Copper is about $2.50 lbs, AL is $0.55 lbs and general scrap is $130 ton. General scrap was $220 a ton in May.
Here you have to show ID and if you take a car in the car has to have your issued ID number on it. You scale in, Yard Inspector comes and checks your load. Vehicles have to be preped (gas, oil and antifreeze drained). Yard inspector writes down serial number. Crane lifts car off and you scale out. You go in to get payed and if you have a account your payed out. No account, photo Id, address & phone number or no $$. Everything is videotaped.
If a strange guy showed up with a coil of copper wire they would prob call the police on him.
Anyone who gives me a car to take in gives me a bill of sale or I'm not hauling it. I prep them by pulling starters, alt, cat converters and rads. I also pull all the wireing I can and depending on if I need the trailer for another job I'll pull apart a aluminum engine and trans for the casings. It's actually fun taking apart a engine with a sledge hammer.
