KryoFridge is the crew Irving kitchens and pharmacy counters call when cold storage cannot wait. We bring the trailer clean, powered and already holding your number, whether it lands at a Las Colinas loading dock or a store lot on Belt Line Road. Same day when we have a unit close by. Call now or request a free quote and we will lock in a delivery window today.
Tell us your pallet count and how often that door swings open. Those two numbers pick the unit, and that is the whole method. We will not sell you a KF16 when a KF12 holds your load and pulls less power, and we say so on the phone before you book anything. Thirty plus years in the rental business, a fleet we own outright, licensed and insured with certificates already on file, and we are still the ones who answer at two in the morning. Call now or request a free quote and we will size it with you first.
You are not renting a fixed temperature crate. The dial moves from about 50 degrees down to negative 10, so a trailer that starts the month holding produce can go hard frozen for a catering week without swapping units.
We own every trailer we send out. No broker sits in the middle marking up a unit he has never seen. The person who picks up your call can tell you which trailer is sitting on which lot right now.
Each unit gets washed and pre chilled before dispatch. Food contact interior, floor that takes a pallet jack, no mystery smell from whoever had it last.
Licensed and insured, SAM.gov registered for agency work, with certificates we can send the same day a purchasing office asks for them. Big accounts stop being complicated when the compliance side is already handled.
We confirm generator or dedicated circuit on the phone, then verify it on the walk. Nobody finds out at six in the morning that the only outlet on the lot is shared with a lighted sign.
That is how a same day drop in this city is a real promise instead of a dispatcher hoping something clears down in Houston. Short haul also means a driver who already knows the lot.
The names below have all run our trailers on real jobs. When a brand this size hands you their frozen inventory, they have already checked everything worth checking.
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
Panda ExpressTrailer cold storage during equipment service so frozen prep stock stayed within reach of the wok line.
bulk overflow
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"Our banquet walk in filled up three days before a convention and nobody had a plan. KryoFridge had a unit in the service drive the next morning. It stayed a week and we never once touched the house cooler."
"They pre chilled it before it ever got here, which is the part I did not know to ask for. Stock went in once and came back out once."
"Cooling unit died Wednesday. Kegs were cold in a trailer behind the building by four that afternoon, and our release still poured Friday night. I kept it three more weeks and it was never a hassle."
Irving lots skew tight. Las Colinas service drives and the older Belt Line strip centers were laid out for box trucks, so we check the turn and the drop pad before we promise the KF16.
The 16' Utility earned its flagship spot the hard way, on jobs where a few degrees of drift would have cost somebody their inventory. The box is 16 feet long and fully insulated, riding on a tandem axle. The interior is NSF approved. One digital set point covers everything from -10°F frozen storage to a 50°F produce cooler. There are two ways in: rear double doors for pallets, and the side utility door for everyday grab-and-go.
Because we own and service the entire fleet, the trailer on your lot was prepped in our yard, not scrambled together after your call. It lives on a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit or a generator we supply, and it keeps its temperature whether the job runs a weekend or a full season.
| 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.
We cover this city and the cities around it out of North Texas stock, and most of this map is a short pull for a truck already on the road. Give us the address and we will tell you honestly whether it is a same day drop or a next morning one. No guessing, and no quote that quietly assumes perfect traffic.
Neighborhoods and towns we cover include Las Colinas, Valley Ranch, Heritage District, Cottonwood Valley, Hackberry Creek, Urban Center, Lake Carolyn, Plymouth Park, Irving Heights, University Hills, Bear Creek, Freeport, Belt Line Road corridor, North Beltline, Coppell, Grand Prairie, Farmers Branch, Carrollton, Addison, Euless, Bedford, Grapevine, Arlington, West Dallas.
Every part of the Irving area rents cold storage for its own reasons. We know each one, and we deliver to all of them.
Twelve thousand acres, about 25 million square feet of office space, and more than 2,000 companies. Corporate dining and hotel banquet work drives most of what we do here. Access is the catch, because the service drives around Lake Carolyn and the Urban Center are narrow and often shared with valet traffic.
Mostly residential and light commercial now. The Cowboys moved their headquarters to Frisco in 2016, and Texas Stadium came down in 2010, so the old event volume is gone. What is left is neighborhood grocery and restaurant work, usually one unit at a back door for a week or two.
The civic calendar lives up here, from the December holiday parade to Frost Fest in January. Outdoor vendor food at a winter festival still needs a real cold hold. There is no dock, so we plan a drop pad and a generator instead of hunting for an outlet.
