Frequently asked questions

Ask Robert about the size: call or text (909) 284-4597.

Not sure it fits your job? Text Robert a photo. Show Robert the pile and the spot where the dumpster would sit, and he'll tell you whether it works.

Robert brings the dumpster on a trailer behind his pickup and sets it on your driveway or property. When your rental is up, he picks it up and hauls the load away to be dumped and weighed.

Tell us about tight turns, steep grades, low branches or wires when you book, or text a photo of the spot to (909) 284-4597.

We haven't published a weight limit. Here is what we can tell you: disposal is billed by weight after the load is dumped, at 6 to 9 cents per pound, so a heavy load costs more to dispose of than a light one.

If you plan to load dirt, rock, concrete, roofing or other heavy debris, tell us when you book so we can plan the load with you.

Cabin, garage and home cleanouts, remodel and roofing debris, brush and defensible-space clearing, construction debris, moving, and storm cleanup. The project guides on this site cover each one.

Not sure it fits your job? Text Robert a photo. Send it to (909) 284-4597 with your town and dates.

The booking calendar shows each day as open or booked. Pick a delivery day and your town on the booking page to see which days are open, or call or text (909) 284-4597. A date is yours once Robert confirms it with you by call or text.

$250 flat per rental. That includes 24 hours with the dumpster, and each extra day is $15.

Disposal is billed separately, by weight, after the load is dumped: 6 to 9 cents per pound depending on the material. That works out to about $120 to $180 per ton.

The dumpster for the first 24 hours. Every day after that is $15, and disposal is billed separately by weight once the load is dumped.

The booking page adds up the rental for your delivery and pickup dates before you send the request.

By weight. After your load is dumped, its scale weight is multiplied by a rate between 6 and 9 cents per pound, depending on the material in the load. A 1,000-pound load, for example, would come to between $60 and $90.

Robert lets you know the disposal total once the load has been weighed.

We haven't published a rate for each material. The rate for your load depends on what's in it. If you'd like an idea before you book, call or text (909) 284-4597 and tell us what you're tossing.

No payment online. Robert confirms your dates and how to pay by call or text. Book on the booking page, or call or text (909) 284-4597.

Disposal is billed by weight after dumping. Junk removal and hauling are quoted per job.

Not yet. Sending a request tells us your dates and town. Robert then confirms the delivery day, the drop spot and how to pay with you by call or text before the dumpster goes out.

Call or text (909) 284-4597 before your pickup date. Each extra day is $15.

They're quoted per job, because every pile and every haul is different. Text a photo to (909) 284-4597 with your town, or send a request online, and we'll get you a quote.

Cancellations follow our rental terms, which the owner sets. If your plans change, call or text (909) 284-4597 as early as you can.

Online, on our booking page: pick your delivery and pickup dates and your town, tell us where the dumpster should go and what's going in, then send the request. Prefer to talk it through? Call or text (909) 284-4597.

No payment online. Robert confirms your dates and how to pay by call or text.

The online calendar starts at tomorrow. The booking calendar shows each day as open or booked. We don't take same-day bookings online. If you're in a pinch, call or text (909) 284-4597 and ask.

As soon as you know your dates. The online calendar shows dates up to 180 days out. If you're clearing brush ahead of the County's defensible-space inspections, which start in June in many mountain communities, book early.

The flat price includes 24 hours. Keep it longer for $15 per extra day. Online you can book a rental of up to 30 days; for anything longer, call or text (909) 284-4597.

We haven't published set delivery hours. You pick the date when you book, and we work out the timing with you when we confirm by call or text.

Tell us in the booking form exactly where the dumpster should go (there's room for placement notes and a gate code) and keep that spot clear. We'll let you know when we confirm whether you need to be there.

Call or text (909) 284-4597 as early as you can and we'll look at the calendar with you. Extra days are $15 each, and cancellations follow our rental terms.

Robert loads the dumpster back on the trailer and hauls it away. The load is weighed when it's dumped, and the disposal fee is billed by that weight. Robert lets you know the total.

On your driveway or your own property, on a flat, firm spot the truck and trailer can back up to. Leave room overhead too: the dumpster needs clear space above it while it's set down and picked up, so keep it away from low branches and power lines.

Tell us about the spot in the booking form, or text a photo to (909) 284-4597.

Text us a photo and we'll tell you. Show the width, the slope, any tight turns, and low branches or wires. The dumpster comes on a trailer behind Robert's pickup, and we'd rather plan the drop from a photo than guess on delivery day.

Plan on your driveway or your own property instead. A dumpster in a County road or a City of Big Bear Lake street needs an encroachment permit from the road owner, and the County's mountain road guidelines keep building materials and similar items out of road shoulders, drainage ditches and walkways so plows can work.

