Roll-Off Dumpster Profit & Pricing Calculator

How It Works

1. Pick the calculator

   Use Quick Pull for one user-entered job, Fleet Review for monthly utilization and fixed-cost prompts, or Price-Floor for cost-stack review by size. None of the screens set a quote or approve a business decision.

2. Quick screen: enter the pull assumptions

   Pick the dumpster size, then replace the default quote, included tons, actual tons, overage fee, disposal type, tipping fee, route, MPG, fuel price, job time, loaded labor rate, and per-pull cost with current records.

3. Fleet screen: enter records and fixed costs

   Enter pulls per can per week, active dumpster count, average revenue and variable cost, monthly fixed costs, and capital prompts from bookkeeping and equipment records.

4. Price-floor screen: enter local cost stack

   Enter per-pull fuel, labor, wear, fixed-cost share, tipping fee, target margin, and expected tons by size. Treat local price-floor output as a review prompt only.

5. Read the warnings

   Review loss, disposal-share, fuel-share, utilization, contribution, and fixed-cost flags alongside source gaps for facility fees, contracts, DOT/FMCSA, safety, tax, and accounting.

6. Export for review

   PDF and CSV exports carry the entered assumptions, output prompts, warnings, source gaps, and source pointers for internal review before quoting, dispatch, financing, or contract use.

Built For

• Operator screening one pull against current disposal, route, labor, and overage assumptions
• Fleet manager comparing entered monthly activity against fixed-cost prompts
• New entrant listing source gaps before relying on can count or truck-capital assumptions
• Estimator documenting local price-floor math before market and contract review
• Partner or lender reviewing assumptions alongside records and source warnings
• Dispatcher identifying disposal, route, DOT/FMCSA, insurance, and safety questions before dispatch

Features & Capabilities

Three Screens

Quick Pull, Fleet Review, and Price-Floor modes share one calculation/report/PDF path and keep source gaps visible. They organize entered assumptions; they do not set quotes, approve contracts, or validate market acceptance.

Five Dumpster Size Defaults

10, 15, 20, 30, and 40 yard rows load placeholder rental, included-ton, and actual-ton values. Replace defaults with local quotes, scale tickets, and disposal records before relying on any result.

Disposal Type Prompt

MSW, C&D, inert, and mixed/unknown labels keep the facility-fee question visible. Local landfill, transfer-station, recycling, C&D, inert, special-item, and prohibited-material rules control the real cost and acceptance.

Overweight Math Prompt

The calculator shows entered over-included tons times entered overage fee and compares that revenue with the entered tipping cost. Written customer terms, scale tickets, facility policy, and local law control billing.

Fleet Math Prompt

Entered pulls, active containers, fixed costs, variable costs, and capital prompts roll into monthly rows. Bookkeeping records, depreciation, taxes, financing, insurance, demand, dispatch, and accounting treatment remain source gaps.

Price-Floor Rows by Size

The price-floor table divides the entered cost stack by the entered target margin and adds lower/upper review prompts. It is cost-plus arithmetic only, not market pricing or a quote recommendation.

Charts and Warnings

Quick mode shows cost share and margin prompts; fleet mode shows a utilization prompt. Warning text covers loss, disposal share, fuel share, utilization, contribution, source gaps, and review boundaries.

PDF and CSV Export

Exports include entered assumptions, output prompts, warnings, residual gaps, and source pointers for internal review. They are not accounting, tax, legal, insurance, DOT/FMCSA, waste-hauler, or safety records.

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Frequently Asked Questions