About Kelly Bros Dumpster Rental Odessa

Kelly Bros Dumpster Rental Odessa serves homeowners and contractors across Ector County and the surrounding Permian Basin from our yard at 2012 46th St, Odessa, TX 79764. We're not a national call center reading from a script — when you call our number, you get someone who actually works in this business and can tell you whether your project needs a 15 yard or a 30 yard, and whether your address falls under the City of Odessa's own permit process, another city's process, or Ector County's Development Services department instead.

Odessa's own story goes back to July 1881, when the Texas and Pacific Railway founded the town — likely named for its resemblance to the steppes around Odessa, Ukraine. The town was platted in 1886, Ector County organized in January 1891, and the City of Odessa itself was incorporated in 1927, with S.R. McKinney serving as its first mayor. The region's real turning point came a few years earlier than that, though: the first oil well near Odessa came in on December 28, 1926, about 16 miles southwest on the W.E. Connell ranch — the start of the Permian Basin oil boom that still defines this region's economy today.

Today Odessa and Midland together anchor the Midland–Odessa–Andrews Combined Statistical Area, home to roughly 365,590 people as of the 2023 estimate, with the City of Odessa itself estimated at around 122,707 residents and Ector County at around 173,801 in 2025. Our team works across that whole footprint — Odessa, West Odessa, Midland, Gardendale, Goldsmith, Andrews, Monahans, Crane, and Kermit among the 13 towns we regularly serve. We quote jobs in plain, flat-rate language over the phone, we show up in the window we promise, and we treat a homeowner clearing out a garage the same way we treat a contractor running a multi-dumpster job site. That's been the approach since 2016, and it isn't changing as the fleet and service area keep growing.

How We Work

Booking is meant to be simple. You call, tell us what you're working on and where the container needs to go, and we tell you which size fits the job and when we can get it there. We ask about placement up front — driveway, yard, or public street — because that decision affects whether a permit needs to be sorted out before delivery, and the answer depends on which of three jurisdictions your address falls under: the City of Odessa, another incorporated town, or unincorporated Ector County land. See our full list of services or compare dumpster sizes before you call if it helps to look things over first.

When the dumpster arrives, our driver sets it where it does the least damage to your property and the most good for your project — boards under the rails when they're needed, a rundown of what can and can't go in the box, and a clear pickup date. No surprise fees buried in fine print, no upsell pitch while you're standing in your driveway trying to finish a job.

Service Area Across the Permian Basin

We run 10, 15, 20, 30, and 40 yard roll-off containers across 13 towns spanning six counties — Ector, Midland, Andrews, Martin, Ward, Crane, and Winkler. That includes Odessa itself, unincorporated Ector County communities like West Odessa, Notrees, Penwell, Pleasant Farms, and Gardendale, and incorporated towns further out like Midland, Andrews, Stanton, Monahans, Crane, Wickett, and Kermit. See our locations page for the full list and to confirm we cover your address.

Licensing and Permits

Being licensed and insured to operate across Ector County and the wider Permian Basin isn't a marketing line for us — it's what keeps a customer from getting a notice about a container sitting in a public street without paperwork. Placement entirely on private property never requires a permit anywhere in our service area. Street placement inside Odessa city limits runs through the City of Odessa's Engineering Department, per the City's Code of Ordinances; we don't publish a specific fee for that process online, since we'd rather confirm current requirements directly than quote a number that could be out of date. In unincorporated Ector County — West Odessa, Notrees, Penwell, Pleasant Farms, Gardendale — Ector County Development Services handles it instead, and there's no cost to obtain that permit. Other incorporated cities on our route each run their own separate process, and where a state highway right-of-way is involved rather than an ordinary city street, TxDOT's Odessa District steps in instead. We handle checking on this so customers don't have to learn three or four different permit processes just to rent a dumpster.

Environmental Responsibility

On the disposal side, we steer customers away from putting the wrong thing in the box in the first place. Lead-acid batteries are barred from municipal solid waste landfill disposal under 30 TAC § 330.15, and Texas Water Code § 7.185 makes knowingly disposing of one improperly a Class A misdemeanor — those belong at a battery retailer or recycler. Whole, unprocessed tires are banned from landfill disposal the same way and need to be cut or shredded first. Asbestos is never permitted in any container under any circumstances and always requires a licensed abatement contractor. And on electronics and TVs, we're careful to get the nuance right: Texas doesn't run a blanket landfill ban on electronics for residents the way some other states do. Instead, the state runs separate manufacturer-funded recycling programs — the Texas Recycles Computers Program for computer equipment and the Texas TV Recycling Act for televisions — and the smart move is routing those items to a certified e-waste recycler rather than the dumpster, not treating it as flatly illegal to do otherwise.

Local Knowledge, Permian Basin Weather Included

We're out on Odessa streets and across the Permian Basin every week, which means we see the same neighborhoods, the same contractors, and often the same repeat customers. It's also how we've learned which lots are tight, which towns want their own permit call made first, and which stretch of spring tends to bring the storm-cleanup calls. West Texas is genuinely one of the windier parts of the country, running windiest roughly from late February through mid-July, with April the single windiest month on average. That stretch brings high sustained wind, blowing dust, hail, and occasional tornado risk — Ector County has logged 39 separate tornado days between 1950 and 2018, and the strongest documented tornado in the county's modern record, an EF2, tracked through Gardendale on March 18, 2012. We build extra scheduling flexibility into that window every year for exactly this reason. It's also a region with real local color worth knowing — the Odessa Meteor Crater southwest of town, the Presidential Museum & Leadership Library, the Globe Theatre replica at Odessa College, and Permian High School's Friday Night Lights tradition, made famous well beyond West Texas by the 1988 Panthers' championship run.