10ft Shipping Containers
Side access is pinched, the setback leaves nothing to manoeuvre in, or all that is needed is a lockable spot for the mower, an air compressor and a wall of hand tools.
Longreach, QLD
Shipping containers Longreach
Nothing about Longreach is next-day and we would rather say so plainly than have you find out. Depending on which way the freight is moving in a given fortnight, a container heads out along the Landsborough from the south-east or comes across the Capricorn from our Rockhampton depot through Emerald and Barcaldine. Either way it is over a thousand kilometres and it goes when a truck is going. One to three weeks is the real range, and a wet week in the downs country adds to it because the roads close and nothing moves at all.
- Delivered from
- our Cornubia yard, or stock held at our Rockhampton depot where the run suits the Capricorn Highway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 1–3 weeks, and always subject to a truck heading out that way
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft where the approach is formed; crane truck for 40ft and for placements beside existing sheds
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
What matters locally, first.
The work they do around here
Around Longreach we deliver containers for shearing and mustering gear kept together and locked at the shed rather than scattered across a property, drench, vaccines and animal health lines stored out of the heat, spare parts, filters, belts and oils for machinery a very long way from a supplier, poly fittings, troughs and pump spares staged near the bore, fodder and lick storage that keeps birds and mice out, and secure storage for the tourism operators, contractors and small businesses working in and around town.
What the site has to allow for
The town is flat, wide and about as easy as delivery gets once a truck has actually arrived. Longreach streets have room, the industrial and highway frontages are generous, and there is no shortage of space to set up. The interesting part is the country. Mitchell grass downs are black self-mulching soil, and in the dry the surface breaks down into a loose crumbly layer over hard ground that carries a truck without complaint. Add rain and that same soil turns into something you cannot walk in, let alone drive a loaded rigid across, and it is slow to dry because there is nowhere for the water to go. That is the reason downs roads get shut to heavy vehicles after rain and stay shut, and it is why a wet week can push a Longreach delivery out further than the rain itself lasted. Station approaches are the second factor. Twenty, thirty, sometimes fifty kilometres of formed earth or gravel off the bitumen, with grids of unknown age and rating, floodways that reshape themselves after every event, and bulldust holes on the well-used sections that fill flush with the surface and read as solid until a wheel finds the bottom of one. Gates are often narrower than they look because a post has been reset at some point. Turning room at the shed has to be genuinely truck-sized and firm. There is also the plain matter of distance from help. A truck that gets into trouble ninety kilometres from town on a station track is a long, expensive problem, so the driver will be conservative, and we would rather set a container down at a hard spot short of the shed than commit to a track that has not been driven by a truck since the last wet.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Longreach
Priced with delivery to your address - one call, one number.
20ft Shipping Containers
There is about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground for it to sit on, and you would rather not discover in half a year that the bigger box was the answer.
40ft Shipping Containers
You have the space, the approach is genuinely open, and the aim is the largest amount of storage per dollar spent that anybody sells.
Longreach
How a container gets to Longreach at all
There is no depot in Longreach and there is no scheduled service we can simply book a container onto. What actually happens is that your order waits for freight moving in the right direction, and depending on the week that is either a truck heading west along the Landsborough from the south-east corner, or a run coming across the Capricorn Highway from Rockhampton through Emerald and Barcaldine. Both are over a thousand kilometres of driving. That is why the honest lead time is one to three weeks and why we will not give you a firm morning until the truck is loaded and moving. What we will do is tell you where your container actually is in that process, rather than repeating a date that stopped being true a week ago.
None of that means you get treated as an afterthought. It means the ordering conversation matters more than it does anywhere closer in. Ring 1300 467 776 with the property or the street address, the size you want, what it is for and any date you are working toward, and we will tell you what the next realistic run looks like. If we need to hold your container in the yard for ten days to put it on sensible freight rather than chartering a truck, we will say that and explain what it saves you. If you need it faster than that, there is usually a way, and it will be a dedicated trip with the cost that goes with it.
