Hauler Hero alternative, 2026
The Hauler Hero alternative at $0/month
Dumpster Controls is a Hauler Hero alternative built for roll-off dumpster and junk removal companies, at $0 per month with no order limit, no per-truck fee and no feature paywall: drag-and-drop dispatch, public online booking, a native iOS and Android driver app with Truck Tablet Mode, Stripe invoicing, QuickBooks Online sync, a public API, the Dumpster Net Hub marketplace, a 2,916-landfill database and Tresha, an AI assistant that runs the platform by chat or voice, in production. Hauler Hero is sold by demo, does not publish pricing on its website (checked 2026-09-07 and again 2026-09-23) and lists roll-off as one of four industries next to Commercial, Residential and Governments.
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Last updated September 28, 2026 Published by Dumpster Controls, built by a software group led by a founder with 20+ years in enterprise IT who also ran a roll-off business for four years
What Hauler Hero costs
Hauler Hero does not publish pricing on its website (checked 2026-09-07 and again 2026-09-23; URLs tried: haulerhero.com/pricing returns 404, and the home page, the roll-off page, the mobile app page, the billing page and the customer portal page carry no price; the call to action is "Book a software demo with our team"). Capterra lists "Starting price: Contact vendor" and Software Advice "Pricing available upon request", both with no free trial (read 2026-09-23). A per-truck monthly figure circulates on third-party pages, but the only sources we found for it are competitors' blogs, so we do not repeat it. Hauler Hero was founded in 2020 by Mark Hoadley and Ben Sikma, raised a $16 million Series A led by Frontier Growth in February 2026 for more than $27 million in total (TechCrunch, 2026-02-10), and reports "OVER 250+ HAULERS ACROSS THE US" on its home page (self-reported, read 2026-09-23).
Dumpster Controls takes the opposite approach: the software is free, with unlimited orders and unlimited users, and the only cost is card processing when a customer pays by card, 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction on the free plan, or 2.99% + $0.30 on the optional $169/month Unlimited plan. Pay by cash, check or any other method and there is no fee at all.
Hauler Hero
Dumpster Controls
Monthly price
Not published (checked 2026-09-07 and 2026-09-23; /pricing returns 404); "Contact vendor" on Capterra
$0, forever
Free trial
Not available, per Capterra and Software Advice
Not needed, the product is free
Self-serve signup
No, "Book a software demo with our team"
Yes, under a minute
Built for
Commercial, Residential, Roll-off and Governments; recurring collection routes at the core
Dumpsters and junk removal specifically
Roll-off features
Rental, disposal and delivery fee templates, violation notes, duplicated recurring roll-off orders (their roll-off page)
Delivery, swap, pickup and landfill run as linked tasks, serial numbers, overweight fees, on-site junk quotes
Driver app
"Hauler Hero Road" on Google Play; App Store listing not found 2026-09-23; "offline mode" and truck inspections "before and after every shift"
Native iOS and Android app with Truck Tablet Mode
Truck inspections
Yes, before and after every shift, in the driver app
Optional daily driver check-in with odometer and walk-around defects
Customer portal
Account login by phone or social profile; customers "manage their autopay, and store preferred credit card and ACH payment methods"
Payment links, saved cards and commercial accounts with statements; no customer login needed
Billing
Billing cycles, "exclusive payments groups", batch entry of cash and check payments
Per-order invoicing on Stripe and commercial accounts with statements, free
AI
Hero Vision, Hero Chat, Hero Routing: "Prototypes" "in testing and development now" (home page, 2026-09-23)
Tresha in production: creates orders and completes tasks by chat or voice
Public API
Four partner APIs (Account, Scale, Site, Vision); credentials from your account manager
Public REST API with OpenAPI spec and signed webhooks
Scale integration
MyTruckScales and Strong Data
Driver photographs the landfill receipt; the app reads weight and cost onto the order
Contract
One Capterra reviewer describes being held "financially responsible for the remaining contract" after selling the business (read 2026-09-23)
No contract, no card to start
Reviews
Capterra 4.2 out of 5 on 6 reviews (read 2026-09-23)
App Store 4.7 from 12 ratings (2026-09-23)
Competitor facts from the pages listed under Sources at the bottom of this page, checked 2026-09-23.
Why haulers switch from Hauler Hero
No demo, no quote, no per-truck line
Hauler Hero's path in is a booked demo and a quote; no public price and no self-serve signup were found on their site as of 2026-09-23. Dumpster Controls prints its price on every page and takes under a minute to start: the software is free, and the only cost is card processing only when a customer pays by card: 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction on the free plan, or 2.99% + $0.30 on the optional $169/month Unlimited plan.
