The container that fits your Taft driveway isn't always the one that fits your project. Your street in Taft sits inside a Kern County service zone, and knowing which one narrows your options before you commit to a date. Brick, stone, and broken concrete are dense enough that even a modest pile of them can push a load past its included tonnage, while that same container filled with cardboard would barely register.
Strict diversion requirements and widespread C&D recycling sits at the end of the route, and the distance to it from your address is part of what scheduling has to account for. Private ground asks nothing of you. Public right-of-way asks for city encroachment permits, CalRecycle diversion reporting first.
A hauler doesn't keep a separate fleet for Taft; it draws from whatever's free across Kern County that day. The market in Taft is small enough that California haulers schedule it around bigger stops nearby, which is the reason lead time here runs longer than it would in a larger metro. Most homes around here date to pre-war bungalows through 1960s-70s slab tracts, and that single fact does more to set load weight than the project itself. Placement on soft ground in Taft can leave ruts that outlast the project by months. If two projects are happening at once, keep the piles separate at the curb so nothing but the right debris ends up in the container.