Fourteen names come up when a hauler in the United States or Canada searches for this software, and one of them is ours. Waste hauling software is what people type when they have reached the point of comparing them, and the search tail says exactly what they want to know: features, pricing, reviews, small business fit, a comparison, a demo and the list of providers. This page answers the seven in that order, with Dumpster Controls as the example and the other thirteen named without adjectives.
Waste hauling software features
The feature list only matters against a day. An order arrives from the booking page, the phone or the public API, and the invoice is written at the same moment. The order lands on the Dispatch board unassigned; a dispatcher drags it into a driver's lane and the driver gets a push and a text. The driver runs the stop from the app with stamped photos, the landfill receipt is read off a photo so the cost lands on the order, and the month closes in Finances with net profit first. Everything in the table is on the free plan.
| Feature | What it does | Where it lives | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booking | Hosted page and embeddable widget, price on screen, card stored for later charges | Booking page, Online Booking settings | |
| Dispatch | Drag-and-drop board, one lane per driver, live map, AI route suggestion for roll-off stops | Dispatch | |
| Driver app | iOS and Android, Truck Tablet Mode, stamped photos, receipt scan, works without signal | Driver app, Trucks | |
| Customers | Residential, contractor and broker profiles, net terms, PO required, lifetime value | Customers | |
| Billing | Invoice at booking, payment links by email and SMS, 10 day reminders, extra fees, consolidated invoices | Order History, Customers | |
| Landfills | 2,916 US sites with distance, hours and tipping fee estimate, private sites you add | Landfills | |
| Finances | Net profit, Orders P&L per order, bank reconciliation, QuickBooks Online export | Finances | |
| Assistant | Tresha answers with live numbers by text or voice, completes stops on request | Every screen |
Waste hauling software pricing
Dumpster Controls has no monthly fee, no per-order fee, no per-truck fee and no per-user fee, for any fleet size. The only optional cost is card processing when a customer pays online: 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction, or 2.99% + $0.30 on the optional $169 per month Unlimited plan, which pays for itself for a company that runs enough card volume. Cash and check orders cost nothing. SMS, email and push notifications are unlimited and free. The pricing page has the two plans side by side.
Waste hauling software reviews
The driver app's App Store listing shows 4.7 out of 5 from 12 ratings as of September 2026. That is the public rating we have, and it is the number we point to. We do not quote a larger figure from a review site, and we would ask the same of any vendor you compare: where does the rating live, and how many people gave it.
Waste hauling software for small businesses
The company this software was built around has a few trucks and an owner who dispatches from the phone. For that company the numbers that matter are the ones that do not scale with size: the first order created the day the account is opened, customers and active rentals imported from a spreadsheet with a preview that flags the rows that need a fix, a booking page with the company's name on it, and a Finances page that says what last month was worth in one number. None of it changes at ten trucks, and none of it costs more.
Free means free. Forever.
Every feature on this page is on the free plan, with unlimited orders, unlimited users and unlimited SMS, email and push notifications.
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.
Waste hauling software comparison
A comparison is only honest with a source and a date on every line, which is why the price comparison lives on its own page: dumpster rental software cost lists every vendor's published price, where it was published and when it was checked, and works out what a three-truck company pays in a year under each one. The buyer's guide that goes with it is software for dumpster companies.
Waste hauling software demo
There is no demo gate. You open the account yourself, without a credit card, and the booking page, the Dispatch board, the driver app, Finances and Tresha are live from the first minute. A demo in the usual sense, a scheduled call where someone drives the software for you, exists if you ask for it, but nothing is locked until you sit through one. The fastest way to evaluate the software is to create an order, drag it into a lane, and run it from the driver app on your own phone.
Waste hauling software providers
These are the companies that appear in the same searches as Dumpster Controls, in no particular order: iCANS, Docket, DRS, CurbWaste, Hauler Hero, Routeware, AMCS, Basestation, Box Tracker, CRO, Roll-Off Amigo, Reservety and Bin Boss. Some serve roll-off companies only, some serve junk removal, and two of them, AMCS and Routeware, serve municipal and large commercial collection. Their prices are on the cost page with a source and a date per line, and nowhere else on this site.
Waste hauling software: FAQ
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One customer record shared by junk jobs and dumpster orders, with history, notes and lifetime value.
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Delivery and pickup dates, swaps, late flags and customer date requests you approve.
One truck to five at $0 a month, with the cost math against paid plans.
CAD on your own Canadian Stripe account, postal codes, Canadian landfills and holidays.
Customers, invoices, payments, refunds and expenses sync one way into QuickBooks Online, totals always match.
The owner's view: net profit, margin per order, unpaid invoices and QuickBooks sync.
Booking, delivery, swap and pickup with free SMS updates and stamped photo proof.
Stripe-native invoicing with auto reminders and Super Invoices.
P&L per order, bank reconciliation, expenses and KPIs, free.
AI route optimization that cuts empty miles 10–20%.
Per-unit serial tracking with inventory-aware booking.
Trucks, drivers and every can on one live map, no GPS hardware.
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