Storage for Warehouse Operations: FAQ

Storage trailers provide warehouse operations with an alternative for slow-moving inventory storage, support during facility consolidations, dock-level and mobile flexibility for yard positioning, and dedicated storage for facility maintenance and yard supplies. These benefits help businesses optimize warehouse space, streamline operations, and enhance overall efficiency.

Storage trailers provide a smart alternative for storing slow-moving inventory. Instead of occupying valuable warehouse slots with low-turnover items, trailers can store this stock outside the main facility. This frees up warehouse space for faster-moving products, optimizes storage capacity, and improves overall operational efficiency without discarding inventory that may eventually sell.

During warehouse facility consolidations, storage trailers serve as temporary storage for goods throughout the transition process. They provide additional capacity to hold inventory while facilities are being reorganized, closed, or merged. This streamlines the consolidation process, ensures a smooth transition, and minimizes disruptions to ongoing operations and customer fulfillment.

Storage trailers are designed with dock-level capabilities, meaning they align with standard warehouse loading dock heights for easy loading and unloading using forklifts and pallet jacks. This dock-level compatibility allows trailers to function as extensions of the warehouse floor, enabling efficient material handling without special equipment or ramps.

Yes, the mobile nature of storage trailers allows businesses to position them strategically within the yard based on operational requirements. Trailers can be moved closer to specific dock doors, staging areas, or production zones as needs change. This flexibility enhances workflow efficiency and ensures convenient access to stored items throughout the facility.

Storage trailers can accommodate a wide range of warehouse items including slow-moving and seasonal inventory, overflow stock during peak periods, facility maintenance equipment and tools, yard supplies like pallets and containers, packaging materials, archived records and documentation, returned goods awaiting processing, and backup inventory for high-demand products.

Storage trailers serve as dedicated storage for facility maintenance equipment, tools, spare parts, and supplies. Instead of cluttering valuable warehouse space with maintenance-related items, businesses can use trailers to keep these materials organized and accessible. This keeps the main warehouse optimized for core operations while ensuring maintenance resources are readily available.

Yes, storage trailers are ideal for storing yard supplies and materials required for yard management. Items like pallets, empty containers, dunnage, shrink wrap, strapping materials, and other shipping supplies can be stored in trailers positioned in the yard. This keeps supplies accessible while freeing warehouse floor space for revenue-generating inventory storage.

Storage trailers provide critical overflow capacity during peak warehouse seasons when inventory levels surge beyond normal capacity. Trailers can be rented temporarily to handle holiday inventory, seasonal products, or promotional stock. This scalable solution allows warehouses to handle volume spikes without permanent infrastructure investment or turning away business.

Express Group offers storage trailers in various sizes to match warehouse storage needs. Options include 53-foot trailers providing approximately 3,400 cubic feet and standard dock-height compatibility, 48-foot trailers for mid-size requirements, and smaller units for specific applications. Multiple trailers can be deployed to create scalable yard storage capacity as operational needs change.