Shower trailer rental dispatch and quotes, anywhere in Colorado

The first call is short and it is mostly us asking about the site rather than telling you about trailers. There are seven things that between them decide the unit, the stall count, the logistics plan and the price, and once we have them the rest usually falls out on the same call.

Where the site is, in enough detail to route a truck to it, including what the last mile is made of. When you need it and for roughly how long. How many people will use it, and critically, whether they arrive together or spread out. What the pad is: gravel, dirt, concrete or grass, and whether it stays firm after rain. What is available in the way of water, power and waste, honestly rather than optimistically. Whether an accessible unit is required. And who will actually be standing there when the driver arrives.

The one that surprises people is the rotation question. Headcount alone does not size a shower trailer, because forty people coming off one shift together is a completely different problem from forty people arriving across an evening, even though the daily total is nearly identical. Two minutes on the shift pattern is worth more than any other part of the call.

You do not need all of it to ring us. The town and the dates are enough to start, and we will ask for the rest as we go. If an answer is genuinely unknown, say so rather than guess, because a guessed pad condition is how a delivery turns into a wasted afternoon for both of us.

Short notice is worth asking about rather than assuming. Either something is free or it is not, and finding out takes two minutes. The honest constraint is usually not equipment but haul time, because a site four hours away over a pass cannot be served this afternoon however willing everybody is.

Dated work is easiest to serve when the inquiry lands early. From early summer into the autumn the arenas, fairgrounds, river towns and festival grounds all want the same handful of weekends, and a dry fire season can take units out of the commercial schedule with no notice at all. A late inquiry is still worth making, but the answer gets less flexible the deeper into the summer it lands.

Winter high country work has a different constraint. The equipment side is straightforward as long as the freeze protection is specified properly, and the schedule side is not, because the corridors close repeatedly through storm season. Those deliveries get booked with buffer built in rather than to an arrival hour.

Placements measured in months come with the service schedule written into the quote. It gets adjusted once we have seen a real week of use, and after that it runs by itself with nothing for you to chase. Long placements are the easiest work we do, and they are the ones where getting the first conversation right pays back the most.

The request form takes the same details we ask for on the phone and sends them to the person handling your part of the state. It suits typing from a job trailer at night, or gathering answers from three people before you commit to anything. What comes back is a call or a written reply with real availability, not an automated brochure.

Email works the same way and has one advantage worth knowing about: attachments. Site photographs, a plan sheet, a vendor packet or a scope document are all more useful to us than a description, and they go into the quote rather than being re read later.

If you need an answer inside the hour, use the phone. Written requests get worked properly, and properly takes longer than a conversation does.

One thing worth doing in a written request that is hard to do on a call: give us the bad news about the site. The grade that is steeper than it looks, the gate that only opens at certain hours, the ground that was soft last spring, the fact that nobody has actually measured the turning room. Those details are what a quote is built on, and a written request is the easiest place to put them down honestly without feeling like you are talking yourself out of anything. You are not. A quote built on an accurate site is a quote that survives contact with delivery day.

We reply to the address the request came from unless you tell us otherwise. If the person who should receive the quote is somebody else, say so in the message rather than forwarding it later, because the quote and the scheduling conversation work best when they are with the same person.

A good share of the calls we take come from estimators working on something nobody has won yet. That is normal and it is worth doing properly rather than pulling a figure off an old email. Tell us it is a bid, give us the location and roughly how long the work runs, and the quote comes back with the assumptions written next to it, so when the scope shifts you can see which part of it shifts with it.

If the award lands months later, call back with the same job name and we will pull up what we sent. Most of the time that turns the second conversation into a confirmation instead of starting over.

When the schedule slides, tell us that too. A quote from last season is usually still workable, but availability in high summer is a different animal from availability in the middle of winter, and it is better to look at it again than to plan against something stale.

Tell us when the job is finishing and the pickup goes on the board the same way the delivery did. On a long placement that is usually a week or two of notice, which is enough to schedule a final pump out so the unit leaves empty rather than traveling full. On a short event it is often decided before the unit ever arrives, because the strike window is part of the venue's own schedule.

On pickup day the unit is drained, disconnected and hauled out, and the pad is left as we found it. If we brought matting or cribbing, it comes with us. If the placement ran through a winter, the unit gets properly winterized for the road rather than driven away with water in it.

Dates moving at the end of a job is normal and it is easy to accommodate with notice. A crew that finishes two weeks early and a crew that runs three weeks long are both ordinary. What causes trouble is nobody saying anything, because a unit sitting on a finished site is a unit that is not available to the next job and is still accruing a service schedule.

Anything we learned about your site goes on the record: how the approach behaved, where the unit actually sat, what the ground did in the wet. If you come back to the same site next season, that is the difference between starting the conversation from scratch and starting it from what we already know.

It is also worth telling us what did not work. A service window that never suited the shift pattern, a pump cadence that was tighter or looser than it needed to be, a placement that turned out to be twenty feet from where it should have been. None of that is a complaint and all of it makes the next placement better. The jobs that run most smoothly are almost always the second or third one on a site somebody told us about honestly the first time.

The line is answered through the working day and well either side of it, because deliveries start early and site problems do not keep office hours. Weekends are covered during the event season and during any incident work, which in practice means most of the summer and a good part of the autumn.

Outside those windows, a message reaches somebody. What decides how fast it gets acted on is what it says. A unit on a site with a problem gets treated as urgent whatever the hour. A quote request lands on the next working morning, which is usually fast enough for something that has not been awarded yet.

If you are working an unusual schedule, say so on the first call and we will fit the service visits around it. Night shift work, a site that is only accessible between certain hours, a gate that locks at four, a venue that cannot take a vacuum truck before ten in the morning. None of that is difficult when it is known in advance and all of it is a problem when it is discovered by a driver at a closed gate.

Winter cuts the usable day considerably in the high country, and that shapes scheduling more than most people expect. A delivery over a pass wants to be moving early. In December the sun sets before five in Leadville, and the unit still has to be set and tested before dark, so a late start leaves no room. When we ask about arrival timing on a winter job, that is why.

If your organization needs vendor registration, a certificate of insurance, a W-9 or a written service plan before the first delivery, tell us on the first call and we will handle it by email, including an IRS Form W-9 if your accounts payable team needs one. Agencies and general contractors often have a portal; send the link and we will complete it. The more of this happens before delivery day, the smoother delivery day is.

Public agencies, school districts and larger contractors each have their own process, and a few of them require documents that take time to produce. Raising that in the first conversation rather than the week of delivery is the difference between paperwork being a background task and paperwork being the reason a date moves.

Read the company page for how we work. The equipment page lists what is in each unit, and the reference desk has four long planning guides if you want the detail before you call.