Makita Maktrak tool boxes finally landed at my local Home Depot store, with a full bay in the tool aisle dedicated to the modular storage system.
While you can already buy MakTrak tool boxes and organizers online, it’s good to be able to check out any modular storage system in person.
Home Depot shoppers now have that chance, at least at participating locations.
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My Home Depot store also had a bay dedicated to Makita MakTrak in the seasonal department, which featured modular tool box systems from a bunch of brands, including Milwaukee Packout and Dewalt ToughSystem.
There were even more modular tool boxes on display in the seasonal section by the PRO checkout counter.
This setup featured 3pc combo towers from Milwaukee, Dewalt, Ridgid, and Husky, as well as a couple of extra-large Husky rolling chests. I don’t think my store had the inventory to show what a Makita tool box stack would look like.
Here are some Home Depot purchase links in case you want to order online or check your local inventory, along with pricing that’s accurate as of the time of this posting.
Rolling Tool Box (T-90009) – $249
Large Tool Box (T-90015) – $159.99
Extra Large Extension Tool Box (T-90021) – $129
Medium Tool Box (T-90037) – $89.99
Deep Medium Organizer (T-90043) – $89.98
Low-Profile Medium Organizer (T-90059) – $69.98
Deep Compact Organizer (T-90065) – $54.98
Here’s what I thought about the new system and its large size format: Makita MakTrak Tool Box is a Perfect Fit. What’s your take on MakTrak?
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Andrew Munczenski
i saw my store has the line also. I bought one of the large boxes without wheels fit nicely in my truck bed with the bed cover.
will
$250 for a rolling tool box is crazy as are the rest of the prices. Anyways what kind of poly do they use,the hard plastic or more like dewalts toughsystems?
Peter
Are they also made in USA with global materials?
If not that might explain it a bit.
Did not see anything on Dewalt’s site.
Old Suburban Dad
I’m no plastic expert, but it seems similar to Packout plastic….i.e. not the hard/brittle systainer/mac pac plastic.
I have a decent Packout set and a decent Mak trak set.
My opinion, the Packouts serve me better in the garage. The maktraks suit me better for truck loading up and unloading on job site.
Another Bob
I’ve seen this stuff manufactured all over. Some of the DeWalt Tough system 1.0 boxes COO was Israel. I remember it stuck out to me because it wasn’t China or Mexico or the usual places you would think stuff like that would be made.
Same with some IKEA bins from Slovenia.
I guess these plastic container systems must be immensely profitable? Seems like every brand has at least one and at this point the market is so saturated I guess with even just a little bit of traction you can make money selling them. Or is it one of those everybody else is doing it so we have to do it too even if we don’t make money?
I guess there’s guys graduating from trade school every day starting out so there’s always new folks to buy into a system. Benefit of being last is you can circumvent the mistakes other brands have made.
Ps Your Home Depot displays are way better than my local ones
Bonnie
Israel is a major center for plastic and tool box manufacturing. Keter is there and they’re an OEM for a bunch of toolbox brands.
TomD
It’s basically the cost of giant injection molding machines (think Lego) + shipping – and that latter can mean closer manufacturing is worth it.
I’d be interested in a tour of the factory.
eddiesky
IMHO, the Makita design is just so smart: using the latches as the hinges to allow access from either side.
Also, I want to thank the poster that had the link to stack smarter that makes adapter plates from one brand storage to another. Was able to mount Dewalt to my new Milwaukee Rollout drawer.
Plain+grainy
I’ve had Makita Maktrak boxes at my HD for quite awhile. Seems like the name should be MaxTrax!
Kenneth W Hill
I’ve got a mix of Milwaukee packout but I chose to have them all in the single wide size. So far. I’m hoping when I get to have the new Mak boxes in front of me. I’ll get a set of those to start and dedicate it to some of my Mak equipment, probably the whole set of cordless router I have on that platform. But my batteries hence tools mostly are all on the Mak ecosystem so there’s that.
Other than Packout and the acceptable mid quality hand tools from Milwaukee, what I do have in the MW line has lasted ages 20-year plus sawzall corded some 1/2-in Magnum drills.
Justin
It’s interesting how Makita is making these in USA, while DeWalt, Milwaukee, Ridgid and others are all using Keter as an OEM. That said, I really like the design of this system, especially with many boxes having the ability to open from either side. I am not sure I like the normal width boxes with the hinged side being the shorter side, I prefer the traditional configuration nearly everyone else uses.
In a storage segment that is wholly oversaturated, I think Makita, while late to the party, managed to give us an option that is different, durable, and made in USA. I just wish they had a better cordless system; I felt pretty burned when they split their battery system between LXT and XGT, and then I was forced to either re-buy all my tools for more power, or commit to another battery platform for select tools only.
Stuart
Dewalt does not use Keter as an OEM, at least not to my knowledge; SBD has in-house plastics manufacturing via ZAG industries.
There are plastic tool box makers in the USA (e.g. Flambeau), but Makita has hinted that there are many capable plastic molding companies that exist outside of the tool box and organizer space.
Makita made some very smart decisions in how they developed and are manufacturing the MakTrak tool box system.