Service area
Where We Deliver — Brandon, Hillsborough County & the Tampa Bay area
Seventeen communities across Hillsborough County, delivered daily from our yard at 832 S Parsons Ave, with SR 60, I-75 and the Selmon Expressway all a few minutes away. Fourteen of them are unincorporated county ground, where the county is the whole government; three — Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City — are cities with rulebooks of their own. Every one below has its own page with local placement notes, the jurisdiction answer, landmarks and driving routes.
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At a glance
Distance and access from our yard
| Town / community | Locality | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valrico | Hillsborough County | Four miles east of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north to SR 60, then east on Brandon Blvd past Kings Ave |
| Riverview | Hillsborough County | Five miles south-west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, then west and south on US 301 |
| Seffner | Hillsborough County | Four miles north of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north across SR 60 and up toward US 92 |
| Dover | Hillsborough County | Eight miles north-east of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north to SR 60, then east and north toward US 92 |
| Bloomingdale | Hillsborough County | Two miles south of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, then east or west along the corridor |
| Lithia | Hillsborough County | Twelve miles south-east of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, then east and south on Lithia Pinecrest Rd |
| FishHawk | Hillsborough County | Ten miles south-east of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, east to Lithia Pinecrest Rd, then south |
| Apollo Beach | Hillsborough County | Thirteen miles south-west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, west to US 301, then south to I-75 |
| Ruskin | Hillsborough County | Seventeen miles south-west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, west to US 301, then south to I-75 |
| Gibsonton | Hillsborough County | Ten miles south-west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, west to US 301, then south |
| Mango | Hillsborough County | Six miles north-west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north to SR 60, then west and north toward US 92 |
| Thonotosassa | Hillsborough County | Twelve miles north of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north to SR 60, west to US 301, then north |
| Sun City Center | Hillsborough County | Twenty miles south-west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, west to US 301, then south to I-75 |
| Wimauma | Hillsborough County | Eighteen miles south of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave south to Bloomingdale Ave, west to US 301, then south |
| Tampa | Hillsborough County | Ten miles west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north to SR 60, then west on Brandon Blvd toward the Selmon |
| Temple Terrace | Hillsborough County | Twelve miles north-west of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north to SR 60, west to I-75, then north |
| Plant City | Hillsborough County | Fourteen miles east of our S Parsons Ave yard in Brandon | Parsons Ave north to SR 60, then east past Mount Carmel Road |
Local knowledge
One county, three cities, and four different owners for the roads out front
Three cities, a county, and no city hall in Brandon
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it, with plywood down under every wheel and rail. The moment any part of it touches a street, a sidewalk or a county swale, you need to know which government you are standing in front of — and around here that is a real question with a surprising answer. Hillsborough County has exactly three incorporated cities: Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City. Everywhere else — Brandon, Riverview, Valrico, Seffner, Dover, Bloomingdale, Lithia, FishHawk, Apollo Beach, Ruskin, Gibsonton, Mango, Thonotosassa, Sun City Center and Wimauma — is unincorporated, and the county is the entire government. The county says so itself, in one line on its own right-of-way permit page: its permits “are not issued for projects in Tampa, Plant City, or Temple Terrace municipalities.” There is no City of Brandon. No mayor, no council, no city hall, no city limits and no city permit desk. Every competitor page that tells you to “check with your city” is giving Brandon readers an instruction they cannot follow. Next, work out who owns the pavement, because four different owners run the roads here. SR 60 is FDOT’s — the state signs it “Brandon Boulevard from I-75 until Mount Carmel Road.” The Selmon Expressway, SR 618, belongs to the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority. I-75 and I-4 are interstates. Lumsden, Bloomingdale, Parsons and the neighborhood streets are the county’s. The county’s Right of Way Management Permit comes from Development Services on (813) 272-5600, at a $50 base application fee as published in 2026 — ask them for the current figure rather than trusting a number off a website, ours included. It is not Public Works, which is the intuitive guess and the wrong one, and a job that interrupts traffic needs a separate Temporary Traffic Control permit. Now the honest part. We are not aware of any Hillsborough County permit requirement for a container placed entirely on your own driveway or property. If any part of it will sit in the street or the county swale, that is county right-of-way — check with Development Services on (813) 272-5600 before the truck comes. There is no City of Brandon permit desk, because there is no City of Brandon. No published