10yard
10 Yard Dumpster
- 14 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 3.5 ft high
- about 3 pickup truck loads
- 1–2 tons included
Small cleanouts, single-room gut jobs, concrete and heavy debris, roofing up to about 15 squares.
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Dumpster Rental Bakersfield CA
Roll-off dumpsters delivered to your driveway, jobsite or curb lane anywhere in the Golden Empire — most orders called in early go out the same day. One flat price with the tonnage written down, a standard 7-day rental period, and straight answers on what's actually required before you load a thing.
- Licensed & insured
- Same-day delivery
- Flat-rate pricing
- Locally owned
Same-day deliveryCall early across Bakersfield & Kern County
Why Bakersfield calls Kern Brothers Dumpster Rental Bakersfield
A local team, not a call center with a truck somewhere
We built Kern Brothers Dumpster Rental Bakersfield to fix the same complaints that keep coming up around dumpster rental anywhere else — unclear pricing, late deliveries and haulers who go quiet once the container's on the ground. Owner & Founder Danny Vasquez runs it the other way: quote a real price, show up when we said we would, and treat somebody's driveway like it's our own. That's still how the company operates. When you dial (661) 371-7135 you reach our own yard at 150 Hayden Ct — not a national dispatch queue that's never tried to back a loaded roll-off up a narrow Westchester driveway or figured out which Kern County farm roads turn to mud after a rare winter storm.
That local knowledge is most of the job here. Knowing which Bakersfield neighborhoods need a City of Bakersfield Public Works permit for a street placement and which don't. Knowing that a gut renovation full of plaster and lath torn out of an older near-downtown home will hit its tonnage allowance long before the box looks full. Knowing what belongs in a dedicated yard-waste load instead of getting tangled up with construction debris. And knowing every town in Kern County, from Shafter to Tehachapi, well enough to tell you honestly how fast we can get there.
- Flat-rate quotes with the tonnage allowance stated up front — no hidden fees
- Standard 7-day rental period on every container
- Same-day and next-day delivery across Bakersfield and every corner of Kern County
- Straight guidance on USA North 811, City permits and what can and can't go in the box
- Licensed and insured, locally owned and operated
Pick your box
Dumpster sizes available in Bakersfield
Weight fills a container long before volume does. Tell us what you're throwing away and we will point you at the size that actually fits the job — even when that's the cheaper one.
15yard
15 Yard Dumpster
- 16 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high
- about 4–5 pickup truck loads
- 2–3 tons included
Garage and basement cleanouts, kitchen remodels, medium roof tear-offs, yard waste and landscaping debris.
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20 Yard Dumpster
- 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high
- about 6 pickup truck loads
- 3–4 tons included
Whole-home cleanouts, flooring and siding jobs, large tear-offs, drywall and remodel debris.
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30 Yard Dumpster
- 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 6 ft high
- about 9 pickup truck loads
- 4–5 tons included
Full gut renovations, new construction, estate clearances, commercial fit-outs and demolition.
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40 Yard Dumpster
- 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 8 ft high
- about 12 pickup truck loads
- 5–6 tons included
Large commercial fit-outs, industrial clear-outs, major renovations and high-volume light debris.
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Dumpster rental services across Bakersfield & Kern County
Seven container services covering everything from a single-room cleanout to a full commercial strip-out — all with the same flat pricing and the same driver who protects your driveway.
Residential Dumpster Rental
Driveway-ready roll-off dumpsters for cleanouts, remodels and gut-renovations across Bakersfield.
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Commercial Dumpster Rental
Containers and scheduled swap-outs for Bakersfield shops, offices and property managers.
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Construction Dumpster Rental
Jobsite roll-offs sized by phase, delivered to new-construction and remodel sites across Kern County.
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Roll-Off Dumpster Rental
10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 yard roll-off containers delivered across Bakersfield and Kern County.
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Junk Removal
A container on your property for as long as you need — clear the house, garage or storefront on your schedule.
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Same-Day Dumpster Rental
Call early and most Bakersfield orders go out the same or next day — including live jobsite swap-outs.
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Yard Waste Dumpster Rental
Clean green loads for yard and landscaping cleanups, kept separate from construction debris.
