Bedford Bros Dumpster Rental

Dumpster rental services across New Bedford & the South Coast

Two brothers, one truck, and a phone somebody answered

Mark Bedford and his brother Daniel started Bedford Bros with a single roll-off and a handful of containers. The idea was not clever — it was simply that the haulers working this stretch of the South Coast were hard to reach, vague about timing, and quick to add a charge nobody had mentioned on the phone.

So the pitch was the opposite. One number that covers the job. A delivery time, then actually hitting it. Answering the phone yourself. In a city the size of New Bedford word moves quickly — one remodeller tells another, a roofer mentions it to a supplier — and inside a couple of years one truck was not enough.

The company is bigger now. The rules have not moved.

Where we work

The South Coast is a specific place, and it shows in the work

Serving this corner of Massachusetts properly means knowing things a national dispatcher never will. That the village lanes at Padanaram and Mattapoisett were laid out for a different century of traffic. That sandy coastal subgrade behaves nothing like the glacial till inland around Lakeville and Rochester. That a long cranberry-bog drive holds a loaded truck fine in October and will not in late March.

It means knowing the housing. New Bedford's triple-deckers and Victorians carry plaster and lath that weighs several times what modern drywall does — a couple of rooms of it will surprise you — along with pre-1980 lead paint and asbestos-era materials that have to be assessed before anything gets broken up.

And it means the calendar. The autumn roofing rush before the weather turns. Interior renovation through winter. UMass Dartmouth move-out. Seasonal turnovers on the waterfront at Marion and Westport. And every spring, the whole region deciding at once that the basement is finally getting cleared.