Locally Owned Dumpster Rental in Mesa Since 2013

Ruben Salazar grew up here, in a 1970s block ranch off Brown Road that his grandparents bought when Mesa still ran out to citrus groves and farm ground, and went to work for a Mesa remodelling crew out of high school. He spent most of his twenties in garages and attics, pulling tile roofs off in June, breaking out rock yards and old flatwork, and hauling patio covers and Arizona room build-outs from Dobson Ranch out to Apache Junction, 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 a rock yard runs 1.3 to 1.5 tons a cubic yard, or that concrete tile is three to four times the weight of shingle for the same roof, so the can that sounded generous on the phone is at legal weight while it still looks half full, and then it sits in the driveway too heavy to move.

In 2013 he and his brother Marco bought a used roll-off truck and four cans, parked them on 1913 N Rosemont just off McKellips Road in north-east Mesa, and started answering the phone themselves. Ruben still takes most of the calls and Marco runs the yard and drives, and between them they hold the dispatch board. The first job was a tile tear-off off Recker Road for a homeowner whose previous hauler had cancelled 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 neighbours, through the guy at the supply counter who mentions that the dumpster people actually showed up. Then two things settled it: the monsoon, when one microburst puts a year of roof, patio cover and tree work on the books in an afternoon and every crew in the East Valley needs cans in the same fortnight; and the winter calendar, when snowbirds head north in March and April, estates change hands in the 55-plus resorts, and whole park model rows turn over at once. 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 out of Mesa, 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 blocks in Dreamland Villa, Velda Rose and Mesa Grande have original single-car drives too narrow to take a 30 and palm fronds too low for the arm, which houses on the Lehi and downtown grid have no driveway at all, which older lots are still served off the back alley, which dirt lanes out toward Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley a loaded truck should not commit to for a day or two after a monsoon cell, which Pinal County acreage needs the septic tank, drain field and well head flagged before we pull in, which HOA communities hold you to driveway-only placement and a container day limit, and roughly what a 1,900 square foot block ranch with a rock yard, a tile roof and a packed Arizona room produces when it finally gets cleared out. It means that when a microburst comes across the East Valley and half the valley 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 tile, landscape rock and decomposed granite, caliche, grouted block and pool gunite all hit payload while the box still looks half empty; forgetting that a tile roof is three to four times the weight of a shingle roof over the same area, so a tear-off that reads like a 20 is really a weight job; forgetting that with nothing under the floor of the house the entire cleanout has to come out of the garage, attic, Arizona room, carport and shed, which is a different shape of load from the one a national sizing guide assumes; and heaping a load proud of the rails so it cannot be tarped before a monsoon gust front scatters half of it down the street. Every one of those is avoidable with one honest conversation before delivery.

We have cleared whole streets of microburst damage in a single week, tile tear-offs off the 1990s subdivisions out east and shake-to-tile conversions off the 1970s stock in Dobson Ranch, full gut jobs where stucco and lath, tile and grouted block came out by weight rather than volume, rock yards stripped back to bare dirt and caliche and relaid, pool demolitions with gunite, deck concrete and coping to move, block property walls taken down, flash flood and dust storm cleanup after monsoon cells, patio cover and carport tear-offs where the posts came up with their footings still attached, new construction and builder punch-out cans out through Eastmark, Cadence and south-east Mesa toward Gateway, park model and 55-plus unit turnovers through Leisure World, Sunland Village, Apache Wells and Venture Out inside the March and April departure window, restaurant and retail fit-outs along Main Street, Power Road and around Superstition Springs, shops, RV covers and equipment sheds emptied out on acreage in Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley, drives and aprons broken out and replaced, palm frond, mesquite, olive and citrus wood run as clean separate loads after storms, and garages, attics, Arizona rooms, carports and side-yard sheds packed with two decades of bikes, tools and holiday boxes. 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 Arizona
• 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 Arizona disposal rules and Maricopa County air quality and dust rules, with clean green waste kept as a separate load on every job

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