Farrar Recycling - School Bus job site

Originally Posted by diesel1

Seems like a lot of work for minimal scrap tonnage. How do you make any money on these jobs?

This job was done as a favor since we had a site clean up to finish we were able to charge more on that clean up to cover the cost of the bus alone here. The other job site were on is being covered by the owner being charged for labor and trash removal, plus other income.

The bus came to 11,000lbs so far and we still removing metal from the job site. I will release the total weight once I know it and load the additional images once I have them on the computer.

The bus has cost us a total of $4000 since we started the job site and we have made most of that back since we started before the price drop in 2014. The bus itself so far is 3tons removed and still going. Were the only company in this part of Maine that will take these jobs from property owners, department of transportation, and the state direct but were one of only 6 licensed recyclers in the entire county so they dont have many options with the proper training and experience around this area or within 200 miles of us.