New one-trip conex containers and container offices delivered directly to your Indiana jobsite. No-fees pricing, no minimum term, and local inventory ready to move.
Keeping tools, materials, and equipment secure and accessible on an active construction site is one of the most practical logistics challenges a contractor faces. Off-site storage means driving, facility hours, and lost productivity. An open staging area means theft risk and weather damage. A construction storage container solves both problems: it sits directly on your site, locks tight, and holds everything your crew needs within reach all day.
Bolted Box delivers new one-trip conex containers, storage containers, and office containers across Indiana. Every rental is a new one-trip conex that arrives in like-new condition with smooth-operating doors, a welded steel lockbox that shields the padlock from bolt cutters, and weather-tight corten steel construction that holds up through Indiana winters and summers. Because we are local and keep inventory on hand, delivery moves faster than a national provider routing an order through a regional network.
Ground-level tilt-bed delivery directly to your site. No crane, no setup crew, ready to use the moment the truck pulls away.
Every conex container rental provider will tell you they are the best option. Here is what actually distinguishes Bolted Box from the national chains and local competitors on the metrics that matter to a superintendent or project manager.
The number on your quote is the number on your invoice. No fuel surcharge, no excise tax, no property fees added at billing. Delivery and pickup are disclosed upfront and billed once each.
Every container we rent is a one-trip high cube unit in like-new condition. We do not rent older fleet units with worn seals, bent hardware, or dented walls.
If you find a lower all-in quote on the exact same product, we will match it. You can compare quotes knowing you will get the best rate available.
Rent in four-week cycles and keep the container as long as the project lasts. Return it when you are done with no early termination fees and no long-term contract locking you in.
We are based in Indiana with inventory on hand locally. Decisions are made by the same family-owned team that answers your call, not a regional office or a national call center.
Order online at rent.boltedbox.com, get a quote, accept it, and schedule delivery. The whole process is digital with no phone tag or paperwork to chase down.
Bolted Box rents conex storage containers and conex office containers for construction sites across Indiana. Every rental is a new one-trip unit delivered at ground level, and rates below are billed every 28 days.
160 square feet of floor space. Right-sized for smaller crews, tighter sites, and single-trade storage. Fits roughly 10 to 11 standard pallets. Needs about 80 feet of straight-line backing room for delivery.
$165 per 28 days
320 square feet of floor space, nearly 9 feet of interior clearance. The better value per square foot for larger crews, long projects, and high-volume material storage. Fits 20 to 21 standard pallets. Needs about 100 feet of backing room.
$185 per 28 days
Climate control, LED lighting, built-in desk, power outlets, windows, and an electronic padlock. Ground-level entry with no steps or decking. Ideal for a superintendent's station or a small project team.
$725 per 28 days
High cube profile with two steel entry doors, two desks, climate control, LED lighting, and power outlets. Fits three to six people comfortably. The preferred conex office for larger crews or sites that need separate access points.
$850 per 28 days
20ft and 40ft one-trip containers side by side. Both are delivered at ground level with the same weather-tight steel construction, and the 40ft is a high cube.
A new one-trip 20ft office container. Climate control, built-in desk, windows, and ground-level entry, ready to use the day it lands.
Tools walk off. Drywall gets rained on. A crew wastes half a morning driving to an off-site unit and back for a pallet of fasteners that should have been twenty feet from where they're working. Construction site storage is one of those line items nobody thinks about until it costs them money, and by then the schedule is already slipping. This guide covers what you need to know before you put a container on the ground: sizes, what fits, how to load it, where to set it, what it costs to rent, and what it costs to buy.
A construction site storage container is an ISO shipping container placed directly on the ground at your job site and used as a lockable, weathertight box for tools, materials, and equipment. It's the same corten steel unit built to cross an ocean stacked nine high, which is why it holds up to an Indiana winter and a forklift bumping the corner post without complaint. The floor is marine-grade hardwood, the double cargo doors swing open the full width of the box, and the whole thing sits at ground level so your crew can roll a cart or a dolly straight in and out.
Two conditions exist in the market, and the difference matters more than most people expect. A one-trip container is essentially new, built overseas and shipped across once with a paid load inside. A used container has spent ten or fifteen years in service. We rent one-trip units only, and the reasons run in this order:
Three one-trip 40ft Bolted Box containers next to a used standard height unit. The condition difference is visible from across the yard.
Beyond condition, it helps to know the types you'll actually be choosing between. On the storage side, that's a 20 ft standard-height box and a 40 ft high cube, both one-trip on rent, with used 20 ft, 40 ft standard, and 40 ft high cube available for purchase. Door configuration is the next variable. We also rent and sell tunnel containers, which have cargo doors on both ends so you can load from one side and unload from the other, and that matters on a site with heavy daily traffic. Then there's the office side, which is a different product entirely: a new 20 ft or 40 ft container office with HVAC, power, lighting, finished walls, windows, and a desk setup, available in high cube for extra headroom.
