Jobsite rentals across the Colorado mountains

JOLT delivers storage containers, 20 ft and 40 ft office containers, temporary fence and jobsite equipment to every town on this page from a single yard at 60 Spring Creek Road in Gypsum, in five Colorado delivery zones priced from $400 to $1,200 each way. The table below is the whole state in one place: the zone, the road miles from our gate and the fee for every town we serve, with no quote step in between.

How are Colorado delivery fees set?

Every Colorado address falls into one of five zones by ZIP code, and each zone carries one flat fee that is charged once for delivery and once for pickup. The truck, the driver and the fuel are ours, which is why the fee is the same in February as it is in July and does not move with a broker's margin.

Zone A is the Eagle River valley around our yard, Zone B is the rest of Eagle County along I-70 plus Glenwood Springs, and Zone C is where the truck first crosses a pass or leaves the interstate: Summit County over Vail Pass and the Roaring Fork Valley up Highway 82. Zone D adds the longer runs to Leadville, Steamboat Springs and Grand Junction, and Zone E covers the I-70 foothills and the whole Denver metro.

Out-of-state deliveries to Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Montana are Zone F: a $1,795 delivery, pickup quoted by route, and a 12-month minimum term. The delivery zones page covers Zone F in detail, along with how the windows and site requirements work everywhere we go.

What does delivery cost to each Colorado town?

This is the Mountain Delivery Index: every Colorado town in our service area with its zone, the fee each way, the road miles from the Gypsum yard and its county. Town names link to the local page, which covers permits, access, winter and the unit mix that suits that town's work.

Miles are road miles from the yard gate by the route our driver normally takes, rounded to the mile. Wolcott and Buena Vista do not have their own pages yet, but they are priced and served like every other row.

If your job is not on this list, enter the physical job ZIP in the reserve flow anyway. A ZIP that resolves to a published zone prices on the spot, and one that does not stops at the delivery line and comes to us for a written route quote before anything is charged, which is how Dillon prices with Keystone under a shared ZIP and how a county-road address outside any town gets a real number instead of a guess.

Two rows deserve a word. Leadville is closer in miles than Breckenridge but sits in Zone D, because US 24 over Tennessee Pass is a slower, steeper road than I-70 and the trip takes longer in every season. Castle Rock is the far end of Zone E, and the Denver page works through when a two-leg trip from Gypsum beats a yard on the Front Range and when it does not.

Which roads does the truck take?

Our yard sits at the Gypsum exit of I-70, so every Colorado delivery starts on the interstate. Zone A and Zone B towns are reached without leaving the Eagle River valley, and Glenwood Springs is a straight run west down the canyon approach.

Summit County deliveries climb Vail Pass, which tops out at 10,662 ft (Wikipedia), then drop to Frisco, Silverthorne and Breckenridge on Highway 9 and to Keystone on US 6. Roaring Fork deliveries leave I-70 at Glenwood Springs and follow Highway 82 through Carbondale and Basalt to Snowmass and Aspen. Steamboat Springs is reached on Highway 131 from Wolcott through State Bridge, Yampa and Oak Creek to its junction with US 40 (Wikipedia), and Grand Junction is the I-70 run west through Glenwood Canyon, a 12.5-mile canyon (Wikipedia) where CDOT closes the interstate for rockfall and weather without much warning.

Zone E is the long haul east: Vail Pass, then the Eisenhower–Johnson Memorial Tunnel at an average elevation of 11,112 ft, about 60 miles west of Denver, where CDOT records roughly 315 inches of snow between November and April (CDOT). From September 1 through May 31, CDOT requires commercial vehicles to carry chains on I-70 between Morrison and Dotsero (CDOT), which is every mile our truck drives to the Front Range, so winter Zone E windows are set with weather days in them.

What do Colorado crews rent from JOLT?

Three products carry most of the volume in the mountains. The 20 ft office container is the site office that fits where an office trailer will not, the 20 ft storage container is the lockable tool and material box, and temporary fence closes the perimeter that a town or an owner requires before the first delivery.

The office comes in three tiers. Base is the plain unit with mini-split heat and cooling and a 50-amp shore-power inlet, Grid-Free adds solar, a 10 kWh battery, a Starlink dish and a camera so a lot with no power works on day one, and Alpine adds a standing-seam over-roof, a covered entry deck and backup heat to Grid-Free for sites above the snow line. When a crew needs a bathroom under the same roof, the 40 ft office container with bathroom replaces two rentals with one.

Storage follows the lot. The 40 ft storage container suits a staging yard with room to turn a truck, the 12 ft and 10 ft containers have a man door and a barred window and go where a full-length box cannot, and every box arrives as a one-trip ISO container rather than a yard-worn rental. Light towers, ground heaters, traffic control packages and hand-wash stations round out the list.

Four upgrades are offered on compatible storage containers and offices, not on fence or equipment: WATCH for a camera, CONNECT for Starlink internet, POWER for solar and battery, and READY for a furnished, heated interior on delivery day. The JOLT PACK bundles WATCH, CONNECT and POWER at $699/mo; READY is priced separately at $125/mo, and the Grid-Free and Alpine offices have the three Pack items built in.

