Down in the Dumpster – Is Your Trash Hauler Contract Getting You Down?

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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Having your commercial trash hauled away shouldn’t be that hard.  You put out a request for bids, you choose the hauling company that you feel will get the job done for the right price.  You sign a contract for a year.  What could be simpler, right?  For many business owners, this is the case.  However, for others, once the bloom is off the rose, they come to find that the only thing that smells worse than their trash is the way their hauler treats them.  To keep you from getting down in the dumpster, this week I thought I’d cover the top-10 complaints that business owners have when it comes to dealing with trash haulers, as well as what they can do about it.

The Trouble with Trash

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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Nobody likes trash.  It’s messy.  It’s smelly.  It can also be quite expensive to deal with if you own a business that produces it in quantity.  If you’re lucky, your landlord provides a dumpster and pays to have the trash hauled away.  If not, then the onus is on you to deal with who’s going to haul away your trash for you.  The blog below will explain some of the factors that you need to be aware if you’re forced to take out the trash.