10ft10ft Shipping Containers
The side passage is narrow, the council setback leaves you nothing to play with, or all you need is somewhere lockable for a mower, a compressor and a rack of tools.
Used from$4,350
New from$6,400
Tweed Heads, NSW
Shipping containers Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads is a short haul on a good road and then it stops being simple. The blocks nearest the water have no side access at all, the ridge suburbs behind town are steep and tightly cornered, and the flats out toward the cane are soft ground with the water table sitting close underneath. None of that is unworkable. It is just worth naming before a truck leaves the depot.
- Delivered from
- the south-east Queensland depots, a short run down the motorway and across the border
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–4 business days; add a day where a crane and a street closure have to line up
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray where there is a straight run in; crane truck for waterfront blocks, villages and over-fence lifts
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.
The short version, before the detail.
The jobs they turn up on locally
Around Tweed Heads we deliver containers for boats, skis and fishing gear where the garage lost that argument years ago, site stores on the steady run of knockdown-rebuilds through Banora Point and Kingscliff, tools and stock for trades working both sides of the border in the one week, linen and equipment for holiday letting operators between changeovers, cane and small-crop gear on the flats around Chinderah and Cudgen, and lock-up storage for people moving into a village and discovering that forty years of things do not fit.
What the delivery actually involves
Start with the border, because everyone asks and it is the least interesting part of the job. The truck comes down the motorway and crosses at Tweed. It is a state line on a map, not a checkpoint, and the only real consequence is that New South Wales road rules and heavy vehicle conditions apply from that point south. We do it constantly. It changes nothing about your delivery date. What does change your delivery is which of the three Tweeds you live in. The waterfront and canal blocks through Tweed Heads West, Tweed Heads South and the lower part of Banora Point are wide at the water and narrow at the street, with the house filling the block and a side gate you could not get a ride-on through. Those are crane jobs, not tilt-tray jobs, and the questions that decide them are all about what is overhead and how much street the outriggers can have. The ridge suburbs are the opposite problem. Terranora, Bilambil Heights and the streets climbing out of Banora are steep, cambered and tightly cornered, with driveways that pitch away hard at the kerb and carports built at a height nobody imagined a tilt bed under. Plenty of those blocks work. Some of them work only with a smaller unit than you had in mind. Then the flats. Out through Chinderah, Cudgen, Tumbulgum and up the valley the ground is cane country — alluvial soil over a shallow water table, firm under a dry crust and soft the moment you break through it, cut about with farm drains and reached by narrow roads with single-lane bridges on them. And the coastal strip at Fingal Head, Kingscliff and Casuarina is dune sand, which looks solid on a nature strip right up until a loaded rear axle proves otherwise.
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 Tweed Heads
Guide prices in AUD, ex GST. Delivery is quoted with the container.
10ft
20ft20ft Shipping Containers
You have about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground to put it on and you would rather not find out in six months that you should have gone bigger.
Used from$2,200
New from$3,300
40ft40ft Shipping Containers
You have the room, the access is genuinely open, and you want the most storage per dollar available anywhere.
Used from$2,600
New from$5,500
Tweed Heads
Crossing the border is the least of it
We get asked whether being in New South Wales complicates a delivery from Queensland, and the honest answer is no. The Tweed is one urban area with a state line drawn through the middle of it, thousands of vehicles cross it every hour, and a container truck is just one of them. The run down is short and the road is good. There is no border surcharge, no special arrangement and no delay built into it.
What is different south of the line is the paperwork behind the scenes rather than anything you experience — New South Wales road rules and heavy vehicle conditions apply, and any street occupancy for a crane goes through the council on this side rather than the Queensland one. We deal with that. The variable that actually decides your delivery is the last hundred metres onto your block, and that has nothing to do with which state you are in.
On the ground
Ridge driveways above the river
The streets climbing up to Terranora and Bilambil Heights were surveyed for the view rather than for a twelve-metre truck. They are narrow, steeply cambered, and they corner tightly enough that a rigid with a container overhanging the rear axle has to be driven for rather than simply driven. The driveways off them are the harder half: short, pitched hard down or hard up off the kerb, and frequently ending under a carport or against a garage door with no run past it. A tilt-tray needs the bed to come down without grounding out and the container needs somewhere straight to slide onto. On a lot of ridge blocks neither is available, and the answer is a crane truck standing on the street lifting over the fence, or a 20ft where a 40ft was the plan. Send us a photo taken from the middle of the road looking straight up the drive and another from where you want it standing, and we can usually call it in a phone call rather than on the morning.
Worth knowing
Villages, parks and the notice they need
The Tweed has a lot of over-50s villages, residential parks and holiday parks, and containers go into them regularly. The pattern is consistent: the internal roads are narrow with tight bends and speed humps, there are carport awnings and shade sails at heights a truck cannot argue with, and management needs to know a truck is coming rather than finding out when it arrives. Approval and a booked window are two separate things and both take a little lead time.
None of it is difficult and all of it is much easier a week out than on the day. Get the go-ahead from management first, ask them where a truck can legally stand and which way in they prefer, and check whether there is a height restriction anywhere on the route — a shade sail or a carport awning across an internal road will stop a delivery dead. It is also worth asking whether they want the truck outside peak movement times, because the internal roads in most of these parks are single-vehicle width and a truck sitting in one blocks everybody. The same applies to strata and gated estates on the coastal side. An hour of phone calls beforehand saves a truck standing at a boom gate with nobody available to open it.
What delivery to Tweed Heads costs
Delivery is priced with the container, not separately and not off a list. One phone call gets you the real number for your address.
Send three photos of the site with your enquiry and we can usually tell you the truck and the timing straight back.
Around the same run
We also deliver to Banora Point, Kingscliff, Murwillumbah, Pottsville, Terranora and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Tweed Heads
Does delivering across the border from Queensland change anything?
Not in any way you will notice. The Tweed is one urban area with a state line through it and our trucks cross it constantly. New South Wales road rules apply once we are over, and if a crane needs street space the approval goes through the council on this side, but there is no border surcharge, no special arrangement and no delay built into the run. The thing that decides your delivery date is access at your end, not which state your letterbox is in.
Can a container get up a Terranora or Bilambil Heights driveway?
Often, though not always with a tilt-tray. Those streets are narrow and steeply cambered, and the driveways off them tend to pitch hard at the kerb and finish under a carport with no run past it, which is exactly what a tilt bed cannot work with. Where the drive will not take it, a crane truck lifting from the street over the fence usually will, and sometimes the sensible answer is a 20ft instead of a 40ft. A photo from the road looking up the drive tells us most of what we need.
Is the ground on the Tweed cane flats firm enough for a container?
It carries a container perfectly well once it is set up properly, but it will not carry it dumped straight onto the dirt. The flats are alluvial soil over a shallow water table, firm under a dry crust and soft as soon as that crust breaks, so each corner casting will punch in unevenly and the doors will stop lining up within a season. Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, levelled both ways, fix it permanently and keep the floor clear of damp ground. Tell us the ground type at the quote and we will bring the timber.
Can you deliver into an over-50s village or a holiday park at Tweed Heads?
Yes, and we do it regularly. What makes it go smoothly is arranging it with management before you order rather than after. They will tell you where a truck can stand, which way in works, and whether there is a shade sail or awning on the route that a truck cannot get under. Internal roads in those parks are narrow with tight bends, so knowing the approach in advance matters more than usual. Get the approval and a preferred window first and we will build the booking around it.
Get a price
Get a delivered price sorted
We deliver to Tweed Heads 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 — 0477 410 500, Mon–Fri 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm