Stand back and photograph the whole pile with something familiar in frame - a door, a car. We size it from that.
Get a Free QuoteMost jobs we do are this one. Something has accumulated - in a spare room, along the side of the garage, at the end of the driveway - and getting rid of it needs a truck, two people and an afternoon that nobody has. We quote by volume from a photograph, drive out, load it and sweep the space before we go.
Volume means how much of the truck bed your load takes up, and it is the honest way to price this. Hourly billing punishes you when access is awkward. Per-item pricing turns into an argument about what counts as an item. A quarter of a truck is a quarter of a truck whether it is one broken hot tub or forty bags of clothes.
| Job | Typical price |
|---|---|
| Single item (couch, mattress, fridge) | $85 - $140 |
| Quarter truckload | $180 - $260 |
| Half truckload | $300 - $420 |
| Three-quarter load | $430 - $580 |
| Full truckload | $550 - $750 |
Serving Great Falls, Black Eagle and Fort Benton.
The pattern here is detached-garage storage. A great deal of Great Falls housing is mid-century single-story with a separate garage or a carport out back, and that building is where things go when they stop being used but nobody is ready to decide about them. Ten or twenty years later somebody is selling the house, or a knee gives out, and the decision arrives all at once.
The second pattern is Malmstrom. Air Force households rotate through on orders, and a PCS move has a hard date attached. What does not fit in the shipment has to go, usually inside a week, and usually including furniture that was bought here and is not worth moving. Those jobs are quick, predictable and we schedule a lot of them in the summer rotation window.
The third is simply that the city landfill is close and cheap, which is why our prices look the way they do. We are not absorbing a forty-mile round trip to a transfer station, so we do not have to price like it.
No. Weight pricing is where people get caught out, because a load of soaked carpet or roofing shingles weighs several times what it looks like. We price by the space it takes in the truck, which you can see in your own photograph.
Yes, and single-item pickups are a real part of what we do. It costs $85 to $140 depending on what it is and whether it is at the curb or up a flight of stairs.
We tell you on the spot what the new number would be and you decide. What we do not do is load it first and hand you a bigger invoice afterwards.
Photo in, price back, usually within the hour.