Phoenix Walk-In Coolers, Cold Storage Trailers, Refrigerated Trailers & Refrigerated Containers for Rent
When walk-in cold space is full, down, or being rebuilt, Lock-N-Roll Cold Storage can coordinate temporary refrigerated storage for Phoenix and the rest of Maricopa County. Serving grocers, caterers, hospitals, schools, and industrial sites, our team is available at 888 385-5513 for 24/7 support and emergency deployment coordination. Mobile kitchens and dishwashing trailers are available as supporting facilities.
- Refrigerated trailer pricing
- Starting at $1,295 · by rental length
- Delivery planning
- Delivery schedule confirmed in your quote
A refrigerated trailer plan for Phoenix.
Phoenix sits in Maricopa County and is the planning anchor for refrigerated trailer and container deliveries across Arizona. Closest towns we also cover: Glendale (about 6 miles), Paradise Valley (about 8 miles), and Youngtown (about 12 miles).
Litchfield Park's budget rose 45 percent to fund a string of capital projects, the mayor said in the March 2026 State of the City
Litchfield Park is about 16 miles west of Phoenix.
In his State of the City address on March 3, 2026, Mayor Thomas Schoaf said Litchfield Park's budget increased 45 percent to fund a series of capital projects scheduled through 2026.
Cave Creek canceled its July 4 fireworks in 2018 and moved the show to Labor Day weekend behind Harold's Corral
Cave Creek is about 19 miles north of Phoenix.
In 2018, with the wildfire danger described as sky high across several Arizona towns, Cave Creek canceled its Fourth of July fireworks and rescheduled the show for September 2.
Queen Creek was hard hit by a destructive storm in October 2022, and chainsaws replaced thunder
Queen Creek is about 36 miles southeast of Phoenix.
FOX 10 reported on October 16, 2022 that cleanup was continuing in Queen Creek after a destructive storm hit the East Valley, with Queen Creek among the hardest-hit communities.
Duke's Roadhouse, Good Donuts and Burrito Express all showed up in Maricopa's February 2026 permit list
Maricopa is about 37 miles south of Phoenix.
Maricopa's February 2026 construction roundup listed a certificate of occupancy for Good Donuts at 20924 N. John Wayne Parkway, wall sign permits for Duke's Roadhouse and Burrito Express at 41433 W.
Compare refrigerated trailers and containers.
Review all 4 refrigerated trailer and container sizes for your Phoenix project, with starting prices by rental length. Select a model for its specifications, photographs, and rental details.
Scroll across the table to compare specifications and starting prices.
| Model | Format | Temperature options | Power example | Starting at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12ft Refrigerated Trailer | Refrigerated trailer | Confirm for the assigned 12ft unit | Confirm the assigned unit’s power requirements | $1,295 |
| 20ft Refrigerated Trailer | Refrigerated trailer | Separate 32°F, 15°F, and -5°F configurations; confirm the required unit | 220V, single-phase, 40–60A; verify the offered configuration | $1,495 |
| 20ft Refrigerated Container | Refrigerated container | Review the selected container's specification | Confirm the assigned unit’s power requirements | $2,495 |
| 40ft Refrigerated Container | Refrigerated container | Confirm for the assigned unit | Confirm the assigned unit’s power requirements | $3,495 |
Configuration examples shown. Confirm the assigned unit’s temperature range and connections in your quote. Starting prices by rental length are listed on each model page; delivery, setup, taxes, and availability are confirmed separately.
Heat
31 days over 110: what Phoenix's record heat means for cold rooms
In July 2023 Phoenix strung together 31 straight days at or above 110 degrees, beating the old record of 18 set in 1974, and logged 16 days in a row where the night never dropped below 90. A walk-in cooler is a heat pump with the door shut, so when the air around the condenser stays that hot day and night, the compressor never gets a break. USDA guidance gives food in a fridge about four hours once it stops cooling, and a 110-degree loading dock eats into that faster than most kitchens expect.
