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Your driver spent forty minutes looking for a bin that was forty feet from the gate.

A site supervisor knew that container was full at seven this morning. He had nobody to tell but a phone line that rings out. A QR sticker on the bin changes that — one scan, a company PIN, and your dispatcher gets the exact container and its GPS location in seconds. No phone tag. No wrong address. Works alongside the dispatch software you already run.

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Métis-Owned Canadian Business
Data Stored in Canada
PIPEDA Compliant
30–90
Min/Stop Searching
70–90%
Utilization Target
60–80%
Costs Are Hauling
15–20%
Productivity Lost
PIN
Secured Requests
The Gap

The bin was full on Monday. You found out on Thursday.

The supervisor on a big site knows exactly which container is full and exactly where it sits. He knew at seven in the morning. The problem is what he's supposed to do with that.

He can call the office — if he can find the number, if someone picks up, if he can describe which bin on a twelve-acre site and where it got moved to since the last haul. More likely he shrugs, throws one more load on top, and gets back to running his crew. It is not his job to chase your dispatcher.

So the bin overflows for three days, and the first you hear of it is an angry call from the GC.

Meanwhile your driver rolls onto that site on Thursday with a work order that says "swap the 40-yard by the north gate." There is no bin by the north gate. It got moved to the east lay-down area on Tuesday. He spends forty minutes driving the site looking for it, or calls dispatch, who calls the GC, who calls the super, who is now at lunch.

None of this is a lost bin. You know roughly where your containers are. What you don't have is a ten-second way for the one person standing next to the bin to tell the one person who can dispatch a truck. That gap is where the wasted hours live — and NotifyMeBins is built to close it and nothing else.

How It Works

One scan. A PIN. Your dispatcher has it.

No app to install, no account for the supervisor, no training. The whole point is that a busy person with dirty gloves can do it in the time it takes to read this sentence.

1
Sticker on every container
A weatherproof QR decal on each roll-off, bin, or box. Outdoor-grade vinyl specified for road salt, mud, freeze-thaw and a rough life on a job site. Each container carries its own code, so the scan already knows which unit it is.
2
Supervisor scans + enters a PIN
Phone camera, no app. The company PIN you issued confirms this is an authorized site, not a passer-by. He picks what he needs — full, ready, blocked — adds a note or photo, and sends.
3
Dispatch gets the exact bin + GPS
Your dispatcher gets an instant alert: which container, what's needed, and the GPS coordinate of where it actually is right now — not where the work order said it was three days ago.
4
Logged against the container
Every request, response and haul recorded against that unit. That becomes your service history per container and per customer — useful for billing disputes, utilization review, and proving response times to the GC.
What Gets Reported

Six things a supervisor needs to say, in plain language

The scan form uses words a site super actually uses, not dispatch codes. Each one lands as a structured request your team can route.

Bin is full
The core request
  • Needs a swap — empty and return the same size
  • Needs a haul — take it, no replacement needed yet
  • Approaching full — schedule ahead so it never overflows
Ready for pickup
End of phase
  • Job phase done — pull the container off site
  • Final haul and close out the placement
  • Frees the asset for the next job instead of sitting idle
Blocked or inaccessible
Saves a wasted trip
  • Parked vehicle, material, or equipment in the way
  • Access road impassable — mud, snow, active pour
  • Reported before the truck rolls, not after it arrives
Moved or wrong size
Fixes stale work orders
  • Container relocated on site — new GPS captured automatically
  • Wrong size for the material — needs a different unit
  • An extra bin needed at a new drop point
Damaged or unsafe
Asset protection
  • Bent door, sprung hinge, or a container that won't close
  • Damaged in a way that risks spillage in transit
  • Flag it for repair before it goes back on a truck
Contamination or overload
Protects your tip fees
  • Wrong material in a sorted or clean-fill bin
  • Overloaded past the fill line or over legal weight
  • Photo attached so you can price the surcharge fairly

The report types are configurable per operator — you decide which options a supervisor sees. The list above is the common default for roll-off and construction container operations.

