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Fill dirt "ethics"

What do you do?

  • Customer pays full contract price--a deal is a deal.

    Votes: 68 78.2%
  • Pass along the savings to the customer. They shouldn't have to pay for material that's free.

    Votes: 6 6.9%
  • Split the difference with the customer somehow.

    Votes: 13 14.9%

  • Total voters
    87

digger242j

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Oct 31, 2003
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Location
Southwestern PA
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Self employed excavator
Evil places those casinos and are best avoided.

Well, one thing's for sure--they certainly don't make any distinction between taking a rich man's money or a poor man's money...
 

earthmoverv

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Joined
May 16, 2009
Messages
15
Location
pittsburg
Occupation
project manager main bid supervisor safty regulato
fill dirt

I factor closest haul to price to dump to possible sale of dirt and always ask people in the area perferably before the job starts maybe make money maybe not. keep your eys open to the surronding area kind of like deer hunting:D
 

Colorado Digger

Senior Member
Joined
Dec 3, 2008
Messages
1,169
Location
Carbondale,co
here is how we do it here. If i am digging and you need fill and it is within the turn time i have quoted i will haul it to you all day , trucking included. that we i save on the dump fee and help my friends out. when i am backfilling and need fill , i get it hauled to me for free. of course we are charging for the export and import, but saving on dump fees. now there are a few guy's who can't get anyone to take their material and have to haul it to the dump. so they have a higher cost on export and have to self provide or buy import
 
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