Company: About Box-n-Go Storage and Moving
Box-n-Go, LLC is a portable storage and moving company headquartered in Commerce, California. We’ve been delivering portable self-storage to Southern California since 2006, and we’re still independently owned. There’s no franchise behind Box-n-Go, no national chain, no outsourced call center. Just one warehouse, one phone number, and a small team of people who actually run the place. When you call Box-n-Go, you talk to one of us.
Our story
Box-n-Go got started in spring 2006, in Commerce, California. Three of us — Stan Krakovsky, Stan Trakhtenberg, and Michael Bernstein — pooled what we had and started a portable storage company. None of us had worked in storage or moving before. We came from corporate jobs in completely unrelated fields. All three of us were born in Ukraine and came to the United States before the Iron Curtain fell, building careers here from scratch.
What pulled us into this business was simple: storage and moving hadn’t really changed in a hundred years. Same trucks. Same facilities behind a fence somewhere off the freeway. Same routine for the customer — rent a truck, pack at home, drive to the facility, unload everything, then do the whole thing in reverse when you need your stuff back. We thought there was a better way to do it. So we built one. With Box-n-Go, instead of you driving to storage, we deliver storage to you. You pack at home on your own schedule. We pick it up.
Almost twenty years later, Box-n-Go is still in Commerce. Stan Krakovsky and Stan Trakhtenberg still run the company today. The model we started with hasn’t fundamentally changed — it’s just gotten better as we’ve learned what customers actually need.
How Box-n-Go has grown
The Box-n-Go business model has stayed the same since 2006 — we deliver, you pack, we pick up. But we’ve added more services over the years. Each one came from the same source: a customer asking for something we weren’t yet doing.
2006 — Box-n-Go launched with one container: the Flex (8′ × 5′). Flex was modular by design, which is why it’s still our most popular size. One Flex fits a studio or a small one-bedroom. Two side-by-side cover most one-bedroom apartments. Stack a few of them and you’ve handled a small house. The Flex makes a customer’s storage scale to their actual need instead of the other way around.
2012 — Box-n-Go partnered with Flat Fee Movers, a licensed moving company in Southern California, to add loading services. We call this offering Helping Hands. Customers who didn’t want to do the loading themselves could now book Box-n-Go for the container and Flat Fee Movers for the labor — one phone call, one schedule. The partnership is still in place today, and the same arrangement is described in the disclaimers in our footer and legal documents.
2014 — Box-n-Go U launched, an a-la-carte student storage service designed around the academic calendar. Pickup at the dorm in May or June, summer storage at the Commerce warehouse, redelivery in August or September. Pricing built around the cycle — not on a monthly storage rental that doesn’t match how college works. Box-n-Go U is the version of student storage that the parents writing the check actually wanted.
2016 — full-service moving was added, also through the Flat Fee Movers (MyMovingGuys) partnership. Customers could now book Box-n-Go for an entire household move: container delivery, optional packing, loading, transport, unloading at the destination. Same operational model as the Helping Hands loading service, just extended end-to-end through MyMovingGuys.
2020 onward — Box-n-Go started designing larger containers in response to repeated customer requests. The Flex (8′ × 5′) was perfect for some scenarios but too small for others. Over the next few years, Box-n-Go introduced four additional sizes — S (8′ × 8′), M (12′ × 8′), L (16′ × 8′), and XL (20′ × 8′) — bringing the lineup to five total. That’s the widest size range in the portable storage industry. Where competitors offer one or two sizes and force the customer to fit their needs to that, Box-n-Go offers the option to right-size from a single closet up to a full house.
The reason Box-n-Go pursued the Flat Fee Movers partnership in 2012 and 2016 is simple: customers shouldn’t have to manage two companies for one job. When you book a container plus loading help, or a full-service move, through Box-n-Go, it’s one phone call, one schedule, one team accountable for getting it right. The container side is Box-n-Go. The labor and transport side is MyMovingGuys, the licensed moving company we’ve worked with for over a decade. From the customer’s side, it’s one phone call. Not a project to coordinate.
Personal & Business Storage
Student Storage
Local & Nationwide Moving
Packing & Loading Help
Moving Boxes & Supplies
Built to deliver almost anywhere
A portable storage container is only useful if Box-n-Go can actually deliver it where the customer needs it. That sounds obvious, but it’s the boring detail that quietly limits what most competitors can do.
