart! Maybe make your phone number bigger?? Better visibility? Second, up to you but the company I work for charges extra for what we call door service. Walking the cans to and from the house. Not sure if you are or how you feel about that. Just thinking time is money and customers need to pay more for that but it's your business lol. But there is nothing wrong with the way your starting. Everything will iron its self out in time. Don't let these haters get in the way. Love your content!
I messed up on the audio and had to fix it. A new version went out this morning that should be good to go!
I love this series. You are one of the very many YT content creators that I ACTUALLY look forward to watching every week and I’m very excited to see this business progress into something great! Ignore the haters, too. They’re just jealous!!
Honestly man, I LOVE these videos!! Great job
I really appreciate the kind words, thank you!
My garbage company tries to get the can out within 5 business days but they also always have 2 or 3 at their office that we are welcome to come switch out as many times as we would like. I didn't want to wait so I drove to their office & picked out a can the same day I signed up.
That's a good idea!
Good thing Toter did the carts, those things will last over 20 years, unlike rehrig or cascade. Another thing, those lids will never break or fall off cause of the design
Good to hear!
I like toter also. Have been a little worried about the lids since they seem thinner than others. Love the orange.
Is there no recycle service here? or does it all just get mixed in and considered trash
There is no recycling service, nor is there enough consumer interest in recycling to justify the cost to offer it.
If you ever need help I’d love to come and work with you one day for free…
I may take you up on that if I get more cans out!
I have a question, the county got rid of trash collection i assume a county would be the equivalent of a local council in Australia. Isn’t trash collection part of the rates. Or do Americans not pay rates.
depends on the city or county for me its in the water bill
What do you mean by rates? Taxes? Depends on the city/county you live in some offer a trash collection service as a part of the city/county you live in (may still have to buy cans to take part in the service) and other generally more rural cities/counties only have trash dump sites and don’t offer a trash service which is where private companies step in
Trash collection is usually included if you live in a city or township and paid for by city or town taxes. Rural residents that are only a county resident do not typically have trash collection included but only pay the county taxes unlike city or town residents who pay both county and city taxes. In this case, the county did not stop providing trash collection, the business that provided services to county residents, if they had a contract with the business, decided to stop providing service to that area.
I had the same thought - here in the UK our council tax pays for this service.
@@AHomelessDorito council rates is a yearly tax to the the local council government area in return for trash and everything in the local council area being serviced like roads and stuff.
They have just recently snuck a 3rd bin in for an extra 500 that’s non opt out, but the real kicker is it’s a fogo bin and it’s done weekly, so green waste and organic product, why the general waste is now fortnightly. So it’s maggots galore as no bags are aloud in the bin. It’s upset the community because several suburbs have this new bin why the others are just on the general waste and recycling bins.
Fascinating vids tho look forward to seeing the tipper.
I've been loading trash by my self by hand for 2 years now if you are going to be a garbage man you can't be a pansy about ants and nasty garbage juice
True
The great thing about starting your own business is you can be whatever you want.
Nope all bagged up. Box’s go in recycling bin
No recycling there
No recycling here :(
I live in area that does not make you bag trash naturally I don't bag anything but I can totally understand you not wanting to pick up every single piece or lift the can yourself
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I’m allergic to fire ants. Better you than me! I’m supposed to bag everything, but relatives and friends just open the lid and toss things in. I don’t blame you for putting in liners!
Thanks for watching!
Im a scale master at a recycling plant we are right next to the landfill and we only do tare weights for our own trucks sometimes (2-3) trucks that go between the recycle plant and landfill all our other trucks still scale. no 3rd party will ever get to bypass the scale. hope that info helps.
It does, thank you so much!
@CopperCreekCuts yeah no problemo. And congrats on the business.
I’ve been watching your channel for almost 7 years and it’s amazing to have seen the growth of your business and UA-cam channel 🤩
Thanks for the comment!
I have a recommendation, and that is to have residents place their Can at the curb, (which I see most already do) and for you to Keep the cans at the curb after emptying rather than Rolling them up and down the property; this way if you get an automated truck Further down the road, the standards for can placement will already be set.
