The rail-served waste platform built for
Detroit is the only top-10 U.S. metro without rail-served waste transfer. We're building it automation-first and hospital-grade — fewer trucks, less labor, fully auditable.
Building the operating layer behind regional waste logistics.
Conventional transfer stations are truck-only, labor-heavy, and built around a single asset. They move waste the most expensive way possible.
McCoy Solutions is different by design: rail-served, automation-first, and hospital-grade—a platform that moves more tonnage per dollar and proves the model in one metro before replicating it across the corridor.
Rail-served. Automation-first. Hospital-grade. Detroit-rooted.
What We Do
Consolidate. Take in C&D, recyclables, municipal solid waste, and ship-out medical waste from haulers, hospitals, and municipalities.
Transload to rail. Move volume out of the metro by rail instead of long-haul trucks—lower cost, lower emissions, fewer trucks on the road.
Automate & verify. Autonomous yard moves, robotic sorting, and FreightGuard.ai chain-of-custody track every load end to end.
Why It Matters
Detroit generates an estimated 10,000–14,000 tons of waste per day with no meaningful rail-served transfer capacity. Every other top-10 U.S. metro already has it.
Whoever builds the first rail-served, automation-native waste hub in the Great Lakes owns the corridor. We're building it—starting with Operation 1 in Detroit.
Move more waste. Run fewer trucks.
Rail and automation change the unit economics of waste. Here's the gap we're closing.
Operation 1—our rail-served Detroit transfer station—comes online. Asset-light brokered logistics begin even earlier.
Volume moves out of the metro by rail instead of long-haul trucking—lower cost per ton, fewer trucks on the road, lower emissions.
Labor runs ~25% of operating cost in conventional transfer. Automation drives toward a stabilized ~42% EBITDA margin.
One rail-served hub. Every waste stream
Municipal Solid Waste
Enclosed, high-throughput MSW transfer—rail-served at scale as permits land. The backbone volume of the platform.
Construction & Demolition
C&D debris consolidated, screened, and transloaded out of the metro efficiently—an early-revenue stream from day one.
Recyclables & Recovery
Robotic sorting and AI-powered material identification capture value at the sort line and divert tonnage from landfill.
Medical & Specialty Waste
Hospital-gradeHospital-grade, ship-out medical waste with full chain-of-custody—built for health systems' ESG procurement.
Common questions
Latest thinking
Detroit's Rail Gap: The Only Top-10 Metro Without Rail-Served Waste Transfer
Rail vs. Truck: The Unit Economics of Moving Waste
What 'Automation-First' Actually Means at a Transfer Station
Why Now: Five Forces Behind Rail-Served Waste in 2026
The Real McCoy: Detroit's Original Rail-Automation Pioneer
Chain of Custody for Medical Waste: How FreightGuard.ai Works
A Phased Build: Revenue First, Building Second
Hospital ESG and the Rise of Ship-Out Medical Waste
From One Hub to Five: The Replication Map
What History Says: Single-Asset Waste Businesses That Became Acquisitions
Let's talk
Hauler, municipality, or partner—tell us about your waste streams and we'll show you how Operation 1 fits.
Hospitals & health systems — ask about our hospital-grade, ship-out medical-waste service.