40ft High Cube Storage Container with 2 Side Doors

40ft High Cube Container With Side Doors for Sale

Loading a plain 40ft box means every pallet travels the whole length of the unit before it reaches daylight. A 40ft high cube container with side doors removes that bottleneck. Full-height hinged leaves open along both long sides, the usual pair of cargo doors stays at the rear, and you end up with three separate ways in. Outside it measures 40ft (12.19 m) long, 8ft (2.44 m) wide and 9ft 6in (2.89 m) tall, that last figure being the extra foot of height that makes a high cube worth specifying. Inside you get about 39ft 4in (12.00 m) of floor and 8ft 10in (2.69 m) of clear headroom. The price is $5,083.

Where the three-door layout earns its keep

• Yard storage where stock turns over weekly and nothing should be buried at the far end
• Forklift work carried out from the side of the unit rather than nose-in through one end
• Long material such as conduit, pipe, trim and lumber loaded broadside
• Site workshops that want daylight and airflow while a crew is working inside
• Parts and tool cribs split into zones, each zone with its own door
• Market, vending and event setups that need a wide serving opening
• Tight lots where a truck or loader can only ever reach one face of the container
• Racking run down one wall with picking done from the opposite side

The obvious alternative is a plain 40ft high cube at a lower price, and for dead storage that is the right call. Once you need to reach a specific item more than once a week, the arithmetic changes, because handling time rather than steel becomes the expensive part. Two 20ft units give you two door ends, but they also cost more ground, more delivery and more perimeter to secure. Renting solves nothing over the long run: a couple of years of rental payments will pass what this container costs outright, and at the end of it you still own nothing.

Build, condition and what actually arrives

The shell is Corten weathering steel, the corrugated alloy the container fleet is built from because it forms a stable oxide layer instead of flaking away in sheets. Flooring is 28 mm (about 1-1/8 in) marine-grade plywood laid over steel cross members and rated for forklift traffic. Every door leaf carries twin locking bars, forklift pockets are set into both sides, and ISO corner castings let the unit be lifted, stacked or trailered in the normal way. Empty weight is roughly 8,700 lb (3,950 kg), which means the ground under the container deserves as much thought as the container itself. A side-door unit takes part of its rigidity through the door frames rather than through a continuous side wall, so a firm, level base is not a nicety here. Timbers, concrete pads or blocks under the four corner castings will keep the frame true and the doors lining up years from now.

Stock moves between new and cargo-worthy used units. Cargo-worthy is a working standard rather than a cosmetic one: wind and watertight, sound floor, doors that swing and seal. Surface marks, patched paint and old operator markings are normal on used steel and have no bearing on how the box performs. We confirm the exact specification, condition and door arrangement of the unit allocated to your order before it leaves, so nothing about it is a surprise on the day. If you intend to cut in windows, vents or a personnel door later, say so early, since a side-door unit is framed differently around its openings and that framing dictates where you can safely cut.

Delivery, payment and returns

Delivery runs a flat $550 anywhere in the continental United States, quoted at checkout, and orders typically land one to three weeks out. The container arrives on a tilt-bed truck, which tips its bed and slides the unit off backward as the truck pulls forward. For a 40ft container, plan on 100 to 120ft of straight, firm approach lined up with the final resting spot, plus about 14ft of overhead clearance for the bed at full tilt. Soft ground, low limbs and service lines are the three things that turn a simple drop into a wasted trip.

We take Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe, plus bank transfer by ACH or wire. We do not collect sales tax. Standard unmodified units carry a 30-day return with free return shipping, while anything we cut or build to your specification is excluded from that. If you want to talk through door orientation, site access, or whether the side doors are worth the difference over a plain high cube, call  and we will work it through with you.

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