Automatic Dumpster Lock Information for Waste Haulers

For solid waste haulers, the key to profitability is keeping the trucks working/moving at all times.

Our products help to maximize your profitability by providing the important advantages of container locking while keeping your drivers in the trucks so the trucks keep moving.

Incentives to Purchase Our Automatic Lock Products

Savings

At present, around ten percent, or approximately 1 million of the front end containers are manually locked. For these containers, the costs associated with manual locking systems, outlined below, make the Serio-us Automatic Dumpter Lock the better value over its manual competitors

The Serio-us Automatic Dumpster Lock reduces or eliminates the following costs associated with current manual locking:

• Eliminates all driver/truck down time associated with unlocking containers because the driver never leaves the truck. Manual locks increase the time to service a container by 20 to 40%!
• Eliminates damage to hydraulic lines and other truck parts caused by chains and the hundreds of dollars worth of associated truck down time and repair costs.
• Eliminates damage to plastic lids caused by chains.
• Eliminates the cost of replacing lost padlocks because the driver never touches the lock. The padlock becomes the responsibility of the customer, rather than the hauler.

Among the costs which are incurred when a container is left unlocked are:

• Increased landfill fees from unauthorized container use. Each time an unauthorized user dumps trash in a customer's container, the Solid Waste Hauler must pay to dump the trash at the landfill, whether or not his customer pays an extra charge.
• The unauthorized additional trash also increases the Hauler's transportation cost because more trash in each container means fewer containers serviced between trips to the landfill.
• An unlocked container also adds to the Solid Waste Hauler's cost by allowing rain to fall into the container, saturating the garbage and adding weight. This is significant since the Hauler pays by the ton at the landfill.

Locking containers reduces liability exposure:

• By keeping children and the homeless out.
• By reducing the potential of injury to the driver getting cut by something on the can or slipping on ice in the winter since he doesn't have to get out of the truch to unlock or relock the container.

ID Theft-A Hot Issue for Waste Haulers

• According to U.S. Department of Justice statistics, identity theft is now passing up drug trafficking as the number one crime in the nation.
• Identity theft remains the #1 concern among consumers contacting the Federal Trade Commission.
• A Zogby study reports that 91% of Americans are now concerned about identity theft.
• One study said that identity theft cost U.S. businesses and consumers $56.6 billion in 2005.
• The FTC estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year.
• According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, It is proven that the negative effects of identity theft or a breach of information to a business can have long term and far reaching ramifications.&nbsb; It should be a priority for business owners and executives to heighten their awareness of identity theft, and the financial and image costs of a data loss.  It is apparent that the misuse or loss of information is a concern for over 80 percent of the consumer base.  The focus of the consumer is both on their own security as well as the actions and activities of the businesses that they use.
• If one of your clients puts personal financial information from their customers into your dumpster and the information is stolen, who would be liable?
• Police Departments across the country recommend locking dumpsters as a key means for preventing ID theft.

Customer Service

A locked container conveys the message that unauthorized dumping is prohibited. This also discourages dumping around the container, keeping the area around the container neat and trash free. Thus, a better public presentation of the Hauler's product/service is maintained. In this competitive market, this factor is significant to the Hauler's sales force.