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.
Roma, QLD
Shipping containers Roma
Roma is about six hundred kilometres of Warrego Highway from our yard, which puts it firmly in scheduled-run territory. That is the single most useful thing to understand before you order. The container is the easy part. The truck is the part that has to be going that way, and when we can put your load in with others heading to Miles, Wallumbilla, Yuleba and Mitchell the whole thing gets quicker and cheaper for everybody. Tell us your date early and we will build the run around it instead of fitting you in afterwards.
- Delivered from
- our Cornubia yard, carted west on the Warrego through Toowoomba, Dalby and Miles
- Typical lead time
- Usually 5–9 business days, depending on when a truck is next heading that far west
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft where the approach is formed; crane truck for 40ft and for tight yards and laneways
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 is worth knowing about this place, up front.
What they get used for around here
Around Roma we deliver containers for vet supplies, tags, drench and handling gear stored close to the yards on cattle properties through Wallumbilla, Yuleba and Injune, hay and lick storage that keeps vermin and weather out, laydown and consumables for the gas field service crews working the Surat Basin north of town, spare parts and tooling for the mobile fitters and boilermakers who keep those crews running, secure storage for the businesses along the highway frontage and the Bungil industrial area, and a lockable store on newly fenced blocks where the shed is still a plan.
What the site has to allow for
Roma town delivers well. The streets are wide, the industrial frontages out toward the highway have room to work, and a rigid truck can stand and set up in most residential streets without a fight. What we ask about is the country beyond it, because that is where the day gets decided. Properties out through Wallumbilla, Injune, Surat and the Mitchell side commonly have several kilometres of private track between the front gate and the shed, and the condition of that track is a bigger factor than anything else on the job. Formed and maintained gravel is a comfortable run. Formed earth is fine in the dry and useless within an hour of a storm. Grids come up constantly out here, and most of the private ones have no plate, no rating and nobody left on the place who remembers what went underneath them. A rigid truck under a container asks a great deal more of a grid than the ute and float it was likely built around, so where there is doubt we would sooner take a side gate, place the container on hard ground short of the crossing, or bring a crane truck, than establish the answer with a wheel through the rails. Beyond that it is the usual western list. Gates that measure narrower than they look. Room to turn at the far end, which has to be truck-sized and firm, because a tilt-tray must be square to the ground before it unloads and backing three kilometres out to the road at dusk is not a plan. Cattle in the laneway, which want shifting before a truck comes down it rather than after. Powerlines to a pump or a homestead at exactly the wrong height. And bulldust holes on a well-used track, which look like nothing and are not.
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 Roma
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.
Roma
A truck that is already heading west
Nearly everything about pricing and timing on a Roma delivery comes back to one question: is there already a truck going that way. Six hundred kilometres each way is a serious commitment for a single container, so we build the western runs around whatever is booked. When a Roma order can travel with loads going to Miles, Wallumbilla, Yuleba or Mitchell, the schedule tightens up and the cartage is far more sensible. When it is on its own it still goes, it just goes as a dedicated trip and the quote reflects that honestly. It also means the answer changes from week to week, which is exactly why we would rather work it out with you on the phone than publish something that will be wrong by the time you read it.
What that means for you in practice is that lead time is a window rather than a promise, and the window is genuinely five to nine business days most of the year. It also means early notice is worth real money. If you know in mid-March that you need a container on the ground by the end of April, tell us in March. We will put it on the next run heading that way rather than chartering a truck for it in the last week. If your date is fixed and immovable, say so at the enquiry, because that changes how we quote it and we would rather have that conversation up front than explain it later. Notice buys you a choice of size and grade as well, rather than whatever happens to be loadable in the week you finally ring.
On the ground
Saleyard weeks, gas crews and cattle country storage
Roma runs on cattle and gas, and the containers reflect it. On the properties, the common job is a lockable store near the yards for drench, tags, vaccines, spare parts and handling gear, so that a job at the yards does not become a trip back to the shed. Fodder and lick storage is the other one, especially where mice and weather have already cost somebody a season's worth. In town and on the highway frontage it is trade and business storage, and north toward Injune it is gas field laydown that has to be lockable, dustproof enough to matter and movable when the crew moves. What all of those have in common is that the container is working a long way from a supplier, so what ends up inside tends to be the gear you cannot afford to be without on a Sunday.