That gap is what emergency refrigeration covers. A 20ft refrigerated trailer on a 220-volt supply holds stock at 32°F, 15°F or -5°F depending on the configuration while the walk-in is repaired. Park the portable cold storage beside receiving, in shade if you can, because pallets left on a hot dock lose more temperature than a cooler door left open at lunch.
Storms and outages
A haboob took out power across the Valley, then the clock started
The haboob that crossed the Valley on August 25, 2025 left up to 54,000 SRP customers and up to 12,000 APS customers without power at its peak, with about a hundred and fifty still waiting by the next morning. Most were back within hours, but USDA says a closed refrigerator holds only about four hours and a full freezer about 48. Four hours is a single dinner service.
A refrigerated trailer needs electricity like any other cooler, so in a blackout it needs a generator trailer beside it. A refrigerated trailer rental plus a generator matched to the unit is the realistic emergency cold storage plan for storm season, and the number to call is worth writing down before the next monsoon.
Compare refrigerated trailer and container prices.
Starting prices by rental length for refrigerated equipment and supporting facilities in Phoenix. Review the equipment details and project requirements with our team.
| Refrigerated unit | 1–6 days | 8–14 days | 15 days–1 month | More than 3 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12ft refrigerated trailer ↗ | $1,295 | $1,595 | $1,895 | $1,995 |
| 20ft refrigerated trailer ↗ | $1,495 | $1,695 | $1,995 | $1,895–$2,195 |
| 20ft refrigerated container ↗ | $2,495 | $2,495 | $2,995 | $2,995 |
| 40ft refrigerated container ↗ | $3,495 | $3,495 | $3,995 | $3,995 |
Supporting facility starting prices
| Supporting facility | 1–6 days | 8–14 days | 15 days–1 month | More than 3 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24ft mobile kitchen ↗ | $4,995–$7,995 | $4,995–$7,995 | $4,995–$7,995 | $4,995–$7,995 |
| 38ft mobile kitchen ↗ | $7,995 | $7,995 | $8,995 | $7,995 |
| 40ft mobile kitchen ↗ | $7,995 | $7,995 | $9,995 | $7,995 |
| 22–26ft low-temp dishwashing trailer ↗ | $4,995 | $4,995 | $4,995 | $4,995–$6,995 |
| 30ft conveyor dishwashing trailer ↗ | $7,995 | $7,995 | $7,995 | $6,995 |
Starting prices by rental length. Prices, availability, delivery timing, and equipment details are subject to change and will be confirmed in your final quote.
Need help now? Call 888 385-5513 for 24/7 support and current availability.
Carefree used hundreds of drones instead of fireworks at CIVANA on July 6, 2019, its second year in a row
Carefree is about 20 miles northeast of Phoenix.
In 2019, for the second year running, Carefree chose a drone show over fireworks for the Fourth of July. The CIVANA Lights Block Party and Drone Show Spectacular ran from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on July 6 at the CIVANA resort.
A July 2022 storm toppled steel power towers and closed the Beeline Highway near Fountain Hills
Fountain Hills is about 20 miles east of Phoenix.
On Saturday, July 16, 2022, a lightning strike started a fire that gutted a house in the 15600 block of Centipede Drive in Fountain Hills, collapsing its roof, with no one home.
The new town signed a three-year fire service agreement with Rural Metro
San Tan Valley is about 41 miles southeast of Phoenix.
On December 17, 2025, the San Tan Valley Town Council approved a three-year fire service agreement with Rural Metro Fire, with residents who subscribe continuing to pay the company directly.
The Wickenburg Bluegrass Festival returns to the rodeo arena November 13-15, 2026
Wickenburg is about 48 miles northwest of Phoenix.
