Down on the Macintyre on the New South Wales border, and the furthest south-west we run regularly. Big cotton, big grain, big trucks — Goondiwindi is a serious agricultural town and the storage jobs here are scaled to match.
Around Goondiwindi it's mostly cotton and grain season equipment, module and picker spares, chemical in compliant bunded units, workshop stores on properties running thousands of hectares, and storage for the transport operators working the border run. All of it starts with the same two questions: what goes in it, and how does a truck reach the spot. Answer those and the rest is quick.
| Container | Used from | New from |
|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | $4,350 | $6,400 |
| 20ft Containers | $2,200 | $3,300 |
| 40ft Containers | $2,600 | $5,500 |
Guide pricing only, ex GST — what you pay delivered depends on where you are and what's in the yard that week. Ring (07) 4516 5999 and we'll give you a real number, not a range. The delivery to Goondiwindi is priced with the unit, not billed separately afterwards.
Most of what we deliver into the Goondiwindi district is 40ft or high cube, and often more than one. When an operation is running that much machinery, the storage question isn't whether a container helps, it's how many and where they go.
Worth asking about multiples on one run. Freight is largely a function of truck movements, so two units delivered together cost meaningfully less than two units delivered separately, and if there's a second one coming inside the year it's cheaper to bring it now.
Everyone in this town knows what the Macintyre can do, so we'll be plain about the limits of a steel box. The wind and watertight rating on a cargo-worthy unit describes weather falling on it — storm, hail, driving rain. It says nothing about a river. Once a rise gets as far as the door gaskets it will be inside, and a sealed box then does the obvious thing and keeps the water in with your gear. Empty units float, too, and a floating one travels.
The advice that actually helps is about position and the ability to shift it. Pick the highest ground you have, keep it clear of the low country either side of the river, and stand it on solid packing under all four castings. Leave enough clearance around it for a truck to get a set of legs down, because that is the one thing a shed can never do — given warning, a unit can be picked up and taken somewhere safer the same day. And when the clean-up starts, having somewhere secure and dry in the yard to put what survived is worth plenty on its own.
Commercial and farm sites around Gundy are generally good country for a truck — the operations are big, the yards are built for machinery and there's room to work. The river is the thing worth talking about before anything else. The Macintyre has been over its banks more than once and the low country either side of it goes under, so where the container sits matters more here than how it gets there. We'll ask about height on the block early in the conversation, and we'd rather have that discussion than not.
On top of the local detail sit the constants: footing that holds, an approach long enough to line up on, and nothing hanging over the spot. Send pictures if any of that is uncertain and we'll pick the vehicle before quoting. See the delivery access guide.
Goondiwindi and the surrounding district are on our regular south-western run. If you're just over the Macintyre in New South Wales, ring and ask — it's often workable and the freight is usually better than people assume.
No. The watertight rating covers weather falling on the unit, not a river climbing up it — a rise will get past the door gaskets and then the box keeps the water in. Empty units also float. Position is what saves your gear: highest ground available, well clear of the low country, standing on solid packing. Keep truck clearance around it and you can also have it shifted somewhere safer when there's warning.
No separate delivery bill turning up after the fact. Ask what a container to Goondiwindi actually costs.