Scrap metal hauling software that connects the pull, the scale ticket and the settlement
Scrap metal recycling hauling is the roll off and trailer operation that moves ferrous and nonferrous material from generators to a processing yard, then weighs, grades and settles it. US apparent consumption of iron and steel scrap ran about 63 million tons in 2024, with domestic purchases valued near $24 billion. Neurobird holds one record per pull, from container placement through the scale ticket to the graded settlement.
Neurobird Scrap Metal Recycling Hauling in short
- Track every container by location, customer and days since placement
- Join the driver's pull to the scale ticket and the graded weight without retyping
- Settle to the grade and price that applied on the day the load was weighed
- 63 Million tons of iron and steel scrap in US apparent consumption in 2024, up from 62 million tons in 2023. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, iron and steel scrap
- $24B Estimated value of domestic purchases of iron and steel scrap in 2024, a 4 percent decrease from $24.7 billion in 2023. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, iron and steel scrap
- Pricing runs 150 to 580 US dollars per month across 3 tiers. Early access is free.
What scrap yards and metal haulers actually deal with
Why it stays broken
The gate has a scale system, the truck has an ELD and the office has a spreadsheet, and none of the three knows about a container sitting full at a customer for 45 days. So the asset that costs the most is the one nobody tracks.
A yard running 200 containers with no location record is typically carrying 30 idle cans it is still paying for.
Recycling of scrap also conserves energy because the remelting of scrap requires much less energy than the production of iron or steel products from iron ore.
Neurobird Scrap Metal Recycling Hauling Dispatch Platform
Make the container the record. Everything else, the pull, the ticket, the grade and the payment, hangs off it in order.
- 1Track every container by location, customer and days since placement
- 2Join the driver's pull to the scale ticket and the graded weight without retyping
- 3Settle to the grade and price that applied on the day the load was weighed
- 4Keep hours of service and securement records against the same trip as the ticket
What changes with Neurobird Scrap Metal Recycling Hauling?
The same work, read left to right: how it runs today, and how it runs once the record is in one place.
| Today | With Neurobird Scrap Metal Recycling Hauling |
|---|---|
| Container placement lives on a whiteboard, so nobody can say which cans are sitting full at a customer earning nothing | Track every container by location, customer and days since placement |
| The driver's ticket, the scale weight and the grade the yard actually paid on are three different numbers on three systems | Join the driver's pull to the scale ticket and the graded weight without retyping |
| Prices move weekly and the settlement is calculated against whatever the market was when somebody got to it, not when the load landed | Settle to the grade and price that applied on the day the load was weighed |
Who is this for?
Same pull, three different exposures.
You haul for yards you do not own
You get paid on the trip and blamed for the grade. You need the ticket and the pull joined so a downgrade is somebody's decision on the record.
You place containers and buy material
Your cans are capital sitting at customers. You need day counts and idle reporting before a customer calls for the 7th swap.
You serve manufacturers
Your customer wants monthly tonnage by grade and a clean audit trail. You need statements that come out of the tickets, not a rebuild.
What scrap hauling is actually measured and regulated by
Useful if you are scoping a yard or writing driver standards. Each source links out.
Million tons of iron and steel scrap in US apparent consumption in 2024, up from 62 million tons in 2023.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, iron and steel scrapEstimated value of domestic purchases of iron and steel scrap in 2024, a 4 percent decrease from $24.7 billion in 2023.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, iron and steel scrapFederal hours of service rules, which govern the driver time behind every roll off route and every long haul to a mill.
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, 49 CFR Part 395Cargo securement rules covering how loose and baled metal must be contained and secured in transit.
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, 49 CFR Part 393The OSHA lockout and tagout standard, which applies to the balers, shears and shredders that a hauled load ends up in.
Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationHow does Neurobird Scrap Metal Recycling Hauling work?
Track the can, not the trip
Every container has a location, a customer and a day count. Idle cans surface before the customer calls about a swap.
Join pull to ticket
The driver's pull, the gate weight and the grading decision land on one record, so a disputed settlement is a read rather than an investigation.
Settle to the day
Prices move. Settlement uses the grade and price that applied when the load was weighed, not when somebody got to the paperwork.
The pull, as your dispatcher would run it
A working preview. Tick a load to send it to the scale.
Drag a job onto a dispatcher to assign it.
Scrap metal recycling hauling software questions, answered
Key terms
- What does scrap metal hauling actually involve?
- Scrap metal recycling hauling is the roll off and trailer work that moves ferrous and nonferrous material from generators to a processing yard, weighs it, grades it and settles payment. US apparent consumption of iron and steel scrap was about 63 million tons in 2024, and domestic purchases were valued near $24 billion.
Why is container tracking such a problem?
Because a container earns nothing while it sits. A yard with 200 cans placed and no location record cannot tell which ones are full, which are idle at a closed shop, and which customer has been holding 4 of them for 90 days.
What causes disputes on settlement?
Grade and deduction. The generator sold what they believed was prepared 2 steel, the yard downgraded it for contamination or took a moisture and dirt deduction, and nothing on paper connects the driver's pull to that decision.
Does this replace our scale software?
No. It reads the ticket. Container placement, pull scheduling, driver records and settlement live here, and the scale system keeps doing what it does at the gate.
Why we are building this
Scrap hauling is a container business that most operators run as a trucking business. The truck is visible so it gets the software. The container earns or loses the money and gets a whiteboard.
Then settlement runs on three numbers from three systems, which is why a grade dispute takes an afternoon instead of a minute.
We would rather build this with people who dispatch cans than guess. Tell us how yours runs, and where we have got it wrong.
Where the requirement comes from
Public sources on scrap volumes, driver rules and yard safety.
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, iron and steel scrap Annual consumption, purchase value, prices and trade figures for ferrous scrap.
- 49 CFR Part 395, hours of service Driver hours rules governing roll off routes and mill runs.
- 49 CFR Part 393, cargo securement How loose and baled metal must be contained and secured in transit.
- EPA sustainable materials management Federal framing for recovered materials, useful when a customer asks for diversion reporting.
How much does Neurobird Scrap Metal Recycling Hauling cost?
Priced per yard because dispatch happens per yard. Containers, drivers and customers are unlimited on every tier.
- Container placement tracking
- Pull scheduling
- Scale ticket capture
- Customer statements
- Email support
- Everything in Single yard
- Grade and deduction settlement
- Driver hours and securement records
- Idle container reporting
- Named contact
- Everything in Hauling operation
- Multi yard container pooling
- Commodity price history by day
- Broker and mill settlement
- Onboarding included
Get free early access
If you dispatch scrap, tell us how containers are tracked today and where a settlement usually goes wrong.
Straight answer on where this is: In development. Early access gets the working preview, a say in what ships first, and early access pricing. It does not get you a login today.
Prefer email? Write to office@neurobird.com and a person will reply. No autoresponder.