“For an extra fee of $15 get an extra pickup in November and December. Wednesday before Thanksgiving to ‘clear the can’ before the holiday and December 26 for all the holiday and visitor trash. For an extra $8 add Christmas Tree pickup for January 3. Get both for $20 till Oct 31.”
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup I too like it Brad, this was an excellent suggestion from the commentor, and I am in 100% agreement with them, especially regarding the Christmas trees. Anything that is a bulky item like that, you must charge an additional fee for. Just make sure that all your customers know about the additional fees coming up, so that you cover your butt legally. Make sure that all your customers digitally sign the agreement of the additional fees as well. Yeah, I watch a lot of Judge Judy, so trust me on this, its the right way to do it. lol
Another holiday promo is upsell customers to the convenience of an additional can for the Nov-Jan holiday months. Some customers will not cancel in January and convert into an additional can subscriber. Copper Creek currently has surplus cans to accomodate this promo deployment.
“BABE! Start the popcorn, Brads responding to comments again!” Something we love about your videos is your honesty and transparency. And you’re hilarious. 😂
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup Hey Copper Creek Cuts Lawn Care! 👋 I’m 14 and just started my own pressure washing business called Eastern NC Pressure Wash. I’m looking for some advice on the best equipment to use. Right now, I’m considering getting a gas pressure washer, surface cleaner, and some good nozzles and chemicals. Any tips on what to look for or what to avoid? Thanks a lot!
@@LCSOs Pressure washing unlike lawn mowing for us youngsters poses greater liability and risk. If you fall, no insurance, if you damage tiles/surfaces you have no liability insurance/binding contracts unless your parents pay for all of the paperwork/LLC/LTD. Too much hassle for our age. I started lawn mowing at 14 and never once had any issues regarding problems that can occur pressure washing. I accumulated 2-4,000 in savings over 2 years of about 5-10 client mowing a month. It is a great money maker that poses less liabilities than pressure washing. I am now 17 and have slowed my business back because school got in the way, don't try and make school work around you, most classes will help you understand finance/business a lot better when your older. High-school is important for most ambitions in life. Helps convince banks/business stakeholders that you are committed to them because you committed to becoming educated or something like that. I also recommend never cheapening on equipment regardless of what you are going to do if it is pressure washing, mowing, or detailing. I've wasted loads of money buying inferior not name brand mowers and weed eaters. Stihl and Husqvarna are my recommendations. Safety goggles and a good quality pair of earmuffs and protective clothing is important. You only have good hearing once, good eyesight once. Every older person has told me to keep these safe. Never try and price yourself down either because you are young and you want a job, people will try to take advantage of your age and haggle. Give them your price and stick to it, most will accept. Price your worth. I have pushed a few clients away because of my pricing, but that is their loss. I want to do a quality mow and take pride in that. If you want a bad job for cheap, no thanks go find someone else. As for marketing, community facebook groups and some cheap business cards (1 sided, name contact details and service area) will be all you will need. Word of mouth and facebook was 90% of my jobs. Business cards got me a few clients and it is nice to leave a few to some clients who want to talk to neighbours/friends about your services. Facebook is where most of the older homeowners roam which would be ideal for your business model, also facebook has parents etc who want to support the youth etc. I did not spend a cent on marketing besides business cards, 500 for $30.
Always right to the point and no B.S. That's why I like this channel. Also, as a small business owner, this is very interesting seeing you start this new venture.
I'm just happy I made the video lol Always love your videos Brad! It's crazy, I started watching your videos when you were using a push mower to mow grass and now we're all the way here at starting a trash company. Wish you nothing but the best!
17:32 I live in Germany and a tv getting thrown in normal trash and then get burried on a landfill just seems ridiculous to me. Watching you drive to the landfill every week in this series, really gives me to think about how far we have come in our country in terms of recycling and waste management already, even if some people are still protesting that it isnt enough. Realizing that such a big and modern industry nation like the US still throws most of their trash just away instead of recycling or burning it, really blowed my mind. (nothing against the usa, I love your country)
You speak the truth, although I will say I wouldn't paint the whole US with the brush from my experience. Some areas are SUPER strict about recycling, it's just that I pretty much live in the wild west.
Brad is back! Driving to college today I passed through Baker County and as soon as I saw the sign, "Hey there I'm Brad with Baker County Trash Pickup..." went through my head!
Ohhhh, I so see a garbage truck in your near future, and I truly hope its the 2nd truck you looked at in your video, the one I liked. (Where the PTO switch matched the label on the dash) I will be so proud of you when you get your new truck, and I will also be happy for you, because your operation will get easier. Lovely video as always, and as always, I enjoy them. 🚚
Have you considered a dual marketing approach for both companies? You could offer one free lawn mow if they sign up for 3 months of trash pickup, or whatever works out to be profitable.
Brad…I totally understand and respect what you’re saying on the business plan. In regard to having employees and your goals. But…someone will be offended😂
You should know…the truck will explode on you too…while you’re running the blade or tipping a can and not standing in just the right place. When tipping a very heavy can…after a party or holiday get together, you’re going to start breaking the cans and the metal bars are going to pop off when using a tipper. Keep that in mind so you’ve got spares. To make the cost of a truck more worth it to you, offer bulky pick ups. Couches, furniture, whatever for a small fee. Check the competitors pricing structures to see what the fees are, if any more, picking up anything extra(if it doesn’t fit in the can).
My apologies if these were already covered in previous videos, but: - What do you do with the green waste from your lawn care business? - Why don’t you stack your carts when you deliver them to new customers? Toters specifically can be stacked with the wheels on and it seems like it would save some space. - How do you contact customers to let them know of service disruptions (like collecting a day later as a result of the hurricane)? Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions! Love the series!
Great questions! - leave at curb for city pickup, but generally there isn't any for my maintenance accounts. - I experimented with this for the first time this week (for tomorrow's can pass out). It worked great and will be the method moving forward. - Email list generally. Get all their emails from a report and BCC them from my gmail account. My Jobber software doesn't have any bulk message feature (hopefully in the future)
I'm glad that you've got a good sense of humor about that messy stuff. I did lawn maintenance for a few years in central Florida and some of the clean up jobs we had to do were just nasty. We've all fallen into "mystery puddles" and swamps at some point. I did cringe a little bit when that bag blew up in your face because I can only imagine the smell. Hopefully it was fresh and not 5 days old. 😂 At the end of the day all you can do is move on and look forward to a nice shower when you're done for the day.
Great video, thanks for the entertainment! I like your goal of just getting to a size where you can run it on your own without needing to hire staff or worry about becoming yet another waste industry empire. FWIW there's a local hauler that serves a few of the suburbs near me. They've been in business for decades, and just run 1 truck for trash, and a smaller one for recycle. (that service is a requirement here) Their competitors are WM, Republic, and a few other major local haulers. Yet they hold their own in the open market area they serve and do a nice job. As long as you can continue with honest direct pricing without a bunch of fees, provide good service and have great customer service, you will be fine. Keep doing what works best for you and take care of the customer. I hope the new trash truck works well when that happens! I am curious, have you found any squirrel damage on your cans yet? Around here they are notorious for chewing holes through lids or the rim on the city and hauler cans to get inside when they smell food.