How does winter change a Colorado delivery?

The truck still runs, the windows still hold, and the site work shifts to you. Under §5.2 of the rental agreement, the placement pad must be firm, level and well drained with a straight-line approach of 70 ft for a 20 ft unit and 100 ft for a 40 ft unit; in winter that means the approach is plowed and the pad is scraped before the truck arrives, because a failed delivery is charged as a trip under §5.3.

Snow load is the design question that matters at altitude. The Structural Engineers Association of Colorado publishes recommended ground snow loads by town in its 2016 Colorado Design Snow Loads report: 40 psf for Gypsum, 90 psf for Vail, 80 psf for Breckenridge, 85 psf for Steamboat Springs and 35 psf for Denver (SEAC), with the local building official setting the code value. Those are ground loads for designing a building, not a rating for the roof of a rented container; no snow-load rating is published for any unit in the fleet, so treat the figure as a measure of how much clearing a winter on that site will take. Our snow load guide walks through the figures town by town.

Once the unit is on the ground, §7.4 of the agreement makes clearing snow and ice from the roof, the solar panels, the doors and the access paths your crew's job. An Alpine office adds a standing-seam over-roof that sheds snow and a covered entry deck, which is why it is the tier we point to for anything above about 9,000 ft with a long winter on site; it changes how snow reaches the entry, not who clears it.

Do you need a permit for a container in Colorado?

Colorado has no statewide permit for a temporary storage container or a jobsite office; the authority is the town or county building department where the unit sits. Most jurisdictions treat a container on an active, permitted jobsite as part of that project, but a container on a bare lot, in a residential zone or in the public right-of-way is where the rules bite.

Summit County and its towns, the City and County of Denver and Eagle County each handle it differently, and the Colorado permit answer, the Summit County answer and the Denver answer cover the three most common cases. The Eagle County permit guide covers our home county. Under §5.2 you hold the permits, HOA approvals and landlord consents before the truck rolls, so start the call early.

What does a month cost once everything is added?

Every price is published, so the month is arithmetic rather than a phone call. Rent is the number on the product page, any monthly upgrade is its own line, and the 12% damage waiver and the 5% environmental fee are each figured on rent plus those recurring upgrades on every invoice; delivery and pickup are charged once each at your zone's fee; a reservation deposit holds the unit and is applied to your first invoice; and Colorado sales tax is calculated from the job address at checkout and on each invoice, so every figure on this site is before tax.

The damage waiver is optional if you would rather carry the risk on your own policy: the pricing page explains the certificate of insurance route and the refundable deposit that replaces the waiver, and §10 of the rental agreement sets the coverage terms. Rent steps up 5% on each anniversary of the start date under §3.4, which matters on a multi-year mountain project and is why the lease-to-own plans exist for crews that will keep a unit longer than that.

Which unit fits which Colorado job?

Ski-area and resort work runs on offices with heat that starts before the crew does and on storage that keeps tools out of the snow, which is why the Alpine tier and a 20 ft box are the usual pair in Summit and Pitkin counties. Our ski resort solution lays out the typical set-up for a base-area project.

Remote and off-grid sites, from a Routt County ranch to a Mesa County pipeline yard, are where the Grid-Free office earns its rate: no generator, no fuel run, no electrician on the first day. The off-grid solution and the off-grid power guide cover what the battery runs and for how long.

Municipal and utility crews tend to want the 40 ft office with bathroom, a traffic package and fence on the same delivery, and the municipal solution covers the paperwork side. Events and festivals, from Steamboat to the Front Range, lease fence by the foot and hand-wash stations by the unit for a month at a time; see events and festivals.

How do you reserve for a Colorado address?

Pick the unit, enter the delivery ZIP and the reserve flow shows the zone, the fee each way and the deposit before you pay anything. The deposit holds the unit and the window; the standard window is 2–4 weeks from reservation, and the availability badge at the top of every product page is live inventory rather than a sales estimate.

Written notice more than 14 days before the first day of your window cancels for free with the deposit refunded in full under §2.2 of the agreement; inside 14 days the deposit is forfeited. At the end of the job, 15 days' written notice schedules the pickup under §16, rent runs until the unit is retrieved, and the pickup fee is the same as the delivery fee for your zone. How it works lays out the whole sequence from reservation to pickup.

Why one yard for the whole state?

Because a single yard on I-70 with its own truck is how the prices stay flat and published. Every unit in the fleet lives at the Gypsum yard between rentals, gets inspected there and leaves on our trailer, so there is no third-party hauler to mark up the trip and no partner yard whose inventory we cannot see.

The trade-off is honest mileage. Front Range customers pay more to bring a unit over the Divide than they would pay a yard in Commerce City, and the town pages say so; mountain customers get a yard that is closer than Denver, a truck that already runs the passes every week and a fleet built for the snow line. About JOLT covers who we are and where the yard is, and contact reaches the yard during business hours.