Most delivery problems are access problems, and nearly all of them are avoidable with one conversation beforehand.
We deliver from Paget out to the Basin, up the coast to Bowen and through the Valley. The jobs that go wrong almost never go wrong because of the container — they go wrong because the truck couldn't get to where the container needed to be.
Tilt-tray takes a 20ft and slides it off the back. It needs a run-up: roughly 20 metres of clear straight space behind the drop point, and reasonably firm ground.
Sidelifter lifts the container off the side with cranes and can place it more precisely, including over a fence line. It's how 40-footers arrive. It needs more room overall — around 30 metres of working length — and it needs level, firm standing on the side it's lifting from, because those legs put serious point load into the ground.
Ground condition. This is the big one up here. Firm and dry is fine. Recently filled, freshly graded, irrigated, or anything after a decent fall of rain is a risk. A bogged truck is a recovery bill and a rescheduled delivery.
Overhead. Powerlines, tree limbs, veranda edges, shade sails. A sidelifter needs genuine clearance above the drop, not just above the truck.
The approach. Gateway width, tight corners, low branches down a driveway, cattle grids and their load rating, and whether the last hundred metres is a track or a road.
The pad. Where exactly it's going, and whether it's level. A container out of level doesn't just look wrong — the doors bind and eventually won't seal.
Have the blocks or sleepers already there, positioned for the corner castings. Mow or clear the path so the driver can see the ground he's driving on. Move the vehicles and the trailer that always seem to be exactly where the truck needs to swing. Be there, or leave a phone number that answers.
Steep blocks, tight suburban lots and awkward hinterland driveways aren't dead ends — they just need a different approach, sometimes a crane truck and occasionally a rethink about where the container sits. Tell us early and it's a solvable problem. Tell us on delivery day and it's a second trip.
Send us a photo of the approach and the spot if you're unsure — a picture settles it in seconds. (07) 4944 2211.
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