Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors

CAI International, Inc.:

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements (Nos. 333-143000, 333-159870, 333-176369, 333-187058, 333-206102 and 333-212135) on Form S-8 and (No. 333-195557) on Form S-3 of CAI International, Inc. of our reports dated March 13, 2017, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of CAI International, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2016, and the related financial statement schedule II, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2016, which reports appear in the December 31, 2016 Annual Report on Form 10-K of CAI International, Inc..



Our report dated March 13, 2017, on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2016, contains an explanatory paragraph that states the Company acquired Challenger Oversea LLC on February 12, 2016, and management excluded from its assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2016,  Challenger Overseas LLC’s internal control over financial reporting which represented 2% and 0.6%, respectively, of total revenue and total assets of the related consolidated financial statement amounts of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016.  The Company acquired Hybrid Logistics, Inc. on June 1, 2016, and management excluded from its assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2016, Hybrid Logistics Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting which represented 9% and 0.9%, respectively, of total revenue and total assets of the related consolidated financial statement amounts of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting of the Company also excluded an evaluation of the internal control over financial reporting of Challenger Overseas LLC and Hybrid Logistics, Inc.