Crane set

When a crane set is actually the right call

No, a crane never shows up on a Containers Delivered delivery. That's the flat answer. In the broader container industry, a crane set earns its cost when a box has to travel somewhere a truck simply cannot get a bed close enough to, straight up onto a rooftop, over a building to a rear courtyard, or stacked on top of another container already on the ground.

It's also the fallback when a site truly has no straight approach at all, no pull-in, no side room, nothing a tilt-bed or a side loader could work with. A crane can set a box down almost anywhere its boom can reach, at a real cost in equipment and time.

Why a tilt-bed handles almost everything a crane would

Most residential driveways, farm gates and jobsites have some kind of straight approach, even a modest one, and that's all a tilt-bed truck needs to slide a container off under its own weight and set it on blocks. About 65 feet of clearance covers a 20-ft container, about 95 feet covers a 40-ft, and that's usually there once you actually walk the site.

A crane solves problems most sites don't actually have. Reaching for one before checking your real pull-in room is usually reaching past a simpler answer.

What to do if your site looks like it needs one

If your access truly has zero straight run, whether that's a courtyard, a rooftop, or a lot boxed in on every side, call and describe it before assuming the delivery is off the table. Since Containers Delivered doesn't operate crane equipment, a site that genuinely needs a crane set isn't one we can deliver to directly, and we'll tell you that plainly rather than send a truck that can't do the job.