20ft Full Side Access Container for Sale, One Trip

This 20ft full side access container for sale is built to ISO specifications and has made a single trip, so it is a nearly new box rather than a used one. What sets it apart is the run of hinged double doors down one full side, which sits alongside the cargo doors on the end wall rather than replacing them. Open them and the container becomes a covered, lockable bay you can reach into anywhere along its length. It is CSC plated to a maximum gross weight of 24 tons and priced at $4,100.

Jobs a Full Side Access Unit Does Better

• Loading pallets straight in from the side with a forklift or telehandler
• Storing long stock such as pipe, lumber, gutter and racking sections
• Trading from a market pitch, with the whole side opened to customers
• Plant and tool stores where every item must be visible at a glance
• Nurseries and growers moving trays and stock in and out daily
• Workshop conversions that need a wide opening for machinery
• Event and display units where the side becomes the shop front
• Sites where end access is blocked and the only approach is broadside

The comparison people usually make is with a roll-up door conversion cut into a standard box. A roller shutter is convenient and quick to operate, but it is an aftermarket opening in a wall never designed to have one, it eats headroom in its housing, and the shutter itself is the weakest part of the container. Full side access is engineered in from the start, with a reinforced frame carrying the load the missing side wall used to carry, and it opens wider than any shutter. The trade is cost and weight: this unit is dearer than a plain 20ft container and rated to 24 tons gross rather than the 30 tons a standard box carries.

Doors, Steel and Practical Ownership

The shell is all Corten steel, and each door in the assembly carries two locking bars, so the side opening is secured along its length rather than at one point. Two forklift pockets on each side allow the empty unit to be repositioned without a crane. Eight vents are fitted, twice the number on a plain tunnel unit, which helps because a container with a long door line has more seal to breathe through and more risk of trapped humidity behind stacked stock. The floor is 28 mm marine plywood on steel cross members, so a forklift can drive on it. Keeping the end cargo doors as well is worth more than it looks, because it leaves you a way into the deep end on a day when the side of the container is boxed in by stock.

Long term, the side doors are the part that repays attention. Keep the ground under the container level so the frame does not rack, because a racked frame is what puts side doors out of alignment and starts the slow argument with the locking bars. Grease the hinge pins and cam gear once a year, and check the rubber seals for grit before closing up in winter. Do that and the doors stay easy to work for the life of the container. One-trip condition means the seals, bars and paint start out in near-new order. We confirm the exact specification of the unit allocated to your order before delivery.

Full specifications are in the table below. Note that the whole point of the unit is the side opening, so leave clear space along that flank for the doors to swing and for a truck or forklift to work. A common mistake is siting one of these tight against a boundary because that is where a plain container would have gone, then discovering the doors open onto a hedge. Measure the swing, allow a working width in front of it, and the container will pay you back every day.

Delivery, Payment and Returns

Delivery is a flat $550 anywhere in the continental United States, quoted at checkout, usually one to three weeks from order. A 20ft container is delivered by tilt-bed truck and needs about 60ft of straight, firm approach with roughly 14ft of overhead clearance. Tell us at the time of order which way you want the side doors to face, because rotating a container after it has been set down means paying for a second lift.

We take Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe, along with ACH and wire transfer. We do not collect sales tax. Standard unmodified containers are covered by a 30-day return window with free return shipping. To check availability, ask about offload and orientation, or place an order on this full side access container, call (334) 294-5043.

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