Learn moreWhy choose us
Six reasons Kern County homeowners and contractors keep our number saved
Local, not a call center
You reach our Bakersfield yard, not a national dispatch queue. The person who answers knows which Kern County streets a loaded truck can actually turn on and which permit rules matter that day.
One flat price, written down
Delivery, rental period, pickup, and a stated tonnage allowance in a single number. If something would push you over, we tell you before the truck leaves.
Same-day when you need it
Call early and most Bakersfield and Kern County orders go out the same or next day. Swap-outs on live jobsites get priority over everything else.
Run by a local team
Owner & Founder Danny Vasquez and the Kern Brothers crew coordinate every delivery out of our 150 Hayden Ct yard — not a national dispatch desk. We know which Kern County streets a loaded roll-off can actually reach.
The right box, not the biggest
Weight fills a container long before volume does. We will talk you into a smaller can if that is the honest answer.
Loads sorted properly
Yard waste, construction debris and household junk all get routed the right way — we tell you what has to come out of the box before it reaches the scale, not after.
Know before you load
What goes in the box, and what doesn't
A short list is a hard no in every container we set. Paint, solvents, oils, tires, batteries, other hazardous chemicals, propane tanks, gas cylinders and medical or biohazard waste never go in a Kern Brothers Dumpster Rental Bakersfield roll-off — no exceptions, no waivers. If you're unsure whether something counts, ask us before you load it.
Electronics are a hard no too, and it's the law. California's Electronic Waste Recycling Act bans covered electronic devices — TVs, monitors, computers and similar — from general landfill disposal. They have to go through a certified e-waste recycler instead of into our container. Our e-waste disposal guide covers where those actually go.
Yard waste stays its own clean load. California's SB 1383 requires yard trimmings and green waste to be diverted from landfill disposal through organics recycling rather than thrown in with general trash — one more reason a dedicated yard-waste roll-off, kept separate from construction and household debris, is the cleaner way to haul a landscaping job. See our Kern River property cleanup guide for what that usually looks like on a river-adjacent lot.
Debris that goes to the landfill goes where it's supposed to. Most of our construction and demolition loads get routed to Bena Landfill on the east side of the county, which accepts asphalt, brick, carpet, concrete, dirt, drywall, fencing, metal and wood alongside general waste. Our Kern County landfill disposal guide has the full rundown.
Placement on a public street or sidewalk needs its own City permit. Private property never does, but a curb-lane container generally runs through City of Bakersfield Public Works' own right-of-way permit process. The City of Bakersfield permit guide covers when that applies and how it works.
If the job also involves digging, start with the USA North 811 call-before-you-dig guide — California's one-call center covering every corner of Kern County, with a required two working days' notice before excavation begins.
How it works
From your phone call to an empty driveway
No forms, no portal logins, no waiting on a quote email. Five steps, and the first is a conversation with somebody who's actually loaded a container.
Two minutes on the phone is the whole booking
Tell us the address, roughly what's going in, where you want it and when. That's the entire process on your side. We handle sizing, scheduling, protection, hauling and disposal.
If you're not sure what size you need, don't guess — describe the pile. Sizing containers is what we do all day, and we'd rather talk you into the cheaper box than sell you space you'll never fill. Placing it on the street instead of your driveway? Ask us about the City permit — private property never needs one, but a curb-lane container generally does. See the City of Bakersfield permit guide.
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Call and tell us the job
One short conversation. We ask what you are clearing, where the box needs to sit and when you need it. No forms, no waiting on an email.
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We size it and quote it flat
You get one number covering delivery, the rental period, pickup, disposal and a stated tonnage allowance. If a smaller box does the job we will say so.
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Delivered on boards, where you want it
The driver walks the spot with you, lays protection under the rails and sets the container square in the driveway, curb lane or job site.
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Load at your own pace
Keep it level with the top rail and keep the banned items out. Need a swap mid-job or an early pickup? One call and we are on it.
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We haul it and sort it right
Clean concrete, metal and yard waste get routed for recovery rather than buried wherever we can. You get your driveway or curb back the way you left it.
The thing nobody tells you
Bigger is not always the safe choice
Most people ordering their first dumpster assume the biggest container is the least risky option. With light, bulky material — furniture, boxes, insulation, cabinetry — that's true. With anything dense it's the opposite.
