Shipping Containers for Sale in St. Louis, MO

Container Delivery Specialists for The St. Louis metro area

St. Louis is an independent city that belongs to no county at all, and it anchors a bi-state metro of roughly two and a half million people running from Lincoln and Warren counties in the north down through Jefferson County and east across the Mississippi into the Metro East counties of Illinois Deliveries reach St. Louis County, St. Charles, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Warren, Ste. Genevieve, Washington, Madison (IL), St. Clair (IL), Monroe (IL), Clinton (IL) counties, and the practical questions change from one part of the area to the next. Downtown, Downtown West, Soulard, Lafayette Square, Benton Park, Cherokee Street, Gravois Park, Dutchtown, Bevo Mill, Holly Hills, Carondelet, Tower Grove South, Tower Grove East, Shaw, Botanical Heights, Compton Heights, South Grand, the Hill, Dogtown, Lindenwood Park, St. Louis Hills, Princeton Heights, Southampton, the Central West End, Forest Park Southeast, Skinker DeBaliviere, DeBaliviere Place, Midtown, Grand Center, the Ville, Fountain Park, Old North St. Louis, Hyde Park, College Hill, Penrose, Baden each bring their own access, placement, and ground-preparation considerations.

The City of St. Louis regulates land use through its own zoning code, Title 26 of the Revised Code, administered by the Zoning Section of the Building Division inside the Department of Public Safety. Building permits are issued by the Building Division's Permits Section, and the two desks sit on different floors of City Hall, which tells you something useful: allowed here and permitted to build are two separate questions with two separate answers. Because the city is independent of any county, there is no county zoning layer on a city address. Outside the city line, St. Louis County and its ninety-plus municipalities each have their own code, and St. Charles, Jefferson and Franklin counties are separate again.

We have delivered containers throughout the St. Louis metro area and we know the local ground: Four corner castings carrying the entire load onto ground that changes character four times across the state. A house spreads its weight along a continuous footing; a container puts all of it through four points, which is why containers end up out of level with doors that no longer close. North of the Missouri River much of the state is claypan that drains slowly and stays soft for a stretch every spring. In both river bottoms it is gumbo, heavy clay that holds water into early summer and sets hard in August, and neither behaves well under four point loads at the wrong time of year. South of the river most of the Ozarks sits on soluble limestone and dolomite, which means karst: the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has identified roughly sixteen thousand sinkholes in the state and about seven thousand seven hundred documented caves. Thin soil over sound rock gives excellent bearing at shallow depth once you know what is under the pad, which is the reason to look before you set rather than a reason not to build there., along with the access and clearance realities of the streets here. Tell us your address and your situation, and you get an honest assessment and an accurate delivery quote.

St. Louis Delivery Considerations

A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:

• Tell us the street width, the alley width and whether there is rear access before we load. Much of the city is older blocks with cars parked both sides, gangways between houses and service alleys behind them, and the alley is often the only workable approach.
• Measure the clear height above the drop spot. A tilt bed has to raise its bed to set a box down, and the older neighborhoods carry low service drops, span wire and mature street trees over both the street and the alley.
• A tilt bed needs roughly one hundred feet of straight, level run for a 40ft container and closer to seventy for a 20ft. On a narrow city lot that run usually comes off the alley rather than off the street, so walk it before the appointment.
• Both river bottoms are gumbo clay. It holds water, it goes slick when it is wet and it ruts under a loaded truck, so if there is a corner of the property that always stays soft, point it out and we will plan the approach around it.
• West county sits on karst. Sinkholes, springs and soft low corners are a genuine feature of the ground out toward Chesterfield, Wildwood and along the Meramec, and they are worth mentioning before a truck sets a box.
• Set the container level on gravel, compacted rock, concrete or asphalt, with blocks or timbers under the four corner castings. Level is what keeps the doors swinging true through a Missouri freeze and thaw cycle.
• In St. Louis County, remember which municipality you are in. Ninety-plus separate governments means ninety-plus sets of rules about what can sit in a front yard, a side yard or an alley, and the answer changes at the line.

For permit questions on a specific address, contact City of St. Louis Building Division, Zoning Section, City Hall Room 400, 1200 Market Street, St. Louis, MO 63103, phone (314) 622-3666, for whether a container is allowed on your parcel. Building Division Permits Section, City Hall Room 425, same address, phone (314) 622-3313, for whether it needs a permit. For unincorporated St. Louis County and municipalities that contract with the county, call St. Louis County at (314) 615-5184..

Container Types Available in St. Louis

• 20ft Standard, Most popular size, fits most residential driveways
• 40ft Standard, Contractors, farms, businesses and larger properties
• 40ft High Cube, Conversions, tall equipment, maximum interior volume
• Modified, Job site offices, custom builds
• Refrigerated, Food service, cold storage