The permit question in Fellows only comes up once you decide where the container will sit. Because Fellows sits in Kern County, the company assigned to your street sets the timeline โ that's a different question than which company is closest. Estimating a mixed load by eye tends to undercount it, since drywall and masonry sitting in the same bin can push the total weight up faster than the pile looks like it should.
Fellows sits lower on the population list in California, and that shows up as a shorter roster of haulers willing to make the trip on short notice. You are not just picking a delivery date in California, you are picking a date relative to dry summers with winter rain and a long fire season.
Older does not just mean different, it means heavier: pre-war bungalows through 1960s-70s slab tracts is the norm here, and the scale reflects it. The driveway-versus-curb decision is really a permit decision: private ground skips city encroachment permits, CalRecycle diversion reporting entirely, the street does not. Lead times in Fellows move with how many trucks are already booked across Kern County, not just your street. Wherever the truck backs in, it needs the same clearance leaving as it did arriving. Cardboard and scrap metal often get pulled out and recycled separately if they're set aside instead of buried in the pile.