I’ve always appreciated your feedback to the comments in the channel because you don’t bullshit us, and get straight to the point so I appreciate that, and appreciate you don’t sugar coat stuff. The trailer thing, that’s basically a commercial compactor that your typical Roll Off Truck would handle except in trailer form and I believe is a stupid expensive if you’re looking to buy a garbage truck. You’d rather just save it up for the truck especially if you need a CDL. 11:16 Gotcha good didn’t it 😂? My tip to you, always bring an extra shirt with you because the juice is bound to get you sooner or later. From experience, it absolutely sucks so bring an extra shirt to change out. 21:32 WM won’t come back. WM is known for abandoning areas based off their incomes. Because it’s more rural, WM is spending more of vehicle costs, fuel, ect and that likely was making them lose money in the long run so they pulled the plug. Once they do, it’s almost never gonna happen to see them again in the area. Big corporations are only out for the money. Loose it, and they pull out and leave everyone in the dust. As for holidays, charge a minor fee to collect extras that are just ridiculous and charge for disposal. I can tell you, you’re probably likely to make 2 trips to the dump. Can’t wait for that garbage truck!
29:30 I work in Sales/acquisition and I think you should definitly do more door to door. I am sure investing some afternoons/evening in going from door to door to say hello in person and make them know about your business and what you are offering would pay off. Talking face to face is often the most effective way. Having to contact you (after seeing an ad online or in their mailbox) and decide to invest 10 minutes to switch/make a new contract sounds like a small thing, but is still something many people only decide to do if they are really unhappy with their current situation. By talking to them face to face, you give them a way smaller entry hurdle. And everyone you dont manage to win as customer after visiting them the first time, you have to visit again every 3-4 months, tell them again you would really like to make business with them and ask why they still arent your customer or what you have to do to find together. They will recognize you driving around in your truck, seeing you are doing good work and especially if you have competetive pricing as well, one they you are visiting them again they will agree.
Very well said, thank you for this! My plan is once we have the new garbage truck lettered/wrapped (spoiler just for you, we got it Friday) I will do just that and store some cans in the belly to try and sign them up right there.
Brad to prevent water accumulation in the cans, drill two holes in the bottom of the can at two of the corners, it’ll allow them to stay dry. 3/8 inch holes usually works well
The hurricane video should be a good one. If/when you get the small rear loader are you going to offer service to the people on dirt roads? IIRC you were worried about pulling the trailer on dirt roads when rain/hurricane season was here. But with a truck (especially a small one) this might be do-able?
No, I won't be adding dirt roads. They are terrible after rains around here and I don't want to risk ever needing a winch out ($250). Also they will kill the truck over time.
As someone who is going to CDL night school right now because he got tired of playing the GCVWR game. Get your CDL dude. You will out grow a 26k limit before you think you will. It’s doable in 4 weeks.
There isn’t a need for a CDL. I think that’s close to what Brad is trying to get to. I’ve been throwing bags and driving for over 28 years now, and I must say, if you have a big company then yes. However, if you take Brads business perspective, if he wants to set out and cap it off at 200, there’s no need for a CDL. Based off the time it takes him to do the route now, and assuming he will cap his routes at 200, You can certainly do the entire route with an Under CDL truck because now he can pack the trash and get more out of the payload. If he can get 100 cans in the truck before having to dump, that works out to be roughly 4-5 hours of work getting in and out to service the cans, assuming the cans aren’t back to back. If he chooses to split it into 2 route days, he can do 100 Monday and the other 100 on Tuesday or Wednesday, still work the same hours and have to dump once. Now if he wanted to get it done in 1 day, it’s possible however you’d have to make 2 loads that’s same day which adding on the time to go to the dump and back to route could make it an 8-10 hour day. So based off my experience, Brads business perspective works just fine and it would be a waste of his time to get a CDL when he can buy an under CDL truck, get bigger payloads even if it means having to dump twice a day or two service route days.
Thanks for the feedback! I cover this some in today's video and deleted channel is mirroring my thoughts pretty closely. I think now that we have a truck 200 isn't enough long term (it takes about 100 to pay all my monthly expenses) so looking at 400 total (nothing final yet and don't have enough info to make a decision), but yes, a few trips a day over two days should get it done with what we have. I could be wrong, though!
This was a really good video. I totally understand your position of your future vision of the company. At this point no need to invest big money for a trash truck. Focus on growth mode to fill the rest of those 200 cans. Possibly offer a $1 promotion for the first month in targeted areas, much like storage units do to attract new clients.
Hey there Brad, I was the one that sent you that email about the ProPactor Trailer. Thank you for at least taking a look at it! And i didn't know about that CDL thing about your truck with it as i haven't heard about it. Since the ProPactor trailer wont work, i do recommend that you do eventually get that rear loader as it will help you alot!
@@kurtismckemmie4850 Depends on the state. In Illinois a combined GVWR of 26,001Lbs and up, or a trailer that has a gvwr of 10,001 lbs and up. you have to have a CDL class A.
Watching since the first trash episode and love the progress. Really enjoy your critical thinking on old ideas and ideas from the community. Keept it up and best regards from Germany.
Get the garbage truck. No regrets (easy to say because it’s not my money, lol) P.s I live in Arizona a bit outside the city and waste management left my area a few months ago. I now only see them picking up dumpsters at restaurants, stores, malls, etc in my city. Also I went to the waste management lot a few days ago to drop off some cardboard and the area where they used to have all their residential cans was empty. I think you’re right, they’re not coming back
I have been driving a trash truck for a while and now changed over to reefer. but anyways when u drive an trash truck u must be cearful when unloading those cans. have had a lot of cans ending up in the tray and that happend many times a day and there is nothing u can do to prevent it, at least not on the trucks I drove. so be ready to pull put cans very often😅
I'm for the garbage truck you are researching in the video. If you need the space or can't use the dump trailer for other projects sell it to offset some of the additional costs. I'm curious as to how many yards the garbage truck can hold once it's compacted as compared to the dump trailer. I believe you stated the dump trailer is 14 yards and the garbage truck is 8 yards. Depending upon the compaction limits of the garbage would the garbage truck hold the equivalent 16, 20 or more yards of uncompacted garbage?
Excellent question! I honestly don't know yet. It may be more of a weight based question than volume. For instance, it holds 8 yards compacted at ~600 pounds (on the low end) of compacted trash per yard. 4,800 pounds of trash? Last week I had 43 stops and hurricane rains made everything wet. I had like 2500 pounds in the trailer. So that would just be double that the garbage truck could hold over the trailer. But if everything wasn't soaking wet (lids flipped open during Hurricane Debby and rains filled the cans) maybe it would have only been 2,000 pounds or 1700 pounds and the garbage truck would have a larger ratio? Not sure I'm explaining that well, will try to better in voiceover next week.
There are some potential workarounds for the CDL aspect of the trailer. The manufacturer of the trailer can derate the rating to 15k or 14k or whatever before they sell it. Additionally, I think the salesman was correct saying you can tow it legally with a 3/4 ton. Many trucks have a 10,000-9,500 lb GVWR to get around the CDL requirement for 16k trailers. If you look at some commercial GM/Ford dealers, a lot of the trucks say “10k gvwr package” for that exact reason.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup yes you did mention that. But for future reference, if you are ever looking at any 16k trailers and are worrying about CDL, the any manufacturer can derate any of their trailers. Thanks for all your vids!
The truck seems like it will make sense soon enough, but in case you run into obstacles with that route, check out the Texas Push Off trailer. It looks like it could probably do some light packing, nothing like a compactor but even just shoving the trash back to make room for more would make a difference.
i work at music events doing waste management and a way that we found to hold the liners up in wheely bins was to put a small rip into the liner and tie it around the handle to create tension
when i first started i had 20 customers and did it with a pickup truck that had racks. I will share my worst mess up is missing the body and having maggots cover the hood on the truck.
