Tell us the address and the yardage
Give us the delivery address, how many cubic yards you need and what you are doing with it. The minimum order is 20 cubic yards. If you are not sure about the yardage or the material, say that instead of guessing. It is a 2 minute conversation and it is cheaper than a wrong load.
How do I reach you?
What should I have ready?
Delivery address, cubic yards, material, and the date you need it by. If you have a plan, an engineer's specification or a competing quote, have that to hand too. A competing quote has to be reviewed before the order goes in if you want it matched.
Gate width, overhead lines, how firm the ground is, and exactly where you want the load tipped. This is what decides whether we send a dump truck carrying 8 to 12 cubic yards or an 18-wheeler carrying 16 to 24.
Whether someone will be there at delivery to direct the driver, and whether you have a loader or tractor to move the pile once it lands. 20 cubic yards is about 30 tons and the driver tips it once.
What happens after you get my details?
We come back with a price against your delivery address, the material and the yardage, plus the delivery window that fits your date. If anything about the job needs a conversation, an awkward shape, a tight access, a specification on a set of plans, we will call rather than guess.
If the price works, a 20 percent deposit starts the order and puts a truck in the schedule. The balance falls due immediately after delivery. If you have a competing quote you would like reviewed, send it before you place the order, because we cannot change pricing once an order is in or a payment has been made.
If we cannot reach your address economically, we will say so on the first call. That is a better outcome for both of us than a quote you accept and a truck that never turns up.
Should I call or use the form?
Either works and they suit different jobs. The form is better when you already know your yardage, your material and your address, because you can send all of it at once and get a considered price back rather than a number somebody had to produce while you were on the line.
A call is better when something about the job needs a conversation. An awkward shape you cannot calculate. A site access you are not sure about. A specification on a set of plans you want a straight answer on before you commit. A date that will not move. Those are 2 minute conversations that are very hard to have through a form field.
Either way, the 4 things we need are the same: the delivery address, the cubic yards, the material and the date. The address matters most, because haul distance from the pit is the biggest single variable in the price and a quote given without one is a guess.
What if I am calling about haul-off rather than delivery?
Say so at the start, because it is priced on a different basis. Delivery is priced on getting material to you. Haul-off is priced on truck time plus somewhere legitimate for the material to go, and the disposal end is a real line item rather than a rounding error.
The 3 things we need for a haul-off are how many cubic yards are coming out, what the material is, and whether it is clean. Clean surplus and contaminated spoil are genuinely different jobs going to different places at different rates, so an honest answer on that question up front saves everybody a wasted trip.
If the material is clean and somebody nearby needs fill, tell us that too. The cheapest haul in this business is a short one, and moving 40 cubic yards half a mile beats hauling it 30 miles to a disposal site and charging you for both ends.
Where do you deliver?
15 metros across 8 states. Each page covers the ground in that market, the local material vocabulary and the cities we list there.
Houston Dallas-Fort Worth College Station Madisonville San Antonio Austin Nashville Las Vegas Denver Sacramento Phoenix Atlanta Tampa Orlando Miami
Deliveries run between 8am and 5pm on a continual daily basis until the amount you have ordered is met. Large orders arrive across several loads and sometimes across several days. See every city we deliver to.
Getting a quote
What information do you need for a quote?
4 things: the delivery address, how many cubic yards, which of the 3 materials, and the date you need it by. The address matters most, because haul distance from the pit holding your material is the biggest single variable in what a cubic yard costs.
How quickly will I hear back?
We work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 5pm. Send the address, the yardage and the material and we will come back with a price. If anything about the job needs a conversation, an awkward shape or a tight access or a specification on a set of plans, we will call rather than guess.
Can I get a price over the phone without an address?
Not an accurate one. Roughly 90 percent of what a load costs is trucking, and trucking depends on how far a loaded truck runs from the pit to your site. Any supplier quoting without an address is either averaging or guessing, and guesses in this trade tend to move upward once the order is in.
Do you work with contractors and builders?
Yes. Bulk wholesale pricing is available on larger volumes, and the 20 cubic yard minimum is well below what most pad and grading work needs. If you have a specification or a geotechnical report attached to the job, send it and we will tell you whether we can source to it before you order.
What if my job is smaller than 20 cubic yards?
20 cubic yards is the minimum, and below it the trucking cost swamps the material cost for both of us. Before you rule yourself out, check the whole area you want covered, because most people find a second low spot. A 1,500 square foot lawn at 4 inches of topsoil is already about 20 cubic yards.
One rule above all others
Make payments to American Dirt Delivery only. We contract to third-party carriers on some runs, and paying a driver directly is how customers in this industry lose money.