Dallas is an office town, and the paper follows the tollways. Downtown and Uptown hold law firms, banks and accounting offices on scheduled console service. Las Colinas, Legacy and the Dallas North Tollway corridor hold corporate campuses, insurance carriers and mortgage servicers, where records managers write the shred contracts. Farther out the suburbs are huge and strung along I-35E, I-635 and the George Bush Turnpike, so a truck can spend an hour between stops. That is why a company with a route near you quotes lower than one coming from across the metroplex.
Health care and education come next. Hospital systems, physician groups, dental offices and the school districts in Garland, Irving, Richardson and Plano keep records under retention schedules, and the district records officer, not the principal, usually decides what can be destroyed. Tax season fills calendars from February to April, and the busiest cleanout window is January, right after year-end. North Texas summers get hot. A Saturday pickup in August goes easier before ten in the morning.
A few pricing basics before you ask for quotes. One-time purges are usually billed per box or per bag, recurring service per bin per visit, and nearly everyone sets a minimum, so a short job costs about the same as a medium one. On-site shredding with a mobile truck costs more than plant shredding and is the right choice for medical and financial files. Any job covered by HIPAA or FACTA should come with a certificate of destruction. Hard drives, tapes and phones are a separate service. In the form, give your city, the box or bin count, and whether you want one pickup or a schedule.