On the ground
Downs country ground, dust and heat
Two things work on a container out here, and neither of them is rain. The first is ground movement. Self-mulching black soil swells and shrinks through the year and does it unevenly, so a container set straight onto the dirt will settle a corner at a time and go out of square. Once the four corner castings stop sitting at the same height the frame starts working against itself and the doors are the first thing to tell you. Sleepers or concrete pads under the four corners, levelled across both diagonals, prevent all of it for the price of an afternoon. Done on the day it lands it is an hour's work with materials that travel on the same truck. Left undone, the fix means lifting the container off again and emptying it first.
The second is heat. A steel box in a Longreach summer gets seriously hot inside, well beyond what most people expect, and the air inside carries whatever moisture came in with the last humid change. Vents let the heat move and give the moisture somewhere to go, which is why they matter more here than on the coast, not less. Fit them before the container travels. It also pays to think about what is going inside: aerosols, batteries, some chemicals and anything with a temperature rating on the label do not enjoy a closed container in February. If the contents are heat-sensitive, tell us and we will talk about vents, roof colour and where on the block the container should sit relative to afternoon shade.
Worth knowing
One trip out, so get the order right
The single most useful piece of advice for a Longreach order is to treat it as a one-shot exercise. Everything is easy while the container is standing in our yard. Vents, a lockbox, shelving, tie-down points, a personnel door, a repaint out of shipping-line livery, a second set of doors at the far end if you want to load from both sides. All of that is a routine job here and a genuine project once the container is sitting on a property four hundred kilometres past Emerald. Grade is worth settling at the same time. If the container is going to hold anything that has to stay dry for years on a property, ask for cargo-worthy, which is checked wind and watertight before it is loaded. The grades page runs through the differences.
The same applies to size and configuration. Two 20ft can go to two different sheds and are easier down a station track than one 40ft, but a 40ft is the better answer if you want machinery length under one roof and the approach can take it. High cube gives you an extra three hundred millimetres of internal height for the same footprint, which matters if you are stacking. Think it through, and use us for it. We have put enough containers into western Queensland to know which questions actually change the outcome, and the phone call is free. Tell us what the container is for and how long it has to last out there, and the right specification falls out of that rather than out of a price list.
What delivery to Longreach costs
The cartage component depends on which depot the unit comes out of and what the site needs. We work it out with the quote.
Start with the address and what the container has to do. Everything else follows from those two answers.
Also delivered nearby
We also deliver to Barcaldine, Ilfracombe, Winton, Blackall, Muttaburra and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Longreach
How long is the wait for a container in Longreach?
One to three weeks, and we will not pretend otherwise. There is no depot in Longreach and no scheduled service to book onto, so your container travels when freight is moving that way, either west along the Landsborough or across the Capricorn from our Rockhampton depot through Emerald and Barcaldine. Both routes are over a thousand kilometres. The more warning you can give us, the better the odds of it riding out on freight that is already going rather than a truck chartered for one box.
What happens to delivery when the downs get wet?
It stops, and it stops for longer than the rain lasts. Mitchell grass downs soil holds water rather than shedding it, so roads get closed to heavy vehicles after rain and stay closed until they dry and are reopened. Nobody at our end can work around a closure. We build extra time into western bookings through the wet months and we will ring you with where your load actually is rather than leaving you guessing.
How hot does it get inside a container out here, and does it matter?
Hot enough to matter. A closed steel box sitting in a Longreach summer builds serious internal temperature through the afternoon, and anything with a temperature rating on the label will feel it. Vents fitted before the container travels let the heat move and give trapped moisture somewhere to go. Where the contents are genuinely heat-sensitive, we will also talk about roof colour and siting the container where it picks up afternoon shade. Say what is going inside at the quote.
Can you deliver to a station out of Longreach, or only into town?
Out to properties as well, but it is planned carefully. We need to know how far off the bitumen you are, what the track surface is, what condition the grids and floodways are in, whether there is firm truck-sized turning room at the shed, and when the track was last graded, since freshly graded surfaces have no bind and will not hold a loaded truck. If the last stretch is doubtful, we set the container down on the hardest ground we can safely reach and you shift it in with a tractor when it suits.
Get a price
Send us the address and the access
We deliver to Longreach and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 1300 467 776, Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm, Sat 8am-12pm