Hey brad In your video and previous videos you’ve mentioned that you don’t want to introduce recycling to your trash business I believe you should re consider you can introduce recycling as a optional service on fortnighty service on a separate day especially when you get a garbage truck you don’t even need new cans for residents can use there own cans you should also enquire with the tri County landfill on mrfs that they use that are close to you I’m also saying that you don’t need to do it now you can do it in one to two years time you can also charge customers with recycling services an extra $15 to $20 a month this is just my suggestion
For the pro pactor the trailer GVWR can be derated to be a lower number when they build it, I have a roll off dumpster trailer made from a trailer builder in Texas and they allow you to derate the weight tag, Ford used to allow it but stopped doing it recently. I agree with you on the trailer stand point from owning a lot, a stand alone truck is 100% easier to maneuver and way better if you do have to get a driver to fill in. Also on tight or small roads you might have issues turning around a big truck and trailer…
13:43 I feel bad for laughing at you, but this progression of events were hilarious 😂 And what lots of trash guys will do is they will bring spare vests/ clothes. It’s to be expected on a 400+ stop route, to get some kind of trash juices on you lol. 16:01 a frog, at a toucan stop!! Brad.. you spoke so many great things in this video, and I am all aboard with your thinking! And, I will pitch in, Another reason it would be great to get a garbage truck, is that you would save so much money, rather than getting these “temporary solution trailers” that are just too expensive for the disadvantages they bring. The rear loader will potentially stick around for Years, before you even have to worry about sizing up. And certainly the greatest improvement would be little to no lifting, or handling any garbage! Would you work solo with the trash truck or would you have your wife help you? Thanks Brad for another amazing video! Take care!
Thank you for all the feedback, I really appreciate it! The idea was to work solo but I love having my wife with me and she actually likes/feels comfortable driving the isuzu, so I may make her keep helping me! :D
As you continue to add more and more cans, will you come up with an optimized system for which cans to pick up when? Like is there an app or something for optimizing your route? Would love to see you talk about how you can create efficiency like that.
As a dumpster roll off company in Jax, Fl it is super saturated. It’s crazy competitive and tons of low baller side hustlers. I think you’re doing good with what ya have. Crazy WM left Baker County.
look into things called "band its" ive seen them at lowes like 1.98 or 2.98 ea. and theyre big bungee cords essentially that you wrap around the liner under the top to hold the liner, may not make sense to spend the money when you may be looking at a garbage truck but something to look into
All I’m saying is that it’s good to have a CDL to pull this trailer but for me I’m 19 years old and drove a huge military dump truck for our city maintenance and I’m big chilling 😂saves me money not having a CDL 😂
Thank you for answering my question! Looking forward to the upcoming videos. This week's question You mention you don't want employees, so how large do you actually want to grow this business? Assuming you want all 200 cans out, that should take a whole day? Do you want more than 200 cans?
Trailer can be derated to be able to be pulled behind your truck no issue. Lots of ways around that factor actually. Brad, we’ve spoke before and I’m a pretty big fan of yours. However, I can’t help but notice a trend in the trash videos where the majority of your commentary is talking about why you can’t do this, can’t do that, answering this negative comment, answering that negative comment. I think you either need to continue to embrace your current setup or switch gears and make a move to make yourself productive and most importantly, profitable. I love your determination and the content, but this trash series definitely doesn’t showcase your “can do attitude” as well as it has in the past, at least when listening to your commentary. All the best!
Thanks for the feedback! I thought I have been saying 'don't want to' or 'won't' rather than 'I can't', but I will make sure to pay attention to my language from now on! I also didn't think any of the comments (or my replies) were negative, but again, I'll keep an eye on it!
I have to disagree. He definitely is showcasing a can-do attitude. Also with all the negative comments it has to be addressed. Especially when he's steadily strategically moving forward making progress.
Agree. It's very discouraging for anybody who is potentially interested in this type of endeavor. Definitely when he expresses how he has no intentions of expanding. Which is oddly strange.. Because it's a waste disposal business in a county with very few options for such services. It's just a matter of time until he gets flooded with work and will begin turning down profit. But why not provide jobs for the community and help your neighbors. All while making a profit. "Three birds, one stone" . He may be better off doing dumpster rentals at this point. - Brad, if you read my comment. I appreciate you taking the time towards creating such content and showcasing the negative aspects. You have soo much potential man.
@@kevobangz1751 I promise I am not saying this with a mean tone, but did you watch the portion about why I said I am not getting into dumpsters? And the gap between running a business that can support myself and then support others is a HUGE gap with quite a few challenges, hurdles, and issues. I will try to address this in the next video.
Hey Brad, I had that moment last year when know you have to get the next piece of equipment to make it easier on you. Last year I used my 36” belt drive walk behind to get my mowing business started and end of July when we had near 100 degree weather for weeks it seemed like I would get home just beat like almost throwing up beat. I knew I needed a stand on or sit down zero turn for this year and got a 52” Vride 2 and doubled my business in the process picking up a $200/cut client while renting a storage unit and another 175/cut client off of a FaceBook ad I was too lazy to delete which I would not of been able to service with my walkbehind and those clients paid for the mower twice now. You could call it destiny by picking up the bigger piece of equipment or you could call it luck. I know this is no where the comparison you are looking at but you could tell my how skeptical my wife was.
Hi Brad! Question, once you decide that it's time for the small garbage truck, what's the plan for the orange trailer? Thanks for always being honest & making us laugh (in a good way)! 😊
I would invest on the compact trailer at 200 can you will need it .. the good thing on a trailer is if the unit your hualing goes down you can hook up a back up vehicle and finish your route .. you can always training your wife to drive a trailer but if your garbage truck goes down your business stops as well …
The backup vehicle is a great point. If a trash truck goes down, it could be down for weeks. But then I guess the dump trailer is the backup. As much as it looks like it sucks to use it now, it'll suck a lot more to go back to it after the upgrade.
Can you give an update on how far you are into paying off the cans and the trailer and all your other start up costs? Enjoy the content, NYC garbage man here!
Question- you mention you’re nearing the point where your trailer is getting full on your route. Have you planned how your route(s) will look when you get to that magic #? Like I believe you’re around 30/35 accounts now. Say trailer gets completely full when you get to account 50. So when you get that 51st account do you plan to divide the route in half completely or how does that look for ya? Not sure what’s practical for your area. Also you have mentioned about being able to build up the side walls. Realistically how much bigger can ya get and if you did build up the side walls how many accounts roughly do you think you could accommodate with a single run?
Great question! I will cover it next week in the video but to answer now: once the trailer gets maxed out I would just have to start incorporating multiple trips to the dump per day. About the wood sides, probably not much more than another foot or two max before it is unsafe without drilling into the trailer, which I don't want to do yet.
HA your doors swung open lol😂 I was working at a rental company when I was like 18 towing a bobcat forgot to pin the pintle hitch and well let’s just say the trailer came off. Nothing happened but it’s still embarrassing lol
Brad i used to collect garbage at Gibson island maryland it was disgusting it was with a pak mor side loader people did not bag their trash stinky crab shells liquor bottles loose trash one man operation was a pain in the ass they said they wouldn't get a rear loader i have had trash juice maggots baby diaoers diabetic needles broken glass when i left in 1998 they got 2 people to run the side loader and 5 yrs later they got a ez pak Apollo RL now they have a load master rl under CDL running with 2 people ur doing a wonderful job soon u will be booming dont tear that beautiful Chevy truck up see if u can dump at a covanta waste to energy facility a l so the ventrac is cool for smaller jobs look in to a Gravely 30 in brush hog they work awesome keep your head high ur a great businessman
@CopperCreekCuts if u ever needed help if u got injured I have experience running a garbage truck I used to have a class a CDL now I don't I would come down from Maryland to Florida being I love to fish at Hubbard's Marina I would love to assist you u have a great thing going and a well organized business
In regards to your comments about bungy's. I can see the positive of them but in reality you dont need huge bungy cords. You could simply grab 1 corner of the liner and cinch it tight and use a small rubber band on that 1 corner to keep the liner tight on the can. Might take you 10 sec per liner you put in and when you pull them off its just a rubber band so you can either try to reuse it or just toss it with the liner.
