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The first hurricane of the month was in the Gulf and our retail client was stocking up on hurricane preparedness inventory. Their distribution center was over capacity creating a warehousing dilemma. Routine inventory was stocking the warehouse to capacity leaving no room for new inventory required for post-hurricane needs.

All the customer’s trailers were needed to move goods from the warehouse to the individual stores and the warehouse was already at overcapacity. Worse, the post-hurricane inventory was arriving that day. 

Storage Trailers LLC solved the problem, supplying dock high dry van semi-trailers, with a mixture of roll doors and swing doors to meet the customer’s specific on-site needs, to the customer’s distribution center. The trailers were immediately parked at the dock doors and excess inventory was loaded. Most railers were moved away from the dock for storage in the distribution center’s on-site parking lot but several were moved for short term storage at one of the multiple Storage Trailers, LLC secure storage facilities.

Thanks to Storage Trailers, LLC’s flexible temporary storage with no long-term contracts, the customer only had to utilize the semi-trailers for storage for exactly as long as they needed to meet their short-term storage needs. The inventory was safe, secure, dry, and ready for distribution once the hurricane passed through.

Our third-party logistics provider (3PL) client had a warehousing problem. Their overseas manufacturer made a mistake and shipped thousands of tires to our client’s distribution center. Unfortunately, acquiring short-term warehouse space is impractical and expensive. 

Storage Trailers, LLC was able to help! With a fleet of 53-foot dock high dry van semi-trailers Storage Trailers, LLC provided immediate dock high warehousing assistance on a month-to-month rental. The perfect short-term temporary storage solution.

The trailers were docked at the appropriate bay doors, loaded with inventory, placed in the parking lot away from the dock doors, and awaited offloading for shipment at the appropriate time. Forklifts were used to load the inventory and offload on-sight at the warehouse doors. With no long-term contract, each semi-trailer could be returned as soon as it was empty, reducing the use of on-site space and monthly overhead cost.

By utilizing Storage Trailers, LLC dock high, cost effective, flexible short-term inventory storage solutions the 3PL company efficiently warehoused the oversupply of inventory in easily accessed storage trailers ensuring inventory was safely stored. This client has utilized Storage Trailers, LLC services in Texas and Tennessee although Storage Trailers, LLC provides service in multiple southeastern states.

Flexible temporary warehouse storage is Storage Trailers, LLC specialty.