Thread: Need help with shipping a pallet interstate; vendor recommendations?

Land Transport has the best rates I could find for one off private customer shipping.

They quoted me $450 to get a lathe from SA to Rocky (business to business though).

If you get it delivered to somewhere with a forklift you will save money, one less tail gate fee.

If you know anyone that has a business account with a freight company that would probably be the cheapest way.

Freight is a necessary evil living above Brisbane, not much of anything worth buying second hand in the north.

I've used truckit.net several times to aggregate quotes for shipping.

Thanks Mic-d & Jonesey;

I sent a request through to Truck-it last night but haven’t had a reply yet.

I’ll try Land Transport tomorrow.

I’ve had good success with truckit.

Noosa Van Lines are a furniture removalist company who do a door to door service between Sydney (in my case a storage place in Cremorne) and the Sunshine Coast. It would be worth a call to see if they might be willing to go the extra 500 km (return) to Bundy.
I paid about $1600 for a 1/3 of a container load delivered to the Sunny Coast.
From memory, Sydney pickups are done on Tuesdays and it's a flat rate anywhere in the Sydney area.