KryoFridge is the team Garland kitchens and food plants call when cold storage has to show up today. We run portable freezer trailer rentals out to loading docks on McCree Road and to festival setups on Downtown Garland Square. Your unit arrives clean and already set to your temperature. No waiting on a broker to go find you a trailer. Call now, or request a quote and we will hold your dates.
Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Panda Express and Burger King have all had our units parked at their back doors. Those are kitchens where one warm hour turns into dumped product and a closed store. They do not hand that job to a stranger. We have been in the rental business more than 30 years. We own every trailer we send out. And we are licensed and insured, so your risk people get a certificate and not a shrug. The same crews behind our Santa Clarita refrigerated trailer rentals stage and check the units we bring here. Call now if you need one today, or request a quote and we will put your dates in writing.
You are not renting a fixed temperature crate. The same unit adjusts from about 50 degrees down to negative 10, so a produce hold this month can be a hard frozen hold next month without swapping equipment.
We bought these trailers and we maintain them. There is no broker taking a cut and guessing at availability. When we say a unit is staged near Garland, somebody on our crew has seen it this week.
Dispatch runs around the clock. Walk in failures do not wait for business hours, and neither do outages. You get a person, not a ticket number and a callback window.
The refrigeration side grew out of a rental family that has been putting equipment on job sites and event grounds for more than three decades. Delivery windows, gate access and site walks are old work for us.
Two options, no surprises. A generator we bring and fuel, or a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within 100 feet. We tell you which one your lot needs before you sign anything.
We do not sell temperature monitoring, we do not keep your logs, and we will say so upfront instead of letting you assume otherwise. You will hear the same honesty on delivery timing when the weather is against us.
National brands do not take chances with refrigeration. They put our trailers behind their busiest locations because the equipment holds temperature and the company behind it answers the phone.
Chick-fil-ATrailer cold storage through store remodels so frozen prep stock stayed at temperature from teardown to reopening.
zero thaw loss
Dutch BrosTrailer capacity holding frozen and dairy inventory for multi-stand markets between deliveries.
multi-site account
Panda ExpressOverflow freezer space behind high-volume locations, holding bulk frozen product between distributor drops.
bulk overflow
Burger KingFrozen stock held at spec through a compressor replacement so the location never dropped a menu item.
same-day swap
McDonald'sOverflow frozen holding behind high-volume locations during remodels and equipment swaps, so the menu never shortens.
national account"We book them for the Square every summer now. The trailer was cold when it landed, not an hour later, and that is the part other companies get wrong. Our frozen desserts held all weekend."
"Planned shutdown, two units, nine days. Zero product loss. I have used three rental companies for this and KryoFridge is the only one that showed up the day before instead of the morning of."
"They were upfront that they do not do monitoring or logs. I appreciated that. We ran our own probes and the temperature setting never drifted on us."
The record high in this city is 111 degrees, set back in 2000. A tired compressor feels every one of them. So we set your number in our yard, then check it again once the unit is spotted on your lot.
When the stakes are real, the 16' Utility is what we send. Sixteen feet of insulated, NSF-approved box on a tandem axle, running one precise digital set-point that covers deep freeze at -10°F all the way up to a 50°F cooler. The rear double doors handle pallet work off a dock, and the side utility door means a cook can pull one tray without letting the heat in.
The trailer that shows up is one of ours, prepped in our own shop, fueled and pre-cooled before it leaves the yard. It takes a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit or the generator we provide, and it will hold that set-point through a triple-digit stretch without drama.
| Spec | What you get |
|---|---|
| Temperature range | Roughly -10°F deep-freeze up to about 50°F fresh-cold |
| Mode | Dual-purpose: freezer or refrigerator on one precise digital set-point |
| Power | A dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit within about 100 feet, or a generator we supply |
| Food safety | NSF-approved for direct food contact, food-safe surfaces, proper drainage |
| Footprints | 6x8, 6x12, and 6x16, from a tight retail lot to distribution scale |
| Backing | Owned in-house, fully licensed and insured, with 24/7 emergency dispatch |
Each unit holds a precise digital set-point and runs on a dedicated 120V/20A circuit or a generator. The trailers are not wired for 208 to 240V building service, so we confirm your hookup before the truck rolls.
