Small, local, and run by the person on the truck
DMV Capital Junk Removal is Clinton Sopzeh and a truck. When you call, that is who answers. When the truck turns up, that is who is on it.
What this is
A small junk removal business based in Suitland, Maryland, working across Washington DC, the Maryland suburbs and Northern Virginia.
That is the whole description, and it is deliberately short. No third generation, no fleet, no origin story to stretch out. There is a person, a truck, three jurisdictions’ worth of disposal rules learned properly, and a phone that gets answered.
The rest of this page is about what that means when you actually hire somebody to empty a basement.
Three things that follow from being small
You get the actual person
No dispatcher, no call center, no script. The person quoting the job is the person doing it, which means the quote is based on the job rather than on what a salesperson guessed from a phone call.
You get answers, not a queue
Text a photo and you get a number back. If we cannot do the job, or it is not worth paying us for, that is what you will be told — several pages on this site say exactly when to use your county collection instead.
You deal with one person throughout
From the first text to the swept floor, it is the same person. Nothing gets lost being handed between an office and a crew, and if something needs saying you are saying it to whoever can fix it.
Five things that do not vary
- A price before anything is loaded — not after, not per hour discovered later
- You do not lift, carry, drag or help
- Stairs, tight turns and no-elevator buildings are normal, not surcharges invented on the day
- The space gets swept before we leave
- Hazardous material is refused honestly rather than hidden in the middle of a load
That last one matters more than it sounds. Paint, solvents, fuel, pesticides, propane and asbestos are refused at the gate of every facility in this region. A hauler who buries them in a load is gambling with a penalty — Fairfax County charges $166 per ton for loads that break its rules — and passing that gamble off as convenience is not a service.
Three rulebooks, learned deliberately
Most junk removal companies in this area are really a county company that will cross a line for the right job. Suitland sits inside the Beltway on the District line, which makes DC, Maryland and Virginia all normal working days rather than occasional trips.
That only works if you know each jurisdiction’s disposal system, because they are genuinely different. The District’s transfer station takes no commercial waste at all. Montgomery County refuses roofing material of any kind. Prince George’s caps residents at one construction-debris load a year. Fairfax requires haulers to tip at county facilities at a published per-ton rate.
Those four facts are why this site has a page per jurisdiction instead of a list of towns. They are also, in practice, most of what sits behind a quote.
Talk to Clinton
Calling or texting (978) 328-4523 is the fastest way to get a price — a photo of the pile usually settles it in one message. The form works too, and goes to the same person.
Serving Washington DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia, from Suitland, MD.