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 St. Louis.
I built Missouri Storage Containers to make buying a container in Missouri simple: clear pricing, clear container grades and a written quote before you commit.
Delivery Geography in Missouri
Missouri touches eight other states, holds 114 counties plus the independent City of St. Louis, and sits where the Missouri River meets the Mississippi.
The state reads as four different places depending on where you stand. North of the Missouri River it is rolling claypan farm country laid out on the section grid, cattle and row crop, with gravel roads and lettered state routes running to the horizon. The middle is river country: two big rivers, bluffs on one side and bottom ground on the other, and gumbo soil in the bottoms that holds water into June and sets like a brick in August. South of the river the Ozarks are a plateau of hills and creeks with caves and sinkholes under it. Then the far southeast corner drops off the edge of the plateau into the Bootheel, which is flat Delta farmland drained by a network of ditches and levees and looks nothing like the rest of the state. Grade, soil and the last half mile of gravel decide what a truck can actually set down, so the ground and the season matter as much to a delivery here as the road map does.
What to Plan Around in Missouri
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 the Missouri and Kansas 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. 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.
- ✓ 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