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How far does free container delivery go?

Updated August 23, 2026 · Answered by Containers Delivered, Woodlawn VA
The short answer

75 road miles from the yard at 5567 Elk Horn Rd in Woodlawn. Inside that, delivery and leveling cost you nothing extra. Road miles, not straight line miles, so the covered area is a lopsided shape that follows I-77 and US-58. Past it we still deliver and quote the haul first.

What varies first: the ring is not a circle

Set a compass at 75 miles on Woodlawn and you get a circle. What actually gets covered is a lopsided shape, because the measurement is road miles and roads pay no attention to compasses. Ridges push the line in. Four lane highways pull it out.

That is why two towns sitting the same distance out on a map can land on opposite sides of the line. The one on the corridor is comfortably inside. The one over a mountain on a winding county road may not be, even though it looks closer.

What varies with the direction you are in

Town names off the published list say it better than compass points do. Dobson comes back at 28 road miles and Elkin at 40, both down across the North Carolina line. Pulaski reads 45 and Radford about 50, up the other way into the New River Valley. Marion sits at 62 out to the west. Three different directions, all of them comfortably inside, all measured from the same gate.

Roanoke at about 76 road miles and Bristol at about 88 are the two towns we name as sitting past the line. Both are still routine runs. Nothing stops at the edge of the ring. The haul simply gets quoted instead of being folded into the price.

What varies at your own drop, which no map shows

Falling inside the ring settles the fee. It does not settle the drop. What decides the drop is the ground and the room around it, and those vary by the acre, not by the county.

  • A tilt-bed wants a straight pull-in of about 65 feet for a 20 ft box and about 95 feet for a 40 ft, plus space to back in.
  • The ground has to carry a loaded truck. Gravel is the friend here. Red clay after a week of rain is the usual problem.
  • Overhead room counts as much as ground room. Limbs and wires stop more deliveries around here than mud does.
  • Slope. A container wants to sit level so the doors line up and swing true, and a bad grade means more blocking under the corners.

How to pin your own address down

Call (276) 237-6144 with the ZIP or the road name where the container is going. Somebody checks the route out of Elk Horn Rd and tells you inside or quoted, and the price follows the same day. That takes about a minute and beats squinting at a radius map.

If you think you are near the edge, ask anyway. A couple of miles the wrong side of the line does not amount to much, and the trip charge on a town just past it tends to be smaller than people brace themselves for.

What the word free actually covers

Inside the ring, free means the whole job rather than just the drive. The container goes out on our own tilt-bed, gets slid onto blocks and set level so the doors line up, and the lockbox is already welded on when it arrives. No per mile fee, no fuel surcharge, no charge for setting it down right.

The delivered figures on the sales pages already have all of that in them: $3,200 on a used cargo-worthy 20 ft and around $4,900 on a 40 ft. Rentals run $165 a month for a 20 ft and $235 a month for a 40 ft, month to month, with the same delivery treatment inside the ring.

Key takeaways

  • Free delivery runs 75 road miles from the yard at 5567 Elk Horn Rd in Woodlawn.
  • It is measured in road miles, so the covered area is a lopsided shape rather than a circle.
  • The two towns we name as sitting past the line are Roanoke at about 76 road miles and Bristol at about 88, and for those the drive is quoted first.
  • Free covers the drive, the leveling on blocks and the welded lockbox, not just the mileage.
  • Call with your ZIP for a definite answer instead of guessing off a radius map.
75 road miles from the yard on Elk Horn Rd. Inside that there is no delivery charge, no per mile fee and no fuel surcharge.
We still deliver. The trip gets priced off your actual route and sent to you the same day, before anything is loaded.
From Woodlawn. Every delivery mile is counted from the yard gate on Elk Horn Rd, whichever location you bought at.
Inside the ring or quoted

Tell us the ZIP and we will tell you which

One minute on the phone settles whether your address is free or a quoted trip.

or (276) 237-6144