Hi, I am David Hall
I served nearly 14 years as a United States Marine before moving into the container industry. The Corps taught me that details matter, that commitments are kept, and that you do not leave someone hanging when they are counting on you. That is the standard I bring to this business.
I came into this business because buying a container was harder than it needed to be. People were paying for units they had never seen, then meeting a delivery charge nobody had quoted them.
Site conditions matter too. A property on rural acreage needs a different delivery plan than a tight lot in Charlotte.
I built North Carolina Storage Containers to make buying a container in North Carolina simple: clear pricing, clear container grades and a written quote before you commit.
Delivery Geography in North Carolina
North Carolina runs about 500 miles from the Tennessee line to the Outer Banks, holds Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, and is divided into 100 counties
The mountains in the west hold Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi River, and many sites up there are reached by gravel drives with switchbacks cut into a bank. The Piedmont carries Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle across rolling red clay that slicks over in a summer thunderstorm and sets up hard by August. Below the fall zone the Sandhills take over, longleaf pine growing out of deep sand a loaded truck can sink into. East of that the coastal plain flattens into farm fields, drainage ditches and pocosin, then into the sounds and the barrier islands.
What to Plan Around in North Carolina
Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham and the western half of Raleigh sit on Piedmont red clay over saprolite, a layer of soft, weathered rock. The Cecil series, the official state soil, is a deep red clay. The clay holds water, drains slowly, softens when saturated and compacts under load. The saprolite beneath it changes strength over short distances. That matters more for a container than for a house, because a container puts essentially its whole weight through four corner castings rather than spreading it along a continuous footing. Four point loads on Piedmont clay that has softened after a wet week is how a box ends up out of level, with doors that no longer close and a roof that ponds water.
- ✓ Level, firm ground under all four corners
- ✓ Drainage that carries water away from the container
- ✓ Unpaved access to farm, ranch and acreage sites
- ✓ HOA covenants, deed restrictions and local permit questions
- ✓ Access at job sites, plants and other working sites
- ✓ Driveway width and overhead clearance on the truck's route