Shipping Container Suppliers in Ohio

E & J Trailer Sales & Service runs one yard in Cincinnati, but it hauls a long way out of it. The company publishes two delivery zones. Anything inside 120 miles gets express service, and the standard zone stretches to 275 miles. That second ring reaches Toledo, Cleveland and Youngstown, so a buyer up near the lake is still in range from a yard in the southwest corner of the state. Prices for 20ft, 40ft and 45ft boxes sit on the site by grade, so you can compare before you call. The trucks are their own, running under a DOT number the company has held for decades. Fifty years of trading sits behind it.

Benedict Enterprises Inc. has been in business since 1963, when Arnold and Elizabeth Benedict started out with two tractors and three trailers. The family still runs it, and the Monroe yard now carries a wider spread of sizes than most Ohio yards attempt. You can get 10ft, 20ft, 40ft and 45ft, in standard height or high cube. The site explains what one-trip, cargo-worthy and wind and water tight actually mean, so you know what you are paying for before a truck rolls. A sister operation at the same yard does the fit-out work, which is how the office units get their HVAC, power and data runs. Sixty three years in, the phone still gets answered by people who own the place.

740 Storage & Container Rentals puts every price on the table before you call. Twelve setups are listed by size and grade, from a 20ft wind and watertight box up to a 40ft high cube with doors down one side. One line on that table currently reads not available, which tells you it is kept current rather than left to go stale. Nothing is due up front either. Payment happens when the container lands, and no deposit is taken. Two yards sit on I-70, one at Zanesville and one in Columbus, and the Columbus site has lifting gear so you can load onto your own trailer. Membership of the National Portable Storage Association is unusual for a yard this new.

Contain It Mobile Storage owns the equipment that puts the box where you want it. Deliveries go out on tilt-bed trailers, and for tight spots the yard runs a remote-controlled ISO Mule that walks a container into place without a truck backing in. That matters on a farm lane or a packed job site, where a tilt-bed alone needs a clear run of 23 feet past the container and 10 feet of width. The yard sits just off I-75 near Findlay and works a 150-mile circle from there. One-trip, cargo-worthy and wind and water tight are all stocked and explained. Marilyn and Jeff Noble run it themselves, and delivery usually happens inside a week.

Buckeye Container Carriers prices each grade separately, so the gap between a wind and watertight box and a cargo-worthy one is money you can see. A 20ft in the cheaper grade and a 20ft rated cargo-worthy sit a few hundred dollars apart on the same page. Used stock carries a written guarantee that it is wind and watertight, backed by an inspection before it leaves Circleville. That is worth having, because grade is the one thing a buyer cannot check from a photo. Deliveries run on the company's own trucks with its own drivers rather than a hired hauler. Double door and open side one-trips are stocked alongside the plain boxes.

PACT Containers lets you price a delivered box without speaking to anyone. Type your address into the store page and the total comes back with freight already in it, which is unusual anywhere in Ohio and useful if you are still working out whether a container fits the budget. A 20ft wind and watertight unit, a 40ft high cube and a double door 40ft all sit there with numbers next to them. The Columbus yard handles its own hauling instead of booking a third party, and most orders land within three to seven working days. There is a prep guide on the site too, telling you how much clear ground the truck needs before it turns up.

Atlas Portable Space Solutions cuts and welds its own steel rather than sending the work out. The Oberlin shop handles machining, welding and framing in house, and it has built its own method for framing out a container once the openings are cut. One job on record turned a 20ft unit into livestock housing, which is not something a plain box dealer takes on. Jeff Medley started the business in 1999, so there are 27 years behind the shop. The trade off is a narrow catalogue. Only 20ft and 40ft units are sold, and no grades are published, so ask what condition you are buying before money changes hands. Membership of the National Portable Storage Association sits behind the name.

Metal Mule Containers spells out what each grade actually is, down to the CSC plate on a cargo-worthy unit. The site says plainly that a one-trip box crossed the ocean once and that a wind and watertight one is sealed for ground storage but not certified for export. Floor build and steel type are listed as well, along with the weight of each unit, which is the number you need when you are checking whether the ground will take it. Boxes go out to northeast Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia from Chardon. The yard also buys containers back when you are finished with them. Prices are not published, so a call is the only way to get one.

Rocky's Containers sells out of Waynesburg, which is a small place, and that is the point. Most of Ohio's container yards sit inside the Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati rings, so a farm or a shop out in the south of the county is normally looking at a long haul and a delivery bill to match. A yard in southern Stark County shortens that a lot. Canton and New Philadelphia are both close in. The family behind it has run fuel, parts and towing in the same village for decades, so the containers sit alongside a business the neighbors already know. Sizes run 20ft, 40ft and 40ft high cube. Purchase pricing is not on the site and comes by phone.

American StorzALL works the event and construction end of the trade, and the rest of the kit tells you so. The same Marietta yard supplies restroom trailers and shower trailers, so a crew putting on a county fair or running a build site can get the container and the restrooms off one call. Purchase prices are printed by size and condition, with a refurbished 40ft high cube sitting between the used and one-trip figures. Those numbers leave delivery out, so add haulage before you compare. Financing is offered on the purchase side. Local drops often happen the same day, which is worth knowing when a job in the Mid-Ohio Valley moves faster than planned.