The Wickenburg Bluegrass Festival is scheduled for November 13-15, 2026. Last year's edition ran at the Everett Bowman Rodeo Arena on Constellation Road with live bluegrass over multiple days and lawn chairs encouraged, and tickets are available at the Wickenburg Visitor Center on Frontier Street.
The Terminal is turning a 1951 building on Florence Street into restaurants, bars and retail
Casa Grande is about 50 miles south of Phoenix.
The Terminal at 318 N. Florence St. in historic downtown Casa Grande is a redevelopment of a building from 1951, renovated in 2024, with about 22,828 square feet of restaurant and retail space around a shared community patio.
Nonprofits and food banks
St. Mary's Food Bank learned about outages the hard way
Phoenix's St. Mary's Food Bank told local TV in 2018 that monsoon storms had cut power to its building twice that year, once for almost a full day in parts of it. It answered with a new freezer and cooler that doubled its cooling space to 30,000 square feet, and in October 2025 it opened an expanded Phoenix campus with more storage, with one in eight Arizonans facing food insecurity.
Smaller pantries and pop-up distributions have the same problem without the square footage. A 12ft refrigerated trailer is the compact form of portable cold storage that a church lot or community site can place for a weekend of dairy, produce and frozen protein, and emergency power is the part to settle before the storm, not after.
Construction
Sky Harbor's new concourse and the food nobody sees
Phoenix Sky Harbor's new Terminal 3 North Concourse adds about 173,000 square feet, six gates, and new restaurants and shops, with completion expected in 2027. Airport kitchens are tight, and any restaurant fitting out a new space ends up owning food before its permanent walk-in is signed off.
A refrigerated container or trailer staged by the loading area can hold opening-week stock as temporary cold storage, then stay on as overflow. Overnight lane restrictions on Sky Harbor Boulevard near the terminal are expected to continue indefinitely, so vendors nearby also benefit from room for a full pallet on the days a delivery gets through.
More than 50,000 without power, and some Glendale homes waited 17 hours
Glendale is about 6 miles southwest of Phoenix.
Glendale: A monsoon storm hit around 8 p.m. on August 9, 2026 with gusts over 50 mph, splitting poles and dropping lines across the Valley. More than 50,000 customers lost power, and many waited over 15 hours.
At the 2024 WM Phoenix Open an entry gate was closed and alcohol sales were suspended, prompting a 2025 redesign
Paradise Valley is about 8 miles east of Phoenix.
Paradise Valley: At the 2024 WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale, crowd problems led organizers to close an entry gate and briefly suspend alcohol sales. Organizers stopped publishing attendance figures after 2019, when more than 700,000 had come through in 2018, and the 16th-hole stadium alone seats 17,000.
Four warehouses are going up in Vistancia, near the Loop 303 corridor
Peoria is about 21 miles northwest of Phoenix.
Peoria: Barclay Group reported four warehouses totaling about 239,000 square feet in a new business park in Vistancia, off Westward Skies Drive near State Route 303. Buildings range from roughly 43,600 to 93,600 square feet, divisible to about 9,400, with construction expected to start in spring 2026 and finish in spring 2027.
163rd Avenue is being widened to three lanes each way while Cactus Road finishes up
Surprise is about 22 miles west of Phoenix.
Surprise: Construction on 163rd Avenue between Happy Valley and Jomax roads began in January 2026, widening it to three lanes in each direction, improving the Jomax intersection and adding drainage work with money from the 2023 bond election. Cactus Road was widened to six lanes in two sections, finished in August and October 2025.
Florence's 40th Annual Home Tour on February 14, 2026 opened 16 historic sites in the downtown district
Florence is about 52 miles southeast of Phoenix.
The Town of Florence held its 40th Annual Home Tour on Saturday, February 14, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with 16 sites including the Silver King Hotel, the first Pinal County Courthouse, the Pinal County Historical Museum and the Brunenkant Bakery.
Lucid bought Nikola's Coolidge plant in 2025 for warehousing, pre-delivery inspections and a pilot line
Coolidge is about 55 miles southeast of Phoenix.
