Locally Owned Dumpster Rental in Brandon Since 2013

Bobby Jessup grew up out here, in a block house off Lumsden Road built when the orange groves were still turning into subdivisions, and went to work for a local remodeling crew out of school. He spent most of his twenties in Brandon garages and attics — pulling cabinets, stripping shingles in July, breaking out lanai slabs and pool decks, and clearing sheds that had not been opened since the eighties — watching the same problems repeat themselves. The container never came when it was supposed to. When it did, the invoice had grown. Nobody ever warns a homeowner that broken tile, block and stucco will hit legal transport weight in a box that still looks half empty, or that an open can left through an August afternoon comes back heavier than it went out, so the can that sounded generous on the phone is at payload while it is half full, and then it sits in the driveway too heavy to move.

In 2013 he bought a used roll-off truck and four cans, parked them on 832 S Parsons Ave, and started answering the phone himself. Bobby still takes most of the calls and still runs the dispatch board. The first job was a shingle tear-off on a 1978 ranch off Bloomingdale for an owner whose previous hauler had canceled twice while the crew stood on the roof waiting. She still calls us, and she still tells the story.

Word moved the way it does here — through contractors, through neighbors, through the man at the supply counter who mentions that the dumpster people actually showed up. Then two things settled it: storm weeks, when a tropical system puts a fortnight of roof, ceiling, fence and tree work on the books over a weekend; and the February to April stretch, when Hillsborough County lifts its own curbside yard waste limit and half of the Tampa Bay area decides to clear the garage, the lanai and the shed in the same six weeks. We added trucks as the calls came in rather than borrowing against volume we did not have yet. 13 years on we run a small fleet, we still dispatch from 832 S Parsons Ave, and the phone still rings at a desk with somebody local behind it.

Why we care about getting the quote right

The dumpster industry has an image problem and it is largely self-inflicted. Low teaser rates, a tonnage allowance buried in the fine print, then a bill with an overage charge nobody explained. We priced against that from day one. When you call, we ask what you are throwing away, what it weighs, how long you need it and where it is going. Then we give you a number that includes delivery, pickup, the rental window and disposal. If we think you are about to order the wrong size, we say so — even when the wrong size is the more expensive one.

What being local actually buys you

It is not a slogan. It means our dispatcher knows which Brandon driveways off Lumsden, Bloomingdale and Parsons will take a 30 and which ones want a 20 with the gate clear of the lanai screen; which streets have a swale soft enough after an afternoon storm that the can goes on the concrete and nowhere else; which addresses are unincorporated and therefore a Hillsborough County question, and which sit inside Tampa, Temple Terrace or Plant City, the county’s only three incorporated cities, where a different desk answers; that a job fronting Brandon Boulevard is on an FDOT state road rather than a county one; that the county right-of-way desk is Development Services on (813) 272-5600 and not Public Works, which is the guess everyone makes; and roughly what a 1970s slab house with a two-car garage, a screened lanai, a shed and three decades of storage produces when it finally gets cleared out. It means that when a storm comes through the Tampa Bay area and half the county wants a container in the same week, our trucks are already here.

We have seen the mistakes so you do not have to

The four that cost people the most money, in order: sizing by volume when the debris is dense, because concrete, block, stucco, pavers and roof tile all hit payload while the box still looks half empty; forgetting that a slab house keeps everything above ground, so a clearout that reads like a 20 inside the house is really a 30 once the garage, the lanai, the shed and the attic are counted; assuming the curb will absorb the overflow, when Hillsborough County does not collect construction and demolition debris, prices bulky pickup at $30 to $50 an item, and gives a household 10 cubic yards a year free at a collection center only if you self-unload it by hand; and leaving an open container through an afternoon in the rainy season, when roughly two-thirds of the year’s rain falls between June and September and every inch of it is weight you pay for at the scale. Every one of those is avoidable with one honest conversation before delivery.

We have cleared garages, lanais and sheds out of houses that had not been emptied since the subdivision was new, rental turnovers where a unit changes hands and thirty years goes out in a fortnight, storm damage where the ceilings, the insulation and half the drywall came down before the roof went back on, lanai and screen-enclosure rebuilds where the slab came out with the frame, tile roof tear-offs that went out by weight rather than volume, kitchen and bath gut-outs where the cabinets and drywall went straight into the can because the County will not take them at the curb, fence lines flattened by a tropical system and replaced the following week, pool decks and driveway aprons broken out into 10 yard cans, palm frond and oak limb wood run as clean separate loads, retail and restaurant fit-outs along the Brandon Boulevard corridor, and estate cleanouts where a family had a fortnight to empty a house. Every one of those loads behaves differently at the scale house, and knowing that in advance is most of the job.

Credentials and cover

• Full commercial general liability and auto cover — certificates available on request for GCs and property managers, with additional insured endorsements where a contract calls for one
• Workers’ compensation cover for every driver on the road
• Material taken only to facilities permitted under Florida’s solid waste rules at Chapter 62-701, F.A.C., with construction and demolition debris handled under Rule 62-701.730
• Clean corrugated cardboard and scrap metal pulled out of loads and routed for recycling, which also keeps you clear of the County’s 2× mixed-load surcharge and its processable / non-processable split
• Liquids and asbestos kept out of every container, and mixed construction and demolition loads taken to a permitted processing facility rather than direct to disposal

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