A 40-yard roll-off holds 15–16 pickup-truck loads with 6 tons included. It is the right size when volume, not weight, is the problem: a mobile home teardown, a wooded lot, a commercial strip-out, a pool cage and deck. Because we own the excavator, the container and the machine arrive together and the site is loaded as it comes down.
Specifications
| Approximate dimensions | 22 ft long × 8 ft wide × 8 ft tall |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 40 cubic yards · 15–16 pickup-truck loads |
| Included weight | 6 tons (12,000 lb); overage at the county rate, $46/ton for C&D as of Oct 2025 |
| Loading | Through the swing door or by excavator bucket |
| Space needed | About 25 × 10 ft footprint, 60 ft straight approach, 22 ft overhead clearance |
| Delivery | Same day before noon in Lakeland and central Polk County; scheduled with demo jobs |
| In fleet | 3 containers |
What a 40-yard is for
- Mobile home demolition: a single-wide is one to two 40-yard loads once the steel frame is separated for scrap.
- Land and lot clearing: brush, small trees, stumps and old fencing loaded straight from the excavator.
- Commercial teardowns: retail fixtures, ceiling grid, partitions, racking and packaging.
- Pool cages, screen enclosures and decks: huge volume, almost no weight — the definition of a 40-yard job.
- Large storm cleanups: a property's worth of limbs, fence and roofing in one container.
- Sheds, barns and garages: broken down with the excavator and loaded in place.
What a 40-yard is not for
Concrete, masonry, dirt, sod and roofing. Those are dense; a 40-yard of concrete would weigh around 80 tons. Dense material goes in a 20-yard heavy load filled to a marked line. If a job has both — a mobile home on a slab, say — we bring a 40 for the structure and a 20-yard heavy load for the pad.
Access
The truck needs about 60 feet of straight approach and the container stands 8 feet tall on the truck bed on arrival, so 22 feet of clearance under wires and branches on the way in. On tight residential lots we will sometimes run two 30-yards instead; we walk the approach on the quote call and tell you which.
Tearing something down?
Send photos and the address. We will scope the demolition, the containers and the permit steps in one quote.