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title: "Roll Off Container Software, Free Box Tracking | Dumpster Controls"
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description: "Roll off container software that follows every can by serial through empty, delivered, full, stored and back. Swaps, QR stickers, idle units and landfill cost per container. Free, USA and Canada."
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EVERY CAN BY SERIAL, EMPTY TO FULL AND BACK

# Roll-off container software

The container is the unit of work in a roll-off business. This software follows each one by serial number through the cycle it repeats every rental. Free, built for haulers of any size, USA and Canada.

- Serials like 20YD-01, QR stickers, scan at delivery and pickup
- Empty, waiting delivery, at customer, full on truck, stored, back
- Swaps as linked orders, same driver, same stop
- No per-container fee, no monthly fee, unlimited units

[Track Containers Free](https://dumpstercontrols.io/login)[See features](https://dumpstercontrols.io/features)

4.7 on the App Store (12 ratings, Sep 2026) Available in all 50 US states and Canada

![Real Dumpster Controls map of a Central Florida operation: 20 and 30 yard containers drawn green where delivered on time and orange where late, two trucks, and LF pins for the landfills around Orlando](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-controls-fleet-tracking-map.webp)

Last updated September 24, 2026 Published by [Dumpster Controls](https://dumpstercontrols.io/about), 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

A 30-yard can costs more than most of the tools a hauling company owns, and it spends its life somewhere the owner cannot see: a driveway in the next county, a job site that changed contractors, the back corner of the yard under a tarp. **Roll-off container software** gives each of those cans a serial number and a status, and moves the status every time a driver touches it, so the question "how many twenties do we have free on Thursday" has an answer that does not depend on anyone's memory. Dumpster Controls does this for 370+ hauling companies tracking 2,600+ dumpsters (counted 2026-09-23, test accounts excluded), and it is free.

This page is about the container's life: registration, the states it moves through, swaps, storage and what the record tells you at the end of the month. Where a container is right now, and how trucks are followed by GPS, is a different question with its own page at [dumpster tracking software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-container-tracking).

## Sizes first, then every physical can

Registration takes one wizard per size. You choose the yardage, say how many you own, upload a photo, and set the prices for 24 hours, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days plus the additional daily charge, the included tonnage and the per-ton overage, and any extra fees. Those numbers feed online booking, new orders and invoices from that moment, so a price change is made once.

Under each size, the units are created automatically with sequential serials in the pattern yards-number: 20YD-01 through 20YD-05 for five twenties. Each unit is a row with Serial #, Status, Condition and Notes. You can rename one serial with the pencil icon, or use Renumber All to give a whole size a clean sequence after years of odd labels. A plus and minus stepper on the size row adjusts the count when you buy or sell cans, and a QR icon next to any serial prints a sticker with the serial in large type and the code the driver scans.

 The Free Forever Promise

### Free means free. Forever.

Sizes, units, serials, QR stickers, swaps and storage are all on the free plan. No inventory module fee, no per-container surcharge, unlimited cans.

$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 100% 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.

## The cycle every container repeats

The Operations page runs the day in three waiting states that match what happens on the street: Waiting Delivery (an empty can needs to go out), Waiting Pickup (the can is at the customer) and Waiting Landfill (the full can needs disposal). Each has its own tab with search, filters, CSV export and a drawer where the office assigns a driver, edits a date or confirms a step by hand when a driver forgot. A fourth section, Stored Full Dumpsters, holds the cans that came back full and did not reach the landfill that day.

*The states a roll-off container moves through in Dumpster Controls, who moves it, and where it shows. All on the free plan.*

Two details in that table are the ones haulers ask about. The first is the pickup guard: the pickup must collect the same unit that was delivered, and if a driver scans a different can the app answers "Wrong unit" and shows the expected serial. The second is the Late status: it is computed from the date, never set by hand, so a can whose pickup date passed turns red on the Pickups tab and orange on the map without anyone remembering to flag it.

![A roll-off driver in the cab with the free Dumpster Controls app mounted on the dash, showing the current delivery of a 20 yard container with the placement note and the Arrived On Site and Drop Off actions](https://dumpstercontrols.io/Driver-Dumpster-Controls-app.webp)
*The moment the container changes state: the driver arrives, takes the stamped photo, picks which can he dropped by list or QR scan, and slides to complete.*

## Roll-off container tracking software

People search for "roll-off container tracking software" when they want the same record read from the other end: not "what state is this can in" but "which cans are sitting idle". The units list answers it directly. Every row whose status shows the unit as free and carries no order number is a can earning nothing, and if the 30-yard list shows six rows free on a Tuesday in season, that is the report. Nothing has to be exported to see it, though the Operations tabs export to CSV when you want it in a spreadsheet.

The same list is what keeps the public booking page honest: a size with no free unit is hidden from the customer instead of sold twice. The [inventory software guide](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-rental-inventory-software) covers the setup screens in detail.

## Roll-off dumpster tracking software

The "dumpster tracking" phrasing usually means location, and it is worth being exact. Containers carry no GPS device; a container's position is the delivery address of the order it is bound to, confirmed by the GPS stamp on the driver's drop photo. Trucks are the part that moves live on the map, through the driver's phone while a route is running, refreshed about every 30 seconds. On the map above, every green and orange marker is a container placed at a customer address, and the two purple markers are trucks. The full explanation of what GPS does and does not follow is at [dumpster tracking software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-container-tracking).

![Dumpster Strong roll-off loaded with mixed construction debris ready for landfill transport. Photo courtesy of Dumpster Strong.](https://dumpstercontrols.io/assets/dumpster-strong-loaded-debris-DBJT3us6.jpg)
*A Dumpster Strong roll-off loaded with construction debris, ready for the landfill run. The unit stays in Waiting Landfill until the receipt is scanned. Photo courtesy of Dumpster Strong , Orlando, FL 407-901-0253Used with permission.*

## Box tracking software

Haulers who call their cans "boxes" search for box tracking software, and the record is the same. What the box record adds beyond location is history and cost. On a dump run the driver photographs the scale receipt, the app reads the net weight and the total off it, and both land on the order, which is how the disposal cost of one box on one job reaches the Orders P&L page without anyone typing it. Condition and Notes on the unit row hold what the yard knows about the can (door hinge, floor patch, the customer who dented it), and a unit in use cannot be deleted: the app answers "Cannot remove, the unit is currently in use" until its order is completed or reassigned.

## What the container record connects to

Every state change on a container is an event a driver made in the [roll-off driver app](https://dumpstercontrols.io/roll-off-driver-app), so the record is only as good as the app in the cab, which is why the unit picker sits inside the delivery flow rather than in a separate screen; the app's full feature list, GPS included, is at [dumpster driver app](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-driver-app). Dispatch reads the same states on its board: a truck is marked loaded from the pickup until the landfill run or the storage drop completes, and the route map draws that leg solid, and an empty leg dashed. The money side, extension days and overweight fees per order, is covered in [roll-off dumpster software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/roll-off-dumpster-software), and the whole operation from the office chair in [roll-off management software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/roll-off-management-software). What the software costs, against every vendor's published price, is at [dumpster rental software cost](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-rental-software-cost).

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