scrapping/curbco withdrawls

Well this is the 3rd friday in a row that i havent gone curb shopping , it feels wierd. Havent been to my yard in about three weeks ethier . I guess its that time of year . Curbco is slow and this unprecidented price drop . Its $0.075 a # for shred. Oh well . Anybody else facing this ? Regret not having solid contracts like some of you guys .

I'm in the exact same boat. Curb co. has been slow and the yard went from 200 ton to 140 a ton in the last 2 weeks. All my stuff is coming from auctions. Its actually cheaper to buy scrap than hit Curb co.

I got 340# after spending 3.25 hours and about 10.00 in gas over 2 days at Curb co. = $23.80 - $10.00

vs

540# spending 45 mins to pick up the auction, $1.40 for 4 steel bathtubs (1 cast iron), and 8.00 for gas = $37.80 - $8.00 - $1.40.

thinking of auctions and steel I was joking about this the other day for non electronic scrappers cause I usually can buy a pallet of 50-60 computers for $40 mind you there picked of hds and some memory if its newer but I get about $60-70 or more if more servers in steel alone. the joking was that buy for steel alone load a pallet cut it and dump it if ya wanted.

My yard is 40 miles away.

I fill at least 1 30 yard bin per week.

They don't want to send me bins anymore because the cost of trucking is "so high" and apparently 4 tons a week is no longer worth their while.

PLUS they dropped me from 150 to 130 a m/t this week.

My scrap metal hauling is the majority of my living these days and it sure is tough getting paid less and less every year.