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
Hervey Bay, QLD
Shipping containers Hervey Bay
Hervey Bay is an easy run for us and a fiddly one to deliver into, and those two things are unrelated. The trip up the Bruce is short and so is the lead time. The difficulty is on the block: tidy, tightly planned lots, canal frontages, and yards that already hold a boat and a caravan. Getting the size right matters more here than anywhere on this list.
- Delivered from
- Loaded at the Lockyer Valley yard and run north up the Bruce through Gympie and Maryborough
- Typical lead time
- Usually three to five business days
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft on a normal block; crane truck where a unit has to go over a fence on a canal or beachside lot
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 we tell people who ring from here.
What people here put in them
Around Hervey Bay we deliver containers for boat, tender and fishing gear on the waterfront blocks, caravan and camper accessories for people who travel half the year, furniture and household storage during a downsize or a renovation, tools and stock for the local trades, storage for the marine and charter businesses that work off the bay, overflow for holiday letting operators between seasons, and secure lockups on the acreage blocks out toward Burrum Heads and Howard.
Access, ground and the last thirty metres
The typical Hervey Bay residential block is level, tidy and not especially large, and that combination produces a very specific delivery problem. There is usually just enough room for a truck out front and not quite enough room to get a unit down the side. Fences here tend to be solid, side setbacks are narrow, and there is often an air conditioning unit, a rainwater tank or a garden bed exactly where the container needs to travel. That is why a good proportion of the deliveries in this town end up being a lift over the fence rather than a slide down the side, and why we ask about side access before we quote a truck rather than after. Canal and waterfront properties add their own set of constraints. Frontages are frequently narrow, the street is often a cul de sac with limited room to manoeuvre a long vehicle, and the good hard ground stops at the property line. Retaining structures on canal edges are not something to be putting a loaded truck near without knowing what is under them. Where a crane lift is required, we need to know what is overhead, where the power runs, and whether there is a clear standing spot for the truck, and those are answerable questions on the phone. The soils along the coastal strip are sandy and drain fast, which is helpful after rain and unhelpful under a corner casting. What looks like firm level lawn will take a wheel a surprising distance if the truck strays off the formed driveway. New driveways are the other recurring problem: a lot of housing here is recent, and green concrete or a decorative driveway is worth mentioning up front so the truck can be positioned somewhere else. Out of town toward Burrum Heads, Torbanlea and Howard, blocks are bigger and the constraints revert to gates, grids and what the track is made of.
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 Hervey Bay
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
Hervey Bay
Beachside blocks with nowhere to put a truck
The size conversation in Hervey Bay is worth having honestly before anything gets ordered. A 20ft is the default for a reason and it holds a genuinely useful amount, but on a lot of blocks here it takes up more of the yard than people picture, and it needs clear space in front of the doors as well as under the box. Doors on a standard unit swing wide and they need roughly the width of the container again in clear ground to open properly. Nobody wants to discover that with the container already down.
For a lot of households here a 10ft is the better answer. It fits behind a garage, it leaves the yard usable, and for storing camping gear, tools, fishing equipment and the accumulated contents of a shed it is plenty. The rule of thumb worth applying is to measure the space you actually have clear, subtract the door swing, and then decide, rather than choosing the size first and hoping.
On the ground
Vans, boats and the storage that comes with retiring here
A large share of the demand here comes from people who have moved to the bay, downsized the house and kept a lifestyle that requires equipment. Caravans, boats, kayaks, camping gear, fishing tackle, tools accumulated over a working life, and the furniture that did not fit into a smaller place. That is a slightly different storage problem to a farm or a work site: it is mostly domestic, it is mostly seasonal, and a fair bit of it is worth stealing.
Which makes the lock the part of the specification people underrate. A lockbox welded over the handle so bolt cutters cannot reach the shackle, doors that seal properly so nothing gets damp over a wet summer, and placement where the unit is visible from the house rather than hidden behind it are all worth more than a better paint job. If the container will be holding anything with fabric, leather, paper or electronics in it, add vents at the same time, because a closed steel box in coastal humidity will sweat overnight.
Worth knowing
Short hire for a move, a reno or a downsize
Not everyone needs to own one. A very common Hervey Bay situation is a few months of storage during a house move, a renovation, or the gap between selling one place and settling on another, and hire suits that exactly. The unit arrives, it sits in the driveway or on the block, it gets loaded at your own pace rather than a removalist's, and it goes away when it is no longer needed. There is no asset left over and no problem of what to do with it afterwards. Buying makes more sense once the storage need is permanent, or if you want to modify the unit, or when the hire period starts stretching past the point where owning would have been cheaper. If you are honestly unsure which one you are, start on hire and ring us when you know. We would rather adjust than sell you something that ends up sitting in the yard doing nothing.
What delivery to Hervey Bay costs
We do not publish a delivery rate for this area, because a straightforward industrial drop and a tight residential one on the same street are not the same job. Ring and you will get an exact number.
Tell us the job rather than the product. What goes in, where it sits and how the truck gets there decides the rest.
Other places on this run
We also deliver to Urangan, Pialba, Burrum Heads, River Heads, Howard and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Hervey Bay
Will a container fit on a standard Hervey Bay block and still leave room for the caravan?
Often, but it is worth measuring first rather than assuming. A 20ft takes more of a tidy suburban yard than people picture, and it needs clear ground in front of the doors as well, roughly another container width, so they can open fully. On a lot of blocks here a 10ft leaves the yard usable and still holds a shed's worth of gear. Work out the clear space you actually have, subtract the door swing and the van's parking spot, and choose the size from that.
Can I hire a container for a few months while I downsize?
Yes, and that is one of the most common reasons people ring us from Hervey Bay. Hire suits a defined period: a move, a renovation, or the gap between settlements. The unit turns up, you load it at your own pace instead of a removalist's clock, and it goes away when you are done, with no asset left over. If the period keeps extending or the storage need turns out to be permanent, ring us and we will talk about what moving to a purchase looks like.
Does the sea air at Hervey Bay wreck a container?
It does not wreck it, but it does mean the unit needs a small amount of attention rather than none. Containers are built from corten steel precisely because they spend their working lives at sea, so the steel itself is not the weak point. The coating is, and it gives way first at the door frames, roof seams and any scratch. Touch up scrapes when you see them, grease the door gear, check the seals once a year, and keep the unit off the ground so air moves under the floor rails. That is genuinely the whole maintenance list.
There is no way down the side of my house. What are the options?
This is common here and it does not stop the job. Where the side setback is too narrow or there is a tank, an air conditioner or a garden bed in the way, the unit goes over the fence on a crane truck instead of down the side on a tilt-tray. What we need to know first is what is overhead, particularly power lines and large trees, where the truck can stand on the street, and whether the neighbouring airspace is clear. Send us a couple of photos of the frontage and the drop point and we can usually tell you straight away.
Get a price
Start with the address and the access
We deliver to Hervey Bay 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