First Class

Winter 2012

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Being the Change COMMUNITY WASTE DISPOSAL Running Peterbilt CNG vehicles is good business at CWD W hen Greg Roemer made his first sale in the dumpster business back in 1980, he charged the customer $75 a month for a truck, owned by the company that then employed him, to empty it regularly and maintain it. The world has since changed remark- ably for Roemer and the Dallas-based firm, Community Waste Disposal (CWD), that he went on to start in 1984. Now he runs 125 trucks, three of which are Peterbilts running on emission-free natural gas engines. He employs 250 people, runs the largest privately held waste-disposal company in North Texas and services the entire Dallas Metroplex. But one thing remains the same: he still charges close to $75 a month for dumpster services. "People ask me how that's possible," says Roemer. "Labor is up, fuel is up, overhead is up, insurance is up, but we're

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