Will a dumpster fit in my driveway?

Almost always, yes. Here are the actual numbers so you can check it yourself before you call.

The real footprint of each bin

• 10 yard: 10 feet long, 7 feet wide, 4 feet high
• 15 yard: 11 feet long, 8 feet wide, 4.5 feet high
• 20 yard: 11 feet long, 8 feet wide, 6 feet high

A standard residential parking space is about 9 feet wide and 18 feet long. Our largest bin is 11 feet long and 8 feet wide, so even the 20 yard sits inside the outline of a single parking space with roughly 7 feet left over behind it. On a two car driveway you keep a car on the driveway the whole time the bin is there.

That is the entire reason we run this size. Most companies deliver a 22 foot commercial roll-off to a house because that is the only truck they own. It will not fit alongside your car, and it was never designed to sit on residential concrete.

Measure these three things

1. Width at the narrowest point. Not the apron at the street. The narrowest spot the truck actually has to pass. We want about 10 feet of clear width to drive through and set the bin down straight.
2. Length of clear, flat driveway. Twelve feet puts the bin down with room to swing the back doors open. Less than that and we can usually still place it, but tell us on the call so the driver is not finding out in your driveway.
3. Overhead clearance. This is the one people forget, and it is the one that cancels deliveries. The truck needs roughly 23 feet of vertical clearance to lift the bin off and set it down. Low tree limbs, the power service drop to the house, and carports are the three things that stop us. Branches we can often work around. A carport or a second story overhang we cannot.

If the driveway is on a slope

Most of our territory is hills. Driveways in Douglasville, Marietta and Decatur are rarely flat, and a bin on a slope is exactly where things go wrong with other companies. We put four 2×6 boards under the rollers with stops, so the bin cannot roll, plus boards under the front rails. Nothing steel sits on your concrete, so no gouges from the rollers or rails and no rust stains left behind. Not plywood, which flexes and cracks under a loaded bin. That is what 100% Driveway Protection means in practice, and it is standard on every delivery rather than an upsell.

If the grade is steep enough that we would not be comfortable, we will say so on the phone and talk through placing it at the top of the drive or on the flat near the street instead.

If it genuinely will not fit

It happens. Usually a narrow older in-town lot, a shared drive, or a hard turn off the street. Options, in the order we would suggest them:

• Put it in the street in front of the house. In unincorporated county areas this is often fine. Inside city limits it normally needs a right of way permit, and that is the homeowner to pull. Ask us and we will tell you what we have run into on your street.
• Take the 10 yard instead of the 15 or 20 and schedule a swap partway through. Two smaller pulls beat one bin you cannot get around.
• Place it on grass or dirt beside the drive. We can do that when the ground is firm and dry. After a few days of rain we will not, because a loaded bin on soft ground is how a yard gets torn up.

The fastest way to find out

Call and describe the driveway. Thirty seconds on the phone beats measuring, and we can quote it and put it on the schedule in the same conversation.

Related: Will my HOA allow a dumpster in my driveway? and bin sizes and rates.