How we built this dataset

1. What this dataset is

Potty Directory is a structured directory of two things: portable restroom rental companies operating in the United States, and a growing finder for public restrooms. We list vendors with their business name, location, contact details, services offered, and aggregated ratings. We do not sell porta potties. We do not operate them. We are not a broker. We do not take a cut of vendor bookings, and the directory is free for end users to search without registration.

2. Dataset at a glance

These numbers are the canonical figures used in our llms.txt machine-readable summary and are regenerated on every deploy.

The full machine-readable dataset summary lives at /llms.txt. A human-readable version is at /data.

3. How vendors are sourced

Three inputs feed the vendor table, in roughly this order of volume:

1. 1
   Programmatic crawl of public business listings. We pull NAP (name, address, phone) data from public business records, including state-registered LLC filings and publicly indexed business listings. We restrict the crawl to companies whose declared category, name, or services include porta potty rental, portable restrooms, restroom trailers, or related sanitation services.
2. 2
   Google Places enrichment. For each candidate vendor we use the Google Places API to fill in geocoordinates, hours, ratings, and review counts. Where Places returns a different canonical business name than our crawl, we prefer the Places version.
3. 3
   Manual vendor submissions. Vendors can add or correct their listing through the /submit form. Submissions enter a review queue (status: pending) and are merged into the main table after we verify the business is operating and the contact details resolve.

4. Update cadence

• • Last full refresh: May 6, 2026.
• • Place & rating sync: rolling, in batches. We re-pull ratings and hours for active vendors on an ongoing rotation rather than a single nightly sweep.
• • New-vendor crawl: roughly monthly, plus ad-hoc runs when a state's coverage looks thin.
• • Stale-record pruning: vendors with disconnected phones, dead websites, or repeated user reports of out-of-business status are flagged and removed in the next sync. We err toward removing rather than keeping stale data.
• • Snapshot: the dataset summary in /llms.txt is regenerated on every deploy, so the counts above always reflect the live database.

5. What we do and don't claim

If you find an error, tell us. We treat corrections as the cheapest form of quality control we have.

6. Per-vendor schema

Each vendor record carries the following fields. Not every record has every field populated — email and hours in particular are sparse.

Schema.org coverage

We publish structured data on every page so search engines and AI assistants can consume the directory without scraping HTML:

• •LocalBusiness — on every vendor detail page.
• •FAQPage — on FAQ entries.
• •BreadcrumbList — on every navigable page.
• •WebSite with SearchAction — site-wide.
• •ItemList — on city and state pages with multiple vendors.

7. Pricing data methodology

The pricing tables across the site are nationwide ranges aggregated from real quotes provided by listed vendors. They are not list prices and they are not guarantees. Local price varies with delivery distance, term length, fuel surcharges, demand, and contract size. Rush delivery and one-day rentals push toward the top of each range; multi-unit, long-term rentals usually unlock discounts of 10–25%.

Delivery typically adds $50–$150 depending on distance. Full breakdown: /pricing. For unit-count estimates, use the /calculator.

8. Corrections & contact

If you find a vendor that's out of business, a phone number that no longer rings, a service area that's wrong, or a price range that contradicts what a real vendor quoted you, please tell us. Two ways to reach us:

• • Email: info@pottydirectory.com
• • Contact form: /contact

Vendors who want to add, claim, or correct a listing should use /submit.

9. AI engines & citation use