Friends with the owners

I deal with several Yards in my area some of the Bigger places (scales on site strictly business) but others are BIG little guys and by that i mean they deal with everything at there home yard and do it all by themselves. Now the advantage to these guys is that i have a few of them spaced out so no matter where i am hauling from i have a home for the stuff near by (sometimes pays less but when you can get multiple loads in per day it pays off better).

One location is a gentleman that i have been talkign to for about 10 years and used to buy vintage car parts off of to sell on the net.
When I started hauling to him this summer he would check the loads himself and one day we found a 100pound mistake (used weighed empty and full on different scales) and i actually owed him some money ($7). after that we found the perfect scale close to him to weight full and empty and got a good repor going with him. As far as i know i am the only one that gets the perks i do (everyone that comes in is welcome to look around and buy from him).

But I have the luxury of being able to Haul in while he is working on cleanups off site and just call him up with the weights and also i am able to drop off any day of the week i choose (he takes sundays and holiday weekends off) As long as i call him up tell him I'm gonna be hauling we are good i even have a somewhat personal drop off section in his yard. So if he is busy at a work-site all week i can drop loads for turn and burns like a mad man and then call him at the end of the week with my totals and collect the cash.

Another yard i used to deal with back when i first started used to do me huge favors i.e business after hours and would even let me bring in and get paid for loads on sundays if i was in a bind (last time i was there i blew a tire and they changed it for me) so i always try to become friends with the yard owners it does pay off and the payoffs are good as i am also aloud to trade weight for weight that's how i got my old trailer traded 2 rider mowers for the trailer because the weight was the same.




So who all here has good connections that do them favors, which yards make you feel like one of there favorites?