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
Logan, QLD
Shipping containers Logan
Logan is not one place, it is about seventy of them stitched together, and the delivery ranges from the easiest job of the week to the tightest. A hardstand yard at Crestmead takes ten minutes. A new-estate frontage at Yarrabilba with cars both sides of the road, a service pit on the kerb line and a two-metre gate is a different afternoon entirely.
- Delivered from
- the Wacol and Yatala industrial corridors either side of Logan
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–4 business days from order to on the ground
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; crane truck for 40ft and for tight estate frontages
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.
Here is the honest version of buying a container here.
Where they end up in this district
Around Logan we deliver containers for trade and plant storage across the Crestmead, Berrinba, Slacks Creek and Meadowbrook industrial estates, tool and materials storage for the trades working the estate builds, extra room for growing families on small new-estate lots where the garage went to the cars, gear storage for sporting clubs and community groups, stock overflow for small businesses running out of a home shed, and secure storage on rural-residential blocks around Munruben and Chambers Flat.
What the delivery actually involves
The industrial half of Logan is easy and we will say so. Crestmead, Berrinba, Heathwood, Underwood, Slacks Creek and the Yatala end have wide entries, hardstand, and yards laid out for B-doubles. A container goes in there with no more planning than a phone call. The residential half is where the work is. The newer estates — Yarrabilba, Logan Reserve, Park Ridge, Flagstone, Greenbank — share a set of problems that repeat street after street. The carriageways are narrow and cars park both sides, which leaves a gap a rigid truck cannot get through, let alone stop and set up in. The kerb crossings and nature strips are dotted with stormwater grates, water meters and telecommunications pits that are built for a car and will crack under a loaded rear axle. Turning circles at the end of the culs-de-sac are tight for a truck with six metres of container hanging past the rear axle. And the blocks themselves are cut and filled, so the ground is young — thin turf over fill that has not been through enough wet and dry cycles to settle. The older suburbs bring the opposite. Woodridge, Kingston, Logan Central, Springwood and Daisy Hill have steeper short driveways, older trees and low overhead service lines, and side gates that were set out when the standard mower was narrower. Plenty of those are crane jobs, not tilt jobs. What solves most of it is an hour's notice to the neighbours and three photos: the street looking toward the house, the kerb crossing and nature strip, and the spot itself. Clearing the parked cars in front of the block for that hour is the single biggest thing a customer can do to make a Logan delivery go smoothly.
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 Logan
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
Logan
Parked cars, kerbs and pits
It sounds trivial until a truck is sitting in your street with nowhere to go. On a typical new-estate frontage there is exactly one usable position for the truck, it is directly in front of your block, and if two cars are parked in it the delivery does not happen — there is nowhere else within reach and no room to turn around and come back at it from the other direction. Neither does it happen if the only way onto the block runs across a telecommunications pit or a stormwater grate, because a loaded rear axle will crack one and the repair becomes the property owner's problem, not the delivery driver's. Those pits are sized for a car crossing them, not twenty tonne stopping on top of one.
None of this is hard to plan around, and almost all of it falls apart only when nobody thinks about it until the morning. We need to know three things: where the truck can legally stand, what it has to cross to get onto the property, and whether there is anything overhead — power, comms, a verandah roof, a mature gum. Give the neighbours an hour's warning, move the cars off the frontage, and tell us at the quote if the kerb crossing has a pit or a grate in it. Where the frontage genuinely will not work, the answer is usually a crane truck lifting from the road over the fence into the yard. It is more machine, but it is less fuss on the day and it goes in first time, which on a tight estate street is worth a great deal more than it costs.
On the ground
Young ground on a new block
A cut-and-fill estate block eighteen months old has not finished moving. The turf is thin, the fill underneath is still consolidating, and the drainage across the block is often still being worked out by the landscaping. Drop a container straight onto that and each corner casting punches into it, the unit goes out of square, and within a season the doors need a shoulder. Corner pads or hardwood sleepers, checked level both ways and on both diagonals, cost almost nothing and prevent all of it. If the block has a fall across it, put the door end on the high side so the doors are working with gravity rather than against it. It is also worth thinking about where the container sits relative to the drainage the builder set up — an estate block usually has a designed overland flow path across it, and parking a six-metre steel box in the middle of it will send water somewhere the landscaper did not intend, usually toward the house or the neighbour.
Worth knowing
Trade storage on the industrial side
The other half of what we do in Logan is straightforward commercial work: a lock-up for tools and consumables on a leased industrial lot, a store for stock that will not fit inside the tenancy, a gear store while a build runs on the estates. Those jobs are easy to deliver and the only real decision is whether you want the asset on your books or not. A container on a leased yard is also a useful hedge, because it goes with you when the lease ends rather than being fitout you walk away from.
Hire suits a lease with an end date, a project with a program attached, or a business that is growing and genuinely does not know what it will need in twelve months. Buying suits a permanent fixture on a yard you control or own. If it is going to live outside year-round with stock or tools in it, ask for cargo-worthy — every cargo-worthy unit is checked wind and watertight before it leaves the yard. As-is units are cheaper and have a real place on a site where a bit of surface rust and a dent are irrelevant, but they are not sold as watertight, and for anything you need to stay dry that distinction is the whole decision. Tell us what is going in it and we will tell you which one you actually need.
What delivery to Logan 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.
The order of questions is always the same: what is it for, what grade does that need, and can a truck get in.
Nearby towns we cover
We also deliver to Springwood, Beenleigh, Crestmead, Browns Plains, Yarrabilba and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Logan
Can a container truck get into a Yarrabilba or Logan Reserve street?
Usually, but the frontage has to be clear. Those estate streets are narrow with cars parked both sides, and a rigid truck with a tilt bed needs a specific stretch of kerb directly in front of your block to set up in. There are also service pits and stormwater grates in the nature strip that will crack under a loaded rear axle. Move the cars for an hour, tell us what the kerb crossing looks like, and most of these go in without drama. Where the frontage genuinely will not work, a crane lift from the road over the fence will, and it is usually the faster option anyway.
What size container fits on a small new-estate block in Logan?
A 20ft is the practical maximum for most estate lots. It is six metres long and needs around nine to ten metres of straight run to place, which the driveway or side yard on a 400 square metre block can generally find. A 40ft usually consumes the entire side access and needs close to twenty metres of clear approach, which those lots rarely have. If you need volume rather than floor length, a 20ft high cube gives an extra 300mm of internal height in the same footprint.
Do I need approval for a container on a residential block in Logan?
It depends on how long it is staying, whether it can be seen from the street and what you are using it for, and many of the newer estates have covenants that are stricter than the council position. We will not guess at the rule for your street — check it before you order. As a rule of thumb, temporary, screened from the road and used for storage is the easy end; permanent, visible and altered is where questions start. Sorting it first is far cheaper than moving it later.
Can you deliver to an industrial yard in Crestmead or Berrinba?
Easily, and it is some of the most straightforward work we do. Those estates have wide entries, hardstand and room to manoeuvre, and there is usually a forklift on site already. Give us the gate address, a contact who will be there, and any site induction requirements before the day. If the yard is shared or has a nominated delivery window, tell us at the booking and we will schedule the run to land inside it rather than turning up at the wrong hour.
Get a price
Ask us what fits your site
We deliver to Logan 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