Warehouse and distribution space near the airport is where frozen overflow shows up. These lots have genuine dock access and room to maneuver, which means we can put a KF16 exactly where the forklift already runs.
The campus covers 744 acres with about 2,000 students and its own DART Orange Line station, open since 2012. Campus dining spikes hard around orientation and commencement. That station gives us a fixed staging point when interior campus roads are closed for an event.
Older strip centers, independent restaurants, smaller lots and tighter turns. This is KF8 and KF12 country. We check the approach on a map before we commit to a delivery time here, because a truck that cannot swing is a delivery that does not happen.
One call sizes the trailer, sets the delivery window, and locks your quote for Irving. Call now, or send the quick quote request and we will call you.
We drop units all over this city for all kinds of reasons. Three jobs keep coming back, though, and each one asks something different from the trailer and from us.

A store level refrigeration failure does not wait for a parts truck. We back a unit to the receiving door so dairy and frozen move once instead of twice, and the case line gets rebuilt on your schedule rather than on the repair company's.

Warehouse and third party logistics accounts out here hit weeks where the freeze room is simply full. A trailer in the yard buys a month of space with no construction bid and no new lease.

Temperature sensitive freight that rolls to the next flight has to sit somewhere cold. We drop a refrigerated unit at the forwarder's dock so a missed connection does not turn into a claim.

Disaster food distribution lands at whatever building gets opened, usually a gym or a community center with no dock. We deliver onto gravel and onto back lots that have never seen a forklift. We bring our own power.

Defense and aerospace campuses run around the clock, and the food service contractor feeding those shifts works out of a kitchen sized for one crew. A unit in the yard covers the other two.

A caterer with three events in one weekend has product staged for all of them and a commissary cooler built for one. We park the extra capacity at their shop for the season.
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 Irving 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 Irving 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.
The local record book runs from 112 degrees in 1980 down to minus 8 in 1899, with July and January as the two ends you plan around. But the weather event that actually changed how businesses here think about refrigeration was February 2021.
Three winter storms hit between February 10 and 27 that year. DFW Airport recorded minus 2 degrees on February 16, the coldest reading in North Texas in 72 years. More than 4.5 million Texas homes and businesses lost power at the peak, some of them for over three days, and more than 12 million people had water service disrupted. The grid came within four minutes and 37 seconds of an uncontrolled collapse.
Every fixed walk in on a commercial block depends on that grid. We watched what came after across this metro. Kitchens hauling product to a friend's cooler. Grocers dumping cases. A unit that takes a generator or a standard 120 volt circuit is a direct answer to that exact failure. And the heat side is real too, because outdoor food service in August is fighting ambient temperatures that a thin load will feel by mid afternoon.
The walk in is the whole back of house. Proteins, dairy, prepped pans, the produce for tomorrow. When the compressor quits, the kitchen stops, and nothing on the line moves until that product has somewhere cold to go. This city carries a lot of that risk in a small footprint. The Toyota Music Factory complex alone holds around 16 restaurants and bars at one address, and hotel and restaurant work employs close to 20,000 people here.
What we have learned running this metro is that the second call matters more than the first. Somebody calls at the moment of failure, we get a unit there, and then two days later the repair part is sitting in a warehouse in another state and the rental has to stretch. So we ask up front how long the part takes. If the answer is a shrug, we put you on a longer hold from the start instead of shuffling trailers around later.
Placement is the other thing crews get wrong. A strip center kitchen off Belt Line Road wants the trailer at the back door, which is usually also the dumpster run and the grease pickup lane. We will walk it with you. Sometimes the better spot sits twenty feet further out where the truck can still swing and nobody has parked a food grade box over a floor drain.
Hotel and banquet kitchens across Las Colinas run a different pattern. A slow Tuesday and a full convention week share the same walk in, because nobody builds a hotel cooler for the peak. A unit in the service drive for the week of a show covers the spread and goes home after. Call us or send a quote request and we will confirm dates before the banquet orders land.
Every KryoFridge unit moves from about 50 degrees down to negative 10 on a digital temperature setting. Same box either way. The KF8 holds about 268 cubic feet and takes 3,000 pounds, which suits a back room or a pharmacy hold. The KF12 runs about 416 cubic feet and 4,300 pounds, and it is the unit we drop most often across Dallas County. The KF16 Utility is our flagship at roughly 564 cubic feet and 6,690 pounds. Floors take a pallet jack. Interiors are built for food contact, and every trailer gets washed and staged before it leaves the yard.
