About SDC Container

A small, family-owned container company run by someone who grew up here — and who still answers the phone himself.

Who you're actually dealing with

SDC Container is run by Steve — a local firefighter, husband and father of three boys, raised in the same area the trucks go out to every day. When you book a container, you are not dealing with a call center three states away. You are dealing with the person whose name is on the truck.

That matters more than it sounds. A firefighter's working life is built around showing up when you said you would, at the time you said you would, and getting it right the first time because there is no second attempt. That is the same standard the container side of the business runs on. When we give you a delivery window, we mean it.

Family-owned, and we mean it literally

This is not a franchise with a local-sounding name. It is a family business with deep roots in these towns — the same towns where Steve grew up, where his kids go to school, and where reputation travels faster than any advertisement could.

That is the real reason the reviews read the way they do. When you live and work in the place you serve, doing right by people is not a customer-service policy. It is just how you expect to be able to walk into the hardware store next Saturday.

Why we built the online booking

Most dumpster companies still make you call, wait for a quote, call back, and only then find out the price. We thought that was ridiculous. So we put the whole thing online: pick a size, pick a date, see the exact price, and book it — usually in about a minute, often from a driveway on a phone.

The full fee schedule sits right on the booking page before you pay, because the fees that trip people up in this industry are the ones nobody mentions until afterwards. We would rather show you all of them up front and lose the occasional booking than surprise you later.

You can still call, of course — for anything the website does not answer, or if you would simply rather talk to someone. 617-459-7536.

An SDC Container roll-off truck setting a green dumpster outside a three-story home during a renovation
Delivering to a renovation in Greater Boston.

What sets us apart

Six things that are genuinely different about renting from us.

Every fee listed before you book

The full surcharge schedule is on the booking page, not buried in a PDF. You accept it in writing before you pay, so nothing that arrives later is a surprise.

Book in about a minute

No callbacks, no waiting on a quote. Pick a size, pick a date, see the exact price, and it's reserved. Works fine from a phone in a driveway.

Delivery and pickup included

No haul charge, no environmental fee, no percentage tacked on at the end. The one other charge, the $19 booking fee, is shown before you pay. The rental price is the rental price.

Genuinely local

Two yards, in North Reading and Hudson, serving the towns around them. Short runs mean tighter delivery windows and a real person who knows the roads.

You deal with the owner

Steve answers the phone. If something needs sorting out, you are talking to the person who can actually decide, not to a script.

5.0 on Google

Every review left by a real customer in these towns. We would rather earn the next one than chase the cheapest job.

Where we deliver

Two yards — North Reading and Hudson — covering MetroWest, Greater Boston and the North Shore. Not listed? Call us anyway; we often go further than the list suggests.

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    Pick a size, pick a date, and we'll bring it out. You'll see the exact price before you pay.

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