CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Private Haulers Expense?

$7.1M across 768 payments, July 24, 2017 to September 4, 2026 — 24 purchase orders and 5 vendors, run by Non-departmental.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: PRIVATE HAULERS EXPENSE

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 24 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$7.1MTotal spent
24Purchase orders
5Vendors
73%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$441K
FY2018-19
$1.4M
FY2019-20
$830K
FY2020-21
$442K
FY2021-22
$596K
FY2022-23
$641K
FY2023-24
$592K
FY2024-25
$768K
FY2025-26
$1.1M
FY2026-27 *
$380K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $173K.

Who was paid

516 payments

60 payments

108 payments

42 payments

Under which orders

27 payments · October 10, 2018 to September 11, 2019

46 payments · April 8, 2026 to August 17, 2026

61 payments · October 13, 2021 to August 29, 2022

47 payments · September 18, 2024 to June 4, 2025

58 payments · October 18, 2023 to August 19, 2024

31 payments · August 19, 2025 to January 12, 2026

56 payments · September 26, 2022 to August 16, 2023

62 payments · September 11, 2019 to May 12, 2021

59 payments · December 21, 2020 to February 18, 2022

52 payments · October 18, 2018 to August 21, 2019

58 payments · October 23, 2018 to August 21, 2019

10 payments · September 1, 2017 to February 26, 2018

27 payments · September 11, 2019 to February 19, 2020

42 payments · May 3, 2021 to August 9, 2021

5 payments · August 21, 2026 to September 4, 2026

26 payments · September 5, 2017 to May 9, 2018

19 payments · September 11, 2019 to May 27, 2020

29 payments · September 5, 2017 to July 3, 2018

23 payments · September 1, 2017 to April 25, 2018

2 payments · July 28, 2017 to September 25, 2017

7 payments · July 24, 2017 to August 9, 2017

8 payments · July 31, 2017 to April 25, 2018

11 payments · November 19, 2018 to December 20, 2018

2 payments · August 27, 2020 to September 2, 2020

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.