**Podcast Transcript: Discussion with Wyatt Smith from Done Right Dumpster**

**Host**: All right. Here with Wyatt Smith from Done Right Dumpster and my colleague Bo Boston. How are you doing, Wyatt?

**Wyatt Smith**: Great. Can’t complain. How about yourself?

**Host**: Doing great. This is the first time I’ve met you. I don’t know much about your business. I don’t know if our cameras can pick this up, but it’s called Done Right Dumpster. So, let’s just start there. Done Right Dumpster, tell me what you do, and then we’ll work maybe backwards a little bit to figure out how you know this guy.

**Wyatt Smith**: So, with Done Right Dumpsters, previously known as Smith’s Dumpster Rental, we provide short-term rentals for commercial and residential clients. We solve people’s headaches. When someone calls a dumpster rental company, especially around here with the big guys, you sit on hold for an hour and a half. Half the time the call fails before you get somebody, and then they tell you next week.

**Host**: Who are the big guys?

**Wyatt Smith**: So, you got Republic Services and Harden Sanitation. Harden Sanitation is owned by Waste Connections, which is just as big as Republic Services countrywide.

**Host**: Okay.

**Wyatt Smith**: We shoot for same-day service. A big thing that we pride ourselves on, which obviously you guys pride yourselves on, is clean trucks and clean equipment. We strive for a good image, which brings a good image to us and whoever uses us. If a contractor brings us onto a job site, they look good too because our equipment is clean and not beat up. We show up with bright yellow dumpsters.

**Host**: Where’s your hub at?

**Wyatt Smith**: Our yard is just down in the boulevard, basically Middleton Road in the boulevard there. We rent a yard, but best case scenario, I don’t have any dumpsters in the yard because they’re all out on job sites.

**Host**: So, same-day service. If I called you today and said, “Hey, I got a tenant that’s trashed our rental. I want to just gut it, throw it all out,” you could do it?

**Wyatt Smith**: Not a problem.

**Host**: That’s awesome. And if for some reason we can’t do same-day service, it’s going to be the next day. But we’re more than willing to work after hours for our clients as long as the landfill is open.

**Host**: So, you’ve been here four years. What brought you over to this valley then?

**Wyatt Smith**: Before I moved here, I was building a fence in central Oregon, living in Bend and traveling a lot for work. My body was already falling apart, got arthritis and stuff, so I decided to move. A buddy of mine bought a house over here, and I just moved over, dragging my girlfriend, now wife, along with me. I was looking for something to do for myself, and pressure washing and dumpster rentals came onto my radar. I posted an ad to see which got more hits and it was dumpsters. So, I sold most of my cattle and started with a roll-off trailer.

**Host**: How many employees do you have right now?

**Wyatt Smith**: None, it’s just me, an owner-operator, but I’m looking to grow this spring.

**Host**: You’ve had an interesting journey, and as a one-person operation, you’ve managed to accomplish quite a lot. Looking ahead, what are your goals for the next year?

**Wyatt Smith**: My goals for this year include expanding to about 40 containers and hiring a full-time driver for our single axle. I also aim to establish a three-man crew for demolition tasks, including a sales guy, a driver, and an operator for the equipment.

**Host**: What advice do you have for people listening who might want to start their own business?

**Wyatt Smith**: Be hard-headed and go after it. You’re not going to get anything done by just thinking about it. Take a step forward and start with what you have. You don’t need to begin with expensive equipment. I started with a roll-off trailer because that’s what I could afford, and it was an easy entry into the market. It’s important to take that step and make it happen.

**Host**: Well, thank you, Wyatt. Thank you, Bo, and thanks to everyone for listening.

**Wyatt & Bo**: Thank you!