With this review, I hope to help anyone who is considering taking their scrap metal to Country Boyz Metal. Here are some observations that were made from a recent trip.
If you have never been here before, it may take some time on where to take your ferrous and non-ferrous metals to their proper stations. If you go to the wrong area, then expect to lose your place in line. When I arrived, there were only a few vehicles bringing in metal. The weighing staff was able to move through the line fairly quickly. Wait times here can vary greatly. I would try to arrive mid-week during the morning hours if possible.
When you drop off your scrap metal, the scale is faced away from you. You will not get to see your scrap being weighed (at least at the non-ferrous area). You have to take their word for it. Once the scrap has been weighed, a staff member will give you a sealed envelope to take to the pay window. You are not allowed to open it. Only the man at the pay window can open the sealed envelope. I will let you decide if this is considered fair practice or not.
Once you get your envelope, you will now drive to the pay window. You will now encounter a large balding man who will verbally yell questions at you. You have been warned, and this will happen every time you visit here. After some serious interrogation, you will get paid cash for your transaction.
Make sure you call before you load up your items and make the trip to Country Boyz. They are closed most days that fall on and around national holidays. For example, they are closed for two weeks around the 4th of July holiday. This place is also closed on weekends. The business location is off the beaten path and may be difficult for some to find.
I will let you decide if you are still interested in making a trip here. The operating hours may be inconvenient for some. The time to gather your scrap, drive to this location, wait to unload, and wait to get paid may not be worth it.
When picking up scrap metal in a tractor and trailer( 80,000 pound gross vehicle weight )to bring back to Recycle West Virginia in Princeton West Virginia, we drivers have no choice to get loaded with 83,000-84,000 pounds. That means we are over maximum vehicle weight capacity of 3,000-4,000. Berry Iron and Metal does not have an overweight permit for Kentucky or West Virginia,only in Virginia up to 84,000. Yes, that means if we drivers don’t pull overweight loads we can get wrote up or if we deny to pull overweight we get threatened by the owner of Country Boyz saying if we refuse he will call Berry to either to write us up or get fired by said employer. So if this is going on for the drivers, I can only imagine the short change you get when you sell your scrap metal.To show how cheap the owner of Country Boyz is, his crane operator had to quit for 2 weeks just to get a raise, I don’t know how much it was , but he came back, still making slave wages and jumping whenever Dave says jump! I hope in time Kentucky D.O.T. comes in and does an audit on the scale tickets and fines the crap out of his company , but then again he probably has them paid off under the table as well. So when you see a Berry Iron and Metals truck leaving, you can bet at least 83,000 pounds or more and I hope one of you local people call the Highway Patrol to report this ,for if not when the brakes fail or flip over for being top heavy in front you killing your family, you can say YOU WERE WARNED ABOUT COUNTRY BOYZ SCRAP AND THE SHADY OWNER DAVE AND HIS DAD!! Good day and safe travels!!!
Took two big batteries in and they took them as lawnmower batteries not truck batteries, delt with the same thing everytime I take things to them, so they believe in ripping off people
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