It looks like Home Depot is the first to get Makita Maktrak tool boxes in stock and on the way to customers.
They just activated online ordering, with free shipping and ship-to-store options, all with short delivery ETAs of 3-4 days from now for my location, depending on the product.
Home Depot doesn’t accept backorders, they either sell what they or drop-shippers have in-hand, implying that they received the first shipment of Maktrak tool boxes.
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Supplies are limited, with Home Depot’s inventory counter reporting that they only have a couple of dozen of each model in stock.
Are Makita Maktrak tool boxes any good? I couldn’t tell you, but their influencer partners seem very excited about it.
As an aside, have you noticed that some influencers who never used Makita products before are all of a sudden huge fans?
Some of you said you’ve been waiting for teal-colored tool boxes to match your Makita tools – this is your chance to be among the first users to try out the new system. Which boxes are you buying first?
Following are links to Home Depot’s sales pages, along with pricing 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) – $129.99
Medium Tool Box (T-90037) – $89.99
Deep Medium Organizer (T-90043) – $89.99
Low-Profile Medium Organizer (T-90059) – $69.99
Deep Compact Organizer (T-90065) – $54.99
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There has been no word as to if or when Makita Maktrak tool boxes or organizers will be available at Home Depot stores. Right now, Makita’s new modular tool storage system is only available at online stores, but that could change in 2025.
See Also: Makita MakTrak Tool Box System – First Look
If the MakTrak system isn’t for you, keep in mind that holiday season promos on Milwaukee Packout and Dewalt ToughSystem tool boxes are still live.
The Milwaukee Packout promo is better than in prior years, with a bigger discount than I can recall ever seeing before.
Jim Felt
Stuart. Et al.
Is it just me or do these seem priced near or at the top of the more mainstream established system box makers? (Not counting the European or Japanese made versions).
I’m I accurate? Or just suffering from Storage Box Wars overload?
Mateo
They’re made in the USA which probably contributed to their high prices
Jim Felt
Wow. Didn’t know that! Thanks for perfectly rational and sort of positive answer.
Stuart
Perhaps, but other modular tool boxes have been made in the USA at lower price points.
Rog
What other modular systems are made in the US?
Stuart
At least the Dewalt ToughSystem DS130 was labeled as being made in the USA.
Looking at some of my older posts, it sold for as low as $31.
TonyT
As Stuart notes, at least some ToughSystem products.
Also, I believe some Ryobi Link products are Made in USA.
Some Tajima items might be made in Japan.
To the best of my memory, other COOs are Israel (Packout, Hart, Husky Connect, Ridgid) or China (Husky Build Out, HyperStack, Klein, Toughbuilt StackTech, Harbor Freight, Kobalt). I assume L-Boxx is made in Germany.
I can’t recall the TradeStack or Tstak/VersaStak COOs, nor where the non-US ToughSystem are made.
Stuart
Craftsman Tradestack is also made here.
https://14cyiuhvcgv.com/craftsman-tradestack-tool-box-review/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
JR Ramos
Dec 9, 2024
Tstak is Israel. Versastack is US. I have some older Tstak that I don’t have access to right now, and I only have a few Versastack items, so I don’t know if those COOs are true across the board/over the years.
will
Considering they’re just molded plastic with hinges i don’t see the need to be made in the USA if the trade off are those ridiculous prices. Yeah it gives people jobs but 90% of there products are made overseas and yet they chose storage containers to be made here? I’m assuming they only did this because those boxes are huge and overseas shipping would probably cost more than the difference in labor. They charge $250 for one rolling container which is way too long and then the other long one above it would end up weighing way too much for one person to lift. Just odd choices when it comes to the sizes,and price. I’ll keep my dewalt tough system but if I were to change it would definitely be for the pack out. Sometimes it pays to be last so yoy can learn from your competitors mistakes but it seems like makita just chose to make them anyways.