Otherwise, you’d have to get out pretty often and roll the can over to the truck.
At that point, and especially after not needing liners anymore, you’ll probably be down to 15-30 seconds a stop!
Good point! I think I am doing that more in future stops.
16:10 just take a bungle cord and attach it to the eyelet and the stake pocket.
Good tip but stake pocket is currently occupied so no can do. You will see in next week's video.
Sounds crazy.. but the fire ants issue made me think of an idea..
Could you add a small air compressor, and an nozzel, so if theres ANY grossness on it..
10second blow off
Better than touching it all
Good tip!
Look and see if you can buy bags from ULINE or Ali / Temu or something
Also don’t think you need the planks if you only lost that little piece, the amount of work / back ache it will cost you isn’t worth it. Just pull the net over when you’re on a fast road
Lastly don’t fight for being the bottom price / focusing so much on time, just charge more to begin with and will save yourself all these headaches and make your business last in the long run
Uline is more expensive than my current supplier.
That's strange here in California they put the tare weight of out trailer and truck on the lower rail of the trailer so they just weigh the trash. Can't understand why they can't where you are. They just want to waste your time going back to reweigh.
I doubt that, because it wastes their time as well. Probably don't want to risk shenanigans with weights.
It looks like you have a bit more capacity in your dump trailer at the end of your run. Where I live, waste companies offer a bulk pick up for a pretty reasonable price and you can basically just put out a bunch of black trash bags and they pick everything up in bill you for the extra bags. Maybe you could schedule it to pad out the rest of the capacity and make the run to the dump more efficient. You can also charge a bit of a premium because it's a one time thing.
Could be, but I also don't want to risk more injury and bulk pickup as a solo lifter sounds like a risky proposition.
12:35 your supposed to have your load covered/tarped
You don't say :D
I live in a suburb of a major metropolitan area. I use a trash bin cleaning company one time per year at $10 per can. They have a very large truck that scoops the bin up, sprays, disinfects, and dumps any debris inside their truck so there is minimal water rolling down the drive and then deodorize/dry the bin. They provide the water from their truck and don't connect to mine, etc. HOA requires our bins stored in our garage out of sight. I opt to have 2 bins (regular and recycle) cleaned in the Fall when the temps have cooled down for the year. I used to clean the cans one time per year myself. I'm only wiling to pay a nominal amount for this service as I pay considerable for trash pick up. I am the only one in my neighborhood of 450 homes that has this service done. Trash bins are not high on the list that people care about keeping clean particularly if they are kept outside - even those with considerable discretionary income. What I'm saying is really analyze this business idea through. Trash service is a must. Trash bin cleaning service is fluff.
$10 is peanuts. Wouldn't be worth it.
@@CopperCreekCuts Have you thought about doing side jobs as junk removal with the equipment you have? I would think more people would be interested in that then trash bin cleaning service. Google ads might be a source to build this quickly.
$151 for 7 working hours and all the expenses... I thought I had it rough at $50-$100/hr running a business in the automotive appearance industry.
The goal is to see if it can match our mowing rates after a few years, which is a little around $100/hr average.
How did you get the county to foot the dump fees?? Thats awesome.
The company my husband works for 75% of the trash isnt bagged. He runs a ASL New Way truck
Hoping for an under CDL ASL as the eventual goal for us. Getting all 200 of our cans on the street comes first and then we will assess.
Please consider putting a battery disconnect switch in so you can easily disconnect power without unscrewing the connection, this will save a few more seconds and prevent premature failure of the plug with "overuse".
Good tip!
I used to haul the large walking floor transfer trailers to the landfills. The tarps we had had grommets that we put bungie cords on and closed the ends of the hooks with pliers so when we rolled the tarps up the bungie cords just stayed attached to the tarp. We would hook the cords to the trailer once rolled up and the tarp stayed in place.
I like that!!
Guess you got to spend a lot of $$ for extra large liners to fit those cans that I CAN'T find anywhere!
By the way,no matter how many times you bag your trash double, triple
Those stinking maggots will find a way in there and multiply like stinkin maggots! Flies!
Believe me I tried!
AND.
I keep all the cans in the garage..
Ohhhh l hate flies and maggots!!!