The phrase you'll hear us use most is job-ready containers, and it's a category rather than a marketing line. A job-ready container is one that's usable the minute the truck pulls off your site: clean and dry inside, doors that seal and swing without a pry bar, original flooring with no soft spots, a lockbox already welded over the door hardware, vents that actually move air, and paint that looks like it belongs on a site your client visits. That's the standard every unit on our rental fleet has to meet before it leaves, and it's why we don't put used inventory on rent. A cheap box that shows up racked, damp, and missing hardware isn't storage, it's a problem your superintendent has to solve on day one.
Worth saying plainly: these are fixed-spec boxes. There's no shelving package, no lighting, no insulation option. Crews who want racking build or bring their own, which most do, and it works fine. If you need a heated, powered, finished space for plan review and meetings instead of storage, that's a different product, and our job site office containers cover it. Rentals go to companies only. Individuals can buy, but they can't rent.
Everything in this category runs on standard ISO dimensions, so the numbers are the same whether you're comparing quotes or planning a laydown area. Construction site storage containers come in two sizes that matter on a job site.
The 20 ft unit measures 20 ft long, 8 ft wide, and 8 ft 6 in tall on the outside. Inside, you get 19 ft 4 in by 7 ft 8 in by 7 ft 10 in. The door opening is 7 ft 8 in wide by 7 ft 5 in tall. That works out to roughly 1,170 cubic feet of usable space in a box weighing about 5,000 lbs empty.
The 40 ft one-trip is a high cube: 40 ft long, 8 ft wide, and 9 ft 6 in tall outside, with an interior of 39 ft 4 in by 7 ft 8 in by 8 ft 10 in. The door opening grows to 7 ft 8 in wide by 8 ft 5 in tall, and capacity runs around 2,560 cubic feet at roughly 8,700 lbs empty.
A new one-trip 40ft high cube. Clean finish, doors that open easily, and a welded steel lockbox.
Notice the math. The 40 costs about 12 percent more per period than the 20 but holds more than twice the volume, and that extra foot of ceiling height changes what you can stack. That's why most contractors start with the 40 and only step down to the 20 when the site is genuinely tight or the job is genuinely small. A 40 also swallows long material, including 32 ft and 36 ft lengths that would never fit in a shorter box.
Eight feet on the outside, 7 ft 8 in on the inside, with a door opening the full 7 ft 8 in across. That interior width is the number to plan around, because it decides how you load.
Standard 48 by 40 pallets fit two abreast if you turn them so the 40 in dimension runs across the box, which leaves about a foot of slack for fingers and a pallet jack. Turn them the other way and they won't go. Sheet goods lie flat against the floor with a walking strip beside them, and 4 by 8 or 4 by 12 drywall clears the 19 ft 4 in length with room to spare. Sixteen-foot lumber fits a 20 ft box; twenty-foot lumber does not.
What you can't do is drive a forklift inside. The width and the wood floor rule that out, so plan on setting pallets at the door and moving material in by hand cart or pallet jack. A tunnel unit with doors on both ends solves some of this on high-traffic sites by letting you load from one end and pull from the other.
Buyers ask about width for a different reason, usually because they're placing a box permanently in a yard or against a building line. If that's the situation, job site storage containers for sale work out to the same footprint as rentals: 8 ft of width plus whatever swing clearance you need in front of the doors, which is about 6 ft for a full 270 degree opening. We sell both one-trip and used units, to companies and to individuals.
Start with placement, because everything downstream depends on it. Put the box close to the work but out of the crane swing, off the fire lane, and clear of the path the concrete trucks take. Door direction gets chosen before delivery, not after, so think about which way your crew approaches and which way the wind drives rain and snow. Once a loaded container is set, moving it means emptying it.
Set it on firm, level, well-drained ground. Anywhere water pools is anywhere your bottom pallet gets wet. Then keep the backing lane in mind for the day you want it gone, since the same truck access you needed for delivery is what you'll need for pickup.
From there, sort by risk rather than by trade:
Keep a clear working aisle down the middle of the container and never let material creep into the door swing. A box you can't walk into is a box your crew stops using, and material starts piling up on the deck again. Contractors who want a permanent solution for a yard or shop often look at construction site storage containers for sale instead, which makes sense when the need outlives the project.
Load a container like you're going to unload it in the dark, because eventually somebody will. Heavy material goes at the ends over the corner posts and along the walls, not stacked in the middle of the floor. Keep weight distributed so the box doesn't sit unevenly on soft ground.
A workable sequence looks like this:
Most of this holds whether you own the unit or you're running a construction storage containers rental through the life of a project. The difference is that a rental goes back when the phase ends, so you're not paying to store an empty box.
