Freight, staging yards and the border crossing
Cargo moving through the crossing below Tornillo parks in gravel staging yards where drivers can wait hours for a slot. Those Tornillo yards take long-term standard units set on a paved or compacted corner, far enough back that a turning trailer never clips one.
Because the freight schedule does not follow office hours, a Tornillo yard rental is serviced early in the morning before the line builds. We hold a standing day for Tornillo commercial accounts so the yard boss is not calling in every week.
Pecan orchards and cotton ground
The orchards that surround Tornillo are flood-irrigated on a set rotation, and for days at a time whole blocks are too soft for a truck. We plan Tornillo orchard drops around that rotation and put units at the head ditch or the gravel turn-in instead of between the rows.
Shaking, sweeping and hauling at harvest brings extra hands to Tornillo for a short, intense window each winter. A Tornillo orchard crew usually runs one standard unit with a handwashing station, stepped up to two once the hauling trucks start rolling.
School lots, church yards and community days
Tornillo is a small place, so the school campuses and the church yards do most of the heavy lifting when the community gathers. Field days, graduations and fundraisers in Tornillo get a small bank with an ADA accessible unit set on the paved apron by the gate.
Weekend events in Tornillo usually go in Friday afternoon and come out Monday morning, since we do not run Sundays. Organizers in Tornillo tell us the expected head count and we size the bank rather than guessing from the flyer.