A permit comes in when a dumpster goes in a public road or right-of-way. San Bernardino County Public Works issues Transportation Encroachment Permits for County-maintained roads, and you apply online through the County's EZOP system. Inside Big Bear Lake city limits, the City's Engineering Division issues encroachment permits. State highways such as Highways 18, 38, 138, 173, 189 and 330 fall under Caltrans District 8.

On a private road, check with your road association or the owners before a dumpster goes on it.

Snow can move delivery and pickup days. Chain controls are common on the mountain highways in winter, and under chain controls California requires every vehicle towing a trailer to chain a drive axle, which is how our dumpster travels. If a storm lands on your date, call or text (909) 284-4597 and we'll work out a new day together.

Clear a path to the dumpster before pickup day. Plows leave snow berms across driveways, and the truck and trailer need a clear way in to load the dumpster. If it can't be reached safely, call or text and we'll figure out a new pickup day.

Yes. The City of Big Bear Lake treats October 15 to April 15 as snow season. During that window no vehicle may be left parked or unattended on a City street, and the City asks that trash containers sit on private property, a safe distance behind the snow berm. One more reason the dumpster belongs on your driveway.

Tell us about pavers, fresh asphalt, decorative concrete or soft ground when you book, and we'll plan the drop around it.

Most household junk and furniture, cardboard, clean lumber and framing scrap, drywall, cabinets, flooring, fixtures and yard waste can go in. If you're not sure about something, text a photo to (909) 284-4597 before you load it. Robert has the final say on every load.

California bans hazardous and universal waste from the trash, and that includes dumpsters: paint, motor oil and filters, solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals, antifreeze, propane tanks, aerosol cans that aren't empty, batteries, fluorescent bulbs, and TVs, computers and other electronics.

County disposal sites also turn away liquids, sealed containers, medical waste and sharps, and hot ashes, so those stay out too.

To a San Bernardino County Fire household hazardous waste site, where drop-off is free for residents. In Big Bear Lake, the collection facility is at 42040 Garstin Drive and is open Saturdays from 9 am to 2 pm. The Rim communities from Crestline to Running Springs don't have a permanent site. The nearest ones are in San Bernardino (2824 East W Street, weekdays 9 am to 4 pm) and Redlands (500 Kansas Street, Saturdays 7:30 am to 12:30 pm), and County Fire holds collection events during the year.

Call 1-800-OILY-CAT (645-9228) to confirm hours and find the next event. The limit is 15 gallons or 125 pounds per trip, in containers of 5 gallons or less.

They're universal waste, and California bans them from the trash for households as well as businesses. County Fire's household hazardous waste sites take household and car batteries and mercury thermostats, and some of them take electronics. Call 1-800-OILY-CAT (645-9228) to find a site that takes what you have.

Call first. Fridges, freezers, AC units and dehumidifiers hold refrigerant, which has to be removed by a certified technician before disposal, and County disposal sites take refrigerators only with no Freon left in. County household hazardous waste sites don't take large appliances.

Tell us first. Pressure-treated wood (old decking, fence boards and posts, landscape timbers) is treated wood waste under California law. It can't be burned, scavenged or chipped for mulch, and once it has been separated it can't be mixed back in with other trash.

Only certain lined landfills accept it. In San Bernardino County that means the Mid-Valley Landfill in Rialto and the Victorville Landfill. The County's mountain transfer stations don't take it.

Call first. County disposal sites take tires only off the rim, no more than nine per load, and charge an added fee for them.

Couches, chairs, tables, dressers and other household furniture are usually fine. Ask before you load a mattress or box spring, and we'll tell you how to handle it.

Call or text first. Dirt, rock, concrete, asphalt, tile and roofing shingles get heavy long before the dumpster looks full, and disposal is billed by the pound, so we plan heavy loads with you before they go in.

Yes. San Bernardino County requires an asbestos certification before its landfills and transfer stations will accept demolition debris from a structure built before 1984, or from any burned structure, whatever its age. Tell us the building's age and history before you load demolition debris.

Yes, yard waste can go in. Cut branches to 4 feet or shorter, which is the County transfer stations' length limit. If the whole load is green waste, tell us when you book: green waste is recyclable under California's organics law, so it's worth keeping separate from trash when you can.

Never hot or smoldering ashes. County disposal sites reject hot ashes and burning materials, and a smoldering load is a fire risk in your driveway and on the road. If you have ash to get rid of, ask us first.

Because disposal is billed by the pound. After your load is dumped, its scale weight times a rate of 6 to 9 cents per pound sets your disposal fee. A load of dirt or shingles weighs far more than the same space of cardboard and old furniture, so it costs more to dispose of. Loading only what needs to go keeps the bill down.