We are the same company in every market we work. The crew behind our Tempe portable cold storage rentals in Arizona and our St. George freezer trailer rentals in Utah works off the checklist we use here in North Texas. We own the fleet. Nobody hands your booking to a broker who has never laid eyes on the unit, and nobody trucks a trailer in from two states away after you call, because we stage ours close to the work.
Power stays simple on purpose. Either a generator we bring and fuel, or a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within 100 feet of the trailer. Not 208 to 240 volt service. If your lot only has that, plan on the generator and we will size it before delivery day. We walk the spot with you first, so nobody is dragging a cord across a loading lane at six in the morning.
Most medicine that has to stay cold lives in a narrow band, roughly 36 to 46 degrees. Vaccines and insulin do not forgive a long swing. The under counter fridge holding them was never built to ride out a multi day outage, and neither was the back room unit behind a retail pharmacy counter inside a grocery store.
This city carries more of that work than its size suggests. McKesson, the largest pharmaceutical distributor in the country, has run its global headquarters out of Las Colinas since 2019. Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Irving is a 222 bed hospital inside city limits, part of a 52 hospital system. Neither one runs short of cold space on a normal Tuesday. Both have renovation weeks and equipment failures where a dialed trailer in the lot is the simplest fix in the building.
The mistake we see most is ice. A team in a panic packs coolers with bagged ice and dry ice, and half the inventory comes back frozen solid and useless. Frozen is not the same as cold. A unit pre chilled at our yard, delivered with the door shut, loaded in one pass, does not swing and does not need somebody checking on it all night.
We also plan for the second failure. If the outage is regional and your building has no power for our circuit, the generator rides out with the trailer instead of showing up hours later. Pharmacy managers around here have learned to ask that question first, and it is the right one. Put your site details on file with us before freeze season and the next call takes about two minutes.
Beer is a perishable product with a clock on it. Warm a keg and you have flat, sour inventory and a taproom pouring apologies. Cold rooms at small breweries get built for the batch size the place opened with, not the one it makes now. So the first real warm stretch of a Texas summer is usually when the glycol cooling unit finally gives up.
The brewery cluster near this city sits just over the line. 3 Nations Brewing is on Squire Place in Farmers Branch, and Bankhead opened its Farmers Branch brewpub at 13090 Bee Street in the old Cedar Creek space. Inside city limits, Hops and Vines pours in Las Colinas and the Ginger Man keeps a tap wall deep enough that a cooler outage hurts. Homestead Winery holds a tasting room here too. Any of them can lose a cooling unit on a Thursday and need product cold by Friday service.
Pavilion and festival work is the other half of this vertical. The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory books a long summer concert calendar at 300 Las Colinas Boulevard West, and a beverage vendor working a show night has to hold product somewhere between load in and last call. We have done enough of these to know the slow point is never the trailer. It is the door. A KF12 with two people running kegs in and out all night behaves nothing like a KF12 loaded once and shut.
Wine service is quieter but tighter. Whites and sparkling want a steady cellar band, and a half loaded box parked in August sun will cycle more than a full one. We tell customers to load it out rather than leave it thin. That is the same advice we give on our Indio refrigerated trailer rentals out in California wine country, and it holds just as well on a lot off Las Colinas Boulevard.
"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 Irving, 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 Irving 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 Irving layout cold, so the delivery is one clean trip instead of a guessing game on the property.
A three day telecom show added two sponsor receptions after the food order was already locked. House cold space was committed to the main floor. We spotted a KF16 at the loading dock Sunday night and pulled it out Thursday morning, and both receptions ran off the trailer without anyone touching the building's walk in.
The landlord scheduled a panel upgrade that would kill power to the whole suite for a weekend. We pre chilled a KF8 to the middle of the medicine range and dropped it Saturday morning. Staff moved stock across in one pass. Power came back Monday and everything went straight back on the shelf.
Glycol cooling unit quit on a Wednesday with a release already announced for the weekend. We had a KF12 behind the building by that afternoon and the kegs were cold inside two hours. The release poured on schedule. He kept the unit another three weeks while the replacement cooling unit shipped.
Built for a city that keeps adding square footage. Microsoft and QTS are putting seven data centers on Longhorn Drive, and a 259,947 square foot federal building is going up on airport leased land at 6046 North Beltline Road. Irving ISD is working through a voter approved bond that replaces three campuses and renovates 32 more into summer 2026. More buildings means more kitchens and more cold storage calls. We sized our North Texas stock for that, not for the city as it looked five years ago.