No, I'm not interested in complicating the business with different options (nor do I want the inventory headache). I want something as simple as possible.
It has to do with State Licensing because they break up the GVWR with the truck and trailer is separate pieces so like here in California I can drive a truck that weighs 26,000 lb or less and pull a trailer that weighs 10,000 lb or less GVWR and that falls under a non-commercial regular license so that may be why the salesman said you don't need a CDL however since that trailer is 16 kg GVW here in California that would be over the 10K and would require a full class A CDL
Hey Brad! Do you have any plans in the future once you get money and stuff to buy 65 Gallon trash cans for smaller household, Or just like 35,65,95 type deal?
I've thought about that and will address it in a future video. But the reality is if I can only fit 50 cans in the trailer and I have X00 cans out, it will likely make more sense to just delay everyone and focus on fixing the truck or going to get a rental rather than try to take 4X as long to finish the route and then still need to fix the truck. I could be wrong, just my initial thoughts. Also there is a place in town I can rent a dump trailer from for ~$300 a day, so it may make more sense to just do that if needed.
i tell you what when i started doing trash 3 years ago as a helper i used to get sick all the time, never got covid thankfully but now i never get sick, i think my body is used to it now
Go get your CDL. You could start other businesses and drive a lot bigger vehicles, etc. it could open up a lot of possibilities and opportunities for you.
That's a bridge we will worry about when we arrive at it. Employing someone now for an 'in case' doesn't make any financial sense to me. If/when an injury happens is when I will figure it out, not deal with an employee and all the negatives I mentioned for a hypothetical injury that may never happen.
for me. running a compactor trailer would make sence if you forced youre klients into seperate carbord and paiper frome the other trash. but then you would need 1 more bin for every contrackt.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup i live in norway. and we sort all the trash. so we have seperate barrels for "plastick paiper canns food and waiste". so we have normaly up to 5 diffrent canns. so if you realy want to put time in. then you have some options. but one thing i have been thinking on is. if you start gathering only metall canns and scrap metall. thats some extra money. and all you might need to do is finde a diffrent dumping ground. but thats atlest somthing to think about. there is some money in that scrapp for sure
Hope you get the garbage truck, it would eliminate a lot of the issues you're having loading the garbage out of the full cans and the faces your making while your doing it.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup Brad I forgot one thing. If you do get the truck, having the proper driveway and parking spot reinforced for it. Some people forget about the GVW of the new vehicle destroying the property and driveway.
Is there a specific reason you disconnect your dump trailer controller? I've only seen 2 dump trailers with a safety latch on the front and they were both orange.
When the salesman was showing it off to me he put the controller in the box, shut the lid, and accidentally activated it to raise. After that I never wanted to chance an accidental bump, especially with all the liner rolls I keep in the hydraulic box.
You have mentioned numerous times in previous videos about not being able to do this or get that because it requires a CDL. For those of us who are unfamiliar with requirements. What is the reason YOU are against a CDL?
The instruction would be thousands (at least $3,000) and it is 320 clock hours over 11 weeks. More than I want to commit to or can get from my schedule.
Know you don't want employees but maybe have a family member or a buddy ride with you every now an then incase you want to take a vacation theybcan run it for you
Been watching from the start. What if your wife got out too, and yes I know she's been doing the phone work, but if she did that and got out and she was in charge of putting the new bag in while you're slinging the old bag. Might cut your time per stop down a bit. Keep up the good work :)
Good question! I don't think it is worth the risk of doubling the 'get in/get outs' because that is one of the big risks for injury (slipping/falling getting out)
just a suggestion you should try add a water tank or hose system to wash the trailer after the run this could get the smell out of a sitting trailer outside your house (especially in summer)
“For an extra fee of $15 get an extra pickup in November and December. Wednesday before Thanksgiving to ‘clear the can’ before the holiday and December 26 for all the holiday and visitor trash. For an extra $8 add Christmas Tree pickup for January 3. Get both for $20 till Oct 31.”
I like it!
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup I too like it Brad, this was an excellent suggestion from the commentor, and I am in 100% agreement with them, especially regarding the Christmas trees. Anything that is a bulky item like that, you must charge an additional fee for. Just make sure that all your customers know about the additional fees coming up, so that you cover your butt legally. Make sure that all your customers digitally sign the agreement of the additional fees as well. Yeah, I watch a lot of Judge Judy, so trust me on this, its the right way to do it. lol
That's a great way to add a bit of extra income!
Another holiday promo is upsell customers to the convenience of an additional can for the Nov-Jan holiday months. Some customers will not cancel in January and convert into an additional can subscriber. Copper Creek currently has surplus cans to accomodate this promo deployment.
“BABE! Start the popcorn, Brads responding to comments again!”
Something we love about your videos is your honesty and transparency. And you’re hilarious. 😂
I appreciate that, thank you! :D
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup Hey Copper Creek Cuts Lawn Care! 👋
I’m 14 and just started my own pressure washing business called Eastern NC Pressure Wash. I’m looking for some advice on the best equipment to use. Right now, I’m considering getting a gas pressure washer, surface cleaner, and some good nozzles and chemicals. Any tips on what to look for or what to avoid? Thanks a lot!
@@LCSOs Pressure washing unlike lawn mowing for us youngsters poses greater liability and risk. If you fall, no insurance, if you damage tiles/surfaces you have no liability insurance/binding contracts unless your parents pay for all of the paperwork/LLC/LTD. Too much hassle for our age. I started lawn mowing at 14 and never once had any issues regarding problems that can occur pressure washing. I accumulated 2-4,000 in savings over 2 years of about 5-10 client mowing a month. It is a great money maker that poses less liabilities than pressure washing. I am now 17 and have slowed my business back because school got in the way, don't try and make school work around you, most classes will help you understand finance/business a lot better when your older. High-school is important for most ambitions in life. Helps convince banks/business stakeholders that you are committed to them because you committed to becoming educated or something like that.
I also recommend never cheapening on equipment regardless of what you are going to do if it is pressure washing, mowing, or detailing. I've wasted loads of money buying inferior not name brand mowers and weed eaters. Stihl and Husqvarna are my recommendations. Safety goggles and a good quality pair of earmuffs and protective clothing is important. You only have good hearing once, good eyesight once. Every older person has told me to keep these safe.
Never try and price yourself down either because you are young and you want a job, people will try to take advantage of your age and haggle. Give them your price and stick to it, most will accept. Price your worth. I have pushed a few clients away because of my pricing, but that is their loss. I want to do a quality mow and take pride in that. If you want a bad job for cheap, no thanks go find someone else.
As for marketing, community facebook groups and some cheap business cards (1 sided, name contact details and service area) will be all you will need. Word of mouth and facebook was 90% of my jobs. Business cards got me a few clients and it is nice to leave a few to some clients who want to talk to neighbours/friends about your services. Facebook is where most of the older homeowners roam which would be ideal for your business model, also facebook has parents etc who want to support the youth etc. I did not spend a cent on marketing besides business cards, 500 for $30.
Always right to the point and no B.S. That's why I like this channel. Also, as a small business owner, this is very interesting seeing you start this new venture.
I appreciate that!
I'm just happy I made the video lol
Always love your videos Brad! It's crazy, I started watching your videos when you were using a push mower to mow grass and now we're all the way here at starting a trash company. Wish you nothing but the best!
LOL You were here from the BEGINNING!
17:32 I live in Germany and a tv getting thrown in normal trash and then get burried on a landfill just seems ridiculous to me.
Watching you drive to the landfill every week in this series, really gives me to think about how far we have come in our country in terms of recycling and waste management already, even if some people are still protesting that it isnt enough.