Garland covers about 57 square miles at an elevation of 551 feet, roughly 18 miles from downtown Dallas and 27 from DFW airport. Interstate 30, Interstate 635 and State Highway 78 all cut through the city, and the President George Bush Turnpike serves the Firewheel side. We dispatch off those roads every day. Give us the cross streets and the gate you want the driver to use, and we will tell you the delivery window before you book.
Neighborhoods and towns we cover include Downtown Garland, Duck Creek, Firewheel, Rose Hill, Centerville, Eastern Hills, Naaman Forest, McCree Road corridor, Lake Ray Hubbard shoreline, Rowlett, Mesquite, Richardson, Sachse, Wylie, Murphy, Sunnyvale, Rockwall, Heath, Plano, Forney, Balch Springs, Seagoville.
Every part of the Garland area rents cold storage for its own reasons. We know each one, and we deliver to all of them.
Downtown Garland Square is the civic center of the city and the site of nearly every recurring festival on the calendar. Two DART Blue Line stations serve the area, which means foot traffic and tight street parking on event days. We deliver here before the barricades go up, not after.
Firewheel Town Center is an open air center of roughly 998,000 square feet with more than 100 stores and an 18 screen theater, sitting at the Bush Turnpike and State Highway 78. Food service turnover is constant in a center that size. Kitchen remodels and new tenant buildouts are most of our work in this corner of town.
This is the cold storage industrial pocket of Garland, right off the I-635 beltway, with large refrigerated and freezer warehouse space and a foodservice distribution center on Forest Lane nearby. Demand here is surge capacity and bridge capacity during fit outs. Deliveries run early, before the dock schedule fills.
Duck Creek is one of the two original settlements that merged to form Garland back in 1887, and it is older mixed residential and commercial ground today. Lots are tighter and driveways are narrower than on the north side. We send a smaller unit here when the approach will not take a full size trailer. Measure the gate first.
The city is working with Dallas County to lift Naaman School Road out of the floodplain and add paths and trail connections. Road work sends around delivery traffic and closes approaches with little notice. We check the city project tracker the week of your delivery so the driver is not guessing.
These east side neighborhoods run toward the Lake Ray Hubbard shoreline and the Rowlett line. Work out here leans toward small business and neighborhood retail rather than plant scale cold storage. A single unit on a side lot usually covers it.
One call sizes the trailer, sets the delivery window, and locks your quote for Garland. Call now, or send the quick quote request and we will call you.
Units land here for all kinds of reasons. But three keep coming back. Below is how each one actually goes, and what we plan for before a trailer ever leaves the yard.

The cold buildings on McCree Road sit right off the I-635 beltway, and a tri temperature warehouse runs tight on space during a seasonal push. We park units in the yard so the racks inside stay for the product that has to be picked.

Planned downtime is the easiest rental we do, because you know the date months out. Product moves out to our trailers while the line is serviced, then moves back. Nothing gets written off waiting on a part. Boring is good.

The night market dates added in July and August put vendors outside during the worst heat of the day and into the evening. One shared unit behind the booth line covers a whole row of sellers. We stage it the evening before when the site allows.

A sold out night at the arena moves a lot of frozen inventory through a small back of house. We spot a unit near the service entrance so the reload is a short push, not a trip across the lot.

A new grocery store is planned on a 21 acre site between Crist Road and Firewheel Parkway. Buildouts like that need cold space before the permanent racks are commissioned, and that gap is usually weeks, not days.

Rodeo weekends are a concessions business with a hard start time. We deliver ahead of the gates and pick up after the last night, so nobody is hunting a cold box between performances.
What ties these together is the clock. Nobody budgets a freezer trailer into next quarter. They reach for one the hour a compressor quits, or the evening before a party when the stack of rented ice chests suddenly looks laughably undersized. Since our units sit staged around Garland instead of a couple counties down the freeway, "can I get it today" is an ordinary ask here, not a stretch.