county provision names dumpsters or roll-off containers in the right-of-way at all, so anyone who tells you flatly that the street either does or does not require a permit is guessing, and we would rather say what we know and what we do not. In Tampa, Temple Terrace or Plant City the answer flips: the county will not issue you a right-of-way permit there at all, and a street placement is the city’s to approve. Fire code is the one layer that does not change at any of those lines. Florida works from NFPA 1, not the International Fire Code. The Florida Fire Prevention Code, 8th Edition, effective 31 December 2023, adopts NFPA 1 with the 2021 edition as its base under § 633.202, Fla. Stat., so the “10 feet from the building” rule the national dumpster blogs repeat is not the rule here — it is an IFC number, and this state does not use the IFC. NFPA 1 Chapter 19, “Combustible Waste and Refuse,” 19.1.2 requires that “combustible waste cannot be allowed to build up inside or outside the building in any manner that will pose a fire hazard.” That is a performance requirement, not a published distance, so we do not print a number and call it code. We set containers clear of the house, the eaves, the meter and the AC condenser as practice, and no fire permit for placing a container appears in the county fire marshal’s fee schedule. Before anything is dug, trenched, a stump pulled or a building torn down, call Sunshine 811 on 811 or (800) 432-4770. That is Sunshine State One-Call of Florida, Inc., at § 556.103, Fla. Stat., and § 556.105(1)(a) wants “not less than 2 full business days” of notice — two, not three, and the weekend does not count. Out toward Lithia, Dover and Thonotosassa, where a house is on its own well and septic, tell us where the tank, the drain field and the well head are, because a loaded box does not belong on any of them. See our Brandon permit guide, Hillsborough County, the City of Tampa and FDOT.
What comes out first, and why the county burns the rest
Hillsborough burns its garbage, and that changes what belongs in a container. The county-owned Resource Recovery Facility at 350 N Falkenburg Road takes up to 1,800 tons a day, makes about 47 megawatts, keeps roughly 80 percent of what it receives out of a landfill and pulls about 19,600 tons of metal a year back out of the stream. It accepts “burnable waste only.” That one phrase is why this county sorts waste into processable and non-processable and prices the two differently, and why a mixed load carries a 2× surcharge. Concrete, block, brick, roof tile and dirt do not burn; they go to the Southeast County Landfill or the Northwest County Solid Waste Disposal Complex instead. Sorting here is not housekeeping, it is the bill — and it is our side of the job, not yours. The statewide rules sit underneath that. Florida’s solid waste regulation is Chapter 62-701, F.A.C., administered by Florida DEP, with construction and demolition debris defined at Rule 62-701.200(24) and C&D disposal and recycling governed by Rule 62-701.730. The disposal ban that actually bites is lead-acid batteries under § 403.708(12), Fla. Stat. — and because the county burns rather than buries, that ban covers waste-to-energy facilities as well as landfills, which is a distinction most rental pages never make. Pull batteries before the box leaves. We keep paint, solvents, fuel, automotive fluids and pool chemicals out too; those go to the county’s household hazardous waste collections, which run on rotating Saturdays rather than at the curb, so plan around a date instead of setting it out. Here is the contrast that catches people out. The county does not collect construction and demolition debris, and its own numbers make the case for a container better than we could: bulky item pickup is priced per item at $30 to $50; the free bulky allowance at a Community Collection Center is 10 cubic yards a year, less than one 10 yard container; “bulky waste must be self-unloaded by hand. No dump trailers allowed”; and contractors are “not able to use residential folio accounts.” Yard waste is capped at 2 cubic yards a week, rising to 3 cubic yards from February through April. Those figures are as published in 2026; confirm current rates with Solid Waste on (813) 272-5680 before you budget on them. Put it plainly: the county will take ten cubic yards of bulky waste a year, free, if you unload it by hand, and a single 10 yard container is more than that in one afternoon without you touching the load twice. There are five Community Collection Centers across the county, and incorporated city residents in Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City are told to use their own city’s disposal services for bulky items and tires instead — which is, incidentally, a second county source confirming there are exactly three cities here. One material never rides in our container under any circumstances. We do not accept asbestos. Hillsborough is one of only eight of Florida’s sixty-seven counties with delegated air and asbestos authority, held by the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, so the notification goes to a county commission rather than to Tallahassee: at least 10 working days’ notice before a regulated renovation or demolition, a copy of the survey attached, at $310 to $360 as published in 2026. The trigger is narrower than people assume — commercial structures, more than one single-family home at a time, and multi-residential buildings of more than four units — so an ordinary single house being renovated on its own is not inside it. The statewide backdrop is Chapter 62-257, F.A.C. and licensing under § 469.004, Fla. Stat. Details from Hillsborough County, the EPC, Florida DEP, the Florida Statutes and the Florida Administrative Code. See where it all goes.
