Bavarian Waste

Bavarian provides dumpster rentals, waste hauling, and disposal services to the Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati area. Bavarian’s geographic edge works to our customers’ advantage–for both service and cost. We are large enough to provide the desired economy of scale, yet small enough to provide the prompt, personalized customer service that is so rare today.
We have kept our focus on serving our hometown, which results in more efficient and personalized service for our community and our customers. Bavarian “made the grade” as one of the top 100 waste companies in the U.S. and Canada and was featured in Waste Age Magazine for over ten years. In the words of Waste Age, Bavarian is a “Kentucky home-grown hauler … [who] keeps its eyes on success, and its heart on building a long-term, community oriented business.”
Bavarian Waste Services offers prompt, friendly, and courteous service that includes dumpster rentals, waste hauling, and disposal at reasonable rates. We have built our reputation on our commitment to providing quality service. Please take a moment to browse through our site to learn more about our company and how we can serve you. We look forward to hearing from you!

History

To better understand Bavarian Trucking, we must go back to the beginning.
In 1901, Ben Brueggemann founded Brueggemann Trucking Company, a horse-drawn freighting business in Covington, Kentucky. When Ben died during the influenza epidemic of 1918, Lawrence, his eldest son, was entrusted with continuing the family business.
Lawrence saw the transportation industry change from horse-drawn carts to trucks. After weathering the storms of the Great Depression and narrowly avoiding bankruptcy when the government contractors he worked with defaulted on their obligations to him, Lawrence reformed the family business and incorporated it as the “Bavarian Trucking Company” in 1934. At the time, Lawrence operated his company out of the old Bavarian Brewery buildings at 533 Pike Street in Covington, which had closed due to prohibition. Thus, Bavarian’s company name was inspired by a Northern Kentucky landmark.
Bavarian operated as a gravel and freight hauling company for much of the following two decades, but during the 1950’s, a need for residential and industrial waste disposal developed in the community. Recognizing this need and Bavarian’s existing excavating services expertise, Bavarian began a gradual progression from freight handling to waste disposal. In 1959, Bavarian officially entered the waste disposal business by modifying our trucks for trash hauling and establishing collection routes.
Lawrence retired in 1969 from the company he had led for fifty-one years and his son, Bernie Brueggemann, became Bavarian’s president. In 1973, Bernie led Bavarian to purchase our current 461-acre landfill site near Walton, Kentucky and began Bavarian’s modern era. Bernie guided Bavarian through the next twenty-nine years before he passed the company presidency to his own son, Jim Brueggemann in 1998. Jim continues to lead Bavarian today and is aided in this by his sons, much as his father and grandfather had been by theirs.
In 2003, Bavarian demonstrated our commitment to sustainable business practices and our status as an industry leader by becoming the first landfill in Kentucky to collect the methane gas produced by the landfill. We chose to pipe this gas to an on-site power plant which is owned and operated by East Kentucky Power Cooperative and, thus, became the first Kentucky landfill to turn the landfill’s methane gas into electricity! Thanks to Bavarian proving the feasibility of collecting the landfill’s methane for electric power, doing so is now the industry standard in Kentucky.
Bavarian proudly served all the waste disposal needs of both residential and commercial customers for sixty-four years until 2013 when Jim Brueggemann, Bernie’s son, recognized that modern residential waste collection services had left behind customer service in favor of depersonalized automation. Unwilling to compromise Bavarian’s famous personalized customer service, Jim decided to sell Bavarian’s residential waste collection services. However, in keeping with the Brueggemann family values, Bavarian still proudly offers rolloff dumpster and waste disposal services.
Although Bavarian has grown to offer our services throughout the tri-state area of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio; we have remained a family company, and are still guided by the same principles held by Ben Brueggemann back in 1901.
In 1901 a handshake between honorable men was as binding as any contract. Over 100 years later, that principle is preserved between Bavarian Trucking Company and our customers. We refuse to engage in the all-too-common “bait and switch” schemes of modern businesses. Instead, at Bavarian, we always offer our best price to each and every customer.

Industrial Waste Services

Bavarian Trucking Co., Inc. assures industrial waste generators that all their industrial waste entrusted to Bavarian is handled in a way that meets or exceeds all Federal and State environmental regulations. Bavarian uses state-of-the-art transportation equipment and evaluates each and every waste stream to protect our customer and ensure proper disposal and tracking of all materials disposed of in our Kentucky landfill.
Industrial Waste is defined under KRS 109.012-9(c) as: “solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste or a special waste as designated by KRS 224.50-760.”
Bavarian provides cost effective and dependable roll-off dumpster and compactor box service for even the largest manufacturing facilities, and works to ensure that all your industrial waste disposal is safe and in compliance with all environmental laws and regulations.

Special Waste Services

Bavarian Trucking Co., Inc. assures special waste generators that all their special waste entrusted to Bavarian is handled in a way that meets or exceeds all Federal and State environmental regulations. Bavarian uses state-of-the-art transportation equipment and evaluates each and every waste stream to protect our customer and assure proper disposal and tracking of all materials disposed of in our Kentucky landfill.
Special Waste is defined under KRS 224.50-760 as: “those wastes of high volume and low hazard . . . approved by the cabinet based on submittal of appropriate testing demonstrating that the wastes are of low hazard.”
Bavarian provides cost effective and dependable roll-off dumpster and compactor box service for even the largest manufacturing facilities, and works to ensure that all your special waste disposal is safe and in compliance with all environmental laws and regulations.

Recycling

Because Bavarian specializes in the management of waste, we have several recycling programs available for our customers. We care about both our environment and our neighborhood and feel both obliged and privileged to be good stewards of our God-given natural resources. To that end, we have worked diligently to devise innovative ways to recycle many of the products that are usually buried in landfills. We believe in resource recovery that makes sense! The following is a list of the ways we recycle:
Wood: We at Bavarian segregate any loads of clean brush or pallets or scrap lumber and process them through an industrial grade grinder. This produces a fine mulch product that we sell to local mulch processors and vendors. We do not dye the mulch, but have it available for sale in its raw state.

Public Waste Drop-off

Bavarian operates a public waste drop-off location at our Walton landfill. Here you may, for small fees, drop off your household waste or your bulky trash items. At our public drop-off, we can accept any non-hazardous waste including: household trash, yard waste, furniture, TV’s, appliances (excluding refrigerators and freezers containing Freon), mattresses, etc.
We pride ourselves on keeping our prices for this service as low as possible. We charge per ton of waste we receive with minimum load charges based on the size of the vehicle or trailer hauling the waste. For your convenience, all load charges and vehicle capacities are determined by Bavarian personnel.