Service area
Where We Deliver — Detroit, Wayne County & metro Detroit
Seventeen cities and communities, delivered daily from our yard on 14286 Meyers Rd. Every town below has its own page with local placement notes, permit guidance, landmarks and driving routes.
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At a glance
Distance and access from our yard
| City / community | County | From our yard | Main route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redford | Wayne County | 6 miles west of our Meyers Road yard | I-96 / the Jeffries |
| Dearborn | Wayne County | 8 miles south of our Meyers Road yard | M-39 / the Southfield Freeway |
| Dearborn Heights | Wayne County | 7 miles south-west of our Meyers Road yard | M-39 / the Southfield Freeway |
| Southfield | Oakland County | 7 miles north of our Meyers Road yard | M-39 / the Southfield Freeway |
| Oak Park | Oakland County | 8 miles north-east of our Meyers Road yard | M-10 / the Lodge |
| Ferndale | Oakland County | 10 miles north-east of our Meyers Road yard | M-10 / the Lodge |
| Livonia | Wayne County | 9 miles west of our Meyers Road yard | I-96 / the Jeffries |
| Westland | Wayne County | 12 miles west of our Meyers Road yard | I-96 / the Jeffries |
| Garden City | Wayne County | 11 miles west of our Meyers Road yard | I-96 / the Jeffries |
| Farmington Hills | Oakland County | 12 miles north-west of our Meyers Road yard | I-96 / the Jeffries |
| Royal Oak | Oakland County | 13 miles north-east of our Meyers Road yard | M-10 / the Lodge |
| Hamtramck | Wayne County | 10 miles east of our Meyers Road yard | the Davison Freeway |
| Highland Park | Wayne County | 8 miles east of our Meyers Road yard | the Davison Freeway |
| Harper Woods | Wayne County | 18 miles east of our Meyers Road yard | I-96 to I-94 |
| Grosse Pointe Park | Wayne County | 18 miles east of our Meyers Road yard | I-94 / the Ford Freeway |
| Warren | Macomb County | 16 miles north-east of our Meyers Road yard | I-696 / the Reuther |
| Lincoln Park | Wayne County | 14 miles south of our Meyers Road yard | M-39 / the Southfield Freeway |
Local knowledge
Why the jurisdiction matters more here than most places
Every city here runs its own rulebook
The container goes on your own property whenever we can manage it. Put it on the street or the verge and you are into a right-of-way process, and the City of Detroit, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Redford, Southfield, Oak Park, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Harper Woods and Wayne County each run their own version of it. Exterior work in Boston-Edison, Indian Village, Palmer Woods, Sherwood Forest, West Village, Corktown or Woodbridge sits under Detroit Historic District Commission review, so a tear-off or a porch rebuild can pick up an approval step before a shingle comes off. And on the older grid plenty of houses have no driveway at all, which makes the rear alley the only placement — some run clear and some are vacated, fly-dumped or soft after a thaw. Rules get amended, so confirm with the city before you book. See the Detroit permit guide.
Where it actually goes
Michigan bans yard clippings from landfill under Part 115, so grass, leaves, brush and branches leave as a separate clean load bound for a composting or organics facility — mix them into a demolition load and the whole container gets reclassified or turned away at the scale. Whole tires, appliances holding refrigerant, electronics, used oil and lead-acid batteries stay out of the can as well, the state runs a 10-cent beverage container deposit, and leftover paint, solvents, fuel and household chemicals belong at a Wayne County or municipal household hazardous waste day. Michigan has no statewide paint stewardship programme to hand them to, so the county drop-off is the answer. Clean concrete is crushed to aggregate, and scrap metal, radiators and clean old-growth lumber all have buyers in this town, so separating pays twice. Requirements get revised, so confirm the current rules with Michigan EGLE or Wayne County. See where it goes.