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.
The Texas Department of State Health Services runs the state retail food program, which covers licensing and inspection for restaurants and food stores. Most local codes in this state are modeled on the FDA Food Code, and the current edition is the 2022 one. For a rental, that shakes out simply. The trailer has to hold the temperature your product requires, the interior has to be clean and food safe at the point of use, and your local inspector is the one who signs off.
Temporary event food permits are handled locally, by Dallas County and by the city itself, so a festival booth or a one day pop up should confirm its own permit and cold holding requirements with the health authority for that site. We are not going to quote you a county rule we have not read this month. What we will do is make sure the unit is not the problem, which means dialed before delivery, washed, and a food grade interior we can stand behind. That is the same standard behind our Santa Clarita mobile refrigeration rentals in California and every other market we cover.
Airport property adds a layer. Almost 6,000 acres of DFW International Airport sit inside city limits, and any delivery to a tenant on airport leased land follows airport authority access rules on top of city traffic. Plan badging and gate windows early. Power siting is the other site level question, and we handle it per unit: clearance from the building, a safe spot for generator fuel, and a circuit that is genuinely dedicated instead of shared with a compressor down the wall.
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.
"Straight answers on the phone. I asked for the big one and the guy asked me how many pallets, then told me the middle unit would do it. It did."
"Frozen case went down on a Sunday, which is the worst possible day for parts. We moved everything into their trailer in about ninety minutes. Lost nothing."
"Our freeze room fills every January and we used to lease outside space to cover it. Now we park one of theirs in the yard. Simpler, and we are not hauling product across town twice."
"Scheduled shutdown over a weekend, tenant kitchens on three floors. One trailer covered all of them. The delivery crew showed up early, which never happens."
"We added two receptions late and the house kitchen had nothing left to give. They took the call on a Friday and had a unit at the dock Sunday night."
"My lot is tight and two other companies told me no. These guys drove out, looked at the turn, and put the smaller unit right where I needed it."
"A panel upgrade killed our power for two days. They brought the generator out with the trailer instead of after it. That one detail saved the whole weekend for us."
"Show nights run us out of cold space every summer. A trailer behind the venue fixed it. That door opens a hundred times a night and it still holds."
"We share one unit across a whole vendor row on market weekends now. Nobody argues about cooler space anymore."
Two numbers answer this. How much product do you hold on your busiest day, counted in pallets rather than boxes, and how often does somebody open that door. The KF8 holds about 268 cubic feet. The KF12 holds about 416. The KF16 tops out around 564. A unit loaded once and left shut can be packed tight, while a unit people are pulling from all day needs air and aisle. Tell us both numbers on the phone and we will pick it with you.
Put your own padlock on it. The door takes a standard lock and we would rather you hold the only key than rely on ours. Position matters as much as hardware, so we aim for a spot the building's cameras already cover and where the rear door faces your wall instead of the street. On lots with no lighting at all, we will talk through where the unit sits before the truck rolls.
One trailer holds one temperature setting, so frozen and chilled at the same time means two units. That is honest and it is worth knowing early. Some customers take a KF8 for the chilled side and a KF12 for frozen, which is cheaper on power than running one oversized box. Others rotate the same trailer, holding chilled during a slow week and dropping it to freezer for a heavy one. We will tell you which way fits your product before you book.
Yes. If a unit goes down on your lot, we dispatch a replacement and move your product. That is the whole point of renting from a company that owns the fleet instead of a broker who has to find someone else's trailer first. We service our own equipment between rentals, so failures are rare, but we plan for them anyway. Call the same number you used to book and it gets escalated immediately.
Yes, with two site conditions handled. The condenser needs airflow, so we do not box the hot side against a wall in August. And the power has to be steady, which is why generator jobs get fuel planned rather than topped off when somebody remembers. A full box also holds better than a thin one, because cold product carries its own thermal mass. During freeze events our units keep working, and the bigger risk is the building's own circuit, not the trailer.
Duration is the biggest lever, and a monthly hold works out very differently from a two day emergency drop. After that it is power, because a generator means fuel and service visits that a wall circuit does not. Distance from our yard moves the number. So does a difficult site, and so does an after hours call. We would rather walk you through those drivers on the phone than send a number that changes once we see the lot.