You are right. 6 weeks in I am seeing cans with liquid and maggots that have been bagged from day one.
Just from what I've seen, do Americans not separate their rubbish into General / Recycling / Garden? Just from looking at the landfill in the last video with the amount of cardboard and wood seems wasteful
Impossible to give one statement for all Americans. The way waste is handled differs immensely from place to place.
Enough about the liners holy moly. I should have counted how many times you said “liner” just buy a GD trash truck if you’re serious about this.
Send me the $200K for a new one or send $50K for an old one and be willing to come fix it up (skills I don't have) and I'll do it tomorrow. If not then let me run my business at my speed.
I would build your trailer into something like a wood chipper truck have it all enclosed with 2x4 and sheet metal siding. I would also ditch the liners and pull the cart in the trailer at the tailgate and just tip it and go. Routing and billing software specifically for trash haulers is a game changer too something like trash flow or soft pack
Will rebuild the side walls when I max capacity. I'm not going to open and close the tailgate every stop. Incredibly inefficient as far as time and much more labor intensive to tip the whole can. I've got jobber for software, it is working very well for me.
Super fascinating! This is great! Years ago, I wanted to start a hauling operation, so you are living my dream. Now that I've gone from slinging garbage to selling garbage trucks, this is fun to watch. I'll have to come out and say hi some day... since I cover Florida. Keep up the good work! I'm glad to see you are going to try some kind of cart tipper out, it'll be interesting to see how that works out for you.
I'm starstruck from your comment! I've watched your Perkins Sat 6 video like, a dozen times! :D I watched an old wayne tomcat video you did as well that was top notch. Next week's video will deal with the tipper. I found a manual option that didn't work great, but realized the bigger issue is a tipper means I have to manually clear the floor of the dump trailer. So manual work no matter what. Let me know your thoughts when it comes out next Saturday AM! Thanks so much for watching and commenting! Feel free to email at any time! info@bakercountytrashpickup.com
What brand dump trailer did you buy and did you have it painted orange at the factory? I am enjoying watching you videos.
I bought from Load Runner Trailers, I believe the manufacturer is AMP Trailers. It WAS painted orange at the factory but I didn't request it. It was just in stock at Load Runners and I bought it because it was orange.
Why would anyone complain about you using liners? This works for you, so the heck with those people!
Business experts abound on UA-cam!
Just curious are your competitors who service the entire county offering it at the same price everywhere, or have they implemented some sort of dynamic pricing where they will offer service to further out customers, but at a higher rate?
As far as I know it is all constant pricing around the county.
Dude you should get a Garber from like a garbage truck and maybe it will help....
$$$
wait if the liners are .75 then how did two liners cost 2.25. Shouldnt it be only an increase of 1.50?
Yeah I messed up somewhere. Either I really used three more liners and got that number wrong or only used two and got the dollars wrong.
This is great! Perhaps get one of those boat, DC, twisty switches to put on one of the hydraulic pump cables so power to it can be switched off and on?
Good suggestion!
You might convert your trailer to have a side-roll-tarp that is remote control. It might only allow you to load from one side but it also would allow you to have the top half-open or half-covered.
Interesting!
@@CopperCreekCuts You could install dual side-tarp-rolls on the peak of your trailer so that you could open both sides, the hand-crank ones are simple to use too.
Easier to watch trash pickup when your talking in the background.
I agree!
@CopperCreekCuts What company did you use for the cans?
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For the tarp, here's an odd idea: hook some heavy fishing weights in the grommets?
I don't like the idea of that while driving down the road but who knows?
Get something that’s on your trailer to tip the can over and in with the bar
Covered in today's video. Didn't work out.
After that you might want to carry a can of ant or insect killer with you.
I don't think dousing someone's trash can in pesticides is a good idea from a liability standpoint.
Only some dumps have a tare weight. Others require you to always weigh in and out.
Brad I love you, always enjoy your videos....that being said if you never mention the can liners again...that would be great
Don't watch episode 4 then😂
@@CopperCreekCuts please no
Hard work pays off
We will see!
What happens when someone puts something super heavy in it and you can’t lift it
and all those plastic bags go to landfill?, what a win.