Realizing that such a big and modern industry nation like the US still throws most of their trash just away instead of recycling or burning it, really blowed my mind.
(nothing against the usa, I love your country)
Its alot harder to recycle when the US is 28X larger than Germany and produces a lot more trash
You speak the truth, although I will say I wouldn't paint the whole US with the brush from my experience. Some areas are SUPER strict about recycling, it's just that I pretty much live in the wild west.
Brad is back! Driving to college today I passed through Baker County and as soon as I saw the sign, "Hey there I'm Brad with Baker County Trash Pickup..." went through my head!
Haha, love it, thank you!!
Ohhhh, I so see a garbage truck in your near future, and I truly hope its the 2nd truck you looked at in your video, the one I liked. (Where the PTO switch matched the label on the dash) I will be so proud of you when you get your new truck, and I will also be happy for you, because your operation will get easier. Lovely video as always, and as always, I enjoy them. 🚚
Thanks for the kind words as always!
Have you considered a dual marketing approach for both companies? You could offer one free lawn mow if they sign up for 3 months of trash pickup, or whatever works out to be profitable.
There isn't overlap in the customer bases, unfortunately.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup that's a bummer, you seem like a hard worker though so I'm sure you'll figure something out to make this company take off
Brad…I totally understand and respect what you’re saying on the business plan. In regard to having employees and your goals. But…someone will be offended😂
LOL You were right!
You should know…the truck will explode on you too…while you’re running the blade or tipping a can and not standing in just the right place. When tipping a very heavy can…after a party or holiday get together, you’re going to start breaking the cans and the metal bars are going to pop off when using a tipper. Keep that in mind so you’ve got spares.
To make the cost of a truck more worth it to you, offer bulky pick ups. Couches, furniture, whatever for a small fee. Check the competitors pricing structures to see what the fees are, if any more, picking up anything extra(if it doesn’t fit in the can).
I used to get sprayed all the time by my rear loader. lol
Thank you for the tips!
My apologies if these were already covered in previous videos, but:
- What do you do with the green waste from your lawn care business?
- Why don’t you stack your carts when you deliver them to new customers? Toters specifically can be stacked with the wheels on and it seems like it would save some space.
- How do you contact customers to let them know of service disruptions (like collecting a day later as a result of the hurricane)?
Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions! Love the series!
Great questions!
- leave at curb for city pickup, but generally there isn't any for my maintenance accounts.
- I experimented with this for the first time this week (for tomorrow's can pass out). It worked great and will be the method moving forward.
- Email list generally. Get all their emails from a report and BCC them from my gmail account. My Jobber software doesn't have any bulk message feature (hopefully in the future)
As far as the rain issue. I would drill a weep hole in yhe bottom of all the cans for them to drain
Good tip!
I'm glad that you've got a good sense of humor about that messy stuff. I did lawn maintenance for a few years in central Florida and some of the clean up jobs we had to do were just nasty. We've all fallen into "mystery puddles" and swamps at some point. I did cringe a little bit when that bag blew up in your face because I can only imagine the smell. Hopefully it was fresh and not 5 days old. 😂 At the end of the day all you can do is move on and look forward to a nice shower when you're done for the day.
LOL Thanks for the feedback, glad I am not alone!
Great video, thanks for the entertainment! I like your goal of just getting to a size where you can run it on your own without needing to hire staff or worry about becoming yet another waste industry empire. FWIW there's a local hauler that serves a few of the suburbs near me. They've been in business for decades, and just run 1 truck for trash, and a smaller one for recycle. (that service is a requirement here) Their competitors are WM, Republic, and a few other major local haulers. Yet they hold their own in the open market area they serve and do a nice job. As long as you can continue with honest direct pricing without a bunch of fees, provide good service and have great customer service, you will be fine. Keep doing what works best for you and take care of the customer. I hope the new trash truck works well when that happens!
I am curious, have you found any squirrel damage on your cans yet? Around here they are notorious for chewing holes through lids or the rim on the city and hauler cans to get inside when they smell food.
Thank you for the kind words! So far no squirrel damage, but I will keep an eye out!😂
I’ve always appreciated your feedback to the comments in the channel because you don’t bullshit us, and get straight to the point so I appreciate that, and appreciate you don’t sugar coat stuff. The trailer thing, that’s basically a commercial compactor that your typical Roll Off Truck would handle except in trailer form and I believe is a stupid expensive if you’re looking to buy a garbage truck. You’d rather just save it up for the truck especially if you need a CDL. 11:16 Gotcha good didn’t it 😂? My tip to you, always bring an extra shirt with you because the juice is bound to get you sooner or later. From experience, it absolutely sucks so bring an extra shirt to change out. 21:32 WM won’t come back. WM is known for abandoning areas based off their incomes. Because it’s more rural, WM is spending more of vehicle costs, fuel, ect and that likely was making them lose money in the long run so they pulled the plug. Once they do, it’s almost never gonna happen to see them again in the area. Big corporations are only out for the money. Loose it, and they pull out and leave everyone in the dust. As for holidays, charge a minor fee to collect extras that are just ridiculous and charge for disposal. I can tell you, you’re probably likely to make 2 trips to the dump. Can’t wait for that garbage truck!
All good feedback and much appreciated! Garbage truck is acquired and should be visible in a few weeks.
29:30 I work in Sales/acquisition and I think you should definitly do more door to door.
I am sure investing some afternoons/evening in going from door to door to say hello in person and make them know about your business and what you are offering would pay off.
Talking face to face is often the most effective way. Having to contact you (after seeing an ad online or in their mailbox) and decide to invest 10 minutes to switch/make a new contract sounds like a small thing, but is still something many people only decide to do if they are really unhappy with their current situation. By talking to them face to face, you give them a way smaller entry hurdle.
And everyone you dont manage to win as customer after visiting them the first time, you have to visit again every 3-4 months, tell them again you would really like to make business with them and ask why they still arent your customer or what you have to do to find together.
They will recognize you driving around in your truck, seeing you are doing good work and especially if you have competetive pricing as well, one they you are visiting them again they will agree.
Very well said, thank you for this! My plan is once we have the new garbage truck lettered/wrapped (spoiler just for you, we got it Friday) I will do just that and store some cans in the belly to try and sign them up right there.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickupOo, Definitely post door to door content. Would love to see your sales pitch.
Brad to prevent water accumulation in the cans, drill two holes in the bottom of the can at two of the corners, it’ll allow them to stay dry. 3/8 inch holes usually works well
Thanks for the tip!
My country's bin manufacturers do this standard at the bottom.
@@joshuahill6153 that’s awesome! More manufacturers should do that, super easy to have it molded into the cans
Even better that they are made locally in my country for my country. Supports the economy.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickuplots of people won’t like bin juice leaking out the bin, especially if storing in a garage
The hurricane video should be a good one.
If/when you get the small rear loader are you going to offer service to the people on dirt roads?
IIRC you were worried about pulling the trailer on dirt roads when rain/hurricane season was here.
But with a truck (especially a small one) this might be do-able?
No, I won't be adding dirt roads. They are terrible after rains around here and I don't want to risk ever needing a winch out ($250). Also they will kill the truck over time.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup Fair enough.
As someone who is going to CDL night school right now because he got tired of playing the GCVWR game. Get your CDL dude. You will out grow a 26k limit before you think you will. It’s doable in 4 weeks.
There isn’t a need for a CDL. I think that’s close to what Brad is trying to get to. I’ve been throwing bags and driving for over 28 years now, and I must say, if you have a big company then yes.