Add it up the way an owner in Garland has to. One restaurant walk-in routinely sits on a small fortune in proteins, dairy, and prepped product. Scale that to a grocery rack or a warehouse freezer bay and the exposure balloons. Now knock the power or the compressor out on a triple-digit afternoon, and that whole inventory is in jeopardy inside a few hours. Then stack on the sales you lose while the line sits dark and the wages you burn paying staff to triage what can still be saved.
Hold a pre-staged trailer up against that risk and it reads like cheap insurance, a fixed, predictable expense parked in front of a loss with no ceiling. That is exactly why the businesses that got stung once tape our number by the phone. There is never a second scramble, because the next time they dial before the product has a chance to warm. Owning every trailer ourselves means we can scale the answer to fit. A single compact box suits a corner cafe. A clustered setup covers a warehouse floor. Either turns around the same day.
July is the hot month and the all time record here is 111 degrees. Heat does two things to a refrigeration unit. It stretches the duty cycle, so the compressor works longer for the same temperature setting. And it cuts short the safe window any time a door is open or a load is being staged in the sun. Roughly five months of the year sit in that range. We size the generator for the hot end, not the mild end.
Then the other direction. Freezing rain moved across North and Central Texas on February 11, 2021, laying down as much as half an inch of ice in spots, and snow followed on the 14th through the 17th with five inches recorded at DFW. A University of Houston survey later found 69 percent of Texans lost power at some point between the 14th and the 20th, and about 49 percent had water service problems. Cold outside does not keep product safe. A frozen load still thaws once the power quits and the box stops cycling. Cold air outside does nothing for a sealed box.
So we plan around both ends. In summer we pull units down in the yard before they ship, because a trailer that leaves warm takes hours to catch up on a hot lot. In winter we top off generator fuel and check the block heaters before an ice event is forecast. And we keep spare units staged rather than fully booked during the two windows when this metro tends to lose power.
Hard serve ice cream has to sit near zero or below firm enough to scoop. Soft mix wants the warmer, refrigerated end instead. Our units cover both, because the same box goes from about 50 degrees down to negative 10. That range matters more here than people think. North Texas summers are long, and the record high in this city is 111 degrees. Every time a chest freezer door swings open on a hot dock, the product gives up a little more.
Downtown Garland Square carries most of the city's outdoor food calendar. Urban Market runs the second Saturday of most months from March through December, with extra night dates added in July and August. Fall Fest lands October 3. Red White and You falls on July 3, and Dia De Los Muertos on October 24. FOODEESFEST brings more than 40 food trucks and craft vendors to town. A dessert vendor working any of those is holding frozen product outdoors for hours at a stretch.
The Curtis Culwell Center is the other side of it. The arena seats 6,860 and holds about 8,500. It books GISD and SMU basketball, UIL state volleyball finals, and big wrestling nights from AEW and TNA. Concession stands at that size burn through frozen treats fast. A unit in the back lot keeps the reload short. Nobody has to send a runner across the parking lot between periods.
We have staged units at outdoor food events long enough to know what actually goes wrong. It is almost never the machine. It is the placement. Park a trailer where a vendor has to cross a public walkway with a hand truck and you have built a slow point for the whole shift. So we walk the site first and point the door at your prep line. The crews running our Tulare freezer trailer rentals in California learned that at ag fairs, and we use the same checklist on the Square.
Every unit we rent adjusts from about 50 degrees down to negative 10. One box, two jobs. The same trailer that holds a produce order at 38 this week can go hard frozen for a dessert vendor next month. You set the temperature on a digital control and the unit holds it there. The inside is built for food contact and the floor takes a pallet jack. We wash and stage each trailer before it leaves, so you are not inheriting somebody else's spill.
We are one company across every market we cover. The crew behind our Tempe cold storage trailer rentals in Arizona works off the same delivery checklist we use on McCree Road. We own the fleet outright. Nobody hands your booking to a broker who has never laid eyes on the unit. And nobody hauls a trailer in from two states away after you call, because we keep ours staged near the work.
There are only two ways to power one of these units. A generator we bring and fuel, or a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit inside 100 feet of the trailer. Skip the 208 and 240 volt question, because our units do not use it. If your lot has nothing close enough, plan on the generator and we will size it before delivery day. We walk the spot with you first. Nobody wants a cord stretched across a truck aisle at five in the morning.
