Dumpster Rental in Smyer, TX

Roll-off containers for Smyer homes and jobsites

Smyer is a very small Hockley County town on the Levelland highway west of Lubbock, out where Highway 114 crosses FM 168, and it is around forty-five minutes from our yard. A few hundred people, a school that the whole community turns out for, an elevator, a gin and cotton ground running to the horizon in every direction. The housing is what you would expect: modest frame and brick from the 1940s through the 1970s on wide lots, a handful of newer builds, and acreage places and working farmsteads out on the section roads. We are here for the same reasons we are in every small town on the South Plains — hail roofs from March into June, houses being cleared when they change hands or an estate is settled, and shop, shed and machinery cleanouts out on the farms, which is where most of the tonnage actually comes from.

What we know about working in Smyer

In a town this size almost every job is either a roof or an accumulation, and both are predictable. Roofs come in waves after a hail cell and the whole region books at once, so early calls get containers. Accumulations are the opposite — twenty or thirty years of a shop, a shed and a garage, all of it dense, and the load is always bigger and heavier than the walk-through suggested. We size for weight on farm material and swap rather than send an oversized box. Access is caliche, which is fine dry and poor for several days after real rain. Septic and well need flagging on rural addresses. And with nothing to break the wind out here, anything light in a container has to be buried under something heavy and kept below the rails.

• CountyHockley County
• Distance from our yard30 miles west of our Private Road 7325 yard
• Main routesState Highway 114, the Levelland Highway
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

West out Highway 114 from the Loop, about forty-five minutes from our yard, and it is open road the whole way. Nothing complicated about the approach into town. On rural addresses the questions are the usual ones — gate width, cattle guard, turnaround room and how recently the caliche has had rain on it. Because it is a longer run, a day of notice lets us group it with other Hockley County work and hold a tighter window for you.

Routes we run: State Highway 114, the Levelland Highway, FM 168, FM 1585, Loop 289.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Smyer

On a private driveway in Smyer you generally do not need a municipal permit. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter and normally requires approval — from the borough or township where the road is locally maintained, or from TxDOT where it is a state route. Every municipality in Hockley County runs its own form and its own lead time, and older streets here often have no off-street parking at all, so plan the permit before you plan the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and TCEQ publishes the Covered Device Recycling Act rules and the other statewide disposal restrictions that apply to every load we haul out of Smyer. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by Lubbock County.

Sizes we deliver to Smyer