A 30 or 40 yard box loaded with roofing shingles, or with plaster and lath torn out of an older near- downtown Bakersfield home, will blow past its tonnage allowance while it still looks half empty, and the overage gets charged by the ton. A 20 yard with a matched allowance often costs less for exactly the same job. The roofing tear-off sizing guide walks through it in detail.
Ask us and you'll get the honest answer, even when the honest answer is the smaller box. The size guide walks through the math, the real project size examples show it on actual jobs, and the cost factors guide covers what actually moves the price.
Bakersfield specifics
The Golden Empire, block by block
Bakersfield is the seat of Kern County — California's #1 oil-producing county and fourth in agricultural value statewide, with grapes, citrus, almonds and cotton grown on the land ringing the city. The Kern River cuts through town on its way out of the southern Sierra, though much of its bed runs dry through the city itself, with the water diverted upstream for the same farms that built this valley. It's also the real birthplace of the Bakersfield Sound, the twangy, Telecaster-driven country style Buck Owens and Merle Haggard carried out of honky-tonks here and onto the national charts. Between the historic Fox Theater downtown and neighborhoods like Westchester, the Casa Loma district and everywhere in between, Bakersfield is a mix of established housing stock, newer construction and everything in between. Our Bakersfield Sound heritage renovation debris guide covers what a gut renovation on an older Bakersfield home usually means for a container order, and the Kern River property cleanup guide covers placement specifics on river-adjacent lots.
Kern County itself stretches from the valley floor up into the Tehachapi Mountains and out to where the southern Sierra Nevada meets the Temblor Range — Shafter, Wasco, Delano, Arvin, Lamont, McFarland and Tehachapi are the towns beyond Bakersfield's own limits that we run out to regularly, on top of Bakersfield's own neighborhoods and districts like Oildale, just north across the river. Whether the job is a downtown loft conversion, a farmhouse cleanout out past Lamont, or a new build on a Tehachapi lot, the container shows up sized right and the driveway comes back clean.
Compare
All five sizes side by side
Dimensions, capacity and included weight for every roll-off we run out of Bakersfield.
| Size | Dimensions | Capacity | Weight included | Best for |
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| 10 Yard Dumpster | 14 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 3.5 ft high | about 3 pickup truck loads | 1–2 tons | Small cleanouts, single-room gut jobs, concrete and heavy debris, roofing up to about 15 squares. |
| 15 Yard Dumpster | 16 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 4–5 pickup truck loads | 2–3 tons | Garage and basement cleanouts, kitchen remodels, medium roof tear-offs, yard waste and landscaping debris. |
| 20 Yard Dumpster | 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 4.5 ft high | about 6 pickup truck loads | 3–4 tons | Whole-home cleanouts, flooring and siding jobs, large tear-offs, drywall and remodel debris. |
| 30 Yard Dumpster | 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 6 ft high | about 9 pickup truck loads | 4–5 tons | Full gut renovations, new construction, estate clearances, commercial fit-outs and demolition. |
| 40 Yard Dumpster | 22 ft long × 7.5 ft wide × 8 ft high | about 12 pickup truck loads | 5–6 tons | Large commercial fit-outs, industrial clear-outs, major renovations and high-volume light debris. |
Service area
Dumpster delivery across Kern County
We run dumpsters out of our 150 Hayden Ct yard across every corner of Bakersfield and out into Kern County. If your community is not on this list, call us anyway. We probably still get there.
Illustrative examples
The kind of thing Bakersfield customers tell us
These quotes aren't pulled from a review platform — they're illustrative examples we wrote to show the kind of experience we aim for on every job, not verified customer reviews.
Called in the morning, had a 20 yard in the driveway by early afternoon. Boards down, spot leveled, and the driveway looked exactly the same when they picked it up a week later.
We build all over Kern County and this is the only hauler that has never left us sitting on a full box. When they say Tuesday, it is Tuesday.
Cleared out my father's house in three weeks and they were patient the whole way through. One call and a 20 yard showed up the next morning — took the stress out of an already stressful job.
A gut renovation on an older Southwest Bakersfield block and they still found a way to place the container without blocking the neighbors in. Made the whole job a lot less painful.
Quotes above are illustrative examples, not sourced from a review platform and not verified customer reviews.
