Every bin size carries a tonnage that rises with size
A 6 yard includes about a tonne, a 10 or 14 yard about a tonne and a half, a 15 or 20 yard two tonnes, and a 30 or 40 yard three. Past whatever your bin carries, the rate is $120 a tonne, billed off the scale ticket rather than estimated.
The allowance is a disposal cost passed through, not a penalty. The transfer station weighs the truck in and out, and the difference is your load. You get that ticket with the invoice, so the arithmetic is checkable rather than a number we assert.
What pushes a bin over is nearly always material rather than volume. A load with concrete, soil, plaster, tile or wet material through it weighs several times what furniture does. Heavy debris rules covers the fix, and bin sizes lists the tonnage per size.
1.5 t10 to 14 yd
2 t20 yd
3 t30 to 40 yd
Staying Under
Four ways to keep a bin inside its weight allowance
Separate the fill
Concrete, brick and soil in their own small bin at the inert rate.
Keep it dry
Water adds real weight. Tarp the bin if heavy rain is forecast.
Size down on heavy
A small bin twice costs less than one big bin well over its tonnage.
Level with the rail
Overfilling is not a weight problem, it stops the load being hauled at all.
The Fill Line
The fill line is a legal limit, not a guideline
A load has to be tarped before it can be driven, and a bin heaped above the top rail cannot be tarped. So an overfilled bin is not charged extra, it is simply not collected, and the truck has made the trip for nothing.
That is when a trip charge appears, and it is the one fee people find hardest to accept because nothing was actually taken away. Levelling the load before collection day avoids it entirely.
The practical version: nothing protruding above the top edge anywhere along the bin, and heavy material spread across the floor rather than mounded in the middle. Avoiding extra fees covers the trip charge and the others, and delivery and pickup what else has to be clear.
About a tonne on a 6 yard, one and a half on a 10 or 14, two on a 15 or 20, and three on a 30 or 40. Every quote states the figure for your bin.
$120 a tonne, billed off the transfer station scale ticket, which comes attached to your invoice so you can check it.
Almost always because of heavy material mixed through it: concrete, tile, plaster, soil or anything that has been rained on.
It cannot be collected. The load has to be tarped to be driven, and a heaped bin cannot be tarped, so the truck leaves and a trip charge applies.
The allowance is set by the size, but you can take a smaller bin at the fill rate for heavy material, which is nearly always cheaper than paying overage.
Customer reviews
What Windsor customers say about weight and overage
