About Utica Dumpster Rental Group

How this started

Rocco Fiore had worked construction and hauling around Utica and Oneida County for years when he started the company with a single truck and one container in 2010. He'd spent long enough on job sites to know exactly what went wrong with dumpsters: containers that turned up late or in the wrong size, prices that changed once the load crossed a scale, and out-of-town haulers who didn't know the run to a transfer station, the New York rules on burning, how heavy this valley clay gets after a rain, or how a storm off the Mohawk Valley fills a yard with brush.

The idea was simple: run it like a Utica outfit that actually knows Utica. More than a decade in, the operating principle hasn't moved: tell people the truth about what they need, protect the property, keep the job clean, know exactly where the debris goes, and charge the number that was quoted.

What we actually do differently

We know the local rules and where the debris goes. In Utica the curbside pickup and the Oneida County recycling drop-offs and household hazardous waste facility won't take construction debris, New York's open-burning ban rules prohibit burning it, and the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority's transfer station in Utica is where it goes - so a real project's debris goes covered to that transfer station, with Freon appliances, tires, electronics and paint routed to the right place, and clean metal and concrete kept separate for recycling. And because Utica drains to the Mohawk River, we keep the load and site clean so nothing washes toward the water. We know the run and the county programs cold, and we keep the job clean and compliant. On the day, that's the whole job.

We recommend smaller containers. This one surprises people. Dense material - plaster, tile, concrete and the wet Mohawk Valley clay - reaches a container's tonnage allowance while it still looks half empty. Recommending the 15 yard instead of the 20, or a dedicated 10 for the concrete, costs us revenue and saves the customer money. We do it anyway.

We're built for an older valley city and Mohawk Valley storm seasons. Utica is the county seat of Oneida County and the heart of the Mohawk Valley, so much of the work is gut-rehabs, house flips and remodel after remodel across the older East Utica and hillside neighborhoods - bulky and dense debris both - and thunderstorm, wind, ice and river-flat flooding cleanup is a way of life here, not an exception. When a storm comes through and the whole area needs containers at once, being a local crew is what lets us respond - and we size a storm container to the mixed debris and get it out fast.

One number, tarped loads. The flat rate covers delivery, the rental period, collection, the disposal and a stated tonnage allowance, with the overage rate quoted in the same breath. And every load leaves tarped and secured for the haul, as New York requires. No fuel surcharge, no environmental fee appearing on an invoice for the first time.

Why local knowledge matters here

Utica is the county seat of Oneida County and the heart of the Mohawk Valley - a historic textile and manufacturing city that grew where the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal met the roads west, and a landing point for wave after wave of immigrants, Italian first and later Bosnian, Burmese and refugee families who rebuilt its neighborhoods. That history shapes the work: gut-rehabs of the dense East Utica brick two-families and triple-deckers, renovations of the older hillside homes in South Utica, rental turnovers and steady remodels as the valley revitalizes - the older homes giving up heavy, mixed plaster, lath and brick on a gut. And nearly every job that moves earth hits the dense glacial till and clay of the valley, which comes up wet and heavy.

Then there's the regulatory reality that shapes all of it: construction debris being barred from the curbside pickup and the EcoDrop, New York's open-burning ban and the rule against burning C&D anywhere in Oneida and Herkimer Counties, the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority - the Eastern Transfer Station in Utica and the Regional Landfill in Ava - that takes the rest by weight, the recycling of clean metal and concrete, the ban on burning treated lumber, and the tarped-load requirement on every haul. A company that works the system every day knows all of it. We quote each job on what it actually is, and we'll explain the difference if you want to hear it.

The people you'll deal with

• Rocco Fiore — Owner & Founder. Years in local construction and hauling before starting the company. Still takes sizing calls, particularly on anything involving concrete, valley clay, heavy demolition or a tricky placement near campus.
• Sal Deluca — Operations Manager. Runs the schedule, the swaps and the contractor and property-management accounts, and knows which runs across Oneida County a loaded truck can and can't make in a day. If you need a same-day swap, he's the one who makes it happen.
• Nick Gallo — Lead Driver. Has been placing containers on Utica's tight lots and steep hill-street driveways for years and sizes a load by eye better than most. If he says a 30 won't fit your lot, it won't.
• Lena Marino — Customer Care Lead. First voice on the phone most mornings, and the person who will walk you through the local rules, what can and can't go in the container, and where the electronics, tires, appliances and brush need to go.

Where we work

Utica, New Hartford, Whitesboro, Yorkville, New York Mills, Marcy, Deerfield, South Utica, East Utica, Clinton, Whitestown, Oriskany, Sauquoit, Washington Mills and Frankfort across Oneida County and the Mohawk Valley. If you're further out than that, call anyway and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right company for the job.

• Utica, NY
• New Hartford, NY
• Whitesboro, NY
• Yorkville, NY
• New York Mills, NY
• Marcy, NY
• Deerfield, NY
• South Utica, NY
• East Utica, NY
• Clinton, NY
• Whitestown, NY
• Oriskany, NY
• Sauquoit, NY
• Washington Mills, NY
• Frankfort, NY