Most storage container companies deliver with a tilt-up bed truck — the container slides off the back when the bed tilts. It works fine on a flat suburban driveway with plenty of space behind the truck. It does not work in a tight LA neighborhood with cars parked along the curb, in an alley, on a hillside street with a downward slope, or anywhere with overhead obstructions like tree branches and power lines. A tilt-up truck needs room to tilt. Most of LA doesn’t have that.
Some competitors have moved to specialized delivery vehicles, but those vehicles tend to be very large in both footprint and height. Big trucks have their own limitations — they can’t navigate narrow streets, can’t fit under low-clearance bridges or garage entries, and require wide turning radius that doesn’t exist in older neighborhoods.
Box-n-Go solved this differently. We use two different delivery systems, each matched to the container size, both designed around getting into places other equipment can’t.
For Flex containers (8′ × 5′), Box-n-Go uses a truck-mounted forklift — the smallest and lightest in the industry. Because the forklift is small and light, the truck carrying it can be smaller and more maneuverable. Box-n-Go can place a Flex container almost anywhere. Hillside streets in the Valley. Narrow alleys in older parts of LA. Tight cul-de-sacs where a tilt-up truck would never fit. Driveways with a sharp turn at the entry. The maneuverability comes from the equipment design, not from luck or improvisation.
For the larger S, M, L, and XL containers (8′ × 8′, 12′ × 8′, 16′ × 8′, and 20′ × 8′), Box-n-Go uses a remote-controlled walk-behind unit. The operator stands beside the unit and guides it precisely into position. Clearance requirements are the smallest in the industry — the unit needs only a fraction of the space that traditional delivery equipment demands. That means Box-n-Go can place a larger container in spots that competitors would have to refuse outright.
The result is a delivery footprint that’s hard for competitors to match. Most jobs other companies would call “we can’t deliver there” are routine for Box-n-Go.
We Deliver
We Pick Up
We Store or Move
Store on your driveway or inside our secure facility. Load/unload only once. Ground level access.
The owners
Both Stans share responsibility across the whole company — every decision gets made together. But over twenty years, each has naturally taken the lead on different parts of the work.
Stan Krakovsky
Co-Founder
Stan spent his early career in IT in Los Angeles before co-founding Box-n-Go in 2006. He leans toward the fleet and technology side of the business — keeping the trucks, the equipment, and the systems running so everything else can. He has lived in the LA area for over thirty-five years, has watched Box-n-Go grow alongside his own family, and is now a grandfather. If you’ve gotten a container delivered in Southern California, the operational machinery behind that delivery is something Stan has spent twenty years quietly refining.
Stan Trakhtenberg
Co-Founder
Stan studied mechanical engineering at MIIT in Moscow, one of Russia’s oldest technical universities. He worked in corporate roles in Los Angeles for seventeen years before co-founding Box-n-Go in 2006. He leans toward marketing, finance, and the administrative side of the business — making sure the business runs as well as the operations. He has lived in the LA area for nearly forty years and has one daughter currently studying at college in New York. If you’ve ever called Box-n-Go and felt like the person on the other end was actually trying to solve your problem, that’s the culture Stan has spent twenty years building.
Our team
When you call Box-n-Go, you reach one of us — Stan K, Stan T, Freddy, Ashley, or Frank. Every one of us has 20+ years of experience in the storage and moving industry. Not call-center experience reading scripts. Actual industry experience. And it isn’t just experience answering phones. Every one of us has also delivered containers and worked service jobs out in the field. We know the process inside out. We know the local streets and the traffic. We know which buildings have tight driveways and which neighborhoods have permit rules.
The Box-n-Go warehouse and delivery team — Andrew, Gabriel, John, and Salvator — runs the same way in reverse. They aren’t just warehouse operators. They’ve been delivering containers and working with customers for years. So if Stan K isn’t the one who shows up in your driveway, Andrew or Gabriel is, and they know the same things about how the work gets done.
We don’t list full names and titles publicly because we don’t think our team should be a recruiting list for our competitors. But the people who pick up your phone call and the people who show up in your driveway are the same group, day in and day out — and every one of them has done both jobs.
Where we operate
Box-n-Go’s headquarters and warehouse are at 6017 Randolph Street in Commerce, California — just southeast of downtown LA, off the 5 freeway. Commerce sits in the geographic heart of the LA basin, which puts Box-n-Go in the best position to service Los Angeles County and Orange County efficiently.
