About Lockport Dumpster Rental Guys

How this started

Ray Wozniak had worked construction and hauling around Lockport and Niagara County for years when he started the company with a single truck and one container in 2009. He'd spent long enough on job sites to know exactly what went wrong with dumpsters: containers that turned up late or in the wrong size, prices that changed once the load crossed a scale, and out-of-town haulers who didn't know the run to a transfer station, the New York rules on burning, how heavy this valley clay gets after a rain, or how a storm off western New York fills a yard with brush.

The idea was simple: run it like a Lockport outfit that actually knows Lockport. More than a decade in, the operating principle hasn't moved: tell people the truth about what they need, protect the property, keep the job clean, know exactly where the debris goes, and charge the number that was quoted.

What we actually do differently

We know the local rules and where the debris goes. In Lockport the curbside pickup and the Niagara County recycling drop-offs and household hazardous waste facility won't take construction debris, New York's open-burning ban rules prohibit burning it, and the Lockport Transfer Station on Oakhurst Street is where it goes - so a real project's debris goes covered to that transfer station, with Freon appliances, tires, electronics and paint routed to the right place, and clean metal and concrete kept separate for recycling. And because Lockport sits on the Erie Canal in western New York, we keep the load and site clean so nothing washes toward the water. We know the run and the county programs cold, and we keep the job clean and compliant. On the day, that's the whole job.

We recommend smaller containers. This one surprises people. Dense material - plaster, tile, concrete and the wet western New York clay - reaches a container's tonnage allowance while it still looks half empty. Recommending the 15 yard instead of the 20, or a dedicated 10 for the concrete, costs us revenue and saves the customer money. We do it anyway.

We're built for a big, established the Lockport metro city and New York storm seasons. Lockport is one of the oldest and largest cities in Niagara County, on the canal, Main Street and Transit Road corridors, so much of the work is rental turnovers, house flips and remodel after remodel across the vast mid-century subdivisions - bulky and dense debris both - and thunderstorm, wind and ice cleanup is a way of life here, not an exception. When a storm comes through and the whole area needs containers at once, being a local crew is what lets us respond - and we size a storm container to the mixed debris and get it out fast.

One number, covered loads. The flat rate covers delivery, the rental period, collection, the disposal and a stated tonnage allowance, with the overage rate quoted in the same breath. And every load leaves covered and secured for the haul, as New York requires. No fuel surcharge, no environmental fee appearing on an invoice for the first time.

Why local knowledge matters here

Lockport is the seat of Niagara County - the Lock City, named for the Erie Canal's famous Flight of Five locks built in the 1820s to lift canal boats through the Niagara Escarpment, which grew into a western New York industrial city, later home to the Harrison Radiator and General Motors works, along the Main Street, Transit Road and canal corridors. That history shapes the work: gut-rehabs of the old brick homes near the canal, rental turnovers across the Lockport area, and established neighborhoods and newer Town of Lockport subdivisions seeing remodel after remodel, with the historic downtown homes giving up dense material on a gut. And nearly every job that moves earth hits the heavy glacial till and bedrock that comes up dense and wet.

Then there's the regulatory reality that shapes all of it: construction debris being barred from the recycling center, New York's open-burning ban restrictions on burning it, the transfer station or the Lockport Transfer Station and the county recycling programs that take the rest, the recycling of clean metal and concrete, the ban on burning treated lumber, and the covered-load requirement on every haul. A company that works the system every day knows all of it. We quote each job on what it actually is, and we'll explain the difference if you want to hear it.

The people you'll deal with

• Ray Wozniak — Owner & Founder. Years in local construction and hauling before starting the company. Still takes sizing calls, particularly on anything involving concrete, valley clay, heavy demolition or a tricky placement near campus.
• Brian Schultz — Operations Manager. Runs the schedule, the swaps and the contractor and property-management accounts, and knows which runs across Niagara County a loaded truck can and can't make in a day. If you need a same-day swap, he's the one who makes it happen.
• Tony Russo — Lead Driver. Has been placing containers on the northern the Lockport metro driveways for years and sizes a load by eye better than most. If he says a 30 won't fit your lot, it won't.
• Karen Petrie — Customer Care Lead. First voice on the phone most mornings, and the person who will walk you through the local rules, what can and can't go in the container, and where the electronics, tires, appliances and brush need to go.

Where we work

Lockport, Pendleton, Newfane, Gasport, Middleport, Cambria, Sanborn, Barker, Clarence, Amherst, Ransomville, Wheatfield, North Tonawanda, Rapids and Wilson across Niagara and Erie County and western New York. If you're further out than that, call anyway and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right company for the job.

• Lockport, NY
• Pendleton, NY
• Gasport, NY
• Middleport, NY
• Newfane, NY
• Wilson, NY
• Barker, NY
• Ransomville, NY
• Cambria, NY
• Sanborn, NY
• Wheatfield, NY
• North Tonawanda, NY
• Rapids, NY
• Clarence, NY
• Amherst, NY