Hauling for dirt, concrete and debris

What we haul

Hauling is the heavy side of the business. Where junk removal is couches and boxes, hauling is material that is measured by the load:

Dirt and rock: soil from excavation, grading or a trench, rock and gravel, and old landscaping.

Concrete and asphalt: broken slabs, walkways, driveways and block walls, which are recycled separately from trash when they are clean.

Green waste: branches, brush, palm fronds, stumps and the piles a land clearing or brush clearing job leaves behind.

Construction and demolition debris: lumber, drywall, roofing, tile and the mixed loads a remodel or teardown makes. More on our debris removal page.

The trucks, trailers and machines

Heavy hauling is mostly a question of having the right equipment there. Our photos show the setup we bring: a dump truck, dump trailers behind pickups, orange Diamond C equipment trailers, a Bobcat E45 mini excavator and a Bobcat T770 track loader.

The machine loads the truck right where the pile is, so nobody shovels dirt into a wheelbarrow for a day. On a tight lot or a side yard, the mini excavator fits where a bigger machine can’t, and the loader moves material across the property to where the truck can reach it.

For a job that fills over a few days, a roll-off container can be dropped off and picked up full. That is on our dumpster rental page.

Why weight matters more than size

A load of dirt or concrete weighs many times more than the same pile of furniture. Trucks and trailers have weight limits, and dumps and recycling yards charge heavy material differently from trash, so a small pile of broken concrete can cost more to haul than a big pile of boxes.

Keeping loads clean helps. Clean concrete, clean dirt and green waste each have their own recycling yards, and mixing them with trash means the whole load is treated as trash. We sort as we load when the job allows it.

In unincorporated Ventura County, construction and demolition material from a permitted project must go to a sorting facility, an authorized hauler or be reused on site, under county Ordinance 4590. The county lists three sorting facilities: Del Norte in Oxnard, Gold Coast in Ventura and the Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center (Ventura County C&D recycling). Our guide to the dumps and recycling yards in Ventura County covers each one.