Built for roll-off first, not fourth
Hauler Hero's home page lists Commercial, Residential, Roll-off and Governments, in that order, and TechCrunch describes its customers as residential and commercial haulers with a growing municipal focus. Dumpster Controls models the roll-off cycle as its core: delivery, swap, pickup and landfill run as linked tasks, containers by serial number, overweight fees read from the landfill receipt, and junk jobs with on-site quoting.
AI that works today, not a prototype
Hauler Hero's home page describes Hero Vision, Hero Chat and Hero Routing as "Prototypes" that are "in testing and development now" with select partners (read 2026-09-23). Tresha is in production on the free plan: it creates orders, dispatches drivers, completes deliveries, pickups and landfill runs, and answers finance questions by chat or two-way voice, behind a confirmation card.
A driver app in both stores, plus a public API
Hauler Hero Road is listed on Google Play; an App Store listing was not found in a search of the App Store on 2026-09-23, and their mobile page carries no store links. Their four APIs at docs.haulerhero.com are for partners, with credentials requested "from your Hauler Hero account manager". Dumpster Controls ships a native iOS and Android app with Truck Tablet Mode, and a public REST API with an OpenAPI spec and signed webhooks, free.
What Hauler Hero offers
In facts from Hauler Hero's own pages, with the date we read each one in the sources below, and next to each one what Dumpster Controls does for the same job.
Recurring collection routes
Hauler Hero's core is recurring curbside and front-load service: Residential and Commercial are its first two industry pages, and its customer portal and billing are built around billing cycles. Dumpster Controls is built around the roll-off and junk removal order.
Cycle billing with autopay and ACH
Their customer portal lets customers "manage their autopay, and store preferred credit card and ACH payment methods", and their billing page groups customers by billing cycle with batch entry of cash and check payments. Dumpster Controls invoices per order on Stripe and offers commercial accounts with statements.
Government work
Hauler Hero publishes a Governments industry page, and TechCrunch (2026-02-10) describes a growing focus on municipalities. Dumpster Controls is built for private roll-off and junk removal companies.
A truck scale integration
Their scale integration page names MyTruckScales and Strong Data to "sync weights instantly". Dumpster Controls reads weight and cost from a photo of the landfill receipt.
In-cab camera AI in testing
Hero Vision is described on their home page as a prototype in testing with select partners. Dumpster Controls uses driver photos, and its AI assistant Tresha is in production by chat and voice.
The Free Forever Promise
Free means free. Forever.
We are the only full dumpster software in North America that is free for every company size. Not a trial. Not a feature-gated freemium. Not a free plan capped at one truck. The whole product, unlimited orders and unlimited users, on the house.
$0
Monthly fee
Ever. No surprise charges.
$0
Setup fee
No onboarding cost.
$0
Per-user fee
Unlimited admins, drivers, dispatchers.
$0
Annual contract
Cancel anytime. We never auto-charge.
How we make money: only when you opt in, and the numbers are public. The software is free with unlimited orders and no per-order software fee. If you choose to collect a customer’s card payment through Dumpster Controls, the processing fee is 2.99% + $3.99 per card transaction on the free plan, or 2.99% + $0.30 (the standard Stripe rate) on the optional $169/month Unlimited plan. Take payment by cash, check, Zelle or any other way and you pay nothing at all. Beyond that, our revenue comes from the optional Unlimited plan and from equipment partners and sponsors advertising in the app and on our public directory; our marketplace, the Dumpster Net Hub, charges zero marketplace fees. Run your own business your way and you never pay to use the software. It’s the only model that lets a 1-truck owner-operator run on the same software as a 50-truck fleet.
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Sources
- Hauler Hero /pricing (returns 404) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero home page (250+ haulers, four industries, AI prototypes, demo call to action) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero roll-off page (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero mobile app page (Hauler Hero Road, offline mode, truck inspections, no store links) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero billing page (billing cycles, payment groups, batch payments) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero customer portal (autopay, card and ACH on file) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero scale integration (MyTruckScales, Strong Data) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero API documentation (four partner APIs) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero Road on Google Play (checked 2026-09-23)
- App Store search for Hauler Hero (no listing from Hauler Hero among 43 results) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero on Capterra (4.2, 6 reviews, contact vendor, contract review) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Hauler Hero on Software Advice (pricing upon request, no trial) (checked 2026-09-23)
- TechCrunch, Hauler Hero collects $16M (founded 2020, $27M+ total, AI agents, municipalities) (checked 2026-09-23)
- Dumpster Controls pricing (checked 2026-09-24)
Prices and features change. Every claim about Hauler Hero on this page carries the date we read it; if a page above has changed since, the newer version wins.