If you need a modified shipping container delivered to a site less than 200 miles from our facility, we’ll likely use a tilt bed truck. Tilt bed trucks tip their beds up at an angle to slide the cargo off. This allows the driver to pull up to the desired site and set the container on the ground with no additional equipment.
Tilt bed trucks require a significant amount of room to access the location where the container will be placed. We will consider this when deciding whether a tilt bed truck is right for your situation. The ground where your modified shipping container will sit should also be dry, firm, flat, and level.
A flatbed truck has a simple flat platform with no surrounding walls. Unlike tilt bed trucks, a crane or forklift is needed to move the modified container on and off the bed.
Because using a tilt bed truck costs more per mile than a flatbed, it is usually more cost-effective to choose a flatbed and then rent a crane or forklift when delivering modified shipping containers to locations further than 200 miles from our facility.
Because high-cube containers are 9.5-feet tall – a foot taller than a standard shipping container – transporting them calls for a step-deck truck. Step-deck trucks are similar to flatbeds in that both have simple wall-less platforms and call for a crane or forklift to move the container off the bed. However, step-deck trucks have lower beds to keep tall loads, such as high-cube containers, within legal height limits.