A 1970s suburb in its first renovation cycle
Brandon grew 228 percent in a single decade and then stopped. The Census numbers are the spine of this market: 12,749 people in 1970, 41,826 in 1980, on to 114,626 by 2020, with only about 11 percent of that added across the whole of the 2010s. The growth moved on and the housing stayed, which is why so much of what we haul comes out of houses built between about 1972 and 1988 and never touched since. Original kitchens, original baths, original cabinets and vanities, original carpet, and a first generation of owners now downsizing or passing houses on. Brandon’s median home value and its owner-occupancy rate both sit below the county’s, which in practice means more rental turnover and more estate work here than the county average would suggest. Riverview, next door, is a different market entirely — it grew 490.4 percent between 2000 and 2010, so its stock is thirty years newer. Two housing vintages side by side, ten minutes apart, is the single most useful thing to know about sizing a container in this part of the county. The construction is the other half. Everything here is slab-on-grade: no basement, no crawlspace, nothing under the floor. That sounds as though it ought to make a cleanout smaller and it does the exact opposite, because a house with nowhere below the floor puts thirty years of accumulation somewhere else. The garage, the lanai and the shed are the storage, and they are also the job. A two-car garage cleared to the slab, a screened lanai emptied of furniture and boxes, and a shed taken down is a genuinely common Brandon booking, and it is usually a 20 yard. Termites are live in this stock, and the ones to know locally are Asian subterranean termites, confirmed in South Tampa in March 2023 — the northernmost established population in the state. Two dates decide the paperwork on an older house. 1978: the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting rule covers pre-1978 housing, it is administered by EPA directly in Florida rather than through a state program, and window replacement and demolition are always covered. A good deal of Brandon was built after that date, which is genuinely good news for a lot of jobs here — but check the year rather than assuming it, because the older pockets predate the boom. The EPC asbestos trigger is the other one, and it is narrower than people expect: commercial structures, more than one single-family home at a time, and multi-residential buildings of more than four units, with 10 working days’ notice and the survey attached. An ordinary single house in Brandon being remodeled on its own is not inside it. Where the county line matters is the rulebook, not the price. A job in unincorporated Brandon and a job in Tampa across the line at Falkenburg Road are governed by different ordinances, different fees and different permit desks; our flat rate is the same either way. Background from the US Census Bureau, the US EPA, the EPC and Hillsborough County, plus our own garage and lanai cleanout guide and the 1970s suburb remodel debris guide.
Sand, karst and the weather that actually happens here
The first thing we ask about is the surface, not the slope. This county is flat, so grade almost never decides a placement. What decides it is what the ground does when it is wet. There is no frost requirement here at all — Hillsborough County’s own residential structural design criteria checklist lists wind speed, risk category, roof and floor loads, pressure coefficients and exposure category, and nothing about frost. The constraint runs the other way. The soil across most of this county is Myakka fine sand, designated Florida’s state soil in 1989 and unique to this state, which the USDA describes as “very poorly or poorly drained,” formed in sandy marine deposits, with a water table “at depths of less than 18 inches for 1 to 4 months duration in most years.” A loaded 20 yard container weighs several tons and puts all of it on four small contact points. On that soil, in the wet season, a lawn or an unpaved verge is not a load-bearing surface. The driveway is. Plywood goes under every wheel and under both rails on every placement, all year round, and the loading rule is load flat, load low. The rock under the sand is the second thing. Hillsborough sits on flat-lying Florida platform carbonate, thousands of feet thick, buried beneath those marine sands. It is karst, but nothing like karst in hill country: here it shows up as closed topographic depressions rather than caves in a hillside, and the triggers are as often human as geological — the state’s own reporting documents a 2010 pumping-related freeze-protection event in Plant City, in eastern Hillsborough, that set off subsidence. Florida law takes it seriously enough to separate sinkhole loss from catastrophic ground cover collapse at § 627.706, Fla. Stat. We will not quote you an incident count, because the Florida Geological Survey says its own subsidence database is voluntary and unverified, and we will not repeat the nickname the news uses for this part of the state, because no state agency uses it. What it means practically is that a heavily loaded container is a concentrated point load, and we would far rather set it on a driveway slab than on soft or made ground. The weather is milder in one