Ask around Kern County and the same issue comes up for yard waste dumpster: green material that many facilities compost separately from landfill waste. The 10 or 15 yard size shows up again and again for yard waste in Kern County, because it's built around weight, not the room count. You are not alone if you are homeowners and landscapers โ that is who mostly books this in Kern County.
Weldon doesn't have its own dedicated fleet; it's served by haulers whose main territory is Kern County. The company that answers for Weldon is likely already running routes through Kern County, which is why neighboring towns don't all get the same price. This is a space problem, not a weight problem. A container fills to the top with light, bulky items long before it comes near its hauling limit.
Ask what the cancellation window looks like if the delivery date needs to move. Some yards charge nothing with a day's notice, others charge a restocking fee. Kern County renters find out one way or another: the composting rate survives only while the container holds nothing but green material. California homes built in the pre-war bungalows through 1960s-70s slab tracts produce a different mix of debris than newer construction, and that mix is what a hauler is actually pricing. Kern County's stretch of dry summers with winter rain and a long fire season is exactly when trucks get scarce, so the calendar, not the phone, decides how fast you get one. Driveway drops move fast because there's nothing to file; street drops slow down for city encroachment permits, CalRecycle diversion reporting. A container blocking a fire hydrant or mailbox gets flagged by the city faster than one that's simply in the way.