Cooking Oil Collection for Food Trucks, Collected at Your Commissary

Yes. Every commercial used cooking oil pickup needs a manifest documenting chain of custody from your bin to a licensed renderer, and there is no small-operator exemption, so one food truck needs the same record a restaurant does. You get a digital manifest after every pickup. Electronic manifests are explicitly allowed under 3 CCR 1180.24 when they conform to the California Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, with a two-year retention minimum. See the rule at Used Cooking Oil Manifest Rule (3 CCR 1180.24)

Yes, and there is no minimum. A general hauler prices a stop on drive time and gallons, which is why one food truck usually gets a fee or a no. We are paid for the oil rather than by you, so a single mobile unit on a route we already drive works fine. We place a free locked bin at your base, set a cadence to your booking pattern, and collect at no charge. Call or use the form and a real person will confirm the plan, with a callback the same business day.

We collect where the truck sleeps, not where it sells. Under Health and Safety Code 114297 a mobile food facility reports to its commissary for cleaning and servicing during an operating day, so there is already one address your food truck returns to. The bin lives there and we run the stop against that address. We do not pump curbside at a lunch service, because a location that changes hourly cannot produce a clean record. First pickup is typically scheduled within 3 to 5 business days of setup.

We keep the collection record per operator, so your food truck has its own pickup history and its own manifests instead of a share of an anonymous drum. That is the document that answers a health inspector, an insurer, or a commissary landlord whose lease requires proof of compliant disposal. We also size the container to the number of food trucks in the yard, which is usually the real reason a shared bin keeps overflowing. Background on the state program that licenses transporters and renderers: CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease Program

Usually yes. A brewery lot, a catering warehouse, a shared prep kitchen with a yard, or a storage lot where the truck parks overnight all work as a collection base. What we need is level pavement, an approach a collection vehicle can reach that is not blocked at pickup time, and the property owner's okay to leave a bin. Give us a gate code or an access window and it becomes a standing stop. Tell us the address on the form and we will confirm whether it works before anything gets delivered.

Send us the dates and we schedule a pickup against them instead of waiting for the next routine stop. Event frying is the whole reason a fixed weekly route fails a food truck: three days at a fair can outproduce weeks of ordinary service, and a truck that fries again at 11am cannot hold Sunday's oil while Monday's is cooling. We can also drop a second bin at your base before a big weekend so you have somewhere to put it. Call ahead of the event, not after.

Not at food truck volumes, and we would rather say that plainly than dangle a number. Rebates on used cooking oil start at volumes a couple of fryers will not reach, so quoting one here would only come back as a fee somewhere else. What you get is genuinely free: free pickup, free locked bin, free placement and swaps, no monthly fee, no minimum, and no contract. If you grow into a large multi-unit operation, ask us again and we will look at the numbers.

Yes. The Filtrate portal puts every food truck, or every tenant at a commissary you run, in one dashboard: schedules, pickup history, bin status, and manifest exports across the whole fleet, with a mobile app at each base and role-based access so an owner sees all units and each operator sees only theirs. Adding a truck is a schedule update rather than a new agreement, and a truck that comes off the road drops off cleanly.

Every gallon goes to our licensed renderer and becomes feedstock for biodiesel and renewable diesel. Renewable diesel reduces carbon intensity by about 65% on average versus petroleum diesel (DOE: DOE AFDC, Renewable Diesel ), and waste-feedstock biodiesel and renewable diesel deliver roughly 79% to 86% lower lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions (Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science & Technology, 2022). Your fryer oil becomes a documented part of a low-carbon fuel supply chain.

We serve Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Tacoma and Pierce County, Washington. Service is month-to-month with no long-term contract, no equipment lien, and a clean exit with your full history exported to you. If your food truck bases outside that footprint, tell us where and we will let you know as we expand, and we will not imply coverage we do not have.