In Onyx, the container is the easy part. Where it sits is what takes the planning. Onyx shares delivery routes with several other towns inside Kern County, so your date can depend on who else is booked that week. A route restriction based on road weight limits can turn away a truck hauling a heavy container regardless of what that container is rated to hold.
Plan around dry summers with winter rain and a long fire season in California: that pattern, not the calendar date, decides how fast a container reaches you. Strict diversion requirements and widespread C&D recycling handles what gets hauled away from here, and that facility's rate is baked into the number you are quoted.
Street placement is not automatic โ city encroachment permits, CalRecycle diversion reporting has to come through first, and that adds days you would not lose on private ground. The same trucks that deliver in Onyx are working the rest of Kern County on any given day. Onyx 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. Placement on soft ground in Onyx can leave ruts that outlast the project by months. Cardboard and scrap metal often get pulled out and recycled separately if they're set aside instead of buried in the pile.