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 Detroit.
I built Michigan Storage Containers to make buying a container in Michigan simple: clear pricing, clear container grades and a written quote before you commit.
Delivery Geography in Michigan
Michigan is built as two separate peninsulas and touches four of the five Great Lakes
Michigan covers roughly 96,700 square miles counting its share of the Great Lakes, holds 83 counties, and is split into two peninsulas joined by exactly one road, the Mackinac Bridge. Metro Detroit is a dense grid of mile roads laid over heavy clay. The Thumb and the Saginaw Valley are flat, open farm ground where snow drifts across a field and can close a road. West Michigan runs from Grand Rapids out to a shoreline of sand and dune, sitting under the lake effect snow belt every winter. Up north the soil turns to jack pine sand and the county roads thin out into two-tracks. The Upper Peninsula is about a third of the land area, with a small share of the people, and it is forest, rock and heavy snow. Frost, thaw and the approach decide what a truck can set down, so delivery in Michigan depends on the season and the ground as well as the road map.
What to Plan Around in Michigan
A container rests its whole load on four corner castings, set on ground the glaciers left behind and that frost heaves in winter. Michigan soil changes character across the state: heavy clay across the southeast and the Thumb, which holds firm dry, greases up after a rain and heaves over a winter; sand and sandy loam through much of West Michigan and up north, which drains beautifully and spreads under a point load; loam and clay mixed through the tri-county area around Lansing; and organic muck ground in the drained lakebeds of the central Lower Peninsula, which is the worst bearing surface in the state. A house spreads its weight along a continuous footing. A container puts all of it through four points, which is why ground that carries a garage slab without complaint can still let one corner of a container settle an inch and stop the doors closing.
- ✓ 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