From here we reach customers in the Valley, the Westside, the South Bay, the San Gabriel Valley, all of Orange County, and the cities in between — without burning a customer’s morning sitting in cross-county traffic.
Box-n-Go runs everything from this one centrally-located warehouse, where containers are stored indoors before we deliver them out across Southern California. We also serve parts of Ventura, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties for storage and local moves. For long-distance moves out of California, we work with partner carriers we’ve used for years.
Box-n-Go is a BBB Accredited Business with an A+ rating, and a member of the California Self Storage Association.
Mission
Box-n-Go exists to bring modern, comfortable, and honest service to an industry that hasn’t really changed in 60 to 100 years. We started Box-n-Go because storage and moving felt stuck — same trucks, same facilities, same hassles for the customer — and we believed it could be better.
Vision
Storage and moving should feel like service, not a chore. Box-n-Go works toward a Southern California where people don’t dread the moving day, don’t waste a Saturday driving to a storage facility, and don’t pay extra for things that should come standard.
Why “local and independent” matters
There are a lot of national storage and moving brands out there, and most of them are franchises or big chains. Box-n-Go is neither. Box-n-Go, LLC is independently owned by two of its founders. There’s one warehouse, in one city, run by the people whose names are on the door. That means a few things in practice:
When you call Box-n-Go, you reach people sitting in Commerce, California — not a call center thousands of miles away or in another country. The person on the phone knows that the 405 backs up at certain hours, that some neighborhoods have permit rules for portable containers on the street, and that a delivery to Pasadena on a Friday afternoon is a different situation than a delivery to Long Beach on a Monday morning. Big national brands route calls to centralized call centers staffed by people who have never set foot in your city. We don’t.
When something goes wrong at Box-n-Go, the people who can fix it are the same people who answer the phone.
When you ask for an exception or have an unusual situation, there isn’t a corporate policy book to navigate around. We can just decide.
The Box-n-Go drivers, dispatchers, and warehouse team have been with us long enough to know how things actually work — not a rotating cast of new hires reading from training manuals.
And one more small thing that probably gives away how we think about all this: if you ever stop by the Commerce warehouse, we’ll make you a cup of coffee. There aren’t a lot of storage and moving companies that would do that. We think there should be.
- No truck to rent. We deliver storage to you!
- Load/Unload only once.
- Pay only for space you use.
- Secure, climate-friendly facility.
- Ground access
No Truck to rent…EVER!
- Save money and time.
- Reduce the risk of accidents and injuries.
- No need to pay for gas, insurance & mileage!
Load ONCE Storage Solution!
- You only need to load your belongings once!
- No need to load and unload it all again into a storage unit.
- All containers come with easy ground level access!
Pay Only for the Space You Use!
(if storing at our facility)
- No not need to guess on how much space you actually need.
- Order an extra 8’ x 5’ unit. Do not use it – do not pay for it.
Secure, Climate-Friendly Facility!
- Highest degree of security and protection.
- Our 8’ x 5’ units are breatheable – no mold or mildew.
- No funky smell when your belongings return.
EASY Drive-Up Access!
(if storing at our facility)
- Access your units at ground level.
- No elevators, ramps, stairs to climb.
- Schedule access appointment & drive straight to your units.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did Box-n-Go start?
Spring of 2006, in Commerce, California. Three of us — Stan Krakovsky, Stan Trakhtenberg, and Michael Bernstein — started Box-n-Go together. We came from corporate jobs in unrelated fields and thought traditional self-storage needed a better answer.
Where is Box-n-Go located?
Commerce, California — just southeast of downtown LA, off the 5 freeway. Box-n-Go runs everything from one centrally-located warehouse where containers are stored indoors before we deliver them to customers across Southern California.
Is Box-n-Go locally owned?
Yes. Box-n-Go, LLC is independently owned by two of its founders. One Commerce warehouse, no franchise, no national chain, no outsourced call center. When you call, you talk to people who actually run the company.
How long has Box-n-Go been around?
Since 2006. Box-n-Go has been serving customers in Southern California continuously since then, from the City of Commerce.
Want to learn more about Box-n-Go?
If you’re still deciding, the rest of this section can help.
Why Box-n-Go makes the case for our approach in plainer terms — what makes the difference for the people who choose us. Compare sets us side-by-side with traditional self-storage, the other portable storage providers, and traditional moving companies. Reviews is where Box-n-Go customers tell you in their own words.
And if you’d like to work here, our Careers page is the place to start.