The Real Cost

This isn't about losing bins. It's about wasting trucks.

GPS asset trackers tell you where a container is. They cost thousands per unit and still can't tell you it's full, and someone still has to phone it in. The money in this business isn't leaking out of lost assets — it's leaking out of trucks and hours spent on avoidable trips.

30–90
Minutes lost per problem stop
Time a driver burns hunting for a container that isn't where dispatch expected, or arriving to a bin that's blocked or not actually ready. That's windshield time you paid for and billed nobody.
Recovered by a real-time report
70–90%
Where good operators run utilization
The gap between mediocre and well-run container utilization runs into six figures a year on a 20-bin fleet. Idle bins and false trips are the whole difference, and both come from stale information.
Improved by faster turns
60–80%
Of waste-handling cost is hauling
Collection and transportation dominate total cost in the sector (EPA). Every unnecessary roll of a truck hits the most expensive line you have. Cutting false and repeat trips is the highest-leverage saving available.
EPA — sector cost structure
15–20%
Productivity lost to bad routing
Inefficient routing and unused assets cost operators a meaningful slice of productivity (SWANA). A real-time signal from the person at the bin is what lets a dispatcher route against reality instead of a three-day-old assumption.
SWANA — industry estimate
The Point

The cheap layer that makes your dispatch and GPS spend worth more

You may already run dispatch software. You may already have GPS on some assets. Neither of them hears from the supervisor standing next to a full bin — they only know what your office knew when the work order was cut. NotifyMeBins is the front door that feeds real-time reality into everything downstream.

The report comes in the moment the bin is full, from the exact spot the bin is sitting. Your dispatcher routes against that instead of finding out three days later. You are not short of trucks. You are short of a channel from the person at the bin to the person at the desk.

What It Isn't

We are the missing front door — not a dispatch system, not an asset tracker

Roll-off software is a mature category. We are deliberately not trying to be another one of these, and we'll tell you plainly where we stop.

What NotifyMeBins is NOT
We don't replace what you run
  • Not a dispatch, routing or billing platform — keep Roll-Off Amigo, Bin Boss, Trash Flow, CurbWaste, HaulerHero or whatever you use
  • Not a $6,000-per-container GPS asset tracker — we capture the bin's location at the moment of the scan, not a live telemetry feed
  • Not a scale or a certified weight system
  • Not another login for your dispatcher to babysit
What NotifyMeBins IS
The ten-second intake layer
  • The front door your dispatch software never had — the supervisor's ten-second way in
  • A structured request with the exact container ID, the need, and a GPS pin
  • PIN-gated so only your authorized sites can raise a request
  • Able to hand the request straight to your existing system by webhook, or to a URL you choose
Being Precise

Every incumbent is built for the hauler's desk. None of them are built for the person at the bin.

The mature tools all solve dispatching, routing, and billing brilliantly — for your office and your drivers. What none of them solve is intake from a site supervisor who has no login, no app, and no reason to learn one. That person is where the delay starts, and that person is the only one NotifyMeBins is designed to serve.

So this doesn't compete with your dispatch platform. It feeds it. Think of it as the cheap layer that makes the expensive layer actually reflect what's happening on the ground.

Old vs. New

The phone-tag way versus the ten-second way

Same request. Two completely different amounts of everyone's day.

Today
Phone tag, hold music, guesswork
  • Supervisor has to find a number and actually get through
  • "Which bin? What address? Where on the site?" — over the phone
  • Request lands as a note that may or may not get logged
  • Work order says one location; the bin got moved days ago
  • Driver arrives to a blocked, missing, or not-actually-ready bin
  • Bin overflows for days before anyone in the office hears
  • No record of who asked for what, or when you responded
With NotifyMeBins
One scan, straight to dispatch
  • Scan the bin that's already in front of them — no number to find
  • Container ID is automatic; GPS is captured at the scan
  • Request is structured, logged, and time-stamped by default
  • The pin shows where the bin actually is, right now
  • Blocked or not-ready is flagged before the truck rolls
  • Dispatch hears the moment it's full, not three days later
  • Full history per container and per customer, permanently
Straight Talk

What this is, and what it isn't

It only works if the supervisor scans. That's the honest open question with any intake tool — the friction is a phone camera and about ten seconds, and it's genuinely faster than the phone call, but it's a behaviour we're proving in pilots rather than a result we've banked at scale. Ask us for a measured pilot on one or two of your busiest sites and you'll know inside a few weeks whether scans are actually coming in.