Most refrigerated medicine lives between 36 and 46 degrees. Some vaccine stock has to sit frozen, well under that. One of our units covers both bands, because it adjusts from about 50 degrees down to negative 10. You pick the number. We set it before the trailer leaves our yard, then confirm it again once the unit is on your lot and pulled down.
Garland's clinics and pharmacies are spread out. There is a cluster up on Telecom Parkway in the north end, including the Baylor Scott and White family medical center at 7217 Telecom Parkway, and more scattered along the President George Bush Turnpike corridor. Over in Rowlett, health care and social assistance sits among the three biggest industries in town. None of those sites keeps spare cold space sitting empty for a remodel or a dead compressor.
Power is the real risk in this state. Garland Power and Light is the city's own utility and serves about 85 percent of homes and businesses here. That is usually a good thing. But February 2021 showed what a statewide grid failure looks like, when more than 4.5 million Texas homes lost power and plenty of them stayed dark for days. A pharmacy fridge plugged into one wall circuit has no answer for that. A generator powered unit in the parking lot does. Plan for the outage.
Here is something we will tell you straight, because other rental companies dance around it. We do not sell a temperature monitoring service and we do not keep readings for you. The unit has a digital temperature setting and it holds it. Your pharmacist keeps the record the way the pharmacy already keeps it, with their own probes and their own log. What we handle is the box, the temperature setting and getting it there on time. And we show your staff how the control works before the driver pulls off the lot.
Funeral homes hold at refrigerator temperatures, not frozen. And most built their holding room for a normal week. A hard week breaks that math fast. A rented unit adds holding space without touching the building or its wiring. We set it in the mid 30s and put the door side away from public view.
Garland is spread across three counties. Most of the city sits in Dallas County, with pieces reaching into Collin and Rockwall. That matters when a director is coordinating with a county office and needs to know whose paperwork applies to the address. So we ask which county your property falls in before we schedule a delivery. It takes one question and it saves a wasted trip. One question, one saved trip.
North Texas gets tested. The EF4 tornado that tore through Sunnyvale, Garland and Rowlett on December 26, 2015 damaged or destroyed more than 600 homes and businesses, and roughly 50,000 customers lost power behind it. The February 2021 freeze hit the entire state at once instead. Weeks like those put pressure on funeral homes across the whole metro at the same time. The directors who had already talked to us before anything happened were the ones who got a unit first.
We handle these deliveries quietly. The driver calls ahead, sets the unit where you point, and leaves. No standing around in the lot. If you want the trailer out of sight of the chapel entrance, say so when you book and we will plan the approach and the backing angle. Most directors ask us to come early, before the first service of the day.
"Cold" is not one number. Different product stays safe inside different temperature windows, which is the entire reason a precise digital set-point matters, and in the middle of a heat wave in Garland, a load that slips out of its window is a load you write off. Use the chart below as the reference our customers lean on when they size a rental.
| Product | Target holding band | Trailer mode |
|---|---|---|
| Ice cream and frozen desserts | -10°F to 0°F | Deep freeze |
| Frozen proteins, seafood, prepared meals | 0°F or below | Freezer |
| Fresh meat and poultry (short hold) | 28°F to 32°F | Refrigerated |
| Dairy, deli, packaged produce | 34°F to 38°F | Refrigerated |
| Beverages, florals, catering trays | 38°F to 45°F | Refrigerated |
One figure matters more than everything in that chart, and it is not listed there: 40°F. Food-safety guidance treats the band between 40°F and 140°F as the zone where bacteria thrive, and the clock on perishable product starts ticking the moment it crosses 40 on the way up. Roughly four cumulative hours above that line and most refrigerated inventory is no longer safe to serve. Picture that countdown running on a 100-degree afternoon in Garland with the walk-in dark, and the urgency of a quick trailer drop stops being abstract.
Tell us the single coldest item you are holding when you call, and we dial the trailer to that. One unit carries a straight freezer load with no fuss. But when your list mixes deep-freeze desserts with fresh-cold produce for the same remodel or event, we will usually point you toward a split setup or a second box so neither side of the load has to settle for the wrong temperature.