Yeah, the 620 pounds of trash wasn't the issue, it was the 17 trash bags I used.
With doing it manually, liners are the way to go.
Completely agree! Hopefully we get in a truck soon!
You might take some roaches home with you
Tasty
down in ky they use box trucks 1 ton
Thanks for the info!
tie the liners at the bottom and they wont slip
Thanks for the tip!
yep can washing is getting big be interesting to see if folks will pay u to wash ur own cans ....
Where's that can of insect spray when you need it? Fire ants will most DEFINITELY leave you with something to think about.
Oh for sure!
Very fun to follow along with the new business. Will you eventually be showing the cost of the equipment (e.g., dump trailer) in your weekly cost breakdown? I think you may have said the trailer was costing you $800 a month?
Maybe but I don't want to make it too complex as I have annual paid in full, quarterly, and monthly pay folks. I really only focus on the direct costs. Yes, $833 a month.
Have you considered offering an upsell for recycling? My community in Florida allows putting out a 30 gallon tote worth of paper, glass, metal cans, etc. Might be able to charge more but the negative is finding a way to dispose of it besides the dump; althoigh some dumps have different areas for different material and responsibily deal with it. You could fit a gaylord on your truck to keep it seprate.
No. There isn't a market for it locally.
I don’t understand any of this, where I live the county picks up compost, recycling, and garbage all in different trucks, so everything stays stored.
Not uncommon. Lots of people assume the way things are done in their little bubble is the way it is across the whole country. There is no set standard for refuse in the US. Watch the video in this playlist about why I started the business. I explain it there.
I’m sure you’re kicking yourself for not getting a 4 x 4 truck. Especially living in a rural, sandy county, It’s a necessity to be able to get to customers properties, and do work on their property!
I'm not overly concerned about it as I won't be servicing those properties. I may get stuck at the landfill depending on those conditions, though! :D
I’ve watched all the trash videos I love them
Thanks so much!
@@illinoisgarbagetrucks hi
@@Cam_mak hi cam I’m really loving these video
@@illinoisgarbagetrucks same here Anthony glad you are too
New industry??
Sounds like your trying to reinvent the wheel. Looks like you are wasting your time. Save more money and buy yourself a proper garbage truck.
So you want me to save more money....buy buying a $250,000 garbage truck....to service my 20 clients?
How do you target specific suburbs. Do you do a system if your neighhour uses the same trash company theyll get a 5% discount. Cant wait for next week though.
I wouldn't say we are big enough to have suburbs. I look for neighborhoods that don't have dirt roads, are close by, don't have city service. They also need to be (ideally) a development with one road that services the houses, rather than houses placed on a main road.
The liners are a good idea, considering how high your trailer wall is. That would wreck your back if you hand lifted every single cart up to the height of the wall. I think once you have enough profit, you could invest in a tipper system, from Perkins Or Bayne to lift and dump those carts, eliminating the liner. The whole thing could be ran off of the pre existing hydraulic system for the dump trailer.
The tipper idea didn't work out. Next week's video will show it.
You should fabricate a box to hold your liners on the side of the trailer. You can save a few seconds from walking to the front. Also, pitchfork, rake/push broom, and snow shovel. Your liner is going to rip at some point and you are going to have to pick up loose trash. Save back, keep the tools in the truck so you don’t have to worry about them moving around during dumping.
Thanks for the tips!
To-Do Task #5,231: Get a can of ant spray to keep on the truck. And maybe wasp spray too.
You don't even need to bungee hook onto the tarp grommets, just use a couple of long bungees across the whole bed and hooked on either side somewhere outside the trailer.
I didn't think about that!
A hand pump/ spray with disenfectant kept in the pickup will help with bugs and smell! use when necessary. and try a cargo net, no load security is "Insecure load to the cops! and the Bikers will love you!
Good tips!
A liner is the way to go especially hauling in an open truck or trailer.
I believe if all that garbage was loose that tarp would not keep it in. Besides all that loose garbage you would have to rinse out your trailer when you get done then you'd have that smelly messy water lingering around if you did it at your house. 🤮
I'm sure you know this already but that bar in front of the container halfway down is actually for a lifting device.