Brick, plaster and lath, and a full basement
Most of the city is pre-1940 brick — bungalows, Tudors, four-squares, colonials and Victorians — with plaster and lath over wood studs inside. Plaster runs roughly two to three times the weight of drywall for the same volume, and that is the single most consequential sizing fact in this market. Essentially every house also has a full basement, which is a whole extra floor of contents: the coal bin and chute, the footprint of the old octopus gravity furnace, a cast-iron waste stack, and very often damp and a sump that quit years ago. Pre-1980 houses regularly turn up asbestos in floor tile and black mastic, pipe and duct wrap, plaster skim coats, cement-asbestos siding and roofing felt, and pre-1978 means lead paint under the EPA RRP rule — which matters more here than almost anywhere given Detroit's childhood lead-exposure record. EGLE regulates asbestos work, we cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container, and demolition generally triggers a NESHAP inspection and notification. Rules change, so confirm before you swing a hammer. Read the construction and demolition debris guide first.
Alleys, narrow drives and winter
Freeze-thaw and road salt are what wreck driveways, aprons, porches and steps here, which is why protection boards go down under every drop as standard. Ice on a sloped drive will stop a delivery outright, plows throw windrows across a parked container, a can left too long in February can freeze to the ground, and the spring thaw leaves ground soft enough to rut under a loaded truck in one pass. East toward Grosse Pointe Park, Harper Woods and Hamtramck the original drives are narrow and short and a fair number of houses have none at all, so the rear alley is the only realistic placement — some are the fastest way in and some are vacated, blocked by fly-dumping or too soft to commit a loaded truck to. Out west toward Redford, Livonia, Westland and Farmington Hills it is longer approaches, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for and low limbs over the drive. Our drivers know which is which and that is half the job. Winter and ice damming, spring straight-line wind and summer storms all make their own cleanup work, and a container on your own property beats waiting in a kerbside pickup queue. See the driveway protection and delivery guide.
Service Area FAQs
Do you charge extra to deliver outside Detroit?
No. Every city and community listed on this page sits inside our standard service area and the flat rate is the same as it is in Detroit. Delivery, pickup, your rental window and disposal up to the agreed tonnage are all in the number we quote you on the phone.
How far do you actually go?
Roughly a 30 mile radius from our Meyers Road yard, which covers Wayne County end to end and reaches into south Oakland and south Macomb — Royal Oak and Warren at the top, Lincoln Park and the Downriver edge at the bottom, Grosse Pointe Park and Harper Woods east, Livonia and Farmington Hills west. We go further for multi-container jobs and contractor accounts. If your address is not on the list, call and ask — and if we cannot reach you we will usually know who can.
Can you deliver out to Livonia, Westland or Farmington Hills?
Yes, with a conversation first. Longer approaches, gates a truck cannot swing wide enough for, low limbs over the drive and ground that stays soft for a week or two after the spring thaw all affect which container we can get in and where it can safely sit. If the only access is a rear alley, say so when you call — some run clear and some are vacated or fly-dumped. Tell us the address and we will tell you honestly what will and will not work.
Which parts of Detroit do you cover?
All of it. Our yard is on Meyers Road off Schoolcraft by the Jeffries, so Brightmoor, Bagley, Grandmont-Rosedale, Russell Woods and the North End are short runs, Midtown, Corktown, New Center and Eastern Market are a straight shot down I-96 or the Lodge, and the east side out to Morningside, East English Village and Jefferson-Chalmers is I-94 or Gratiot. Placement is what is worth a sentence on the phone: the pre-war drives are narrow, some houses only have the rear alley, exterior work in Boston-Edison, Indian Village and Palmer Woods goes through historic district review, and on a vacant-block rehab a container left open overnight gets picked over and scrapped. Give us the address and we will have it sorted before the truck leaves.
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Tell us what you are clearing out and we will tell you the right size and the flat price to put it in your driveway. No forms, no waiting on an email — just call and we will sort it out in a couple of minutes.
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