Dumpsters for remodeling...any advice welcome!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Yeah concrete in dumpsters can be dicey.

The dumpsters I’ve seen have max fill lines for concrete. They are usually the shallow dumpsters - maybe 15 yards.

When I got out of college a guy at my first job talked me into helping demo his asphalt driveway.

I borrowed/rented my old boss’ dump truck. I had taken a couple loads to the landfill and left the truck overnight for my buddy and his wife to fill it.

Anyway, I get there the next day and my buddy had overfilled the thing but I didn’t think too much about it. I pull out of the subdivision and there is a cop sitting there. He pulls me over and starts looking the truck over. I almost had him bamboozled by saying it’s a old truck and the springs are weak so that’s why it’s sagging… asphalt doesn’t way that much (lol) …

Until an Illinois state cop pulls up. He asks me for the registration and when I handed him the envelope with registration in it there was a ticket my old boss had apparently just received a couple weeks prior. The cop is like “oh you done this before” - there was no more talking.

He dragged me around the south west Chicago suburbs looking for a scale.

The fine was $975 bucks. I had to spend an hour in the Burr Ridge jail until my buddy paid the fine. My old boss thought it was hilarious. He laughed and said they probably had wallpaper on the cell walls. Actually it was just a locked interview room but it was hard time LOL.

Come to find out they had just changed the fines and the splits to the municipalities so all the towns were after overweight trucks. My boss was like “they probably made that cop Chief of Police with that big score.”