Locally Owned Dumpster Rental in Tacoma Since 2012

Grant Sivertsen grew up in the North End and went to work for a Pierce County roofing crew out of high school. He spent most of his twenties tearing off moss-eaten composition on shaded Craftsman roofs, watching the same problem repeat itself. The container never came when it was supposed to. When it did, the invoice had grown. And nobody would tell a homeowner that three days of rain on an open container had just added a ton to their load — they simply billed the overage afterwards and let the customer wear it.

In 2012 he bought a used roll-off truck and four cans, parked them on 1820 Stewart St, and started answering the phone himself. The first job was a tear-off in Fircrest for a homeowner whose previous hauler had cancelled twice while the crew stood on the roof in the rain waiting. She still calls us, and she still tells the story.

Word moved the way it does in a town this size — through contractors, through neighbours, through the guy at the counter who mentions that the dumpster people actually showed up. We added trucks as the calls came in rather than borrowing against volume we did not have yet. 14 years on we run a small fleet, we still dispatch out of Tacoma, 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 a reputation 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 North Slope alleys have a sagging service drop, which Graham gravel drives a loaded truck cannot commit to in February, which bluff streets are simply out of the question, and roughly what a 1926 Craftsman produces when you take the basement back to the studs. It means that when the first dry stretch arrives and every roofer in Pierce County wants a box in the same week, our trucks are already here.

We have seen the mistakes so you do not have to

The three that cost people the most money, in order: ordering by volume when the debris is heavy, forgetting that a second layer of shingles doubles the tonnage, and putting a container on a driveway poured three weeks ago. Every one of those is avoidable with one honest conversation before delivery.

We have hauled out of Craftsman bungalows taken back to the studs, moss-eaten roofs by the street-full in the first dry week of summer, restaurant fit-outs on Sixth Avenue and in the Proctor District, warehouses on the Fife tideflats, back fences swallowed by forty feet of blackberry, garages packed with kayaks and ski gear and crab pots, PCS moves running against a hard base deadline, and estate clear-outs in houses one family had held since the war. Every one of those loads behaves differently at the scale house, and knowing that in advance is most of the job.

Credentials and cover

• Licensed to haul solid waste in Washington
• Full commercial general liability and auto cover — certificates available on request for GCs and property managers
• Workers’ compensation cover for every driver on the road
• Material taken only to permitted, licensed transfer and disposal facilities
• Compliance with Washington landfill disposal bans on every load

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