However, if you take Brads business perspective, if he wants to set out and cap it off at 200, there’s no need for a CDL. Based off the time it takes him to do the route now, and assuming he will cap his routes at 200, You can certainly do the entire route with an Under CDL truck because now he can pack the trash and get more out of the payload. If he can get 100 cans in the truck before having to dump, that works out to be roughly 4-5 hours of work getting in and out to service the cans, assuming the cans aren’t back to back. If he chooses to split it into 2 route days, he can do 100 Monday and the other 100 on Tuesday or Wednesday, still work the same hours and have to dump once. Now if he wanted to get it done in 1 day, it’s possible however you’d have to make 2 loads that’s same day which adding on the time to go to the dump and back to route could make it an 8-10 hour day. So based off my experience, Brads business perspective works just fine and it would be a waste of his time to get a CDL when he can buy an under CDL truck, get bigger payloads even if it means having to dump twice a day or two service route days.
Thanks for the feedback! I cover this some in today's video and deleted channel is mirroring my thoughts pretty closely. I think now that we have a truck 200 isn't enough long term (it takes about 100 to pay all my monthly expenses) so looking at 400 total (nothing final yet and don't have enough info to make a decision), but yes, a few trips a day over two days should get it done with what we have. I could be wrong, though!
This was a really good video. I totally understand your position of your future vision of the company. At this point no need to invest big money for a trash truck. Focus on growth mode to fill the rest of those 200 cans. Possibly offer a $1 promotion for the first month in targeted areas, much like storage units do to attract new clients.
Excellent point!
Hey there Brad, I was the one that sent you that email about the ProPactor Trailer. Thank you for at least taking a look at it! And i didn't know about that CDL thing about your truck with it as i haven't heard about it. Since the ProPactor trailer wont work, i do recommend that you do eventually get that rear loader as it will help you alot!
Thanks for the recommendation!
Under 40k you don't need to have a CDL. I guess it depends on the state your in.
@@kurtismckemmie4850 Depends on the state. In Illinois a combined GVWR of 26,001Lbs and up, or a trailer that has a gvwr of 10,001 lbs and up. you have to have a CDL class A.
Watching since the first trash episode and love the progress. Really enjoy your critical thinking on old ideas and ideas from the community. Keept it up and best regards from Germany.
Thank you very much!
Woohoooooooo I look forward to this every Saturday
Glad to hear it!
Thanks for sharing. Totally get your business mindset. Great to have a business to support your needs and not have to worry about employees.
Thank you for watching!
I'm hyped to see the garbage truck when that happens, and hey... there's a whole genre that entails hopper views here on youtube.
Haha, well said!
Get the garbage truck. No regrets (easy to say because it’s not my money, lol)
P.s I live in Arizona a bit outside the city and waste management left my area a few months ago. I now only see them picking up dumpsters at restaurants, stores, malls, etc in my city. Also I went to the waste management lot a few days ago to drop off some cardboard and the area where they used to have all their residential cans was empty. I think you’re right, they’re not coming back
I've been hearing that a lot. I think they took all the business to get the commercial clients, then dumped the residential but kept commercial.
let's goooooooooo. can't wait for the trash truck. seems like this snowball keeps on gaining momentum in the right direction
Thank you!
I have been driving a trash truck for a while and now changed over to reefer. but anyways when u drive an trash truck u must be cearful when unloading those cans. have had a lot of cans ending up in the tray and that happend many times a day and there is nothing u can do to prevent it, at least not on the trucks I drove. so be ready to pull put cans very often😅
Thanks for the tip!
I'm for the garbage truck you are researching in the video. If you need the space or can't use the dump trailer for other projects sell it to offset some of the additional costs. I'm curious as to how many yards the garbage truck can hold once it's compacted as compared to the dump trailer. I believe you stated the dump trailer is 14 yards and the garbage truck is 8 yards. Depending upon the compaction limits of the garbage would the garbage truck hold the equivalent 16, 20 or more yards of uncompacted garbage?
Excellent question! I honestly don't know yet. It may be more of a weight based question than volume. For instance, it holds 8 yards compacted at ~600 pounds (on the low end) of compacted trash per yard. 4,800 pounds of trash? Last week I had 43 stops and hurricane rains made everything wet. I had like 2500 pounds in the trailer. So that would just be double that the garbage truck could hold over the trailer. But if everything wasn't soaking wet (lids flipped open during Hurricane Debby and rains filled the cans) maybe it would have only been 2,000 pounds or 1700 pounds and the garbage truck would have a larger ratio?
Not sure I'm explaining that well, will try to better in voiceover next week.
There are some potential workarounds for the CDL aspect of the trailer. The manufacturer of the trailer can derate the rating to 15k or 14k or whatever before they sell it. Additionally, I think the salesman was correct saying you can tow it legally with a 3/4 ton. Many trucks have a 10,000-9,500 lb GVWR to get around the CDL requirement for 16k trailers. If you look at some commercial GM/Ford dealers, a lot of the trucks say “10k gvwr package” for that exact reason.
I think I mentioned that in the voiceover, he may not know 10,500 GVWR 3/4's exist.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup yes you did mention that. But for future reference, if you are ever looking at any 16k trailers and are worrying about CDL, the any manufacturer can derate any of their trailers. Thanks for all your vids!
The truck seems like it will make sense soon enough, but in case you run into obstacles with that route, check out the Texas Push Off trailer. It looks like it could probably do some light packing, nothing like a compactor but even just shoving the trash back to make room for more would make a difference.
Thanks for the info!
i work at music events doing waste management and a way that we found to hold the liners up in wheely bins was to put a small rip into the liner and tie it around the handle to create tension
Nice, thanks!
when i first started i had 20 customers and did it with a pickup truck that had racks. I will share my worst mess up is missing the body and having maggots cover the hood on the truck.
Keep up the good work Brad!
Thanks! Will do!
Hey brad In your video and previous videos you’ve mentioned that you don’t want to introduce recycling to your trash business I believe you should re consider you can introduce recycling as a optional service on fortnighty service on a separate day especially when you get a garbage truck you don’t even need new cans for residents can use there own cans you should also enquire with the tri County landfill on mrfs that they use that are close to you I’m also saying that you don’t need to do it now you can do it in one to two years time you can also charge customers with recycling services an extra $15 to $20 a month this is just my suggestion
Thanks for the advice!
I like your videos because you always explain everything in detail.
Thank you!
For the pro pactor the trailer GVWR can be derated to be a lower number when they build it, I have a roll off dumpster trailer made from a trailer builder in Texas and they allow you to derate the weight tag, Ford used to allow it but stopped doing it recently.
I agree with you on the trailer stand point from owning a lot, a stand alone truck is 100% easier to maneuver and way better if you do have to get a driver to fill in. Also on tight or small roads you might have issues turning around a big truck and trailer…
Thanks for the info!
13:43 I feel bad for laughing at you, but this progression of events were hilarious 😂
And what lots of trash guys will do is they will bring spare vests/ clothes. It’s to be expected on a 400+ stop route, to get some kind of trash juices on you lol.
16:01 a frog, at a toucan stop!!
Brad.. you spoke so many great things in this video, and I am all aboard with your thinking! And, I will pitch in, Another reason it would be great to get a garbage truck, is that you would save so much money, rather than getting these “temporary solution trailers” that are just too expensive for the disadvantages they bring. The rear loader will potentially stick around for Years, before you even have to worry about sizing up. And certainly the greatest improvement would be little to no lifting, or handling any garbage! Would you work solo with the trash truck or would you have your wife help you? Thanks Brad for another amazing video! Take care!
Thank you for all the feedback, I really appreciate it! The idea was to work solo but I love having my wife with me and she actually likes/feels comfortable driving the isuzu, so I may make her keep helping me! :D
As you continue to add more and more cans, will you come up with an optimized system for which cans to pick up when? Like is there an app or something for optimizing your route? Would love to see you talk about how you can create efficiency like that.