In June 2025, Lucid opened its Phoenix Hub and took over Nikola's Coolidge manufacturing plant, which will handle warehousing, pre-delivery inspections and a pilot line for a midsize vehicle.
Renovation
Chase Field is getting fixed. Where does the beer go?
HB 2704, signed on September 3, 2025, set aside up to $500 million for Chase Field, with the Diamondbacks adding $250 million, and air conditioning and the retractable roof lead the list. By September 2026 the county's stadium district expected concrete, cooling, roof and plumbing work squeezed mostly into the roughly six-month offseason, with the lease deal still to be finalized.
When part of a stadium loses plumbing or power, its concession coolers go with it. A refrigerated trailer in the service lot can hold beverages and prepared food for an event, and a mobile kitchen trailer can cover cooking while a concourse kitchen is closed.
Large events
360,823 people came for the Women's Final Four. Think of the ice.
Phoenix hosted its first Women's Final Four from April 2 to 5, 2026, with Arizona State University as host. Organizers counted 360,823 people across the games and free fan events, including 25,610 at Tourney Town and a record 35,036 at Four It All Fest. The Phoenix Convention Center added 70 conventions and about 293,300 delegates in 2025 alone.
Crowds like that run on caterers and vendors who can't count on an arena's coolers. A 20ft refrigerated trailer loaded before the gates open keeps drinks, dairy and prepared trays cold all day, and a mobile kitchen trailer fills in when the site has no cooking facilities.
In 2013, Youngtown's mayor said the town had "turned a corner" as a 33-acre commercial project took shape at Olive and 114th avenues
Youngtown is about 12 miles west of Phoenix.
In August 2013, The Arizona Republic reported on a roughly 33-acre site northeast of Olive and 114th avenues, next to an electrical substation, where a commercial venture described as potentially the largest in Youngtown's 59-year history was planned.
A monsoon storm on August 11, 2026 left nearly 1,300 SRP customers without power from Tolleson to west Phoenix
Tolleson is about 13 miles southwest of Phoenix.
Another round of monsoon storms rolled through the Valley overnight on August 11, 2026. In the Tolleson and west Phoenix area, nearly 1,300 SRP customers lost power between 103rd and 71st avenues and from Lower Buckeye Road to Baseline Road.
Phase 5 of Avondale's Old Town overhaul replaced aging water lines and hydrants from September 2025 to mid-2026
Avondale is about 23 miles southwest of Phoenix.
Starting September 22, 2025, Phase 5 of Avondale's Old Town infrastructure project began replacing the aging water system, including new pipelines, service lines and fire hydrants, then upgrading sidewalks and ramps to ADA standards and resurfacing roads.
Dr. A.J. Chandler Park hosts 100 events a year and just started a rebuild
Chandler is about 24 miles southeast of Phoenix.
Phase one of the renovation of Dr. A.J. Chandler Park began in January 2026. The plan removes older water features, adds two pavilions, two restroom buildings, storage rooms, two large shade canopies, new plazas and public art, and a new crosswalk signal on Arizona Avenue.
16,161 fans at Sloan Park, and every one of them wanted a cold drink
Mesa is about 25 miles southeast of Phoenix.
Mesa: On March 8, 2025 the Cubs drew 16,161 to Sloan Park, a new single-game spring training record that topped the 16,152 they set in 2023. By 2026 the team was reporting nearly 250,000 fans a spring and 12 straight years of attendance records.
After the 2021 flood, shelters opened at the Gila Bend Community Center, the high school gym and the elementary school
Gila Bend is about 55 miles southwest of Phoenix.
After the August 2021 flooding, the Town of Gila Bend declared a state of emergency and Maricopa County declared a local emergency. Gov. Doug Ducey declared a state emergency on August 16, making up to $200,000 available.