It is not your dispatch system and won't pretend to be. If you already run routing and billing software, keep it. This feeds that. If you don't, the standalone dashboard is enough to run bin requests off — but we're not going to oversell it as a full operations platform.

The PIN is intake control, not Fort Knox. A company PIN stops random passers-by and keeps requests tied to your authorized sites. It is deliberately simple so a supervisor will actually use it. For higher-control customers we can scope per-site PINs; that's a setup conversation, not a different product.

The GPS is a scan-time snapshot, not live tracking. We record where the container was when it was scanned. That's exactly what solves the "where did it get moved to" problem, and it costs a sticker instead of a hardware tracker — but it is not a continuous telemetry feed and we won't market it as one.

Who It's For

Anyone whose containers sit on someone else's site

Wherever the person who knows the bin is full isn't the person who can send a truck.

Roll-off & C&D haulers
Construction and demolition containers spread across big, changing sites where bins get moved and work orders go stale by the day.
Industrial & commercial waste
Plants, yards and facilities where a floor supervisor — not the office — is the first to know a container is full or contaminated.
Recycling & scrap operators
Sorted and clean-fill streams where contamination caught early at the bin protects your tip fees and your loads.
Small & growing haulers
Operators without a big dispatch stack who need the intake channel first and can run the whole thing off the standalone dashboard.
Integrations

Works on its own. Feeds what you already run.

Useful on day one with nothing connected, and able to hand every request straight into your existing dispatch stack.

Standalone from day one
Instant SMS and email to your dispatcher, plus the full web dashboard with every open request and its GPS pin. No other software required. This is how most operators start.
SMSEmailDashboard
Into your dispatch & billing software
Webhooks fire on every request with the full payload — container ID, request type, GPS, timestamp, photo. Open a service ticket or work order automatically in the system you already run.
REST APIWebhooksCSV Export
Or route scans to your own system
Configure a custom destination URL per container and the scan goes straight there instead of into the NotifyMe flow. We store the URL and route the scan; whatever lives at the other end is yours to build and support.
Custom RedirectPer-Container
Canadian entity, Canadian invoice
NotifyMe Inc., a Métis-owned Canadian federal corporation. Billed in CAD, no exchange surprises.
Data stored in Canada
Personal information stored and processed in the Canada Central region. PIPEDA and CASL compliant.
Live in a day
Decals on the bins, PIN issued to your sites, dispatcher on the alert list. No hardware, no install.
No lock-in
Keep your dispatch platform. Change it whenever you like and nothing here breaks.
FAQ

The questions waste operators actually ask

Including the skeptical ones.

Your dispatch software is superb at what happens after a request exists — routing, scheduling, billing. What it doesn't have is a way for a site supervisor with no login and no app to create that request in ten seconds from beside the bin. That intake gap is the only thing NotifyMeBins fills. The request it captures can flow straight into your existing platform by webhook, so this adds a front door rather than replacing anything.

Hardware asset trackers run into thousands of dollars per container and tell you where a bin is, not that it's full — and someone still has to phone in the service request. NotifyMeBins captures the container's location at the moment of the scan, which solves the "where did it get moved to" problem for the price of a sticker, and it captures the actual need at the same time. If you already run trackers, this is the missing signal they don't provide.

The company PIN confirms the scan came from an authorized site rather than a random member of the public who noticed a QR code. It's deliberately simple — a short code you issue to your customers' supervisors — so it adds a couple of seconds, not a login. For customers who want tighter control we can scope per-site PINs. The goal is enough gating to keep requests legitimate without making it something a busy person won't bother with.

