Moveable Cubicle - 40' long, $710,000 in new books

The driver make mistakes in delivery, which damaged the container and damaged our inventory. We hand loaded the container, so there was no sudden major weight increase or load shifting or damage caused by our equipment. We have no equipment.

We ordered a 40' container to store books prior to giving them away in the community. Our billing office is in a residential subdivision of Garner, 11 miles north of the Cleveland Library. The driver tried to deliver the container to the office and there was no way to get it in. Then he passed our exit on I-40 going east and had to turn around. When he arrived, he was late.

I showed the driver where to place the container, but we had to move the unit farther east due to the tightness of the lot. As he went to place the unit, I asked him how many blocks we needed to support and level it. He assured me only 4, but I had 100 available. I offered to put more and he told me no. We placed the blocks at his direction, he placed the container, and one block broke immediately. When the container settled, 1/2 of the block pushed up through the floor and the other half was pushed out into the lot, breaking the seal and allowing for water, air, and small animals to get into the container. It also made stacking boxes in that corner, impossible. It also made it very difficult to load and unload by stopping rolling items.

The front end caught the leaning stacks nearest to it, after the front blocks broke and sunk, but all the other stacked books fell and dumped their load. The driver assured me there was no need for additional blocks on the front and downhill side, even though he left it sloping downward. These boxes lean to the center as well as to the front once the floor was broken by the weight of the unit and lack of uniform support. We had to rebox and restack the books that were dumped by the shifty container. Another angle of the mess and one for the road. Since the boxes were stacked quite straight, this photo gives a good idea of the shift forward, when you look at the left side separation at the top and again at the bottom, second photo of the angle. Broken block on left side of door. Container below grade, where the block on the left front broke and the container sunk over the hill. Container on and slightly below grade, where the right front block broke and the unit sank. Slope starts at the road and water flows down into and under the container and the roof runoff adds to the flow. There are a few spots with air flow under the container.