Powering one of our trailers is refreshingly simple, and there are precisely two ways to do it. Either you have a dedicated 120-volt, 20-amp circuit reachable within roughly 100 feet of the parking spot, or we bring a generator. What the units will not accept is standard 208 to 240V building service, so a quick question about your outlet before dispatch heads off any surprise on delivery day.
On placement, all the unit really asks for is a fairly flat patch with enough room for the delivery truck to maneuver it in and set it straight, plus either a power source in reach or space for a generator. We lock down the exact drop point before dispatch, and our drivers know the Garland layout cold, so the delivery is one clean trip instead of a guessing game on the property.
A planned shutdown to open up a production line was scheduled nine days out. We put two units on the yard the afternoon before, both pulled down cold, and the crew loaded finished product straight across from the dock. Nothing was written off. The second unit came back empty and we credited the day they finished early.
August night market, more than 40 sellers, and two of them were moving frozen product. Neither one could justify a unit alone. We staged a single trailer behind the booth line on Friday evening and both vendors shared it through the weekend, with the door pointed away from the public walkway.
Ice week in February, holding room already full, and the power on their block was flickering. We delivered on a generator that night and left extra fuel with the driver's number taped inside the door. Four days later the grid was steady and we pulled the unit out before the morning service.
We already know the McCree Road gate routine. The cold campus at 2600 McCree Road runs more than a million square feet, with about 90,000 of that in dedicated cold storage, and the newer building at 2550 McCree came online in October 2023 with 39 dock doors and 35 foot clear height. We have run that corridor enough to know which yards a 16 foot unit can turn in and which ones need a different approach off the beltway. That is one less phone call on delivery morning.
On a bad day, booking should be the part that does not add stress. Four steps, an upfront number, and a single person who owns the whole thing.
Tell us whether it is freezer or fridge product, a ballpark volume, and your rough window. That is enough for us to call the right size.
We pair you with a unit, confirm whether you have a dedicated circuit or need a generator, and pin the exact drop point so the truck makes one trip.
We arrive on your schedule, about 45 minutes for a true emergency, set the trailer, energize it, and let it drive down to your number.
It holds the set-point for your entire term while our line stays live the whole way through. Wrap up, and we swing back for the pickup.
Garland's Environmental Health Department runs temporary food permitting, and the requirements are specific. A Temporary Food Establishment Permit has to be in hand before any food is prepared, moved or sold at a temporary event. One permit covers one location for no more than five consecutive days. A separate permit is required for each event. A given site can only host a permitted event once every 30 days. Applications go in at least 48 hours ahead with a copy of a food manager or food handler certificate attached. A certified food handler has to stay on site the whole time the event is open. The department sits at 1720 Commerce Street and takes permit questions at 972-205-3460.
Two more Garland rules catch people out. Food trucks and trailers are not permitted as the point of sale at a temporary event, and preparing or storing food at home is barred unless it falls under an approved Cottage Food Operation. Put those together and the picture is clear. Anything needing temperature control has to be made at a licensed, inspected commercial kitchen, then transported and held safe on site. That is the exact gap a rented cold box fills, and it is the same reason our St. George mobile refrigeration rentals in Utah get booked for festival work. Separately, Chapter 22 of the city code covers temporary vending, and a City of Garland Special Event Permit applies to festivals, parades, carnivals, marathons, bike races and public auctions. Most vendors at a Square festival need both permits at once.
On the electrical side, Garland's code requires that any installation meet the city's building, mechanical, electrical and fire codes, and only a state licensed electrical contractor can pull a permit for commercial electrical work. That is worth knowing before somebody offers to wire a temporary drop for you. If your event crosses into Dallas, the city publishes its own temporary food guidelines: overhead covering over prep, cooking and service areas, cooked food that needs temperature control prepared at a licensed inspected facility and moved at safe temperature, and a separate low propane permit from Dallas Fire if you burn propane on site. Dallas applications go in at least five working days ahead and include an in person interview about your menu and equipment. And because Garland touches Dallas, Collin and Rockwall counties, confirm which one your address sits in before you assume the Dallas County process applies. Ask first, build second.
