Buy or rent a 20 or 40 ft ISO container and we set it level on your ground with the lockbox already welded on. At about 65 road miles, Rocky Mount sits well inside the free delivery and leveling zone.
Rocky Mount is about 65 road miles from our yard on Elk Horn Rd in Woodlawn. The run heads northeast on US-221 through Floyd, which we publish at about 35 miles, then east on VA-40 down off the Blue Ridge into the Franklin County piedmont.
That puts Rocky Mount comfortably inside our free delivery zone, which runs to 75 road miles. It also places it between two towns we already serve and publish distances for: Martinsville at about 60 miles to the south and Roanoke at about 76 to the north. Rocky Mount sits between them geographically and its distance sits between them too, which is exactly what you would expect.
Delivery and leveling are already inside every price we publish, along with the welded lockbox, so a Franklin County address gets the quoted number with no delivery line added at the end.
Rocky Mount is the county seat of Franklin County and sits on US-220 between Roanoke and Martinsville, which makes it a working town rather than a bedroom one. County offices, schools, healthcare and the businesses that serve a large rural county are all here.
Franklin County itself is big and mostly rural, and it splits into two fairly different worlds. West of town the land climbs toward the Blue Ridge and stays farm country. East of town it runs down to Smith Mountain Lake, and the lake economy brings second homes, seasonal properties, boats, contractors and a construction cycle that does not look much like the rest of our service area.
The county has a long agricultural history and a working farm economy today, with hay, livestock and produce all generating the kind of seasonal storage demand where a container tends to beat a building. Manufacturing and the trades along the US-220 corridor add the rest.
Farm storage leads it. Feed, seed, fencing, tack, tools and equipment, all needing to be dry, locked and away from animals, on properties where the existing barn is full or was never built for it. Hay in particular needs airflow, and ventilation is the mod that matters most on a farm container.
Lake property storage is the distinctive one here. Boats, trailers, watersports gear, outdoor furniture and everything else that is in use for four months and in the way for eight. A container on a property near Smith Mountain Lake solves a storage problem that is genuinely seasonal, and it does it without planning a building.
Construction and renovation take a steady share on both sides of the county. Contractors working lake properties and the ongoing work on older housing stock around Rocky Mount both need tools and material dry and behind a lockbox for the length of a job, and jobsite rentals run month to month so the container leaves when the work does.
Household storage rounds it out, mostly renovations and moves. Those rentals run longer than people expect, and with no contract and no minimum term that costs nothing beyond the extra months.
Workshops and shops are the growing one. A container with a roll up door, lighting, outlets and shelving is a dry place to work that sits on a gravel pad instead of needing a foundation, and our Woodlawn shop builds all of that in before delivery.
Most of the county is straightforward for delivery, with more open, gentler ground than we deal with west of the Blue Ridge. The two situations worth flagging are lake properties and long farm lanes.
Containers arrive on a tilt bed trailer that backs in, tilts, and slides the container off onto your ground as the truck pulls forward. That needs a straight clear run behind where the box will sit.
Steep or narrow lake access driveways are worth a conversation when you call. Plenty of them are fine and some are not, and it is a five minute discussion rather than a wasted delivery.
We level on blocks as part of every delivery. If you are putting gravel down first, do it before the container arrives and let it settle rather than trying to build a pad around a box that is already sitting there.
A used cargo worthy 20 ft container starts at $3,200 and a used cargo worthy 40 ft at around $4,900, delivered free to a Rocky Mount address, leveled on blocks with the lockbox welded on. Those are out the door numbers, not a base price.
Rentals run month to month with no contract, from $165 a month for a 20 ft and $235 a month for a 40 ft, with free pickup at the end inside the same 75 mile zone.
For seasonal needs, and there are a lot of those in this county, it is worth doing the arithmetic across the whole cycle rather than one season. Renting four months a year for several years adds up to a lot of months with nothing owned at the end. Our rule of thumb puts the tipping point somewhere around 18 to 20 months of rent.
If you would rather try one first, renting and then buying is a normal path here, and in many cases we can credit a portion of what you have already paid toward the purchase price.
Call (276) 237-6144 or send the form with the size, buy or rent, and the delivery address. Quotes come back the same day.
Free delivery does not stop at the town line. The communities along US-220 and the roads out toward Smith Mountain Lake ride along on the same run, and Floyd on the way over is well inside the zone.
Boones Mill · Ferrum · Union Hall · Floyd · Martinsville · Roanoke
Not on the list? You're probably still in range — see the full service area or just call us and we'll check the mileage for you.
Delivery is free at this distance and the quote comes back the same day. Give us a size, a condition and a delivery address and we will do the rest.
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