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IBC TotesSan Francisco
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Six people, one gate, no call centre.

Twenty-three of us work here. These are the six who make the decisions that affect what lands on your dock — and any of them will answer a written question directly rather than routing it through a form letter.
Quote request

Ask one of them directly

No phone tag — email only

Name the person in the message field and it goes straight to their queue. Grading disputes go to Desmond, chemistry to Priya, freight to Ingrid.

Letters, spaces, hyphens and apostrophes only.
Letters, spaces, hyphens and apostrophes only.
We reply here, so it has to be an inbox you read. Disposable addresses are rejected.
US and Canada only — 10 digits. Extensions go in the message.
Filled in automatically from your postal code.
US ZIP (94124) or Canadian postal code (M5V 2T6).
Whole containers. No minimum order.

We only use these details to quote your job. No lists, no resale, no robocalls — we do not even own a phone line.

Leadership

The people who sign off

01 · Since 2009

Marisol Trejo

Founder & Managing Partner

Spent eleven years in Central Valley beverage logistics before starting the yard with one leased flatbed. Still personally signs off on any grade dispute over twenty units.

Before this: Beverage logistics, Modesto

02 · Since 2013

Desmond Okafor

Yard Manager

Runs intake, grading and dispatch. Wrote the grading rubric we still use, including the borescope check that catches stress-crazing before it becomes a leak in someone else’s warehouse.

Before this: Container terminal operations, Oakland

03 · Since 2016

Priya Raghunathan

Wash Chemistry & Compliance

Chemical engineer who rebuilt our caustic circuit into a closed loop and took water reuse from 61% to 94%. Owns FDA food-contact procedure and RCRA generator paperwork.

Before this: Wastewater treatment, East Bay MUD contractor

04 · Since 2018

Tomás Beltrán

Fabrication Lead

Welder and plumber by trade. Turns retired totes into wicking planters, compost systems, wash stations and whatever a customer sketches on the back of a bill of lading.

Before this: Structural steel, Hunters Point Shipyard

05 · Since 2019

Ingrid Halvorsen

Freight & Logistics

Books every flatbed, negotiates every LTL lane and knows which Bay Area bridges will refuse a 46-inch stack on a windy afternoon. Also our unofficial expert on Port of Oakland drayage.

Before this: Freight brokerage, Sacramento

06 · Since 2021

Wesley Kam

Quote Desk Lead

The person behind most of the replies you will get from us. Reads every inbound request personally and will tell you when the cheaper grade is the wrong call for your liquid.

Before this: Industrial packaging sales, San Jose

From the yard

Mixed-condition IBC totes in an outdoor yard under a blue sky, including one heavily stained amber unit
02Staining is cosmetic; odour is not. Both get graded here
Interior of a warehouse with IBC totes racked on shelving and stored on the floor in a range of colours and conditions
08Covered storage — food-grade stock never sits outside
Rows of used caged IBC totes stacked two high on a concrete pad under an overcast sky
01Graded stock on the outdoor pad, waiting on a wash slot
The Bancroft Avenue reconditioning yard packed with IBC totes, with the Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline behind it
San Francisco from the pad — the shortest delivery run we make
A blue tractor unit with a flatbed trailer loaded with strapped IBC totes beside a warehouse roller door
Forty empties double-stacked, which is what makes the freight economic
Close view of IBC totes strapped in two tiers on a flatbed trailer, showing 275 gallon labels and ratchet straps
Empty totes stack four high safely; full ones stop at two
A single clean 275 gallon caged IBC tote showing its data plate marked 275 Gallon 1041 Liter and Transport 1650 kg max
Grade A washed, re-gasketed, tested at 3 psi and ready to ship
How we hire

Sixteen of twenty-three live within three miles

We hire out of Bayview, Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley first, and we train on site rather than asking for experience nobody local has a route to getting. Graders start on the intake lane, wash techs start on the industrial bays, and everyone rotates through dispatch at least once so they understand what a bad grade costs the person receiving it.

Starting wage on the deck is $28.50 an hour with full medical from day one. It is not charity — it is the only way we have found to keep the people who can tell the difference between a cosmetic scuff and a stress crack from leaving for the ports.