Real numbers from a local hauler — updated for 2026. No "call for pricing" runaround.
If you only remember one thing from this guide, make it this: in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, a legitimate junk removal company will charge somewhere between about a hundred dollars for a couple of small items and roughly seven hundred for an entire truckload. Where your job falls in that spread depends almost entirely on one variable — how much room your stuff takes up in the truck. Here is our actual 2026 rate card, the same one we quote from every day:
| Load Size | Typical Price | What That Looks Like |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum | $100–$150 | A recliner and a few boxes; one appliance |
| Quarter load | $175–$250 | A bedroom set; a corner of a garage |
| Half load | $325–$400 | One full room; a mid-size storage unit |
| 3/4 load | $400–$550 | A packed two-car garage |
| Full load | $550–$700 | A whole-house or estate clearout trip |
Single bulky items — a sofa, a washer, a mattress — usually fall in the minimum-load range, and we can often pair two or three items together so you get more hauled for the same trip charge. Every figure above includes labor, loading, disposal fees, and cleanup. There is no fuel surcharge and no trip fee anywhere in our 15-city service area.
Our costs scale with truck space, and honest pricing should follow the same logic. A trailer holds a fixed number of cubic yards; when it fills, we drive to the transfer station, pay disposal by weight, and come back. Your quote is essentially a share of that trip. Hourly pricing, by contrast, punishes you for things outside your control — a slow elevator, an awkward staircase, afternoon traffic on I-20 — and quietly rewards a crew for dragging its feet. Volume pricing means a fast crew and a slow crew cost you exactly the same.
It is also why photo quotes work so well. Text us a picture of the pile and we can judge its cubic footage within a load-size bracket almost immediately — which is how we give firm numbers over the phone while some competitors insist on an in-person "free estimate" visit that is really a sales appointment.
1. Density. Transfer stations weigh our trailer on the way in and on the way out. A load of concrete chunks, shingles, or rain-soaked lumber can weigh five times what the same volume of sofas weighs, and that difference shows up in disposal fees — so heavy-material jobs price above the standard bracket.
2. Where the items sit. Curbside pickups are the cheapest version of any job. Third-floor walkups, attics, and backyards behind narrow gates take more crew time. We do not charge a per-stair fee, but access is part of how we size an estimate.
3. Regulated items. Refrigerators and AC units contain refrigerant that must be recovered by certified technicians before disposal — a federal requirement, not a company policy. Tires, certain electronics, and some chemicals also carry special handling costs in Texas.
4. Sorting time. "Take everything" is quick. "Take this pile, keep that pile, and let me check these boxes as you go" is a different kind of job — common in estate situations, and worth doing right. Jobs that involve real sorting get walked and quoted in person.
Renting a dumpster typically runs several hundred dollars for a week in the DFW market — and then you do every bit of the loading yourself, your HOA may have opinions about it sitting in the driveway, and overweight fees are a common piece of fine print. Dumpsters win for multi-week renovation projects; for a one-day clearout, a crew that loads for you usually costs the same or less.
Hauling it yourself looks free until you price it out: a truck or trailer rental, fuel across the Metroplex, landfill gate fees (most stations charge by weight with a minimum), and the Saturday you will never get back — with a sore back as a parting gift. For anything bigger than a single pickup-truck run, DIY rarely beats a minimum-load charge by much.
National franchises run the same volume model we do, but their rates carry franchise royalties and national advertising budgets. Quote us against any of them — it is the quickest way to see what local overhead looks like next to corporate overhead.
Never expected, always appreciated. If the crew crushed a brutal job in July heat, a tip or a cold Gatorade lands about the same. A Google review helps us more than either.
Our rates hold steady year-round, but scheduling is looser outside the spring-cleaning rush and the end-of-month moving crunch. Mid-week, mid-month bookings get the most flexible slots.
Usually because one of them is quoting a teaser rate that grows once the truck is loaded. Ask any company two questions: "Is that the final number?" and "What is included?" Our answer is simple — the quote covers labor, hauling, disposal, and cleanup, and it does not change unless you add items.
No rush surcharge, ever. If there is room on the schedule, same-day costs the same as next week.