Month: November 2014

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Downsizing or Moving? Use this Checklist

Posted on | by chad

Moving can be stressful. Whether it’s cross-town or cross-country, to a small apartment or a large home, tackling the organizing, packing, discarding, and cleaning is a major challenge.

We understand that it can also be very difficult to move away from the family or friends you developed in your community. Starting a life in a new area is not easy. We are here to help you in the best way that we know how! Our team of professionals will help you remove, haul, and dispose of your unwanted items quickly and affordably.

This Checklist offers a handy guide to save time, energy and sleepless nights. Use it to help you organize your move so that it can progress as smoothly as possible:

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Our Junk Removal Trucks: Is bigger actually better?

Posted on | by chad

If you live in the DC Metro area, you’ve probably seen our big red trucks with the white 123JUNK logo written across the side of them. They’re hard to miss. Our trucks are some of the largest and best in the industry, and with that, they are also some of the more costly trucks to purchase and maintain. Why did we go that big on our trucks? Is a bigger truck necessarily better? What does that mean in terms of the price you pay for our services?

In junk removal, the bigger the truck, the more cost effective it is to schedule a pickup. For us and for any other junk removal service in the DMV, it costs money just to send the crew out to a property, even before the job begins. There are costs for fuel, labor, and disposal fees, plus all the soft costs like insurance, office payroll and marketing. This is why companies have minimums. 

If we can put more into the bed of our truck before unloading doantions, recycling and then disposing of the trash, its easier for us to justify our costs, and we end up charging less per cubic foot for the overall pickup. That means we can pass savings onto you, and who doesn’t like to save money!

With trucks that are 21 cubic yards, we have the largest standardized fleet in our market. Our trucks are over 30% larger than most of our national competitors. To learn more about our pricing visit our How we Price page.