Each container's sticker carries its own unique code, so the scan already identifies the exact unit — no "which one is it" conversation. On top of that, the supervisor's phone provides a GPS coordinate at the moment of the scan, so your dispatcher sees precisely where on the site the bin is sitting today, even if it was relocated since the last haul. That's the difference between a work order that says "north gate" and a pin that shows the east lay-down yard.

No, and we'll say so on the record. Those are mature dispatch-and-billing platforms built for your office and your drivers, and they're good at it. NotifyMeBins solves a different problem none of them address — intake from the supervisor at the bin. Keep your platform; we feed it. If anything, we make that investment more valuable, because it finally reflects what's happening on the ground in real time.

They're outdoor-grade vinyl with UV-stable ink, specified for mud, road salt, freeze-thaw cycling and the general abuse of a construction container. We place them where they stay visible and readable, replacements are cheap and included, and they're applied in minutes without pulling a bin out of service.

The company PIN is the first gate — no PIN, no request. Beyond that, every submission carries the container ID, a GPS coordinate and a timestamp you can cross-reference, and automated photo and text moderation runs before anything reaches your dispatcher. Rate limiting catches repeat abuse. Because requests are tied to real containers on real sites, a bogus one is easy to spot and dismiss.

Yes. Any container can be configured with a custom destination URL, and the scan routes there rather than into the NotifyMe flow — useful if you have your own intake portal or want a fully branded page. To be clear about the boundary: we store the URL and route the scan to it, and whatever lives at the other end is your system to build and support. We deliberately don't reach into it.

NotifyMe Inc., a Canadian federal corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act, corporation number 1805631-5, governed by the laws of Saskatchewan and the federal laws of Canada. Your invoice is in Canadian dollars from a Canadian entity, and personal information is stored in the Canada Central region under PIPEDA and CASL. If you also operate in the US, our Wyoming affiliate NotifyMe LLC serves that market at notifymebins.com.

Yes. NotifyMe Inc. is majority owned and controlled by a Métis co-founder. If your organization or your customers have Indigenous procurement policies, supplier-diversity targets, or community benefit obligations, we can provide ownership documentation to your procurement team.

Priced per location or per container per year in Canadian dollars, dashboard included, set well below what a single wasted truck roll costs you. We're finalizing tiers with our first hauler partners and would rather quote against your actual container count and site mix than post a number that doesn't fit. Book a demo and you'll get a real figure in the conversation.

The NotifyMe Platform

One platform. One dashboard. One invoice.

NotifyMeBins is one vertical of a shared reporting platform. If you run trucks as well as containers, the fleet products sit on the same dashboard and the same invoice.

● Live
NotifyMeBins
QR bin reporting with PIN-secured requests and GPS to dispatch. You're on it.
◷ Coming Soon
NotifyMeFleet
Public defect reporting for your trucks — a bystander scans a wobbling wheel or a loose strap and your driver and safety manager are both alerted with GPS.
◷ Coming Soon
NotifyMeDriving
How's My Driving, modernized. QR reports with GPS and vehicle ID into a coaching dashboard — no 1-800 number.
◷ Coming Soon
NotifyMeRV
The consumer side of the platform, for RV and trailer owners on the highway and at seasonal sites.
Book a Demo

Let's look at your busiest sites

Tell us how many containers you run and where the phone-tag and false-trip pain is worst. We'll show you the full flow — scan, PIN, dispatch alert, log — and talk through a measured pilot on a site or two. We respond within one business day.

Canadian entity
NotifyMe Inc., a Métis-owned Canadian federal corporation (CBCA #1805631-5). Priced and invoiced in CAD. Data stored in Canada. PIPEDA and CASL compliant.
Pilot partners wanted
We're onboarding a small number of Canadian haulers as pilot partners with preferential pricing, direct access to us, and measured utilization results you can act on.
Operating in the United States?
US customers are served by our Wyoming affiliate at notifymebins.com with USD pricing.

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