The 30th Apache Leap Mining Festival in Superior had a parade, carnival rides and a $2,500 mining competition purse in March 2018
Superior is about 59 miles east of Phoenix.
Superior held its 30th annual Apache Leap Mining Festival from March 16 to 18, 2018, with a "Women in Mining" theme. The weekend included carnival rides, a parade, live Folklorico and Mariachi music, chihuahua races, a beer garden, a handmade crafts market and a Kid's Zone with mining-related tasks.
Plan around the Phoenix address.
A project in Phoenix starts with practical questions about power, placement, and access. The same planning applies across Maricopa County, including Glendale, Paradise Valley, Youngtown, Tolleson.
- Share the need
Tell us what you are storing, the holding temperature, quantity, location, and dates.
- Review the unit
Choose a refrigerated trailer or container and any supporting kitchen or dishwashing facility.
- Review the site
Confirm access, placement, power, and any water and drainage needs.
- Coordinate deployment
Confirm availability, rental terms, delivery, and setup in your quote.
- Plan the pickup
Schedule removal after stock has moved back to permanent storage.
Fires
The north Phoenix Safeway that never came back
In July 2018 a monsoon storm collapsed the roof of the Safeway at 35th Avenue and Northern Avenue, rupturing a gas line and starting a fire that destroyed the store. Safeway said about a month later it would not rebuild, and five years on residents were calling the area a food desert, with Food City, Fry's and an Albertsons about two miles away as the nearest options.
A supermarket is mostly refrigeration, so the stores around a loss like that feel it at once: more customers, faster-moving produce and dairy, tighter coolers. Neighboring grocers can add overflow with a refrigerated trailer for a few weeks, and a store rebuilding after a fire can keep a reduced sales floor open on temporary cold storage.
Construction
TSMC's next $100 billion and what 12,000 construction workers eat
In July 2026 TSMC announced another $100 billion for north Phoenix: four more fabs on a 900-acre campus, on top of roughly $165 billion already committed over six years. One economist estimates 10,000 to 12,000 construction jobs, and another projects Arizona could come up short by about 10,000 workers a year.
Feeding crews that size through a 117-degree summer takes real cold storage. A mobile kitchen trailer, a dishwashing trailer and a refrigerated trailer together make a temporary food service setup that sits at the edge of the build and moves with each phase.
Luke Days 2026 drew an estimated 200,000 visitors to Luke Air Force Base, with 17 aerial demonstrations
El Mirage is about 14 miles west of Phoenix.
El Mirage: Luke Air Force Base's two-day Luke Days air show in 2026 drew an estimated 200,000 visitors. The program included 17 aerial demonstrations, headlined by the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels. Local medics, law enforcement and fire crews helped guests when conditions became difficult.
The WM Phoenix Open turns TPC Scottsdale into a stadium for a week
Scottsdale is about 15 miles northeast of Phoenix.
The WM Phoenix Open ran February 2 to 8, 2026 at TPC Scottsdale, where it has been played since 1987 and draws hundreds of thousands of fans a year.
A semi-truck hit an awning and flooded Arizona Wilderness Brewing
Gilbert is about 27 miles southeast of Phoenix.
In December 2023 a semi-truck driver making a U-turn near Arizona Avenue and Guadalupe Road hit the awning of Arizona Wilderness Brewing in Gilbert. The impact broke the building's water sprinklers, and the flooding damaged the interior and exterior.
The Guardians and Reds ran 30 days of spring training at Goodyear Ballpark, with new rice bowls on the menu
Goodyear is about 27 miles southwest of Phoenix.
Spring training 2026 at Goodyear Ballpark ran from February 21 through March 22 for the Cleveland Guardians and Cincinnati Reds. The 2025 season drew more than 152,000 fans, up 4%.
Heat
117 degrees, 9,000 megawatts, and a backup plan for the cooler
On July 24, 2026 APS and SRP each peaked a little over 9,060 megawatts at 117 degrees, about 90 percent of the capacity they had planned for the summer, and on August 2 APS reached 9,164 megawatts as Phoenix hit 115. No outages were reported, but the margin was thin.