Good storage is a habit more than a product. The sites that lose the least material all run some version of the same system.
One person owns the key and the container, usually the superintendent or a lead. Two people at most. When five people have access, nobody's responsible and the log stops getting filled in. Speaking of logs, a simple check-out sheet for tools and high-value material pays for itself the first time something goes missing, because it turns "who knows" into a specific question with a specific answer.
Zone the interior and label the zones with something a marker won't wash off. Photograph the inside once a week before you close the doors, which takes ten seconds and settles most arguments about what was delivered. Rotate anything with a shelf life so the older adhesive gets used first. And close out daily rather than weekly, since an unlocked container at 4:30 on a Friday is the most expensive mistake on the list.
Lock discipline matters too. Every one-trip unit comes with a heavy-duty lockbox welded over the door hardware, and we rent a specialized container lock that sits fully inside that lockbox so bolt cutters can't reach the shackle. It runs $12 per 28-day period for renters, it's matched to your specific container, and the driver brings it at delivery. More detail on how the hardware is built lives in our breakdown of container security features.
The welded lockbox on every one-trip rental. Our container lock sits fully inside it, so bolt cutters can't reach the shackle.
If you're searching for small construction site storage near me because the job is a tenant build-out or a short interior scope, the 20 ft unit is the right tool. It secures a full trade package without eating your parking.
Five things, ranked by how much they cost you when they go wrong.
Security comes first, because theft on job sites is fast, quiet, and often falls below your insurance deductible. Steel walls, a welded lockbox, and a lock that can't be cut are the baseline.
Moisture control comes second. Condensation forms when warm humid air hits cold steel overnight, so vents matter. One-trip units have more of them than aging used boxes, which is part of why we rent new. Keeping material off the floor and leaving a few inches of air behind stacks handles most of the rest.
Access comes third and gets underrated constantly. Ground-level entry means no steps, no ramp, no decking, and no liability conversation about somebody carrying a bundle of trim down a set of temporary stairs. A crew that can wheel material in and out uses the storage properly.
Capacity is fourth. Undersizing costs more than oversizing, because the overflow ends up tarped on the deck where it gets wet or walks off.
Cost and flexibility round it out. Look at the term, not just the rate. We don't require a minimum rental term, so you keep the box through the phase that needs it and send it back when you're done. Billing runs in four-week cycles, the rate is locked for the life of the rental, and there's no early termination fee. For contractors comparing on-site storage containers for rent across vendors, ask two questions the quote may not answer on its own: can the rate change mid-rental, and is the pickup charge firm or estimated? Our rate never changes, and pickup is locked in when you order. More on how this works project to project is in our guide to job site conex container rentals.
For job site use, the answer is simpler than the internet makes it sound: firm, level, well-drained ground. A container carries its load through the four corner castings, so those corners need consistent bearing. You don't need footings, piers, or a slab for a rental unit that's leaving in nine months.
What you do need to avoid is soft ground. Fresh fill, saturated clay, and turf all rut under a loaded box, and once one corner drops an inch or two the doors stop lining up. A gravel or crushed stone pad, compacted, handles almost every site. Where the grade is slightly off, timbers or blocks under the corners bring it back to level. Slope is the enemy, not weight.
If your only available spot isn't ready, we can build a compacted rock pad for rentals or purchases, often the same day. Beyond that, we supply the container and nothing else: no power, no installation, no site work.
Access is the other half of the equation, and it's not negotiable. A standard tilt-bed truck needs roughly 100 ft of straight-line backing room to set a 40 ft container and about 80 ft for a 20 ft unit. For genuinely tight sites, an integrated tow truck can place a 20 ft unit in about 50 ft at a higher delivery price, but there is no equivalent workaround for the 40. Plan on about 14 ft of overhead clearance along the path and up to 16 ft at the drop spot, and make sure the entry is wide enough for a semi and trailer. Anyone searching on-site storage containers Near Me should measure the approach before they measure the box, because that's the constraint that actually kills deliveries.
A container isn't permanent, so when a project wraps and your crew heads to the next address, moving storage along with it is simple. We pick up the container at the first site, which ends that rental, and deliver to the new site as a new order. Both trips show up on your quote and are priced by distance.
The new site has to meet the same access standards as the first one: about 80 ft of straight-line backing room for a 20 ft unit, about 100 ft for a 40, firm and level ground, and clear overhead space. A site that worked last time doesn't guarantee the next one will, so check the drop spot before you call. Empty the container before the driver arrives, too, since a loaded box shifts when it tilts onto the truck and isn't safe to move. If the next job needs a different size, tell us when you call and we'll quote the right unit for the new site.
Run the comparison honestly and containers usually win, but for reasons that have less to do with the headline rate than people assume.
