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 Buffalo.
I built New York Storage Containers to make buying a container in New York simple: clear pricing, clear container grades and a written quote before you commit.
Delivery Geography in New York
New York holds the five boroughs and the six million acre Adirondack Park inside the same 54,500 square miles
For delivery, New York works as two different areas, downstate and upstate, divided near Newburgh. Downstate is dense, tidal and hemmed in by roads commercial trucks cannot use, because every parkway in the metropolitan area is closed to commercial vehicles and the stone bridges over them were built for 1930s cars. Much of upstate New York sits on ground left by glaciers. The Hudson is a tidal estuary all the way to Troy, so the river towns sit on silt and fill. Long Island is a terminal moraine with an outwash plain south of it, which is why the North Shore is hilly and full of boulders and the South Shore is flat sand. West of the Hudson the Catskills are a dissected plateau rather than a range, so the roads run up ravines and hollows instead of over passes. Across the middle of the state the Mohawk Valley cuts an east to west route through the Appalachian chain, and the Erie Canal, the railroad and the Thruway all follow it. West of Syracuse the Finger Lakes are deep glacial troughs with steep sides, low glacial hills run through Wayne and Cayuga counties, and the Ontario lake plain sits on heavy clay. Then there is snow: the Tug Hill Plateau and the Erie Southtowns take heavy lake effect snow. In New York the truck route, the grade, the ground and the season all affect a delivery.
What to Plan Around in New York
Much of New York sits on glacial ground that changes over short distances, and some areas sit on lacustrine (old lake-bed) clay. New York's soils were sorted, dumped and re-sorted by ice and meltwater, so a state scale soil map cannot tell you what is under one parcel. The New York State Department of Transportation's own geology chapter describes the Erie and Ontario lowlands, the belt that carries Buffalo, Rochester and the north side of Syracuse, as glacial till plains and proglacial lake plains with drumlins through the middle of the Ontario plain, and it notes that the till runs from loose to exceptionally dense and that New York's lake and marine clays have a history of settlement and slope movement. 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 lake clay that has softened after a wet week, or on a fill pocket nobody knew was there, can leave a box out of level with doors that no longer close.
- ✓ 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