One caveat we always state plainly: we supply the food-safe, temperature-holding hardware itself, but we are not a temperature-logging or alarm-monitoring service. If your program requires continuous written records, line that vendor up on your own.
Our signature 16 foot Utility series leads the fleet. It is the trailer we send on most jobs, and crews like it for the side utility access door. We build three footprints in all, so a single kitchen holding overflow stock has a fit and so does a distribution floor in a disaster. Every unit is dual purpose by design: one adjustable system swings between freezer and refrigerator on a digital set point. Each trailer runs on a dedicated circuit or on a generator.
| Trailer | Best for | Temp range |
|---|---|---|
| 6x16 Utility ⭐ | Our signature series: distribution, large events, disaster response, side utility door | Heavy-duty reefer |
| 6x12 | Grocers, caterers, mid-size events | Deep-freeze capable |
| 6x8 | Tight lots, small kitchens, short overflow | -10°F to 50°F |
Each unit holds a precise digital set-point and runs on a dedicated 120V/20A circuit or a generator.
Think eight or so pallet spots, and the unit to grab when square footage is the whole problem. It slips into the pinched service yards and cramped back-of-house corners that a larger box cannot even swing into. One cafe or small-market walk-in goes down, and this is almost always enough cold to cover it, plus the simplest unit to set in a small space.
Call it fourteen pallet spots, deep-freeze rated, and far and away the size people ask for most. It lands right in the middle: roomy enough for a multi-day catering job or a restaurant that needs true walk-in-equivalent room while the kitchen is torn up. Roomy enough that nobody is playing Tetris with shelves, yet still small enough to set in most commercial back lots without a site survey.
Roughly twenty pallet spots paired with a heavy-duty reefer plant engineered to keep deep-freeze locked in even when the ambient air is merciless. Reach for it when a warehouse bay drops, when a large festival needs an anchor, or when a relief operation is carrying its own cold chain.
Not sure which size fits? Most customers land on the 16 foot Utility, and we will tell you honestly if a smaller footprint covers your job. Tell us roughly what you are storing and for how long, and we will spec it for you.
The questions that surface once the basics are settled. Tap any topic to open it.
The pop-up walk-in cooler. Cheap to rent and easy to set up, but it chills, it does not freeze, and it draws every watt it needs from your building while depending on a calm ambient temperature around it. The second your building loses power, your cooler loses it too.
The refrigerated box truck. Designed to haul product on the interstate, not to sit in a lot and babysit it. Parked, it burns fuel all day, broadcasts compressor noise across a storefront or an event lawn, and pins down a tractor plus a driver you probably do not need.
The freezer trailer we deliver. Built from the ground up to be dropped on a pad and to defend a temperature for as long as the job runs. It freezes deep, carries NSF approval, locks, stays quiet near guests, and lives on nothing more than one dedicated circuit or a generator.
Even a rented box has to satisfy the county environmental health office that licenses and inspects every food facility. Show an inspector a unit that cannot document its temperature or was not built for food contact, and they have the authority to halt service immediately.
That is a bar each of our trailers clears: NSF-approved throughout, food-safe interior surfaces, proper drainage, and a digital controller that puts the set-point in plain view. We supply the food-safe, temperature-holding hardware itself, but we are not a temperature-logging or alarm-monitoring service.
For a typical kitchen or market, one box does the job. Distribution floors, big fairs, and full-scale disaster response routinely need more, and because the fleet is ours, we can cluster several units and bring them online in waves as the work expands. Match the cold capacity to the operation rather than make the operation squeeze itself into one box.
The clock is yours to set. Some jobs are a handful of days for an emergency or a single event. Others stretch across weeks or months for a remodel or a seasonal swell, and a few become standing contracts for businesses that want capacity parked on standby. Name your window and you will get a clean quote, no penalty for an honest "not sure yet."
Building permanent cold storage is a capital project in every sense: you hire a refrigeration contractor, schedule the electrical, pull a building permit, and wait weeks before a single pallet goes inside. A rental turns that equation on its head. You bring in precisely the cold you need, for precisely the stretch you need it, and the trailer is holding temperature that same week, frequently that same day, with the commitment ending the moment your need is over.
