The question that settles it
Do you want anything in this load next month? A rental truck is the right tool when the answer is yes — it moves a household. When the answer is no, you are renting a vehicle to personally chauffeur garbage across El Paso County, and the tool stops fitting the job. Junk does not need transporting; it needs ending — loading, hauling, gate fees, correct streams — and the rental covers exactly none of that.
Add it up yourself
| Line | Rental route | With us |
|---|---|---|
| Vehicle | The advertised rate | Included |
| Miles + fuel | Per-mile, plus the pump before return | Included |
| Loading labor | You + a recruited friend | Crew, from inside the house |
| The landfill run | Your drive south past Fountain, your wait | Included |
| Gate / disposal fees | Paid at the scale, cash or card | Inside the flat price |
| Unloading | By hand, into the wind | Not your problem |
| Clean return | Sweep it or pay the fee | No truck to return |
| Your Saturday | Most of it | A two-hour window you sleep through |
The rental's advertised rate is the first line of eight. Ours is the whole column: $241 quarter truck, $431 half, $587 three-quarters, $732 full 16 cubic yards.
The one Springs case where the rental honestly wins
This is a military town, and every PCS season fills driveways with PPM/DITY rental trucks that are already paid for. If yours is sitting there loaded for the move anyway, the marginal cost of the junk is one landfill detour — take that deal, and we will cheer from here. Same for the flatbed owner with a light, loose load and a free morning. Outside those two cases, the eight-line table above decides it.
What the rental cannot solve at any size
Three limits ride along with every rented box truck. The loading — the sleeper sofa down the stairs is your spine either way; the truck just waits. The restricted items — Colorado bans electronics from landfills, so the old TV in your rental bed gets refused at the gate and rides home with you; our loads route screens to the legal stream automatically. The clean-return clause — a truck that hauled a shedding couch and a greasy grill needs to come back swept, and that final half hour is the part everyone forgets to price.
Our column, in dollars
| Job | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Queen mattress | $103 |
| Sofa / couch | $126 |
| Washer | $133 |
| Refrigerator | $164 |
| Quarter truck (4 cu yd) | $241 |
| Half truck (8 cu yd) | $431 |
| Full truck (16 cu yd) | $732 |
Minimum $75, no sales tax on the service in Colorado, price fixed before dispatch. The classic two-item job — couch ($126) + queen mattress ($103) = $229 flat, carried from the second floor, gone in twenty minutes, with your whole Saturday refunded.
The size trap, briefly
Renters guess small — the ten-footer that turns one dump run into two, doubling the miles, the gate stops, and the afternoon. Our version of the same risk is priced, not gambled: if your load outgrows the tier you booked, the next tier is a published number you approve before loading continues. Nobody re-rents anything.
How booking works
Describe the load or send photos via the quote page — flat price back in about a minute, usually with same-day windows if you book by mid-afternoon. The crew loads everything from where it sits, the streams get sorted on our side, and the receipt lands in your email. The box truck stays on the lot for someone who is actually moving.
The bottom line
Rent the truck for the life you are keeping; buy one flat number for the part you are ending: $229 for the couch-and-mattress classic, $241–$732 by the truckload, all eight lines of the ledger included. Get your price or call (719) 247-5775 — unless the PPM truck is already in the driveway, in which case, safe travels.
Frequently asked questions
Is renting a truck cheaper than junk removal in Colorado Springs?
Add every line first: the rental rate, the per-mile charge, fuel, the landfill gate fees, a helper for the heavy end, and the hours — collect the truck, load it yourself, drive it south to the landfill, unload by hand, refuel, return it clean. Our flat rates buy the whole column at once: $241 for a quarter truck, $431 for a half, $732 for the full 16 cubic yards, crew and every disposal fee included. For a couch-and-mattress job ($229 flat), the rental math rarely survives contact with the checklist.
when does renting the truck actually make sense
The one great Springs case: the truck is already in your driveway. PPM and DITY military moves put thousands of rented trucks in this county every PCS season, and if yours is loaded anyway, the marginal cost of a junk detour is one landfill stop — take that deal. The other honest case is the flatbed owner with a light, loose load and a free morning. Everything else — stairs, heavy items, no helper, a deadline — is where full service earns its number.
What do you charge in Colorado Springs?
Published flat rates: minimum $75, sofa $126, queen mattress $103, refrigerator $164, washer $133. Volume loads: $241 quarter truck, $431 half, $587 three-quarters, $732 for the full 16-cubic-yard truck. Crew, carry-out from anywhere in the house, hauling, and all landfill and recycling fees are inside the number — no sales tax on the service in Colorado, and the price is fixed before dispatch.
what will a rental truck not solve
Three things, whatever its size. The loading — the sleeper sofa down the stairs is your back either way. The restricted items — Colorado bans electronics from landfills, so the CRT in your rental bed gets turned away at the gate and rides home with you. And the clean-return clause — the truck that hauled a shedding couch and a leaking grill needs sweeping before the counter accepts it. Full service makes all three our problem: $94 for the sofa, e-waste routed to its legal stream, and no truck to return.
do i have to help load
No — the crew carries everything from where it sits: basement, upstairs bonus room, backyard, garage rafters. You point; they load; a single-item pickup is typically twenty minutes. No stairs fee, no heavy-item fee, no distance-to-truck fee — the flat price already assumes real Springs houses, snow on the driveway included.
How fast can you come compared to the rental counter?
Usually faster: the quote takes about a minute from photos, and same-day two-hour windows across the Springs are typically available if you book by mid-afternoon — no reservation, no counter line, no deposit hold, no vehicle due back by six. Urgency also costs nothing; the same-day surcharge in our pricing is zero.
Describe the load and get your flat price in about a minute on the quote page, or call (719) 247-5775.