Usually not on your own. The container is our asset while it's on rent, and repositioning one takes a tilt-bed truck, not a tractor or a loader. Call us and we'll schedule the move: a 20-ft needs about 65 feet of straight clearance, a 40-ft about 95. Dragging it yourself can rack the frame and jam the doors.
A loaded-looking steel box on skids or gravel looks like something a tractor or a skid steer ought to be able to nudge. It isn't. A 20-ft container weighs a few tons empty, it has no wheels, and it doesn't slide evenly across the ground. Push on one corner and the frame twists before the whole box moves.
That twist is the real cost. Corner castings hold the shape of the box square. Rack the frame even a little and the doors stop lining up with their own frame, which is the single most common complaint we hear about containers that got dragged instead of trucked.
Three things decide how the move goes: how far it's going, what the new spot looks like, and how the truck gets in and out of both.
That's not really a different question, it's an early pickup at your address paired with a delivery somewhere else. The same clearance rules apply at both ends, and the ground at the new address gets the same check the first one did. If the new address is well outside our free 75-mile zone, say so up front so we can quote the run honestly.
Give us the current spot and the new one and we'll check clearance and schedule the truck.
Same-day reply. We'll send a real number, a real delivery window, and any photos we need to confirm fit.
You'll hear back from us today (or first thing tomorrow if it's late). For anything urgent, call (276) 237-6144.