Jon Anderson wrote:

Pete C. wrote:

PS: A container is nice, but delivery and pickup is normally done with a
big tilt bed trailer and winch and is expecting the container to be
empty, i.e. 10,000# light, not loaded with another 20,000# of cargo.

There are side loading rigs that will pick up a loaded container,
keeping it pretty parallel to the ground.
Even if a tilt bed would pick one up loaded, not the hot setup when
loaded with machinery!

Jon

I've not seen any portable side load rigs that will handle real ISO
cargo containers, only the rigs for the tiny little "PODS" or similar.

As for tilting a loaded container, that isn't a problem if they are
packed properly. Those containers see plenty of tilting on the slow boat
from China and the cargo generally arrives intact. Well, except for the
few that get blown off the top of the stack in a good storm and end up
at the bottom of the ocean, but I bet the contents are still secure when
they settle on the bottom.