Three engineered elements carry the load. Thick insulated panels and tightly gasketed doors lock the sun outside and the cold inside. A self-contained reefer condensing system specified with surplus capacity keeps stripping heat out of the box even when the air outside is brutal. And a digital thermostat locks onto your chosen number and cycles the compressor to hold the line. Run those three together and a trailer baking on open asphalt behaves like one tucked in a cool warehouse. That is also why power is the first thing we ask about: the design delivers its safety margin only on steady, uninterrupted power.
"Shared a trailer with another vendor at the August night market. Split the rental, kept everything frozen, done."
"Discreet is the word I would use. The driver called ahead, backed it exactly where I asked and left without a word to anybody on the property. During the February ice we had it on a generator for four days and it never wavered."
"Our freezer section was down for a rack rebuild. They had a unit in the back lot the next morning and we never pulled a single item off the sales floor."
"Hard serve has to stay near zero or it turns to soup in the case. Theirs held it through a July heat run without me babysitting the dial."
"Summer program, no cold space, short notice. They sorted it in two days."
"We hit our seasonal peak and ran out of rack. Two trailers in the yard covered the overflow for six weeks. Billing was clean and nobody nickel and dimed me on the extension."
"I called at eight in the evening expecting a voicemail box. Got a real person, got a delivery window, got the trailer the next morning."
"Four locations, one walk in failure, and they figured out which store to stage it at so the other three could pull from it. That was their idea, not mine."
"Clean unit, clear instructions on the control, and the driver walked two of my staff through it before he left. That is rarer than it should be."
Not in one box at the same time. Each unit holds one temperature setting, anywhere from about 50 degrees down to negative 10, and it holds that number for whatever is inside. So if you need a cooler and a freezer at once, we place two units. That is a common setup on plant yards off I-635, where finished frozen goods and chilled ingredients both have to move out for a shutdown. Tell us your two numbers and we will quote the pair together.
The ramp sits at the rear door and gives you a straight push in from the ground or from a dock face. The floor takes a pallet jack, so full pallets go in and out without breaking them down. If you want shelving, tell us before delivery and plan the layout, because shelves cut into the pallet lanes. Most food plant customers skip shelving and run pallets. Most pharmacy and catering customers do the opposite.
Start with two numbers. How many pallets you need to hold at peak, and how often somebody opens the door. Pallet count sets the footprint. Door traffic sets whether you want one bigger unit or two smaller ones, because every door swing on a 100 degree afternoon in Garland costs you cold air. A crew opening the door twenty times a shift is better off with a second unit than a single crowded one. Give us both numbers and we will tell you honestly if you are about to rent more than you need. Two numbers, one answer.
For a planned job, two to four weeks out gets you the exact unit and the exact window. For a failure, call now and we will tell you what is staged nearby today. On the site itself we need level ground that will take the weight, room for the truck to turn, and either a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within 100 feet or space for a generator. We walk it with you first, on site or on a photo, before the driver rolls.
Four things drive it. Length of rental, unit size, whether you take the generator, and how far your site is from where the unit is staged. Emergency dispatch outside normal hours moves it too, since a crew has to be pulled in. Long jobs come in lower per week than a three day emergency, which is why plant shutdowns are worth planning early. Send us your dates, your temperature and the address and you get the whole thing in writing, with no line items appearing later.
Yes. If a unit will not hold its number and we cannot fix it on site, we bring you another one and move your product across. That is the whole point of owning the fleet instead of brokering it, because we have a replacement to send. Call dispatch the moment the readout looks wrong rather than waiting to see if it recovers. The earlier we know, the more of your product is still good when the second trailer arrives. Call early.
Reserve ahead if your date is fixed. Around here the pressure points are the summer festival stretch from May through July, the grocery and catering run from Thanksgiving into the new year, and any week with an ice storm in the forecast. We hold back spare units for emergencies rather than booking the yard flat, but a confirmed reservation is the only way to guarantee a specific size on a specific day.
Yes, and we size the equipment for the bad end rather than the average. In summer we pull the unit down cold in our yard before it ships, because a warm trailer takes hours to catch up once it is sitting on hot asphalt. In winter the concern is not the cold outside, it is the power going away. That is what happened across this state in February 2021. A generator keeps the box cycling when the grid does not.