If you keep product cold, a record grid is the moment to line up the backup: a 20ft refrigerated trailer (example supply 220 volts, 40 to 60 amps) paired with a generator trailer that covers compressor start-up surge, on a level pad with door clearance and a short path to the kitchen.
Storms and flooding
Three inches in three days: Priscilla's remnants reach Phoenix
The remnants of Priscilla and Raymond dropped 3.02 inches on Sky Harbor between the night of October 9 and October 12, 2025, including 1.96 inches on the 12th, the 16th-wettest day on record, and a Tempe microburst on the 13th damaged University Drive and the Phoenix Zoo. The governor declared emergencies for Gila, Maricopa and Mohave counties, and a September flood in Globe had already damaged businesses such as La Casita, open since 1947.
Flooded kitchens lose power, equipment and food all at once. A refrigerated trailer on higher ground works as emergency cold storage for stock that's still good, and a mobile kitchen trailer lets a restaurant partly reopen while the permanent kitchen dries out.
SRP and Tempe are swapping 37 trees for 114 so the next storm hurts less
Tempe is about 16 miles southeast of Phoenix.
In March 2026, SRP and the City of Tempe began removing 37 trees growing too close to power lines and planting 114 new ones, 18 of them at the Tempe Public Library.
Tempe Diablo Stadium drew 96,211 fans to 15 Angels spring training games in 2026
Guadalupe is about 16 miles southeast of Phoenix.
Guadalupe: Tempe Diablo Stadium drew 96,211 fans to 15 Angels spring training games in 2026, up from 93,994 in 2025 and an average of about 6,414 a game in a stadium that holds roughly 9,600. Across the Cactus League the total was 1,753,849 fans over 237 games, up 3.4 percent.
A microburst overturned ten trailers at a Buckeye park and set off house fires in July 2014
Buckeye is about 33 miles west of Phoenix.
A July 2014 microburst overturned ten trailers at a Buckeye trailer park, many of them empty because residents often live elsewhere in summer. Two people went to the hospital with injuries that weren't serious, firefighters responded to two house fires and several tree and pole fires caused by downed lines, and about 2,000 APS customers across the West Valley lost power before most were restored by mid-morning Friday.
An SRP transformer fire left about 80,000 people in Mesa and Apache Junction without power
Apache Junction is about 34 miles east of Phoenix.
An SRP transformer fire that started around 11:45 a.m. left about 80,000 people in Mesa and Apache Junction without power. Officials first estimated 30,000 and then raised the figure, and the fire took about three hours to put out, with power still being rerouted afterward.
Phoenix refrigerated trailer rental FAQs.
How much does a refrigerated trailer rental cost in Phoenix?
Refrigerated trailer rentals start at $1,295, with starting prices listed by rental length from 1–6 days to more than 3 months. Delivery, setup, site work, taxes, minimum duration, and the complete rental term are confirmed in the final quote.
When can a refrigerated trailer be delivered to Phoenix?
Phoenix is the planning anchor for Arizona deliveries. Share your address, desired start date, unit size, and access conditions, and the team confirms availability and a workable delivery schedule.
Which Maricopa County towns do you plan rentals for besides Phoenix?
Glendale, Paradise Valley, Youngtown, Tolleson, El Mirage, Scottsdale, Tempe, and Guadalupe are also covered in Maricopa County. Each rental is planned around the exact address, placement area, and power.
What should I prepare for my Maricopa County site?
Bring the address, placement plan, delivery access details, available power, the goods and holding temperature, dates, and a site contact. Confirm any applicable permit and approval requirements before dispatch.
Keep Phoenix cold.
Share your site, dates, and storage needs. We’ll review the refrigerated trailer or container and supporting kitchen and dishwashing plan for your Arizona project.