Scrapping without a Pick-Up truck?

Honestly if I didn't have a truck and trailers, I'd probably go out of business. However your question got me thinking. If I had to do it all over again from scratch without a truck, I would rebrand as an electronics recycler and go for all the small bits that could fit. At one point when my truck was down, I used my Grand AM to pickup a literal basement full of old PC parts. Lots of good stuff in there, wire, batteries, boards, even old PC towers with the Pentium Pros. If you can't scrape $500 for a beat up truck, keep it small then. Also as a bonus tip, seriously go out on Craigslist and buy the best runner $500 can get you. When it kicks out, you can scrap that truck for roughly your purchase price and buy another. That way your actual investment toward the vehicles comes out be more like $100.