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Skip Hire’s 7 Secrets to Success

Our research suggests that there are over 17 million containers rented in the UK each year for domestic use alone! That’s a lot of skips and if you’ve ever looked in the yellow pages you’ll see that there are a lot of skip companies to choose from with no real way of knowing what kind of service you’ll get first. appear!

If, like us, you have ever contracted a container, chances are you have had a good experience with a professional and authorized waste collector without problems or complaints.

Unfortunately, this is not always the case. If you called more than one company before hiring a container, you may have discovered that some of them:

– will not quote prices over the phone

– will not tell you what time you will be dropped off or picked up

– will only accept cash payments to the driver

You may even have had a bad experience where the driver refused to take your bin away without dumping some of the rubbish in your yard, demanded more money before taking it away, damaged your property by mishandling your wagon and the bin. ..

This guide is for you – it answers all the most common questions associated with container leasing so you know exactly what you’re getting into when you hire a container and understand the whys and wherefores involved in container leasing so you never have one. bad experience. …EVER!

1. How do I know which jump companies in the Yellow Pages are the good ones?

Unless you know the company personally, you can’t. Any fool with a wagon and a dumpster can get an ad designed and printed to entice you to call them, but mostly it’s a lottery not only in terms of prices and service, but also in terms of what actually happens to your waste, which is depressing. , few of us really think, or even care.

Hopping companies are not really regulated at the time of this writing. The good guys operate their own licensed waste transfer stations (regulated by the Environment Agency) and are members of the Waste Management Institute (a professional body that promotes education and raises standards in waste management).

The bad guys are just cowboys who often dump their waste and thus add to your council tax bill, because the council has to clean it up! (Flytipping now costs councils over £2.5 million a year! That’s our tax money!)
did you know “Every 35 seconds someone, somewhere is tipping in the UK”

2. Why do jumps cost so much money?

No one pretends that container rental is cheap, but think of the overhead involved:

Skip Wagon £35,000+

Skip £500/each for standardbuildersskip

Vehicle insurance £2000/year per vehicle

Third Party Liability £1250/year per vehicle

Employer Liability £1250/year per vehicle

Skip Wagon Driver £25,000/year

Fuel £20,000/year

Office Staff £18,000/year per member of staff

Landfill levies of £18 per tonne, increasing by £3 each year until 2010, where they will remain at £35 per tonne.

Recycling costs Purchase cost of crushers, trommels, weighbridges, collection stations, etc. – million pounds sterling

Soon it adds up, doesn’t it? Getting rid of waste is not a cheap business, but it has to go somewhere!

3. Why don’t you drop off and pick up my container when I ask?

This is not always the fault of the container company: too many people do not understand that hiring a container is not like hailing a taxi. Just think about what goes on in the average dump truck driver’s day – we’re talking about heavy hauling here, and a lot can go wrong in a pickup or delivery that will slow down the entire schedule for the day, like a customer placing toxic waste. in a container, overfill it, or the driver receives incorrect delivery details from a customer.

We publish a national trade magazine for the industry called “The Skip” (www.theskip.net) and through it we are pushing for more container companies to incorporate new technology such as vehicle tracking to improve delivery schedules and The acceptance of this type of improvement is increasing.

In the meantime, you have to be patient waiting for your jump because it is rarely deliberately poor customer service.

4. Why don’t they remove the dumpster if the trash is right over the fill line?

It’s not that the dump truck driver is unreasonable, it’s the law! They are legally bound not to carry unsafe cargo and sadly many people order smaller containers than they need to save a few pounds. Our advice: order a larger container than you think you need because you will always fill it up, just don’t go overboard!

5. What actually happens to my garbage when it is taken away?

If you’re not asking this question, you should. Landfill space in the UK is running out fast. It is estimated that by 2010 there will be virtually no landfill space left in Britain and the government is increasing the landfill levy that waste management companies have to pay each year. The best container companies are investing heavily in new plants and technology to the point where many of them are recycling over 90%! Using these companies will eventually lower prices and greatly increase recycling rates, something we should all be interested in.

The bottom line is that the cheaper the container, the less likely the waste is to be managed responsibly.

6. Why won’t my local container company accept a credit card or tell me prices over the phone?

This is mainly a historical thing. Most container rental companies have evolved over the last 25 years from construction and demolition companies, and the traditional way of doing business is by invoice or cash. Also, many companies still charge for waste removal by the ton and don’t always quote an exact price because they don’t know exactly how much it will cost to dispose of it until it arrives.

7. Why am I being quoted so many different prices for the same service from different companies?

The answer is in the question: you don’t get the same service from different companies! You get different levels of service from different companies. Most of the time, you get what you pay for. After you’ve had a bad experience, you’ll wonder if it was really worth saving £20 by choosing the cheapest you could find.

In addition, there are other factors, such as the prices of jump permits. All container companies are supposed to tell you that you need a permit if the container is going to be on a public road. These permits are provided by the local council; sometimes the company by law has to solve it for you, sometimes you have to go directly to the town hall.

The variations in the price of jump permits across the UK are staggering: some councils charge nothing and issue them the same day, others charge £70 and make you wait weeks before issuing them.

At the end…

Up to you. You now know just about everything you need to make an informed decision about which container rental company to use.

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