Clear the spot and clear the path to it. We need a level pad, room for the truck to swing, and either a dedicated 120 volt 20 amp circuit within 100 feet or a green light on the generator. Gravel and grass are both fine when they are dry. Have one person on site who will actually answer a phone at delivery time, because a locked gate with nobody around is the most common reason a drop slips a day.
Every unit is washed and staged at our yard before dispatch, and the interior is built for food contact rather than dry freight. If you are holding open product, wipe down and clean on arrival the same way you would a walk in shelf, because your inspector is judging the unit at the point of use. Tell us if you are storing raw protein or anything that leaks and we will note it for the turnaround clean after pickup.
Yes, because airport leased land carries its own access rules on top of city traffic. Tenants along North Beltline Road usually need gate and badging arrangements set up before a truck can get to the dock. We ask about that at booking so it is not a surprise at the gate. Give us the tenant contact and the gate you use and we will work the timing around it.
Same day when a unit is close and the site is ready, and we have made it in well under an hour on emergency calls. Dispatch is staffed around the clock. What slows a rush is almost never the trailer, it is an unconfirmed power source or a gate nobody can open. If you have a site that would be a disaster to lose, call us before anything breaks and we will keep your details on file.
We do, and a shared unit behind a vendor row usually beats every booth bringing its own coolers. For a one day event we typically deliver the afternoon before so product goes in cold and stays that way through load in. Festival sites almost never have a usable dedicated circuit, so plan on a generator. Book event work early, because summer weekends fill up across the metro.
We run more than one kind of trailer out of North Texas, so have a look at the rest of the fleet if this is not quite the unit your job needs.
Most delivery problems we run into around here are not refrigeration problems. They are parking lot problems. A trailer that cannot get into the spot is a trailer that goes home, and that costs you a day you did not plan to lose. Here is what we check before we dispatch, so you can check it first.
Start with the approach. Our truck needs a straight run in and somewhere to swing. Las Colinas service drives were laid out for box truck deliveries, not for a tractor backing a 16 foot box between two parked cars and a grease bin. Walk out and stand where you want the trailer to sit. Then turn around and look at what the driver has to do to get it there. If the answer involves a three point turn between two buildings, say so when you book and we will send a smaller unit or find a second approach.
There are more names in the DFW rental market than there are actual fleets. A lot of the websites you will find are brokers, which means the person selling you a trailer has never seen it and will not be the one who answers when it quits. These are the questions that sort that out in about four minutes on the phone.
Ask who owns the trailer. Not who delivers it, who owns it. If the answer wanders, you are talking to a middleman, and every problem you have later gets relayed through him. Ask a follow up too: where is the nearest available unit staged right now. A company with local stock can answer that instantly. A company without it will talk about availability in general terms.
Further reading: FDA Food Code 2022.
Cold storage demand in this city is not flat across the year. It moves in a pattern we can almost set a watch by, and knowing the pattern is worth real money if you are the one booking. Here is how the calendar actually runs.
January belongs to the civic calendar and the weather. Frost Fest brings a snow tubing hill and an ice rink to the city's winter festival, and outdoor vendors working it arrive with product and nowhere cold to put it. January is also when distribution yards are still working through post holiday volume. And it is the month we start holding units back for freeze events, because a hard cold snap in North Texas produces more emergency calls in 48 hours than a normal month does in 30 days.
Further reading: Irving events calendar.
Nobody enjoys getting a number that moves after the site visit. So here is a plain walk through of what changes a cold storage rental quote in this market, without a single figure attached, because your job is not the last job we did.
Duration is the biggest single factor. A two day emergency drop and a four month hold are priced on completely different logic, and the per day math on a long rental is far kinder. This is why we ask how long the repair part takes before we write anything down. If you tell us three days and it turns into five weeks, you will end up paying short term logic on a long term job for no reason.
At some point every growing kitchen and taproom in this city has the same argument in a back office. Do we finally build more cold space, or do we keep renting it. There is a right answer, and it depends on about four things.
Start with time. A built walk in is a construction project. Permits, a contractor, refrigeration subcontractor scheduling, inspection, and the lead time on the equipment itself. Even a smooth one takes months, and in a leased space it also takes a landlord who agrees to it. A rental is on your lot this week. So if your problem is happening now, the comparison is not really a comparison.
Further reading: Texas Department of State Health Services.
Call now or send a quote request and we will confirm size, power and a delivery window before a truck leaves the yard. Tell us what you are holding and the unit shows up already at your temperature.