Quota, premiums and penalty’s creates competition among smaller yards unless they have a monopoly in your neighbourhood.

Quota is one reason yards are willing to up the price for incoming volume over the guy only bringing in a couple hundred pounds of copper or aluminium. It assures the yard owner will meet his quota.



In another lifetime hauling scrap cars I formed a union with several other haulers upping the tonnage we brought in under a common name enabling the group to benefit on premium pricing.

If you have the space to store wrecks you'll get paid premium prices from the guys who make the circuit doing the crush, plus you save on fuel by marshaling your inventory. When I had my yard in BC, we relied on the non ferrous to keep bread on the table, this material I would haul into Vancouver once a month while waiting for the crusher to make his yearly appearance.

With each monthly or bi monthly haul of non ferrous i would have enough material to get my premium pricing. So you really dont have to haul serious tonnage daily to get this price, yards owners form bonds with regular guys who bring in tonnage, speak a different language. Yards seldom cheat if at all the heavy hauler.