With mobile shredding, the truck comes to your home or office and destroys everything on the spot, while you watch. Compare local prices and book online in minutes.
Old files piling up at home or the office? Enter your zip code to compare local shredding and storage companies, see upfront prices, and book online in minutes.
A truck with an industrial shredder built into it pulls up to your home or office, your boxes are loaded straight into it, and everything is destroyed right there, usually in minutes. Many trucks have a viewing screen, so you can literally watch your papers turn into confetti.
This is a very different machine than the shredder under your desk. A truck-mounted industrial shredder can destroy thousands of pounds of paper per hour and doesn’t care about staples, paper clips, or file folders. What would take you a week of feeding pages ten at a time, and three burned-out home shredders, takes the truck about fifteen minutes.
It can also be the most secure way to get rid of old paperwork, because your documents never leave your sight intact. When it’s done, you receive a certificate of destruction, a document confirming what was shredded, when, and by whom, which matters if you’re destroying business, medical, or financial records and ever need to prove it.
Mobile shredding is available as a one-time cleanout or as regular scheduled service, same truck, same witnessed destruction, on whatever cadence you need.
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The truck arrives at your address. Your boxes go straight into the onboard shredder and you can watch every page get destroyed.
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A certificate of destruction is issued when the job is complete, confirming your documents were securely destroyed.
There’s very little to do, which is the point, but three things make the visit go smoothly:
Both services destroy your documents securely and end with a certificate of destruction. The difference is where the shredding happens, and what that’s worth to you.
Choose mobile if you want to witness the destruction with your own eyes, you’re handling especially sensitive records, or your industry expects documented, witnessed destruction. Choose off-site shredding if you have a large volume and don’t need to watch, you can generally expect to pay less per box when the shredding happens at the provider’s facility, since with mobile service you’re paying for the convenience and reassurance of the truck at your door.
Still torn? For most home cleanouts, either is a fine choice, and for scheduling purposes, off-site is often recommended. For a business destroying regulated records, mobile’s witnessed destruction is usually worth the difference.
Mobile shredding is usually priced by the box, with a base visit cost built in, so the per-box price drops as your job gets bigger. Because the truck and crew come to you and stay while everything is shredded, you can expect mobile service to cost somewhat more than off-site shredding for the same boxes; that difference is what witnessed, at-your-door destruction is worth.
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✓Anyone handling sensitive materials such as medical, legal, or financial records, who wants to witness the destruction.
✓Businesses whose compliance practices call for documented, witnessed destruction.
✓Home offices, garages, and storage units full of old files.
✓Moving, downsizing, or settling an estate.
✓Businesses that want witnessed destruction on a regular schedule. Mobile service pairs with recurring bins too.
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Doing a single big cleanout? See one-time shredding for how to plan it. Want the lower price and don’t need to watch? Off-site shredding shreds the same boxes at a secure facility for less. Ongoing paperwork? Recurring shredding puts locked bins in your office. Old computers in the pile? Add hard drive destruction or electronics destruction.
Old files piling up at home or the office? Enter your zip code to compare local shredding and storage companies, see upfront prices, and book online in minutes.