Off-site self storage looks cheap until you count drive time. Two trips a day at thirty minutes each, at loaded labor rates, costs more in a week than a container costs in a period. A storage trailer sits high off the ground and needs steps, decking, and leveling before anybody uses it, so you're paying setup costs before the first invoice. A ground-level container needs none of that. It's usable the moment the truck pulls away.
The real cost question is renting versus buying. Rent when the need is project-based, the duration is uncertain, the unit may move to the next job, or appearance matters, since one-trip condition is what we put on rent. Buy when the need is permanent and the location is fixed.
The other variable is what shows up on the invoice that wasn't on the quote. National operators layer excise tax, property expense, and fuel surcharges on top of a low advertised rate and let those add-ons push the real number well past the quote. Our no-fees pricing means none of those exist here, so the number you're quoted is the number you pay. Delivery, pickup, the lock, and the damage waiver are priced services that appear on the quote, not surprises that appear later. When you search construction storage containers rental near me and start comparing, put every quote on an all-in basis before you decide, and hold each vendor to the same standard.
Bolted Box rents a 20 ft one-trip storage container for $165 and a 40 ft one-trip high cube for $185, both per 28-day billing cycle. The 40 is the better value per cubic foot by a wide margin, which is why it's where most projects land.
A few things about how billing actually works, since "per month" and "per period" aren't the same thing. Cycles run 28 days, which means 13 billing periods in a year rather than 12, and occasionally two invoices land in the same calendar month. That's normal. The rate is locked for the life of the rental. Delivery and pickup are separate per-trip services priced by distance, they appear on the quote before you commit, and both are billed on your first invoice only. The pickup charge is locked in when you order rather than estimated at return.
Two more items belong in your budget. Every rental requires insurance, satisfied either by a certificate of insurance naming us as additional insured or by opting into the Loss Damage Waiver, which is a service that runs roughly $24 to $150 depending on container size and type. And the container lock is $12 per period if you want it.
The order sequence is always the same: we quote, you accept, then delivery gets scheduled. Quotes go out same day, every time, and delivery is scheduled as soon as we can get a truck to you, which is typically fast.
When you're comparing construction storage containers rental prices, two things are worth knowing. We match a competitor's all-in quote on the exact same product, one-trip to one-trip and used to used. And ordering online at rent.boltedbox.com with code ONLINE takes $100 off. The same portal handles invoices, payments, and card updates, so you're not chasing paperwork mid-project.
A used 20 ft storage container is $1,979. A one-trip 20 ft is $3,389. For the larger sizes, a used 40 ft runs $2,569, a used 40 ft high cube is $2,749, and a one-trip 40 ft high cube is $4,559.
Delivery is never included in a purchase price. It's quoted separately based on distance, same as it is on a rental, and sales tax applies because that's a legal requirement rather than a charge we invented. Purchases are open to both companies and individuals, so a business stocking a yard and a homeowner who wants permanent on-site storage are both welcome to buy. Rentals stay commercial only.
Condition is where buyers need to pay attention. Used units are typically standard height, they show their age, and they don't come with a lockbox, so factor a security plan into the price. One-trip units are typically high cube, arrive in like-new shape, and include the lockbox. Before you buy anything used, inspect it properly, and our used container inspection checklist walks through what to look at, from door operation to floor condition to daylight through the seams. We also honor the same price match on sales that we do on rentals, as long as it's the same product class.
If you're not sure whether renting or buying makes more sense for your timeline, give us a call and we'll run the numbers both ways.
Storage is the backbone of a well-run site. Get the size right, set it on solid ground with real truck access, load it so your crew can actually use it, and lock it like it matters, and the rest of the job runs smoother for it. Our founder co-founded Pac-Van in Indianapolis back in 1993 and grew it past 10,000 units before it became a national brand, so the company may be young, but the people running it have set a lot of containers on a lot of Indiana job sites. When you're ready to price a unit for your next phase, get pricing and order online at rent.boltedbox.com, call 317-606-2658, or email us, and talk it through with someone local who can tell you in one conversation whether your site will take a 40.
Bolted Box is a family-owned Indiana company. Our founder Matthew Claymon co-founded Pac-Van in Indianapolis in 1993 and grew it past 10,000 units before it became United Rentals, then rebuilt Tyson Onsite, which was later acquired by WillScot Mobile Mini. That is more than 30 years of placing containers on Indiana jobsites behind every unit we deliver.
That experience shows up in how we operate. Decisions are made locally, inventory is kept on hand rather than sourced through a broker, and the people you talk to are the same people coordinating your delivery. We serve commercial customers across Indiana including Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Evansville, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Bloomington, Muncie, Kokomo, and surrounding areas. For a full list of service areas, see our service areas page. For more on how to size the right container for your project, see how do I determine the right size of storage container for my needs.
