If you’ve never been here don’t bother. Confusing signs rude employees. I understand this is a dump and it’s dirty but there’s garbage everywhere, construction garbage with nails broken glass etc everywhere including where you have to drive. Might as well drive straight through the dump. We had to navigate a maze of heavy machinery including driving under a loader bucket to get around and out. With debris everywhere I’m just hoping I don’t get 4 flat tires.
If you’re going in a commercial vehicle like a dump truck maybe but I’d think twice about bringing my personal vehicle here. If I knew better I wouldn’t have.
It’s the only transfer station around there not cheap because they know you got no choice but they are getting it done and without them we’d be in trouble
Do not go here. It is not quick. It is not easy. They hoodwink you with how much it will be. You will be spending a lot of time and money, even if you dump 1 teddy bear. Find somewhere else to dump and your life will be 100% better.
It's a dump. Long wait time. The fat woman at the desk was super rude. She yelled at me for not reading a sign that was posted behind a worker who was lounging in front of it. The men working in the actual dump were helpful at least.
Easy in. Easy out. Was a bit confusing as to where we had to drive as a residential visitor. Had to wear hard hats so bring your own if you can. They have some there for lending out
High wait times are common ,However seeing how many trucks that go through I'm surprised it moves so fast. The staff and Scale house people are awesome, polite and helpful. They all work very hard to get the job done!!!
For Salem residents: don't expect the staff to be helpful here. With their demeanor I am surprised I didn't get yelled at for asking genuine questions. :) Drive your car up to the booth, hand in your coupon and driver's license, go dump where they tell you to, come back to the booth on the other side and going the opposite direction to re-weigh your car and collect the license back along with the receipt. Easy peasy.
All around the best dump in the area, not “one of the best”, they are the best period. Mainly because you’re in and out in a breeze, and the staff here is great to work with. Love this place.
Held hostage because of Town of Salem contracting to these folks. Town of Salem transfer station does not take kitchen cabinets so you have to pay $25 and then wait in a line that goes down the entirety of the entrance all the way to the main road. Been waiting about 40min so far and not even halfway to the gate. Was like this last time I was here. It would be great if they could have a scale/entrance for town folks in pickup trucks rather than sitting for an hour+ with the commercial trucks. Reasoning for this is I get waved to an inconspicuous corner right by the gate and away from the commercial trucks anyways. Makes no sense since once I get past the gate non-commercial trucks go a different route.
Terrible. Got there, pulled onto the weigh in station after waiting for someone to at least wave us on (they didn't). Then waited for someone to say we could move on from there (once again no one did). Pulled forward to the stop sign to wait for someone to tell us where to dump. Waited 5 minutes, a man finally ran out of the tiny shed with an attitude. Shoo'ed us over to a dump area went back inside his shed which I'm assuming has A/C and he just didn't feel like doing his job on the 95° day. It's a good thing i have been here before because if not I wouldn't have known how the hell to get out of there. No direction, no signs. Pulled around back huge loader not paying attention what so ever almost backs into us. To the point we had to back up. Still didnt see us. Drove around the back. Got stuck behind someone just parked in front of the weigh station to get out of the dump. Finally got to the weigh station. Got out to speak with woman in the building. Waited outside the window (usually they open it for you and greet you, not in this case) was waved with an attitude to open the window. She was in the middle of the room, you had to lean into the room to get the paper and pay her! Not one word said other than the price. A hefty $157 for 980 lbs. 0.49 ton. Not even a Ton at over $150!? Ridiculous! Too bad the closest ones aside from that one are town resident only dumps.
Hopfully they clean up their act and do their jobs some time soon.
The womans name was Kathryn McGowan.
Oh and she put the wrong company on the slip. I'm in hudson, she put a company from dracut, only thing the same was the first name.
Not for nothing, the company name was on the truck!
Thats all.
I arrive before closing but I was still denied service by this company and I have been a faithful customer. Bring your business over to North Andover at North carding recycling plant. They have a $50 minimum and they’ll treat you like a human being and the customer that you are. I will never be back to this particular transfer station ever again they will never get another dollar from me
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