@@GoProJack16 I believe the software he uses to manages the accounts also has some sort of capability to plan the routes for most efficiency.
Good question, will cover it in next week's video!
As a dumpster roll off company in Jax, Fl it is super saturated. It’s crazy competitive and tons of low baller side hustlers. I think you’re doing good with what ya have. Crazy WM left Baker County.
Thank you for the industry feedback, I appreciate it!
These videos are all was good to watch.
Thanks!
look into things called "band its" ive seen them at lowes like 1.98 or 2.98 ea. and theyre big bungee cords essentially that you wrap around the liner under the top to hold the liner, may not make sense to spend the money when you may be looking at a garbage truck but something to look into
Thanks for the tip!
All I’m saying is that it’s good to have a CDL to pull this trailer but for me I’m 19 years old and drove a huge military dump truck for our city maintenance and I’m big chilling 😂saves me money not having a CDL 😂
LOL Nice!
Thank you for answering my question! Looking forward to the upcoming videos.
This week's question
You mention you don't want employees, so how large do you actually want to grow this business? Assuming you want all 200 cans out, that should take a whole day? Do you want more than 200 cans?
Another great one! Will answer it next week!
Trailer can be derated to be able to be pulled behind your truck no issue. Lots of ways around that factor actually.
Brad, we’ve spoke before and I’m a pretty big fan of yours. However, I can’t help but notice a trend in the trash videos where the majority of your commentary is talking about why you can’t do this, can’t do that, answering this negative comment, answering that negative comment.
I think you either need to continue to embrace your current setup or switch gears and make a move to make yourself productive and most importantly, profitable.
I love your determination and the content, but this trash series definitely doesn’t showcase your “can do attitude” as well as it has in the past, at least when listening to your commentary.
All the best!
Thanks for the feedback! I thought I have been saying 'don't want to' or 'won't' rather than 'I can't', but I will make sure to pay attention to my language from now on! I also didn't think any of the comments (or my replies) were negative, but again, I'll keep an eye on it!
I have to disagree. He definitely is showcasing a can-do attitude. Also with all the negative comments it has to be addressed. Especially when he's steadily strategically moving forward making progress.
Agree.
It's very discouraging for anybody who is potentially interested in this type of endeavor. Definitely when he expresses how he has no intentions of expanding. Which is oddly strange.. Because it's a waste disposal business in a county with very few options for such services. It's just a matter of time until he gets flooded with work and will begin turning down profit.
But why not provide jobs for the community and help your neighbors. All while making a profit. "Three birds, one stone" . He may be better off doing dumpster rentals at this point.
- Brad, if you read my comment. I appreciate you taking the time towards creating such content and showcasing the negative aspects. You have soo much potential man.
@@kevobangz1751 I promise I am not saying this with a mean tone, but did you watch the portion about why I said I am not getting into dumpsters? And the gap between running a business that can support myself and then support others is a HUGE gap with quite a few challenges, hurdles, and issues. I will try to address this in the next video.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup all good brother! You’re gonna make it happen one way or another. Keep up the good work
Your hourly rate is getting better 😎👍
Slowly but surely! :D
Me thinking about this problem cause I'm in Indiana and not thinking you're in Florida:
"That's gonna suck in the winter cold and snow" 😅
LOL I mean it does get cold but yeah, no snow! :D
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup well, cold for me vs you could be different lol. Used to different temperatures
Hey Brad, I had that moment last year when know you have to get the next piece of equipment to make it easier on you. Last year I used my 36” belt drive walk behind to get my mowing business started and end of July when we had near 100 degree weather for weeks it seemed like I would get home just beat like almost throwing up beat. I knew I needed a stand on or sit down zero turn for this year and got a 52” Vride 2 and doubled my business in the process picking up a $200/cut client while renting a storage unit and another 175/cut client off of a FaceBook ad I was too lazy to delete which I would not of been able to service with my walkbehind and those clients paid for the mower twice now. You could call it destiny by picking up the bigger piece of equipment or you could call it luck. I know this is no where the comparison you are looking at but you could tell my how skeptical my wife was.
Excellent feedback, thank you!
Hi Brad! Question, once you decide that it's time for the small garbage truck, what's the plan for the orange trailer? Thanks for always being honest & making us laugh (in a good way)! 😊
Great question! Covered in today's video, thanks for the comment!
I would invest on the compact trailer at 200 can you will need it .. the good thing on a trailer is if the unit your hualing goes down you can hook up a back up vehicle and finish your route .. you can always training your wife to drive a trailer but if your garbage truck goes down your business stops as well …
The backup vehicle is a great point. If a trash truck goes down, it could be down for weeks. But then I guess the dump trailer is the backup. As much as it looks like it sucks to use it now, it'll suck a lot more to go back to it after the upgrade.
Good points, covered in today's video, thanks for the comment!
Can you give an update on how far you are into paying off the cans and the trailer and all your other start up costs? Enjoy the content, NYC garbage man here!
Yes, I will probably do that at a six month mark! Thanks for the idea!
Slow steady growth is the way to go so you don't outgrow yourself minimal stress maybe look into a CDL and a packer when the time comes
Appreciate it! I cover some of this in today's video.
YOU GOT THE RIGHT IDEA SMART MAN EMPLOYES PAIN AN EXPENSIVE
You should wear safety glasses could save your eyes!
Good reminder!
Question- you mention you’re nearing the point where your trailer is getting full on your route. Have you planned how your route(s) will look when you get to that magic #? Like I believe you’re around 30/35 accounts now. Say trailer gets completely full when you get to account 50. So when you get that 51st account do you plan to divide the route in half completely or how does that look for ya? Not sure what’s practical for your area.
Also you have mentioned about being able to build up the side walls. Realistically how much bigger can ya get and if you did build up the side walls how many accounts roughly do you think you could accommodate with a single run?
Great question! I will cover it next week in the video but to answer now: once the trailer gets maxed out I would just have to start incorporating multiple trips to the dump per day. About the wood sides, probably not much more than another foot or two max before it is unsafe without drilling into the trailer, which I don't want to do yet.
Do it your way..nobody else's way! And only buy what fits your requirements.
Much appreciated!
What are you going to end up doing with the dump trailer once you get a new truck? Also great video as always!
Covered in todays video, thanks for asking!
@@BakerCountyTrashPickupOh sorry I forgot to finish the last few minutes of the video lol 😂
HA your doors swung open lol😂 I was working at a rental company when I was like 18 towing a bobcat forgot to pin the pintle hitch and well let’s just say the trailer came off. Nothing happened but it’s still embarrassing lol
LOL Glad I am not alone!
I suppose the trash juice incident will encourage your wife to make sure that she brings along plenty of air freshener options for inside the truck.
LOL Yes!
Can you give us an update on the arm you had and what you did with it in your next video?
It's just sitting in the yard :D
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup here is a question for a video I don't know if you covered this but why orange cans and not black ones that you usually see?
Brad i used to collect garbage at Gibson island maryland it was disgusting it was with a pak mor side loader people did not bag their trash stinky crab shells liquor bottles loose trash one man operation was a pain in the ass they said they wouldn't get a rear loader i have had trash juice maggots baby diaoers diabetic needles broken glass when i left in 1998 they got 2 people to run the side loader and 5 yrs later they got a ez pak Apollo RL now they have a load master rl under CDL running with 2 people ur doing a wonderful job soon u will be booming dont tear that beautiful Chevy truck up see if u can dump at a covanta waste to energy facility a l so the ventrac is cool for smaller jobs look in to a Gravely 30 in brush hog they work awesome keep your head high ur a great businessman
Thank you for the comment and for watching!