Guides
Worth reading before you book
In-depth local guides on sizing, cost, California disposal rules, permits and Bakersfield specifics across Kern County.
What Size Dumpster Do I Need? Bakersfield Sizing Guide
We get the sizing question on almost every call. Here's how we walk Bakersfield homeowners and contractors through it, size by size.
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What Affects Dumpster Rental Cost in Bakersfield, CA
We don't publish a price sheet online because every job is a little different. Here's what actually moves the number when you call.
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USA North 811: Call Before You Dig in Kern County
If your project involves any digging near where a dumpster will sit, USA North 811 is the call to make first. Here's how it works in Kern County.
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Do I Need a Permit for a Dumpster in Bakersfield?
Most driveway deliveries need no paperwork at all. Here's when a City of Bakersfield Public Works street permit actually comes into play.
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Need a dumpster in Bakersfield this week?
Call and you will speak to someone local who knows the neighborhoods, the permit rules and the streets across Kern County. Most orders called in early go out the same day.
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FAQs
Dumpster rental questions, answered
The questions we field most often from Bakersfield homeowners and contractors. More on the full FAQ page.
How much does it cost to rent a dumpster in Bakersfield?
We quote a flat rate before the truck ever leaves the yard — delivery, the rental period, pickup and a stated tonnage allowance rolled into one number, with no hidden fees added after the fact. What moves the number is the size you need, how dense the debris is, how long you keep the container and where in Kern County the job sits. Call with a short description of what you're clearing and you'll get a firm figure on the spot. Our <a href="/blog/dumpster-rental-cost-factors-bakersfield-ca.html">cost factors guide</a> walks through what actually drives the price.
How long do I get to keep the dumpster?
Every rental runs on a standard 7-day period, which covers the vast majority of cleanouts, remodels and jobsite runs without anyone watching the calendar. Working through a bigger project? Call before the week is up and we'll talk through extending it — most of the time it's a simple add-on, not a renegotiation. Live jobsite swap-outs and early pickups get priority over everything else on the schedule.
How quickly can you deliver a dumpster in Bakersfield?
Most orders called in early go out the same day across Bakersfield and the closer parts of Kern County. Later calls usually land first thing the next morning. We run Mon–Sat 7:00am – 6:00pm. Jobsite swap-outs get priority because a full container stops a crew working. The honest exceptions are a spot too tight for a loaded truck to reach or a street placement that needs a City permit first. More on timing in our <a href="/blog/same-day-dumpster-rental-bakersfield-guide.html">same-day delivery guide</a>.
Do I need a permit for a dumpster on my property?
Private property — your driveway, yard or jobsite — generally doesn't need one. A container set out on a public street or sidewalk is different: the City of Bakersfield Public Works issues its own right-of-way permit for that, and we'll tell you exactly what's required before the truck ever leaves the yard. Tell us where the box is going and we'll tell you which situation applies. More detail is in our <a href="/blog/city-of-bakersfield-dumpster-permit-guide.html">City of Bakersfield permit guide</a>.
Do I need to call before a dumpster is delivered?
Not for a container that simply sits on your driveway, an existing paved area or the curb — that's a surface placement, not excavation. USA North 811, California's one-call center for Kern County (dial 811 or 800-642-2444), is what matters if the same project involves digging — a fence post, a footing, a drain line — anywhere near the drop spot. Call at least two full working days ahead of any digging so utilities can mark their lines first. Not sure whether your job counts? Ask us when you call, or see our <a href="/blog/usa-north-811-call-before-you-dig-guide.html">USA North 811 call-before-you-dig guide</a>.
What can't go in the dumpster?
Paint, solvents and oils, tires, batteries, other hazardous or toxic chemicals, propane tanks and gas cylinders, and medical or biohazard waste are out of any container we set — no exceptions. Wood, drywall, tile, flooring, furniture, roofing shingles and small household appliances are all fine to load. TVs, monitors, computers and other covered electronic devices are banned from general landfill disposal under California's Electronic Waste Recycling Act, so those need to go to a certified e-waste recycler instead — see our <a href="/blog/california-e-waste-disposal-guide.html">e-waste disposal guide</a>. Unsure about something? Ask before you load it and we'll tell you where it actually needs to go instead.