What a container costs delivered in Virginia.

Most container prices you find for Virginia are not really prices. They are a figure with the freight quietly taken back out, published by an outfit that has never had the box in its yard. We work the other way around. We load out of our own yard in Woodlawn and drive the roads we are quoting, so the number already has the drive inside it.

This page is Virginia specifically. Our delivered figures, which Virginia towns sit inside the free zone and which two get a quoted trip, and why somebody setting a storage container on their own land here is usually not chasing a building permit. Across the line, the same page exists for North Carolina and West Virginia.

What a container costs, delivered in Virginia

Here is where our pricing starts. These are out the door figures for a Virginia address inside the free zone, which means the drive, the set down and the lockbox are already sitting inside them.

Current as of August 2026. The used container trade runs on a wholesale market that moves through the year, so this figure can shift. Ring the yard at (276) 237-6144 and we will tell you where it sits this week.

The cargo-worthy figures are starting points, not a sticker. What we can put on your ground in August is not automatically what we could do in February, which is why we quote rather than print a sheet and let it go stale.

A one-trip box was built overseas, loaded once, sailed here and sold, so it still carries factory paint and tight seals. It runs several hundred to a couple thousand dollars more than a used box the same size. What that buys you is the subject of our one-trip premium page.

Renting runs on the same Virginia delivery terms, from $165 a month on a 20-ft and $235 on a 40-ft, billed month to month, no contract.

What the word delivered is doing in that number

Delivered is why those figures are worth holding up next to anything else. Plenty of listings price the steel and the freight separately, and the second number does not turn up until you have said yes to the first. Ours is one number, with three things in it.

• The drive. Our tilt-bed leaves Woodlawn and comes to your address. Inside 75 road miles there is no mileage line, no fuel surcharge, nothing waiting at the bottom of the invoice.
• The set down, level. The box goes onto foundation blocks, set level. That is structural, not cosmetic: a container sitting twisted has doors that bind. Level doors still swing in year ten.
• A welded lockbox. A steel shroud welded over the lock so a padlock cannot be reached with bolt cutters. It goes on at your place, on the day, and it is not an extra.

What the figure does not cover is the ground under it. We do not pour a pad or grade a lot. Your side of the job is a firm, reasonably level spot the truck can reach, and gravel is ideal. Access matters as much. A tilt-bed wants something like 65 feet of straight run to lay down a 20-ft and about 95 for a 40-ft, and it has to back in from somewhere. Around here that deserves a tape measure, because plenty of driveways in this part of Virginia were laid out around a hill instead of across one. Our delivery preparation guide runs the site check.

Virginia towns, and which side of the line each one sits on

The 75 miles are road miles, measured from our gate at 5567 Elk Horn Rd in Woodlawn, not straight line miles off a map. That catches people out in mountain country, where the road and the crow rarely agree.

Road miles from 5567 Elk Horn Rd in Woodlawn, not straight line distance. Virginia town missing from the list? Give us the ZIP on (276) 237-6144 and we will place you inside or outside the free zone while you are on the phone.

By the road you would actually take:

• Around the yard. Hillsville at about 8 on US-58 and US-221, Galax at about 15 down US-58.
• West on US-58 and US-21. Independence at about 25, out in Grayson County.
• East on US-58. Stuart at about 30, then Martinsville another 28 to 30 past it, which lands it near 60 and inside the free zone.
• North up US-221. Floyd at about 35.
• I-77 to I-81. Wytheville at about 32, where we keep a sales lot on E Lee Highway, then Pulaski at 45 and Dublin at 50.
• The New River Valley. Radford at about 50, Christiansburg at 58, Blacksburg at 60. All free.
• Southwest down I-81. Marion at about 62, the farthest free town we publish.
• Past the line. Roanoke at about 76 and Bristol at about 88, both quoted before the truck loads.

Notice how much of that free zone is Virginia. Most of Carroll, Grayson and Wythe County falls inside it, and the reach up I-81 takes in the whole New River Valley. If your town is not listed, it only means we have not published a mileage for it. Give us the ZIP, and the service area page has a write up for every town we do publish.

What happens when your address is past 75 miles

Two Virginia towns we publish fall outside the free zone, because a line drawn at 75 miles has to land somewhere and this one lands just short of Roanoke.

Roanoke is about 76. One mile past, which is faintly ridiculous, but a line you move on request is not a line, and we would rather hold it than pad every price inside the zone to cover the trips outside. Bristol is about 88, on down I-81.

Past the line the mechanic is simple. We work the trip out from the round trip mileage from Woodlawn, give you that figure before anything loads, and it does not move afterward. You approve a total, you pay the total. Neither is a special expedition either, since we run I-81 both directions regularly.

Either way, ask for the delivered total rather than the container price. Two quotes only mean something side by side once both include getting the thing to your address, and ours come back the same day.

Why a Virginia storage buyer usually is not chasing a building permit

Virginia runs one building code statewide, the Uniform Statewide Building Code, and section 13VAC5-63-20 puts storage-use shipping containers outside it. That is a state level exemption written into the code, not a local courtesy. It is why the question most Virginia buyers arrive with, do I need a building permit for this thing, usually has a short answer.

Two honest limits sit on that.

• It covers storage use. Modify the box or occupy it and a different section of the code takes over. An office, a workshop, a container with power run into it and people working inside is a different question.
• It is the building code, not zoning. Zoning is the genuinely local variable. It governs whether the box is permitted where you want it, what setback applies, and sometimes what it can look like from the road.

So the call worth making is a zoning call, and in Virginia who you call has a wrinkle. Virginia has independent cities that sit outside county government entirely. Radford is one, Martinsville another. Inside a city's limits the zoning desk you want belongs to the city, not the county around it. Everywhere else it is your county planning or zoning office.

We will not tell you what your locality requires, because we would be guessing. Call them, say the container size and say it is storage on your own property, and it is settled in one call. Subdivision covenants can be stricter than anything the locality asks, so read those too. Our permit guide covers the general shape across all three states.

Getting your Virginia number today

Three pieces of information and we can price it.

1. The size. 20-ft or 40-ft. The 40-ft is the better buy per square foot and the harder one to place, so the tiebreaker is usually your driveway.
2. The grade. Used cargo-worthy if the box is going to work for a living, one-trip if it will be looked at or built out.
3. The delivery ZIP. That settles the free or quoted question in about ten seconds.

A photo of the drop spot and the approach helps more than people expect. It lets us confirm the truck fits before anything is scheduled, which beats finding out the morning a driver is in your driveway.

Call (276) 237-6144, Monday to Friday, 8 to 5, or send the quote form on this page, and a real delivered figure comes back the same day. If you would rather stand next to one first, the yard is at 5567 Elk Horn Rd in Woodlawn and the sales lot at 2220 E Lee Highway in Wytheville. Open a door, look at a floor, buy the one you looked at.

Every figure here is the whole figure for a Virginia address inside 75 miles. To see why it lands where it does, start at the cost hub and read what moves a container price. Sizes and grades are on the container sales page.