Storage Trailers LLC Blogs

Several small airlines operating charters, specialty flights, and professional team flights are based at Bush IAH and Hobby airports in Houston. The fuel tanks of their commercial airplanes are lined with polyurethane protective foam, designed and installed to mitigate the effects of fuel vapor. When the foam fails the plane is grounded. The foam is pieced together within the fuel tank and is removed piece at a time by the airplane manufacturer over several days and each piece is bagged and stored for remediation or disposal.

This occurred for one of Storage Trailers, LLC’s clients at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, who required a 53-foot storage trailer. The swing door fifty-three-foot dry van semi-trailer was ordered and delivered same day, a common occurrence for Storage Trailers, LLC. The dock high design made our storage trailer a perfect solution to their short-term storage requirements. It allowed for on site storage with the trailer staged nearby while the plane remained on the tarmac. 

Once pieces of foam were removed and bagged, they were stored inside the 53-foot dry van semi-trailer, which provided dry, secure storage. While much of our equipment is utilized at distribution center warehouses, manufacturing warehouses, and import companies this was Storage Trailer, LLC’s first remediation client, but not our last.

Little is as satisfying as a satisfied repeat client!

Much of Storage Trailers, LLC business is driven by unique warehousing problems of manufacturers, importers, third part logistics companies, and local small business. However, is especially satisfying to provide flexible temporary storage to repeat clients. 

Unlike many planned and repeat purchases or rentals, dry van dock high storage trailers are a specialized requirement, which means they are in use less frequently. A warehouse remodel, preparing for a warehouse relocation, an unusual influx of inventory, or even seasonal inventory are frequently one-time events requiring flexible temporary storage. On those occasions when a client uses Storage Trailers, LLC consistently at multiple locations and in multiple states we are ecstatic.

On this occasion the client, in addition to approximately fifteen storage trailers on-site, needed an additional fifty storage trailers immediately for an unexpected influx of excess inventory. What was more, all of these tailers had to be fifty-three foot (53) dry van semi-trailers with roll doors, forklift capable, dry and secure. As these storage trailers are so specialized, they can be very difficult to locate and rent, but Storage Trailers, LLC specializes in dry van dock-high semi-trailers for temporary storage.

Storage Trailers, LLC received the large and sudden order on Friday and immediately set about sending over thirty trailers to alleviate the client’s immediate storage needs and delivered the rest by Monday. Storage Trailers, LLC delighted in adapting to our client’s specific and urgent need, which utilized a very different type of order. 

This central Texas based mission, like most nonprofits, pays close attention to costs. They operate an immaculate mid-size dock high warehouse facility and on seasonally they need help with excess inventory. Many of their large corporate donors send product in the last quarter of the year. This influx of excess inventory overwhelms their traditional warehouse space and plays havoc with their efficiency, forcing them to unload and release the dry van trailers that deliver their products where they offload and stack in between the aisles of the already overstocked warehouse, preventing the forklifts from accessing the inventory and driving up cost as time and effort is wasted simply getting to things. 

Storage Trailers, LLC became their perfect flexible temporary storage solution to their seasonal warehouse overcapacity issue. Storage Trailers, LLC provided dry van semi-trailers to the dock door as short term relief from inventory excesses. Our forklift capable dry van box trailers created another warehouse available at the dock door. Inventory was loaded and offloaded allowing the semi-trailer to act as another aisle in the warehouse.

As a bonus for this nonprofit, because Storage Trailers, LLC requires no long-term rental agreement, the trailers were only used while they were needed and then returned when they were no. No locked schedule, no hidden fees, only an on-site solution to a storage dilemma. Once the trailer had served its purpose, it was returned to one of Storage Trailers, LCC's multiple, convenient drop yards. When you require as needed small size on site warehouse space please allow Storage Trailers, LLC to help. We frequently can deliver same day and our dry van semi-trailers are more modern than most with newer year models added to the fleet regularly.

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.

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.

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.

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.