The clock on a Cantil dumpster rental starts at delivery, whether or not you've started loading it. Kern County is the service territory that includes Cantil; confirming your place in it before booking avoids a surprise on delivery day. 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.
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. 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 stretch of remodeling season in Kern County can push out a Cantil delivery date before you've even called. Cantil doesn't carry the population California's larger markets do, which means booking ahead matters more here than it would somewhere with trucks parked on every corner. Wherever the truck backs in, it needs the same clearance leaving as it did arriving. Keep the path to the container clear of parked cars on pickup day, or the truck circles back another time.