Stuart
Development costs + production costs + material costs + transport costs add up.
And yes, these are priced higher than competing modular tool box system components.
Farkleberry
Are Makita’s (fill in the blank)
“priced near or at the top of the more mainstream established” (fill in the blank)?
Yes… unless they’re priced above them… although…
Keep in mind, the maktrak is really a 22″ deep system, like the new Dewalt DXL system. It’s apples to oranges at this point, since Makita brought out boxes instead of drawers like DXL, but…
A stack of 3 drawers sets, a dolly and a worktop is $1200 from Dewalt.
The Maktrak organizers are pretty close in footprint to the Packout, but seem to be about 40-50% taller (6.5″ vs 4.5″). The boxes are much larger (30+” wide x 22″ deep) than everything but the DXL and pack out rolling chest (as far as I know).
The Packout rolling chest only allows stacking everything facing forward, but fits two rows front to back. This means anything on the back row is trickier to get at without removing the front row first, and drawers are pointless on the back row. I think they should reorient the lid’s locking lug orientation for front row facing front and back row facing rear, or side facing, like Maktrak.
On the Maktrak, the boxes, etc. lock in from the side, actually from either side, which is an advantage over Packout.
Farkleberry
On second thought, boxes facing backwards on the Packout tool chest might fall off, not sure how sturdy the locking mechanism is.
I’d think sideways would work, but someone would complain it was on the wrong side.
I guess users are unstacking everything off the Packout chest so they can access it anyway, but this gets to why people seem to clamoring for more drawers than the boxes anyway, and how curious Maktrak’s start with the chest is.
This does illustrate how Maktrak’s system is arguably superior for the tool chest application.
Makita certainly felt their system is better for access in the back of a pickup truck, as trumpeted in the same emails sent to me nearly daily.
I’m certainly not sold on being able to unload the chest with stuff stacked on the lid in the real world.
I’m also curious how the deep form factor will work out for Maktrak compact organizers that will be stacked 2 deep, if against a wall, for example. It will be interesting to see how DXL develops, if at all, beyond just the drawers.
John S
It tracks that seemingly all Makita products seem to be the highest priced. I’ve usually waited for CPO’s 20% off sale to buy bigger items like the XGT miter saw and dust extractor which has dulled the pain a bit. I will say my experiences with Makita’s warranty has been the main reason I’m so loyal. Every other brand (except Hilti) has given me issues when Ive made a warranty claim.
Julian Tracy
Only bright side is HD will absolutely clear them out for lack of sales. I can’t think of a single trades person that will buy these. I’m a big Makita guy and have zero interest in any of their tool fails from the last 3-4 years. On clearance though, maybe worth getting a few.
fred
One of my nephews is a carpenter and is slowly migrating from LXT to XGT. Perhaps my generosity in providing gifts has had something to do with cushioning the blow that would have otherwise come from the steep price differential. Santa’s (aka my) gift sack for this year had a GPR01Z router and a AC001GZ cordless compressor – already shipped to his wife. I’ll be interested in how both perform compared to their premium price-points.
John S
For a carpenter, the XGT stuff is really the best on the market. I have both those applications and they do what a good tool should- make the work easier and with fewer headaches. Moving into XGT early was one of my few smart decisions, every model has worked well.
PW
I’ll be honest, when Stuart first started posting about these, I figured they were vaporware that would never get released. Props to Stuart for being early and pretty accurate about what these ended up being.
I find this system completely puzzling, but I guess props to Makita for trying something new in the USA?
Farkleberry
The best deal I’ve seen this year on Packout (besides the one Sunday in late October 70% off Home Depot “glitch”) is from Northern Tool.
They have the same tiered buy more save more, but you can stack their free 20% off gift card deal on top. This gets up to 50% off Packout:
Put $400 of Packout in cart and it discounts to $250. You’ll then get a $50 gift card.
Fine print on ad says gift cards expire next April, mine says June though.