Out of floor before the season is out of freight? A storage trailer backed to your dock door works like another bay on your building. We deliver it, set it at dock height and leave it as long as you need it.
It is the same trailer that runs freight over the road, parked instead of pulled. That is why it fits your dock, your forklift and your pallets without any change to how your team works. For on-site storage that is not tied to a dock, see our commercial storage trailer rental page.
Spotted at dock height, the trailer floor lines up with your dock, a dock plate bridges the gap, and a forklift drives straight in. Backed to a door, it works like forty more feet of building: dock plate down, forklift in, full pallets to the nose. No ramp and no hand-loading. The detail on doors, plates and approach is in our guide to dock-height loading.
Adding a dock door's worth of capacity for a season, when a surge shows up faster than racking does.
Finished goods waiting on a ship date, raw material bought ahead, and line-side staging. More in our post on storage trailers for manufacturers.
Seasonal stock, displays and fixtures that need a dry, locked home next to the building through the peak.
Think in pallet positions, not cubic feet. Counts below are standard 48x40 pallets on the floor, single stacked.
| 28 foot trailer | About 12 to 14 pallets, depending on orientation and whether you leave an aisle |
|---|---|
| 45 foot trailer | About 22 pallets loaded straight |
| 48 foot trailer | About 24 pallets loaded straight |
| 53 foot trailer | 26 pallets loaded straight, about 450 square feet of floor |
Turning pallets and double stacking stable loads raise these counts. The full math, including when stacking is safe, is in our pallet math guide, and our size guide helps you pick.
A trailer is overflow on your terms: a 3-month minimum, then month to month, with no long-term lease and nothing to build out. It sits at your own dock, so the freight never leaves your site and nobody drives across town to reach it. When the peak passes, we pick it up. Planning for the holiday surge? Read our Q4 inventory overflow guide, and for how a trailer compares with renting a unit, see storage trailer vs self storage.
Overflow often has to move. Our own trucks run shuttle and dock-to-dock transfers between your buildings and out to customers, so one company handles both the storage and the moves. See local trucking and how our dock-to-dock shuttle runs work.
Call by noon, Monday through Friday, and same day delivery is the standard anywhere inside our 100 mile radius of West Chester: southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana. That includes Cincinnati, Dayton, Northern Kentucky, Fairfield and West Chester. See every area we serve, and how delivery works step by step.
More on locks and placement in our storage trailer security basics.
Call by noon for same-day delivery across the Cincinnati Tri-State. 3-month minimum, then month-to-month. No long-term contracts.