Double door and side opening
shipping containers.

A standard container has cargo doors at one end and nothing anywhere else. Load it for a month and the first things you put in are forty feet away behind everything you put in after them. That is fine for material you consume front to back, and it is a daily annoyance for anybody who stores a mix of things and needs a different one each morning. Door configuration is the single option that changes how a container feels to use, and it costs a few hundred dollars, not a few thousand.

A double door container has a full set of cargo doors at each end. Open both and you are looking straight through the box. Nothing has a dead corner, because every square foot of floor is within reach of one opening or the other, and you can load the things you need often at the ends and the things you need rarely in the middle. On a job site it means material feeds out whichever end the truck can reach that day. For long items, lumber, pipe, conduit, ladders, it means you slide from one end rather than carrying the full length in.

We stock a 20ft one-trip double door at $4,250 plus tax and a 40ft standard one-trip double door at the same $4,250. On the 40ft, the drive-through effect is the bigger win, because a forty foot reach from a single opening is a long way to walk with something heavy.

A tri-door adds a side door set to a container that already has cargo doors at one end. It is the answer for a lot where the truck can only set the container one way and that one way puts the end doors against a fence, a building, or the neighbor. Instead of losing the opening, you load from the long side, which also means you can back a truck alongside the container and transfer straight across rather than around a corner. Ours is a 20ft one-trip at $4,375 plus tax, and it is popular with trades who park the box tight against a shop wall.

A 40ft high cube with four sets of side doors opens almost the entire long wall. Every pallet position faces out, which means a forklift reaches any spot in the container without driving into it and without shuffling everything in front. That is a warehouse rack that arrived on a truck. It is a specialty unit rather than something that sits on the lot year round, so ask what is inbound when you call and we will tell you honestly where it is in the schedule.

This one is different in kind. A man door is a normal hinged walk-in door cut into the container with a proper frame and a lockset, so you get in and out without swinging a pair of eight foot cargo doors every time you need one thing. Pair it with a rooftop vent and air keeps moving through the box, which takes the edge off a closed steel container sitting in August sun and helps with the condensation that comes from big day to night temperature swings in northern Nevada. A 20ft one-trip with a man door and a roof vent starts at $3,950 plus tax, the same as a plain one-trip 20ft, and it is the configuration we would pick for anyone using the container as a shed or a workspace rather than a sealed storage box.

Availability moves

Door configurations sell faster than plain containers and the mix on the ground changes week to week. Tell us which setup you want and we will confirm what is in the yard, what is inbound, and today’s price. Financing available, ask when you request a quote.

One thing to know before you decide: every extra opening is another set of gaskets and lock rods, and every one of them depends on the container sitting level. A racked container binds its doors, and a container with three sets of doors gives you three chances to notice. Get the base right and none of it is an issue. Our site prep guide covers gravel, decomposed granite, footings, and slabs, and our drivers check that the doors open and close cleanly before they leave your property.

Current door configurations are listed on the inventory page with photos, or come walk the yard on Cocoa Avenue and open them yourself. When you know what you want, send us the size, the doors, and the address and we will quote the container and the delivery together.