Bates Trucking & Trash Removal

What Bates Trucking & Trash Removal does

Bates Trucking & Trash Removal is a privately held, for-profit waste services company headquartered in Bladensburg, Maryland, founded in 1961. The company provides trash collection and recycling disposal services, including environmentally friendly recycling, to customers in its operating geography. Its core offering is conventional solid-waste and recyclables hauling — a fleet-based collection service rather than a technology platform — and its business model is built on recurring collection contracts with residential, commercial, and/or municipal customers, consistent with the standard revenue mechanics of a regional U.S. waste hauler. Public inputs disclose no proprietary technology, no app or software product, and no integration or API surface; the company's own website returned a CAPTCHA/verification page and did not yield operational detail. There is no management team, funding, M&A, partnership, certification, or pricing data in the source set, and the 101–250 employee range is the only quantitative scale signal.

Name

Bates Trucking & Trash Removal

Website

https://batestrucking.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1961

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Bates Trucking & Trash Removal is a privately held, Bladensburg, Maryland-based waste and recycling hauler founded in 1961, offering trash collection and environmentally friendly recycling disposal to local residential and commercial customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Management Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Collection (5621), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Trucking & Courier Services (No Air) (4210)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Curbside MSW Collection (Cart-Based) (EUAIAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Residential Junk Removal & Hauling (HSAKALAA), Eco-Friendly Disposal, Recycling & Donation Hauling (HSAIAOAJ), Appliance & Furniture Removal (HSAKALAG)

Keywords

• Waste hauling services
• Trash removal
• Recycling disposal
• Solid waste collection
• Commercial waste management

Headquarters

HQ city

Bladensburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Core offering

Bates Trucking & Trash Removal provides trash hauling and recycling disposal services to customers in the Bladensburg, Maryland area. The company offers environmentally friendly recycling services as part of its solid waste management operations, serving clients in the United States since 1961.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Trash Removal Service Trash hauling and disposal service for solid waste, providing scheduled collection and removal for customers in the Bladensburg, Maryland region.
• Recycling Disposal Service Environmentally friendly recycling disposal services for recyclable materials, offered as part of the company's solid waste management operations.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Republic Services: Second-largest US waste and recycling company with extensive route-based collection services. Directly comparable as a competing hauler for residential and commercial accounts in the Mid-Atlantic, with a national network that can outbid regional operators.
• Waste Connections: Major solid waste services company with significant US presence including the Mid-Atlantic. Comparable because it competes for the same commercial and municipal collection contracts, but with greater scale and integrated disposal assets.
• Waste Management, Inc. Largest North American waste hauler offering residential curbside collection, commercial pickup, recycling, and disposal. Comparable because it directly competes for the same municipal and commercial contracts in the DC metro region, but operates at vastly greater scale across a national footprint.
• Casella Waste Systems: Regional vertically integrated solid waste, recycling, and resource management operator in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Comparable because it pursues the same recycling and collection economics in adjacent geographies, often overlapping with regional haulers like Bates.

Emerging players

• LoadUp: Tech-enabled on-demand junk removal and hauling company serving multiple US markets. Comparable as a direct competitor for hauling jobs, differentiated by digital booking and upfront pricing that traditional haulers like Bates lack.

Direct peers

• 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Largest North American junk removal franchise offering on-demand hauling of household and commercial items. Directly comparable to the trash and junk removal component of Bates' offering, though its model is franchise-based and on-demand rather than contracted route work.
• College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving: National junk removal and moving franchise with strong local service presence. Comparable to the trash removal and hauling aspect of Bates' business, particularly for residential and small commercial customers.
• Junk King: Franchised junk removal and hauling company serving residential and commercial customers across the US. Comparable because it competes for the same customer-driven trash and bulky item removal jobs that complement Bates' core hauling services.

Regional players

• Priority Waste: Regional waste and recycling hauler focused on commercial front-load and roll-off service in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Comparable as a same-region competitor chasing similar commercial accounts, with overlapping service area in the DC metro.
• County Waste of Virginia: Privately held regional waste and recycling company operating across Virginia with residential and commercial collection. Comparable to Bates as a similarly sized regional private hauler competing for accounts in the same Mid-Atlantic geography.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/batestrucking
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bates-trucking-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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