Storage Trailers LLC Blogs

Moving Solutions

12/11/2024 01:02 PM

Our client's new warehouse wasn't ready and their existing facility couldn't extend their lease any further. The client's entire inventory needed to be out but there was no place for it to go! The client called us Thursday morning panicking. Most of their inventory was palletized and sitting at the doors of their dock high warehouse waiting to be loaded for transport to new facility. 

Storage Trailers, LLC prides itself on timely, efficient, and courteous service and we were proud to live up to ours, and our client's, standards. In this instance, our clients had three specific requirements. They needed us to provide roll door trailers, inspected by the Department of Transportation, delivered  to their high dock warehouse facility. They needed flexible temporary storage, returning the trailers rented and filled with their inventory to our secure storage facility until their new warehouse was ready. Finally, they needed everything done that same day. Our staff identified an appropriate 53-foot dry van semi-trailers from one of our multiple facilities nearest the client's warehouse and delivered the first trailer within hours.

Storage Trailers, LLC specializes in dock high, dry van semi-trailers utilized as short-term solutions to any warehouse with inventory transition problems. We are your provider of adjunct forklift capable dock high warehouse space on an as needed basis, requiring no long-term commitment. Inventory backups, overstocked warehouse, remodels, moves, you name it and Storage Trailers, LLC has a dry van semi-trailer available.

Temporary Dock High Storage

11/24/2024 10:32 PM

Office Furniture Firm Solves Warehouse Overcapacity with Dock-High Storage Solutions from Storage Trailers, LLC

Our client, an office furniture firm, faced a serious storage dilemma. Their warehouse was already at full capacity, and to make matters worse, their new furniture and cubicle shipment arrived three weeks early. With the office space remodel running almost six weeks behind schedule, they needed a temporary storage solution that could last for up to two months.

 

The problem?

The warehouse was overcapacity with no adjacent storage available in the complex. Bobtail trucks were already in use, and there simply wasn't enough space to store the newly arrived inventory.

 

Enter Storage Trailers, LLC.

With a fleet of nearly 700 dock-high storage trailers, we were able to quickly provide the solution they needed. We selected seven dry van semi-trailers that met federal highway inspection requirements and promptly delivered them to the client's dock.

 

As the furniture and office supplies were offloaded from the freight carrier, they were immediately transferred into the Storage Trailers. Two of the trailers remained on-site, parked away from the dock, while three others were sent to Storage Trailers, LLC's facility for secure storage until delivery.

 

Two months later, the client needed the inventory moved to their downtown office location. Storage Trailers, LLC coordinated delivery, ensuring that each trailer arrived at the specified time.

 

The process was seamless:

  • The first two trailers were delivered to the downtown address at 8 PM, with the driver remaining on-site until the contents were moved to the tenth floor.
  • Two more trailers were delivered the next night, and after a one-week pause, the final two trailers completed the move.

 

The client benefited from flexible temporary storage. Our trailers are rented on an as-needed basis, with no long-term contracts, providing a cost-effective alternative to traditional warehouse space. Once each trailer was emptied, it was returned to Storage Trailers, LLC, ready to serve the next client in need of short-term storage solutions.

 

By utilizing our dock-high storage trailers, the office furniture firm was able to avoid expensive warehouse space rentals while ensuring their valuable inventory was safely stored and efficiently transported to its final destination.

 

Storage Trailers, LLC delivers efficient, cost-effective, and flexible storage solutions to businesses facing overcapacity challenges. Let us help you solve your storage problems with temporary dock-high storage you can rely on.

Disaster Preparedness Logistics

11/20/2024 08:30 AM

The first hurricane of the month was in the Gulf and our retail client was stocking up on hurricane preparedness inventory. Their distribution center was over capacity creating a warehousing dilemma. Routine inventory was stocking the warehouse to capacity leaving no room for new inventory required for post-hurricane needs.

All the customer’s trailers were needed to move goods from the warehouse to the individual stores and the warehouse was already at overcapacity. Worse, the post-hurricane inventory was arriving that day. 

Storage Trailers LLC solved the problem, supplying dock high dry van semi-trailers, with a mixture of roll doors and swing doors to meet the customer’s specific on-site needs, to the customer’s distribution center. The trailers were immediately parked at the dock doors and excess inventory was loaded. Most railers were moved away from the dock for storage in the distribution center’s on-site parking lot but several were moved for short term storage at one of the multiple Storage Trailers, LLC secure storage facilities.

Thanks to Storage Trailers, LLC’s flexible temporary storage with no long-term contracts, the customer only had to utilize the semi-trailers for storage for exactly as long as they needed to meet their short-term storage needs. The inventory was safe, secure, dry, and ready for distribution once the hurricane passed through.


Third Party Logistics

11/11/2024 03:49 PM

Our third-party logistics provider (3PL) client had a warehousing problem. Their overseas manufacturer made a mistake and shipped thousands of tires to our client’s distribution center. Unfortunately, acquiring short-term warehouse space is impractical and expensive. 

Storage Trailers, LLC was able to help! With a fleet of 53-foot dock high dry van semi-trailers Storage Trailers, LLC provided immediate dock high warehousing assistance on a month-to-month rental. The perfect short-term temporary storage solution.

The trailers were docked at the appropriate bay doors, loaded with inventory, placed in the parking lot away from the dock doors, and awaited offloading for shipment at the appropriate time. Forklifts were used to load the inventory and offload on-sight at the warehouse doors. With no long-term contract, each semi-trailer could be returned as soon as it was empty, reducing the use of on-site space and monthly overhead cost.

By utilizing Storage Trailers, LLC dock high, cost effective, flexible short-term inventory storage solutions the 3PL company efficiently warehoused the oversupply of inventory in easily accessed storage trailers ensuring inventory was safely stored. This client has utilized Storage Trailers, LLC services in Texas and Tennessee although Storage Trailers, LLC provides service in multiple southeastern states.

Flexible temporary warehouse storage is Storage Trailers, LLC specialty.