One local timing note worth passing on. Sale days and the weeks around them put a lot of stock transport on these roads and a lot of people in town, and it is not always the ideal morning to have a truck standing in a driveway waiting on somebody to come home and open a gate. If your week is built around the saleyards, tell us and we will aim the delivery at a day that suits you. It costs nothing to plan around and it saves the situation where a container is on the ground and the person who knows where it was supposed to go is fifty kilometres away. The same goes for shearing, branding or a contractor being on the place. Tell us the week it is happening and we will aim around it.
Worth knowing
Grids, gates and the last twenty kilometres
The most common reason a western delivery goes wrong is not the highway, it is the last twenty kilometres. Those are the ones we cannot see on a map and cannot judge from the road. A grid of unknown rating, a culvert with grass growing out of the end of it, a creek crossing that has been washed out since anybody last drove a truck over it, a gate that measures two hundred millimetres narrower than the bed needs, or a turning area at the shed that works for a tractor and not for a rigid with a container on it. None of those show up on a satellite image, and every one of them will end a delivery day that started perfectly well.
Every one of those is easy to sort out at the booking and expensive to discover on the day, because on a Roma job the day cost half a week to arrange. So we ask, and we would rather ask too much than too little. Walk the approach before you order if you have not driven it with a truck in mind. Tell us where the firm ground is. If in doubt, the fallback that works almost everywhere out here is to put the container down on the hardest surface a truck can safely reach and leave you to walk it into position with a tractor when it suits. That is a normal outcome out west, not a failure. Talk the approach through with us and we will tell you which parts of it we are actually worried about.
What delivery to Roma costs
We price the cartage with the unit rather than off a rate card. Give us the address and the entry and you will get a real number.
Ring us, tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and we will tell you which grade and which truck the job needs before anyone talks money.
Other places on this run
We also deliver to Mitchell, Injune, Wallumbilla, Surat, Yuleba and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Roma
How long will it take to get a container to Roma?
Five to nine business days is the honest range. Roma is roughly six hundred kilometres west of our Cornubia yard, so the container travels on a scheduled western run rather than a dedicated overnight trip. When your order can travel with loads going to Miles, Wallumbilla, Yuleba or Mitchell, the date firms up quickly. If it goes on its own it becomes a dedicated trip and the quote will say so. Early notice is genuinely worth money out here.
Will your truck cross the grid on my property?
Only where we can establish what it will carry, and most private grids west of Dalby have no plate and no history anybody can vouch for. A rigid truck under a container is a far bigger ask than the ute and float the grid was probably built around. If yours is engineered and rated, say so. If nobody knows, say that instead and we will look at whether there is a side gate, whether the container can go down on hard ground short of the crossing for you to walk in with a tractor, or whether a crane truck is the cleaner answer. Any of those beats a wheel through the rails.
Can I get a container to a property out past Injune or Surat?
Yes, and we do it regularly, but it is planned rather than simply booked. The things that decide it are the condition of the private track, grids and creek crossings on the approach, whether there is genuine truck-sized turning room at the far end, and the weather in the week before. Give us the property name, the distance from the bitumen, a description of the track and a contact who will be on the place, and we will tell you what will and will not make it.
Can I inspect a container before it is carted out to Roma?
You can, though it is a long drive for most people out this way. The yard is at 51–55 Bromley Street, Cornubia, south-east of Brisbane off the M1, open Monday to Friday 7:30am to 5pm and Saturday 8am to 12pm, and the units sit out where you can swing the doors and look the floor over yourself. For a Roma buyer the practical answer is usually photographs instead. Ask for them and images of the actual unit go to you on request before delivery — corner posts, door end, roof and the floor inside.
Get a price
Tell us about the job
We deliver to Roma 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