2026 Junk Removal Price Book

Junk removal pricing lives and dies on truck volume. This book gives you fraction-of-truck baselines for a standard 15-yard box truck, single-item pricing, stairs and long-carry surcharges, and a disposal-cost worksheet so every load clears margin.

What's inside

Fraction-of-truck baselines: minimum pickup through full truck
Single-item rates: mattresses, appliances, hot tubs, pianos, e-waste
Surcharges: stairs, long carry, heavy material bedloads, same-day
Disposal-cost worksheet: tipping fees, fuel, labor, overhead
Donation and recycling routing to cut landfill cost
Minimum charges for residential, curbside, and commercial cleanouts

Quick questions

How do I quote a load I have not seen?

Quote the fraction the load will fill after compaction, not how it looks in the garage. The book includes the crew calibration rule: teams under-call by one fraction on average.

How do I handle heavy material like concrete or dirt?

Never on standard fractions. Price heavy material per bedload (a 1/8-truck equivalent) so tipping-fee weight does not erase the job's margin.

How operators use this

Build a real price book

Use the worksheets to set base rates, minimum charges, and add-on pricing so every quote follows the same system.

Find the jobs that lose money

The margin-per-crew-hour math is designed to show which job types quietly underperform, so you can reprice or drop them.

Put it on every truck

Print the checklists and give one to each crew so the same standards apply on every job.