Until you get a lifting device maybe hinged sides would be best that way you could lower it easier to throw bags in and yet you can raise it back up when you hit the road.
You do have a good wife there not afraid to get out and work and get her hands dirty.
I like the color you chose for your trailer and containers it reminds me of swamp holly orange.
Just keep plugging away and you'll be successful get rid of stuff that's not productive and concentrate on stuff that is.
Think of it this way you're getting good exercise. There is people that pay money to go to the gym, and you take your gym with you and you're getting paid to go. 😁
Haha, thank you for all the kind words. Loved the bit about the gym, too! :D
I have been a supporter of your channel for a long time and have a few questions.
1. How are you handling this business while you have another business. It seems stressful.
2. Once you wrack up some cash, are you going to go straight to a tipper truck or get an attachment or something to tip the cans?
Thanks for watching!
I have several part time things that bring in income. This is a new one that now consumes one of my previously free days.
I did spend $2,000 on a manual cart tipper that you will see next week. It was the cheapest option to test an arm on a dump trailer and it showed some big flaws in that idea. At this point any money generated will go to paying off the cans (still on a credit card) and the dump trailer. After that it will just get saved for a truck (potentially another batch of cans, depending).
Not paying close attention, the last part of the video confused me. I was trying to figure out why you were doing multiple dump trips, but it was just the same one from different cameras. I assume that was just to fill the time you were talking for?
Correct. There was only one dump trip with two cameras running. The landfill footage is used for b roll while talking.
It would be nice if you could have a better setup for the rollout tarp to stay covering the trash while you drive. Maybe it's possible to just unhook it when you get to a stop and rehook it when you leave? I'm not sure having the side boards will be enough to stop trash from blowing out. Love the videos!
I think I should be able to leave it on starting tomorrow (which you will see in about two Saturdays)
i just rage watch the videos because of the trash liners, not tying the top of bags, no tarp, and adding back the side boards. 😂🤣😂 oh, there was tarp usage. commented too early. i guess too much of a hassle to put it on between stops. ok, im back to tying the top of bags. not possible with the up coming loading device. exciting times in trash pickup!
Still experimenting with what makes sense so I'm trying everything.
And now I feel like an idiot bc I didnt realize the ASMR videos would be an addtional one :D
LOL No worries man. Saturday AM will always be voiceover and current footage (well technically it lags 1 week real time). Friday PM is the new ASMR stuff, which lags about a month behind current footage.
I live in a city and yes we bag everything. Nothing goes in the can Unbagged. We also have separate recycle pickup so no amazon boxes. But yes we make sure that everything is bagged and never leave random trash unbagged.
Love it!
This is a big step i am sure for you to take on , this is something you do not want to just stop but i guess if you had to you could sell everything and the name, by looking at the first week in your video it looked very bad like everything was going against you, now it looks better and faster, the liners are exactly the way to go for now for sure, maybe before going out go ahead and get the liners stretched out and ready to insert in cans ahead of time, you always make a great first impression as in looking and being professional , great uniforms and great equipment, I see in the future you owning a fully equipped garbage truck, one of the mini ones would be great,would it benefit you to offer extra can for recycling for cardboard of plastics? my dump takes all of that for free, i really do bag and tie all of my trash and keep my can clean and smell free.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, I appreciate it! I don't see enough support locally for recycling to be worth the investment.
I applaud you starting the biz but its one shoulder or back injury away from shutting down. A used rear entry packer truck with a can lift saves the body, eliminates the pesky liners and opens up big clean-up opps too
That's what I've been facing the last 7 years on the lawn side. I'm doing what I can with what I have and not going to pull the trigger on a $200,000 truck to save me slinging a few bags for now. May regret it later but it is what it is.
Try using some ball bungees thru your grommets on your tarp and run them thru your stake pockets. Just a couple on each side should do the trick so you’re not wasting too much time. It works great for me when I’m transporting mulch at higher speeds on my dump trailer.
Thanks for the tip! The stake pockets are full, you will see next week.
