Serving Lake Charles, Louisiana
About 76 miles west on I-10, Lake Charles buyers drive in for a trailer they can actually walk around before they pay for it.
Food Trailers Near Lake Charles
Lake Charles has the crowds for a food trailer: the lakefront events, the Contraband Days grounds, the casino traffic, the plant gates at shift change, and the crawfish-boil season that runs from Sulphur to Iowa. Because food trailers are built to order, the drive to Lafayette is a design meeting, not a shopping trip: bring your menu and we lay out the cook line, the sinks and the windows around it before the first weld.
A food trailer is a kitchen on wheels, and the difference between one that gets licensed and one that sits in the yard is how it was built. We build food trailers in Lafayette on Rock Solid platforms, to order, around your menu: hood and fire suppression sized to the cook line, a handwash sink and a three-compartment sink, fresh and gray water tanks, propane plumbed and tagged, 50-amp electrical with a generator plug, and floors and walls that wipe clean the way the parish health inspector wants.
Sizes run from a 7x14 single-window setup for coffee, snowballs or a small catering menu to 8.5x20 and 8.5x24 tandem builds for a full plate-lunch or barbecue operation. The trailers on this page are example builds: they are built to order (we quote the lead time with your build sheet) and are never sitting on the lot as finished units, so use them as a starting point and tell us what you cook.
We walk you through the Louisiana Department of Health checklist before we weld a thing, because passing the first inspection is what gets you to the first festival. Financing & rent-to-own available (text us before you order a custom build and we will tell you what we can set up), and we can price a shell-only build if you want to finish the interior yourself.
Example Builds
Built to order around your menu. Use these as a starting point and tell us what you cook.
These are built to order, not sitting on the lot; we quote the lead time with the build sheet. Use them as a starting point and tell us what you need.
🚛 On order and not on the lot yet. Cash prices are posted and a $250 refundable deposit reserves one before it lands. See everything coming ❯
Food Trailers Near Lake Charles
Lake Charles trailers work hard: the petrochemical and LNG corridor from Westlake to Sulphur to Cameron keeps contractors, welders and pipeline crews hauling tool trailers and equipment along I-10 and I-210, and the rebuild that followed Hurricanes Laura and Delta put a dump trailer behind half the pickup trucks in Calcasieu Parish. Add the duck leases and fishing camps on the Sabine and Calcasieu, the rice country out toward Iowa and Jennings, and the crawfish-boil and festival circuit downtown, and there is a reason folks make the 75-minute drive to Lafayette for a bigger selection they can walk around. It is about 75 minutes straight down I-10 to our lot on the Evangeline Thruway.
Delivery: Delivery to Lake Charles happens once your build is finished and runs about 76 road miles from our shop at 2601 SE Evangeline Thruway. A finished build delivers FREE within 50 miles of Lafayette; past that it is $3 per loaded mile, and only the miles past 50 count, up to 300 miles. For Lake Charles that is about 26 miles past the free zone, roughly $78. We confirm the number before you commit, and pickup at the lot when it is done is always free: about 75 minutes on I-10 East.
Also serving Sulphur, Westlake, Moss Bluff, Iowa, Jennings, DeQuincy, Vinton and everywhere around Lake Charles.
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Questions
We build to pass: handwash and three-compartment sinks, proper fresh and gray water tanks, hood and fire suppression where the menu needs it, and we hand you the permit checklist before the build starts. That is the difference between our builds and a used trailer off Marketplace.
It depends on the platform size and how much equipment goes in; we quote the lead time with the build sheet before you put a deposit down. Food trailers are built to order, not stocked on the lot, so the example builds on this page are starting points for your own spec.
A 7x14 single-window trailer covers coffee, snowballs, a small catering or dessert menu. A 8.5x16 to 8.5x20 tandem handles a full plate-lunch, taco or burger line with two people working. Barbecue and anything with a smoker or a big flat-top usually lands on an 8.5x20 or 8.5x24.
Yes. We can build a shell with the windows, doors, electrical rough-in and floor done, and leave the equipment package to you. Tell us the menu either way so the hood and sink layout are sized right before the walls close up.
Financing & rent-to-own available. Bank financing and our lender network cover food trailer builds; rent-to-own on a custom build is a different conversation, so text 337-279-2620 or call 337-504-3820 before you order and we will tell you what we can set up.
Yes. The Louisiana Department of Health checklist is the same statewide, so a build that passes in Lafayette Parish passes in Calcasieu. We work from your menu, quote the lead time with the build sheet, and when it is finished you can pick it up at the lot free or have it delivered: $3 per loaded mile past the free 50-mile zone, about 26 miles for Lake Charles, confirmed before you commit.
Yes, once your build is finished. Lake Charles is about 76 road miles from our Lafayette lot. Delivery is free within 50 miles of Lafayette and $3 per loaded mile past that (only the miles past 50 count, up to 300 miles), so Lake Charles runs roughly $78. We confirm the number before you commit, or pick it up at the lot when it is done.
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