Usually two. A City of Garland Special Event Permit covers the event itself, and an Environmental Health temporary food permit covers your booth. The food permit is good for one location for up to five consecutive days, has to be applied for at least 48 hours ahead, and requires a certified food handler on site the whole time. Call the health department at 972-205-3460 if your setup is unusual. We are not your permit office, but we know the rhythm and we will tell you when a plan looks like it will not pass. Ask early.
We cover the whole northeast Dallas County area plus the Collin and Rockwall edges. Garland itself sits in all three counties, which trips people up on paperwork more than on delivery. Delivery is the same for us either way. But if your job involves a county office, confirm which county the address falls in first, because the Dallas County process does not automatically apply to a site on the Rockwall side.
No, and we would rather say that plainly than let you find out later. There is a digital temperature setting control on the unit and it holds the number you pick. We do not run a remote monitoring service, we do not send alarm alerts and we do not produce logs for your records. Pharmacies, plants and anyone under a food safety plan should keep using their own probes and their own paperwork. What you get from us is a clean box, the right temperature and a crew that answers the phone. Plain as that.
We run more than one kind of trailer out of North Texas. Here is what else we can bring to a Garland site.
Most people size a rental by guessing at square feet. That is the wrong starting point. Start with what you are actually holding and how it is stacked, because a trailer full of loose cases and a trailer full of banded pallets are two very different jobs.
Count pallets first. A standard pallet is 48 by 40 inches, and if your product is already palletized, your pallet count at peak is the single number that decides the footprint. Peak matters more than average. If you normally hold six pallets but you will hold fourteen during the week the line is down, size for fourteen. Renting small and adding a second unit mid job costs you a second delivery and a second setup. Count the peak, not the average.
Further reading: the FDA Food Code.
Delivery day goes wrong for boring reasons. Almost never the equipment. Maybe it is a gate that is four inches too narrow. Maybe the ground is soft after a week of rain. Maybe a power drop turns out to be shared with a compressor nobody mentioned. Here is what to check before we roll.
Ground and slope come first. The pad has to carry a loaded trailer, and it has to be close to level so the refrigeration unit drains the way it was designed to. Packed gravel and asphalt are fine. Fresh fill, soft turf and recently trenched ground are not, and North Texas clay after a wet stretch will surprise you. If the only spot available is soft, tell us and we will bring mats or pick a different corner with you.
Further reading: Garland's temporary food service page.
Cold storage rental is a trust purchase. You are handing somebody a job where the failure mode is your product in a dumpster. So ask hard questions before you need one, not during an emergency when you will take whatever answers the phone.
Start with ownership. Ask directly whether the company owns the trailer they are quoting. Plenty of outfits in this business are brokers. They take your booking, then call somebody who actually has a unit. That extra layer costs you time on an emergency and leaves nobody accountable when the equipment shows up dirty or warm. A company that owns its fleet can tell you where a specific unit is sitting right now.
Availability in this market is seasonal and predictable, which means you can beat it by planning. Here is roughly how a year looks from our yard.
January and February are the freeze months. The risk is not the cold, it is the grid. February 2021 is the benchmark, when freezing rain arrived on the 11th and snow followed from the 14th through the 17th. If your business cannot lose refrigeration, this is the window to have a plan already written rather than a phone number you hope works. Demand spikes within hours of a serious forecast and it spikes everywhere at once.
Further reading: the National Weather Service Fort Worth and Dallas office.
We will not put numbers on a web page, because a quote depends on your site and anybody publishing a flat figure is guessing. But the drivers are not a secret, and knowing them lets you shape your own quote before you ever call.
Rental length is the biggest lever. Per week, a long job costs less than a short one, because the delivery, setup and pickup get spread across more time. A three day emergency carries the same logistics as a three month project compressed into seventy two hours. So if you have any flexibility on a planned job, longer and scheduled beats shorter and urgent.
Call now and we will tell you what is available today, right down to which unit and which yard it is sitting in. Or request a quote with your dates, your temperature and your address, and we will come back in writing.