Hi there! I just run into your videos on UA-cam and saw your little business growing. I must admit here in Europe it wouldn't be so easy to start a job like this, due to high regulations and the fact that primarely the trash pick-up service is run by the city hall through a company that won a tender for the entire area. The good thing about Europe is the used vehicles market that is very easy to access, thus with some googling you can go and buy yourself a used bus/truck/whatever and there are vehicles for all kinda budget. I know your business is small, but how's the used vehicles market in the US? I figure out you don't need like a big rig but there might exist smaller trucks, espacially built on pick-up trucks that can do the job. Here in Europe small garbage vehicles are based on van chassis, you can Google like Iveco Daily Garbage Truck or Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Garbage Truck and you can see vehicles up to 3.5 tons that can be driven with normal license, no need for truck license. How's that in The US? I really appreciate your courage and hope your business will grow in a healthy way. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching! $40,000 used for the kind of truck that would work (but not the one I want), $220,000 new for the kind of truck I want. Lots of saving in the piggy bank ahead (probably two or three years at least). I don't want a used truck because I am not confident in my ability to troubleshoot/repair systems in a commercial vehicle. Here's an example of one that went on auction recently: www.govdeals.com/asset/6864/453
Great customer service calling back the guy who is not even a customer. Could have just ignored him, but calling him cost almost no time and may get you some good business karma if you ever do serve his area, or if he knows people in your current service area.
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Ya know, I didn’t think to ask till now but i just realized the logo has a trash truck but you’re not using a trash truck. Kinda funny. Why did you decide to use that as a logo design?
That truck (under CDL ASL) is the long term goal.
You should get like a claw, now I am not saying a hydraulic lift but if you could attach a claw to the side of the truck, when you get the bin, tie the bag, push it towards the clip and like if there was a way to lock the bin in place then you can just push the bin upward and it is basically a hydraulic garbage truck grabber without the hydraulic 😂 I don’t know if I am making any sense but just an idea.
Interesting idea for sure!
One thing ive always wondered is if s service for moving your cans to the street and returning then to their stoage place would make sense.
Is there a pricepoint you would drive / walk closer to the flients house so they dont have to move them to the street every week?
Even if it was double or triple the profit?
No, because the long term goal is build up enough density and revenue to buy an ASL (automated side load) truck and never get out.
Hey Brad! You maybe mentioned this and i missed it, but are you still doing Copper Creek Cuts in addition to the new garbage service?
Yes, this is just another of the part time endeavors I do (in addition to maintenance mowing, stormwater management projects (very hit or miss, those are), and the UA-cam thing).
I'm thinking about doing green waist trash services in my area. An Australian talked to me about it they had it in Australia.
Depends on your local market for sure. My city offers free pickup so it wouldn't make much money locally.
I take my garbage to the dumps every 2 weeks and I don’t use liners and it’s time consuming and messy at times. I can’t imagine doing what you do without liners.
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I think it would be really helpful to add a holder on the side of the trailer to store the liners. This way, you can reduce the number of steps needed when loading and unloading. It would make the process much more efficient
Could be, thanks for watching!
I would also recommend offering either a hazardous waste and bulk / electric collection, it could definitely net you some money.
Maybe in the future!
To bag or not is the question... I put a liner/ bag in my garbage can but I have dogs and I like to keep my trash can clean!
Valid point!
I work on the back of a rear loader garbage truck. We don’t lift any barrels over 32 gallons. If it’s not bagged in larger barrels it gets left inside the barrel
That's a good setup!
you should’ve bought what WM has they have the trucks where the bed is a dumpster with a toter tipper. it will save ur back.
Agreed but I don't have WM $, so a $15K dump trailer is the best I could do.
Seems there’s a couple things that could speed up the process at each stop. 1 leave the bins where the client left them don’t need to take them back off the road shoulder. 2 if the bins not out on the road side just miss that house
Thanks for the tips!
I love to see a husband and wife working together, just as it is supposed to be -Genesis 2:18
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Gerat video again! And we still talking about the liners? Wow haha as an outsider with a kinda different trash system here in my country it makes total sense right now to use them. And one little idea is to have a braket for the liner role at the trailer with a cover over it. Keep up the great vidoes and I cant wait for the next one!
Good comment, thanks for watching!