Roll-Off Dumpster Rental in Brandon

A roll-off is the open-top container that arrives on a truck, slides off the rails onto your driveway and gets winched back up when it is full. We run them from 10 to 40 yards out of the yard on S Parsons Ave. The 10 is the weight box for anything dense. The 15 covers one room or one garage. The 20 is the Brandon default and the one we deliver most, because the local job is a whole-house declutter or a multi-room remodel in a house that has not been emptied since it was built. The 30 handles a large remodel or a full estate cleanout. The 40 is for high-volume light material and it needs the most room on the property. Sizing is a materials question rather than a room-count question, so describe the pile when you call and we will tell you what it wants. Dimensions are on the container sizes page.

Where a roll-off can legally stand is the question that separates a local hauler from a phone number, and in Brandon it is unusually tangled. This town has four road owners. SR 60 is a state road, signed locally as Brandon Boulevard from I-75 until Mount Carmel Road, and that is FDOT ground. The Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, SR 618, is owned and operated by the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority. I-75 and I-4 are interstates. Everything else — Lumsden Road, Bloomingdale Avenue, Parsons Avenue and every neighborhood street off them — is Hillsborough County. Four agencies inside one unincorporated town of 114,626 people. A container that would be a simple driveway set on one street becomes a right-of-way conversation two blocks away, and the answer depends entirely on who owns the pavement in front of the house.

The county desk is the one people get wrong. Hillsborough County issues a Right of Way Management Permit for work in the county right-of-way, and it is issued by Development Services on (813) 272-5600, not by Public Works, which is the intuitive guess and the wrong one. The published base application fee at the time of writing is $50, with additional charges under the county’s right-of-way fee schedule, and projects that require traffic interruptions also need a separate Temporary Traffic Control permit. The same county page is the clearest primary source there is on Brandon’s jurisdiction, because it states that permits “are not issued for projects in Tampa, Plant City, or Temple Terrace municipalities.” Three incorporated cities in the whole county, and county jurisdiction for all the rest. There is no City of Brandon permit office to call, because there is no City of Brandon.

So what does that mean for your driveway? 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, and you should check with Development Services on (813) 272-5600 before the truck comes. We are deliberately not telling you that a street set definitely does or definitely does not need a permit, because the county’s published material does not name dumpsters or roll-off containers in the right-of-way either way. What it does say is that the permit covers all other work or activity in county right-of-way, which a container in a swale plausibly is. The honest answer is a phone call to a desk we can name. Our permit guide goes through it properly.

The set itself is a ground question. Brandon lots are flat, which takes away the problem hill markets spend their time on, and replaces it with sand. Florida’s state soil, Myakka fine sand, is described by USDA NRCS as very poorly or poorly drained, formed in sandy marine deposits, with a water table at depths of less than 18 inches for one to four months in most years. A loaded 20 yard is several tons on four small wheels. On wet sand it will sink, and the swale beside your driveway is the wettest ground on the lot. So the answer is concrete rather than grass, plywood under the wheels and rails on every placement, and a walked approach before anything comes off the truck. We want about 60 feet of straight run, roughly ten and a half feet of width and 20 feet or more of overhead clearance for the hoist.

What A Roll-Off Is Used For Here

Which Roll-Off Size To Order

Size by material first and volume second. A 10 yard is the weight box: concrete, block, tile, roof tile and anything that has been standing in the rain. It reaches a lawful payload while it still looks half full, which is correct rather than disappointing. A 15 yard is the single-job box: one bathroom, one kitchen, one garage. A 20 yard is the Brandon default and the one to order when you are not sure, because the typical local job is a mixed household load that runs to volume rather than weight. A 30 yard is a whole house going out or a large remodel. A 40 yard is airy bulk only and it needs real room to place. If the load has both dense and light material in it, two boxes usually beats one, because the county charges twice the posted rate on a mixed load. Full dimensions are on the container sizes page, or call the yard and describe the pile.

Delivery, Ground Conditions And Right-Of-Way

Every set starts with a walked approach. We want roughly 60 feet of straight run for the truck to line up and back, about ten and a half feet of working width, and 20 feet or more of overhead clearance for the hoist. In Brandon the overhead problem is usually a live oak limb or the service drop rather than a slope, because the lots are flat. What we care about most is the surface. Myakka fine sand is very poorly to poorly drained with a water table under 18 inches for one to four months in most years, so a lawn or an unpaved verge in the wet season will not carry a loaded container. Concrete, not grass. Plywood under the wheels and the rails on every placement, doubled under a heavy load, and photographs of the approach on arrival. Then the road: if any part of the box will sit in the street or the county swale, that is county right-of-way and the desk is Hillsborough County Development Services on (813) 272-5600, with a separate Temporary Traffic Control permit where traffic has to be interrupted. On SR 60 it is FDOT, and on the Selmon it is the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority. Tell us the address and we will tell you which.