Do you deliver to active jobsites?

What the drop looks like on a working pad

The truck backs in and lines up straight with where the box is going to finish. The bed tilts up at the front, the rear of the container touches down on the ground, and then the truck pulls ahead slowly and lets the box come off the back of the trailer under its own weight. On a standard drop nothing gets picked up and swung. A spot the truck cannot back to at all has to be craned in instead, and that is a separate job with its own quote. The whole set happens in a straight line, and that single fact is where every rule about jobsite delivery comes from.

When the box is down, the driver blocks and levels it. Then the doors get checked so they swing and latch square, because a container set out of level on soft ground will fight the doors from day one. Then he is gone. On a clean pad the whole thing takes a few minutes with the crew still working forty feet away.

Why month one is easy and month four is not

Early in a build the site is mostly open ground. There is a long clean run to almost anywhere on the lot. That is the moment to get the box placed, and it is the reason we push builders to order before they think they need it.

By the time framing is up, the picture is different. The dumpster went where the run used to be. A stockpile of stone sits at the entrance. There is a lumber drop across the middle of the lot and somebody's trailer parked in the only straight lane. All of that is normal and none of it is a problem if we know about it, but a 40 ft wants something like 95 feet of straight approach, plus the room to back into it, and a site in month four rarely has that lying around.

• Send a photo of the entrance and a photo of the spot when you request the quote.
• Tell us what is going in the ground later, so the box does not land on top of the driveway or the septic field.
• Keep the lane clear on delivery day, including the part you drive past without thinking about.
• Watch for overhead lines and low limbs. The bed goes up before the box comes off.

Soft dirt is where deliveries actually fail

More jobsite drops go wrong on soft dirt than on anything else. A loaded truck is heavy and it has to keep moving in a straight line to complete the slide. Gravel is ideal. Firm dry dirt is fine. Cured slab is fine. Soft ground after a wet week is what turns a delivery into a recovery, and a pickup that crossed the same ground on Tuesday proves nothing about a loaded truck on Friday.

Our driver makes that call standing on your dirt, not from a desk. If he says it will not carry, he says it before he commits, and we reschedule or find a firmer spot near the entrance. Nobody wins with a trailer sunk to the frame in the middle of your site.

Timing, and what we will and will not promise

You get a quote the same day you ask for one. Delivery itself is scheduled, and most drops land inside the week. We do not promise a truck the same day you call, and we would rather tell you that plainly than have a foreman standing around waiting on steel that is not coming.

Within 75 road miles of our Woodlawn yard, the delivery and the leveling are free, which covers most of southwest Virginia and the counties over the North Carolina line. Beyond that we still deliver, and the run is quoted before you commit. At closeout, call and we come pick the box back up.