Level with the top rim. Nothing should stick up above the rim or hang over the sides. County code requires refuse containers to be covered or secured so nothing blows out, whether they're moving or parked, and a heaped load can't be secured for the drive.

San Bernardino County requires a Construction Waste Management Plan showing that at least 65% of the project's construction and demolition debris is recycled or reused. Mixed loads taken to the County's mountain transfer stations earn 27% credit toward that, so separating clean wood, metal, concrete and cardboard is how most projects get to 65%.

Keep your weight tickets and receipts, and ask us before you load if you need paperwork for your plan.

Yes. That's the difference between junk removal and a dumpster: with junk removal, we do the lifting, loading and hauling. Tell us about stairs, long carries or tight spots when you ask for a quote so we can plan the job.

Household junk, old furniture, garage, shed and cabin clutter, and yard debris. The same rules apply as for our dumpster: no hazardous waste, paint, batteries or electronics, and ask first about appliances, mattresses, tires and treated wood.

Rent a dumpster if you want to load it yourself, at your own pace, over a day or more. Choose junk removal if you'd rather we do the loading. Not sure? Text a photo of the pile to (909) 284-4597 and we'll suggest the better fit.

It's quoted per job. Text a photo of what's going, with your town, to (909) 284-4597, or send a junk removal request online, and we'll get back to you with a quote.

Moving equipment or materials on our trailer, quoted per job. Tell us what needs to move, roughly how much it weighs, and where it's going from and to, and we'll tell you whether it's a fit and what it costs.

Yes. Cabin, rental and second-home cleanouts are junk removal jobs we take on. If you live off the mountain, photos or a quick video call help us quote it, so ask whether the job can be done while you're away.

Yes. We work alongside contractors, owner-builders and homeowners on remodel, roofing and construction debris, with junk removal or a dumpster rental. Call or text (909) 284-4597 to talk about your project.

In 16 San Bernardino Mountains communities from Crestline and Lake Arrowhead to Big Bear: Crestline (including Lake Gregory and Valley of Enchantment), Cedarpines Park, Twin Peaks, Rimforest, Blue Jay, Lake Arrowhead, Cedar Glen, Skyforest, Crest Park, Running Springs, Arrowbear Lake, Green Valley Lake, Big Bear Lake (including Moonridge), Big Bear City, Fawnskin and Sugarloaf.

Call or text (909) 284-4597 with your address and the job, and we'll tell you.

Heaps Peak Transfer Station, run by San Bernardino County on State Highway 18 about 3 miles west of Running Springs. The County lists it as open Monday through Saturday, 8 am to 4:30 pm, and closed on major holidays. Check the County's disposal-sites page for current hours and fees before you go.

The County's Big Bear Transfer Station at 38550 Holcomb Valley Road, in the Big Bear City area. The County lists the same hours as Heaps Peak: Monday through Saturday, 8 am to 4:30 pm, closed on major holidays.

Residential property owners in the unincorporated mountain communities can get a County Disposal Use Permit for household waste from their property. If you haul a load yourself, cover or tie it down: the County charges double the disposal fee for uncovered or unsecured loads.

San Bernardino County's annual defensible-space inspections start in June in mountain communities including Lake Arrowhead, Crestline, Valley of Enchantment, Cedar Pines Park, Rim Forest, Twin Peaks, Green Valley Lake, Arrowbear and Fawnskin. The County announced that schedule in June 2025, so check with the County for this year's dates.

Under the County's mountain fire hazard abatement code, the main items are: keep grass cut to 4 inches or less; keep pine needles, leaf litter and chipped mulch no deeper than 2 inches; trim branches within 6 feet of the ground on trees taller than 12 feet within 100 feet of structures; clear high-fire shrubs like manzanita and juniper within 15 feet of structures; and keep branches 10 feet from chimneys.

State law asks for 100 feet of defensible space around homes in fire-prone areas, with the heaviest clearing within 30 feet. When the pile is bigger than you want to haul yourself, a dumpster rental or a junk removal haul takes care of it.

Elevated Hauling & Disposal is a local, USMC veteran- and firefighter-owned dumpster rental, junk removal and hauling company serving the San Bernardino Mountains from Crestline and Lake Arrowhead to Big Bear.

We offer dumpster rental, haul away junk, and move equipment and materials.

Robert, a USMC veteran and firefighter, owns and operates it. It's a local business with its own truck and trailer, not a broker or a national chain.

We come to you. Elevated is a service-area business with no storefront or walk-in office. P.O. Box 2043, Blue Jay, CA 92317 is our mailing address only.

Call or text (909) 284-4597, or email elevateddisposal@gmail.com. You can also send a message from our contact page.

We haven't published set business hours. Call or text (909) 284-4597, and leave a message or a text if we're out on a job.

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