@CopperCreekCuts if u ever needed help if u got injured I have experience running a garbage truck I used to have a class a CDL now I don't I would come down from Maryland to Florida being I love to fish at Hubbard's Marina I would love to assist you u have a great thing going and a well organized business
Thank you for getting that little frog to safety.
You bet! :)
In regards to your comments about bungy's. I can see the positive of them but in reality you dont need huge bungy cords. You could simply grab 1 corner of the liner and cinch it tight and use a small rubber band on that 1 corner to keep the liner tight on the can. Might take you 10 sec per liner you put in and when you pull them off its just a rubber band so you can either try to reuse it or just toss it with the liner.
Thanks for the tip!
Would you offer 65 gallon or 32 gallon cart Instead of it all being 96s?
No, I'm not interested in complicating the business with different options (nor do I want the inventory headache). I want something as simple as possible.
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup reasonable makes a lot of sense
What’s the plan for the dump trailer after you buy a truck? Are you planning to sell it or keep it for the lawn care side of things? Just curious
Covered in todays video, thanks for asking!
It has to do with State Licensing because they break up the GVWR with the truck and trailer is separate pieces so like here in California I can drive a truck that weighs 26,000 lb or less and pull a trailer that weighs 10,000 lb or less GVWR and that falls under a non-commercial regular license so that may be why the salesman said you don't need a CDL however since that trailer is 16 kg GVW here in California that would be over the 10K and would require a full class A CDL
Thanks for the tip!
Hey Brad! Do you have any plans in the future once you get money and stuff to buy 65 Gallon trash cans for smaller household, Or just like 35,65,95 type deal?
Covered in today's video!
When you do get a truck you should still keep the trailer in case your truck breaks down
He says he doesn’t want to keep a truck plus a trailer on his property. He could probably rent a truck or trailer if his truck breaks
I've thought about that and will address it in a future video. But the reality is if I can only fit 50 cans in the trailer and I have X00 cans out, it will likely make more sense to just delay everyone and focus on fixing the truck or going to get a rental rather than try to take 4X as long to finish the route and then still need to fix the truck. I could be wrong, just my initial thoughts. Also there is a place in town I can rent a dump trailer from for ~$300 a day, so it may make more sense to just do that if needed.
i tell you what when i started doing trash 3 years ago as a helper i used to get sick all the time, never got covid thankfully but now i never get sick, i think my body is used to it now
Hah, excellent news! Thanks!
Three weeks behind? Let’s get two next week.
LOL I like having a backlog.
What is the white covering in the dump? 27:00
when you pack spare clothes for when you need a change, don't forget to include boots and socks
Good tip, thank you!
17:30 I'm disappointed that people are throwing electronics in the dump. If it's not illegal where you are it should be.
Sorry about that!
Cool
Next episode: I’M GETTING A CDL
XD Maybe one day!
Go get your CDL. You could start other businesses and drive a lot bigger vehicles, etc. it could open up a lot of possibilities and opportunities for you.
Covered in today's video, thanks for the comment!
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup so are you going to eventually stop doing landscaping altogether?
Where do you buy the liners
The store, and sometimes online.
@vegeta420z6 I'm gonna have to get some. After watching your videos they do come in handy
Link in description from Amazon.
Brad, I always wondered since you don’t want any employees, who is going to do your garbage route if your back goes out for 6 to 8 weeks.
That's a bridge we will worry about when we arrive at it. Employing someone now for an 'in case' doesn't make any financial sense to me. If/when an injury happens is when I will figure it out, not deal with an employee and all the negatives I mentioned for a hypothetical injury that may never happen.
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Wow adding 3 new can a week by this time next year you will be 200+ cans you may have created a monsters so much for two day a week job.
Thanks for watching, I hope we can keep growing!
How do you take vacation with an occupation like this? Can you sub the route out for a week?
Great question! I wouldn't. We aren't big vacation folks and usually want to come home after a few days. We would just do a Thurs-Sun vacation.
Wait, you guys are allowed to dump Ewaste with trash? That's odd where I live if you get caught doing so you'll get a fine.
No restrictions that I know of.
for me. running a compactor trailer would make sence if you forced youre klients into seperate carbord and paiper frome the other trash. but then you would need 1 more bin for every contrackt.
Thanks for the feedback!
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup i live in norway. and we sort all the trash. so we have seperate barrels for "plastick paiper canns food and waiste". so we have normaly up to 5 diffrent canns. so if you realy want to put time in. then you have some options. but one thing i have been thinking on is. if you start gathering only metall canns and scrap metall. thats some extra money. and all you might need to do is finde a diffrent dumping ground. but thats atlest somthing to think about. there is some money in that scrapp for sure
Hope you get the garbage truck, it would eliminate a lot of the issues you're having loading the garbage out of the full cans and the faces your making while your doing it.
LOL
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup Brad I forgot one thing. If you do get the truck, having the proper driveway and parking spot reinforced for it.
Some people forget about the GVW of the new vehicle destroying the property and driveway.
Is there a specific reason you disconnect your dump trailer controller? I've only seen 2 dump trailers with a safety latch on the front and they were both orange.
When the salesman was showing it off to me he put the controller in the box, shut the lid, and accidentally activated it to raise. After that I never wanted to chance an accidental bump, especially with all the liner rolls I keep in the hydraulic box.
Nice Video
Did you watch the whole video
6:25 6:31 well trash pickup isn’t gonna work then lol. You need to do ground clearing or excavating. Those are much higher paying jobs.
Covered in today's video, thanks for the comment!
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup lmao I saw that. Thanks for the shout out🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is it hard to get a CDL? Why is a CDL a dealbreaker? I think I missed that info.
Thousands in money and weeks in time.
👀Garbage truck leak???👀
I hope not!
Please put on safety glasses. That trash juice in your eye wouldn't ruin a day or two.
Good reminder!
You have mentioned numerous times in previous videos about not being able to do this or get that because it requires a CDL. For those of us who are unfamiliar with requirements. What is the reason YOU are against a CDL?
Insurance on a CDL vehicle is much higher, as is plating fees and it requires him to be subject to lots of stress.
The instruction would be thousands (at least $3,000) and it is 320 clock hours over 11 weeks. More than I want to commit to or can get from my schedule.
@CopperCreekCuts
Florida may be different but here in Oregon CDL school is 6,000 bucks.
@@vegeta420z dang
hi im back im so happy you replied to my comment :) love the vids
Welcome back!
How many miles are on your truck?
27K? Not much.
I thought the ProPactor would be a perfect solution but at that price you might has well get a used truck.
Especially after the tipper, taxes, freight, etc.
Boo to the customer that left an open bottle of cooking oil at the top of their trash can to drip and coat everything below it.
LOL you've got a good eye.
Know you don't want employees but maybe have a family member or a buddy ride with you every now an then incase you want to take a vacation theybcan run it for you
We aren't big vacationers. Usually in less than a week we are ready to come home.
Been watching from the start. What if your wife got out too, and yes I know she's been doing the phone work, but if she did that and got out and she was in charge of putting the new bag in while you're slinging the old bag. Might cut your time per stop down a bit. Keep up the good work :)
Good question! I don't think it is worth the risk of doubling the 'get in/get outs' because that is one of the big risks for injury (slipping/falling getting out)
@@BakerCountyTrashPickup Fair enough. I guess she'd be getting out on the traffic's side. Thanks for your response!
just a suggestion
you should try add a water tank or hose system to wash the trailer after the run
this could get the smell out of a sitting trailer outside your house (especially in summer)
I pressure wash it after every run at home.
Thats the gross weight. The protainer trailer is only 7600 pounds empty which means you can carry 8,400 pounds if your truck is 10,000 pounds.
That's not how GVWR and DOT work.
Why can’t you get a cdl
I can, just don't want to. Will cost thousands and take weeks.