direction and harder in another than outsiders expect. The forecast office for this county is the National Weather Service Tampa Bay Area office at Ruskin, inside our service area. The seasonal driver is not a snow load, it is the summer convective rainy season from June through September: an open container left uncovered through one afternoon storm takes on water, and water is weight you pay to haul. Tarp it, or ask us for a cover. Hurricanes matter, and the useful lesson here is an inland one. Compare the two storms the National Hurricane Center wrote up in 2024. Hurricane Helene made landfall about 150 miles away and still pushed 7.2 feet above MHHW at East Bay Tampa, with St. Petersburg breaking its 1985 record and 5 to 7 feet of inundation. Hurricane Milton came ashore just south of Tampa Bay as a Category 3 and gave the bay only 1 to 2 feet, because its winds blew the water back out. What that storm did deliver was record Hillsborough River crests, 20.40 inches of rain and 45 tornadoes. The closer storm did the less surge damage, and for an inland community like Brandon the hazard is rain, river and tornado rather than surge. It is worth knowing that the county’s lettered A through E zones map storm surge and not flooding, that the county states you can sit outside an evacuation zone and still be in a high flood-insurance zone, and that the zones were expanded for 2026 — so look yours up rather than assuming it, and we will not guess it for you. After a big rain the work is soaked drywall, carpet, insulation and ruined stored goods out of a garage or a lanai, and all of it is heavy for its volume, so it goes in a small box. Forecasts from the National Weather Service, storm reports from the National Hurricane Center, geology and water from Florida DEP and the Southwest Florida Water Management District, and zones from the Florida Division of Emergency Management; see our driveway protection guide and the hurricane and storm debris guide.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Brandon?
No. Every community listed on this page sits inside our standard service area and the flat rate is the same as it is in Brandon. Delivery, pickup, your rental window and disposal up to the agreed tonnage are all in the number we quote you on the phone.
How far do you actually go?
Across Hillsborough County and a good way past it. From the Parsons Ave yard, Brandon, Valrico, Seffner, Dover, Bloomingdale, Riverview and Mango are all short runs. South on US 301 and I-75 we cover Gibsonton, Apollo Beach, Ruskin, Sun City Center and Wimauma; east on SR 60 and I-4, Lithia, FishHawk, Thonotosassa and Plant City; west on the Selmon and SR 60 into Tampa, and north on I-75 to Temple Terrace. Inside the county, SR 60 (Brandon Blvd), Lumsden Road, Bloomingdale Avenue, US 301, I-75, I-4 and the Selmon Expressway carry most of our day. The flat rate is the same throughout. What crossing a line changes is not the price, it is the rulebook: whether you are in unincorporated county ground or in one of the three cities, whose permit desk you deal with, and who owns the pavement out front. We go further for multi-container jobs and contractor accounts. If your address is not on the list, call and ask, and if we cannot reach you we will usually know who can.
Can you deliver out to Cave Spring, Bonsack or Daleville?
Yes, with a conversation first. Out toward Lithia, Dover and Thonotosassa the constraint is the approach rather than the street: long sand or shell drives, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, low live oak limbs, and ground that carries a loaded box in April and will not in August. Where a house is on its own well and septic, tell us where the tank, the drain field and the well head are so the box does not go over any of them. One thing worth knowing before you plan a street placement out there: those are county roads in unincorporated Hillsborough, so the desk is county Development Services on (813) 272-5600 — not Public Works, and not a city, because there is no city out there to call. In Plant City the same placement runs through the city instead, and the county will not issue a permit for it. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Brandon do you cover?
All of it, and there is no boundary to argue about, because Brandon has no city limits — it is an unincorporated place, and where Brandon stops and Valrico, Seffner, Riverview or Bloomingdale starts is a matter of habit rather than law. Running from our Parsons Ave yard, SR 60 and Lumsden Road put the whole community inside fifteen minutes, with Bloomingdale Avenue and Bell Shoals Road covering the south side and Kings Avenue and Providence Road the middle. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone. A 1970s subdivision street with a short driveway and cars both sides is a different job from a wide apron on a newer lot, a shared driveway in a townhome row decides the size on its own, and if the only flat spot is grass we need to talk about the wet season before we promise you anything. Every box, city or county, goes down clear of the house, the eaves, the meter and the AC condenser, and every one gets plywood under the wheels and rails. Give us the address and we will have it sorted before the truck leaves.
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