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
Warwick, QLD
Shipping containers Warwick
Two roads get a container to Warwick and neither of them is dull. The Cunningham Highway climbs Cunninghams Gap through the Main Range, narrow, steep and occasionally shut. The alternative is up the Toowoomba range and down the New England, longer but steadier. Once the truck is on the Downs flats around Warwick, the delivery itself is usually the easiest part of the day.
- Delivered from
- Loaded in the Lockyer Valley and run south, either over the Gap or down the New England
- Typical lead time
- Usually three to five business days
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; 40ft on a side loader, which the wide streets and long rural entries here suit
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.
Before the detail, the shape of it.
The work they do around here
Around Warwick we deliver containers for cattle and horse gear on the grazing country either side of the Condamine, saddlery, campdraft and rodeo equipment that has to travel and then be stored, grain, seed and fodder under lock, workshop and machinery storage on cropping blocks, fruit bins, netting and irrigation gear on the orchard and vineyard country running south toward the granite, and trade and building storage in town.
How the drop usually goes
The approach matters here more than in most towns. Cunninghams Gap is a steep, tight climb through the Main Range with limited overtaking and a history of closures after landslips and heavy rain, and when it shuts the detour is a long way around. We watch it. If it is closed, or the weather looks like closing it, the load goes up the Toowoomba range and comes down the New England instead, which adds time but not drama. Either way it is half a day of driving before anything gets unloaded, so a firm delivery window matters more here than it does closer to home. Once the truck is in the district, Warwick is one of the more cooperative towns to deliver into. The street grid is wide, properly wide, laid out with a bullock team in mind, and there is room to work in front of most town blocks without shutting anything down. Rural entries on the Downs country are long, straight and built for headers, and a side loader with a 40ft on it fits into that world comfortably. The ground splits in two. North and west of town the Condamine flats are black cracking clay, the same reactive soil as the rest of the Downs: greasy in the wet, split open in the dry, and unforgiving to a loaded truck after rain. South and east, running toward the granite belt, the country turns to decomposed granite and sandy loam that drains fast and carries weight far better, but it has its own trick, because loose granitic gravel on a slope offers almost no grip at all. Winter is the season to use. Warwick gets hard frosts and the ground goes bone-firm overnight, so a paddock that would bog a truck in February will carry it easily on a July morning. Summer storms are the opposite, and they can be very local, which means what happened on your place matters far more than the forecast for the town.
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 Warwick
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
Warwick
Gear that lives on a truck half the year
The Southern Downs runs on a calendar. Campdrafts, rodeos, shows, sales and sale-day preparation fill a good part of the year, and the people who follow that circuit accumulate a specific kind of gear: saddlery, rugs, panels, ropes, feed, water gear, spare tyres, a generator. It is either on a truck or it is in the way. A container gives that a home it can be loaded out of and locked, which beats a tarp in the corner of a shed and beats storing it across three different places. The practical trick is where it sits: close enough to load from a float without carrying everything fifty metres, on ground firm enough to back up to in the wet, and with the doors facing the direction you will reverse in from rather than the direction that suited the delivery truck.
The same logic applies to contract work, which is the other half of how this district earns. Fencing contractors, shearing and crutching crews, spray operators, harvest contractors and builders all carry a plant list that has to be secure between jobs and does not fit in a ute. A 20ft on the home block, or a 10ft where the yard is tight, takes all of it off the ground and out of the weather. If the work moves, the container can move too. Units get relocated far more often than people expect when they buy their first one, which is worth thinking about at purchase, because a unit with a sound frame and undamaged corner castings picks up cleanly for the next twenty years and a tired one gets progressively more awkward to lift.
On the ground
Why a Warwick delivery gets locked in earlier
Warwick is far enough out that a delivery here is a planned day rather than an errand. The truck is committed once it leaves, and if something at the other end is wrong, a gate two hundred millimetres too narrow, a grid nobody trusts, a paddock that had forty millimetres on it overnight, the cost of that is a wasted day rather than a wasted hour. So we ask more questions before a Southern Downs run than we do before a local one, and we ask them earlier. Gate width, the surface from the gate to the spot, what is overhead, whether there is anywhere to turn a rigid or a semi, and what the weather has actually done on your place rather than in town.
The route gets decided the same morning if the Main Range is doubtful. Cunninghams Gap closes from time to time and it does not close by appointment. When it is out, the load goes the long way and the day gets longer. We would rather tell you that on the phone the day before than have a truck sitting at a road closure with your container on it. None of this means a Warwick delivery should be expected to be difficult, because most of them are not, but it is the reason we prefer a date with a bit of room in it to a promise of an hour.
Worth knowing
Grain, seed and fodder in a steel box
A container is very good at most agricultural storage and poor at one particular job, and it is worth being clear about which is which. Bagged seed, chemical, drums, fencing, water fittings, spare parts, vet supplies and baled hay all sit happily in a 20ft and stay dry, clean and locked. Loose bulk grain does not. The side walls of a shipping container are corrugated sheet designed to carry racking and torsion loads, not the outward pressure of several tonnes of wheat leaning against them, and grain brings its own moisture and sweats against cold steel on a Southern Downs night. If bulk grain is the problem, a silo is the answer. If the problem is everything else on the place currently living under a tarp or in the header shed, a container solves it for a good deal less than a new building, and it can be moved or sold on when the operation changes.
What delivery to Warwick costs
Delivery is quoted with the container. It moves with the distance, the truck the site needs and how hard the last thirty metres are, so we price it per job rather than publish a figure that would be wrong for half the addresses here.
Describe the spot it has to land on and we will work backwards from there to the container and the truck.
Also delivered nearby
We also deliver to Allora, Killarney, Yangan, Clifton, Stanthorpe and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Warwick
What happens if Cunninghams Gap is closed on my delivery day?
The load goes the other way, up the Toowoomba range and down the New England, and the day gets longer rather than cancelled. The Gap closes from time to time after heavy rain and landslips and it does not close by arrangement, so we check it before a Southern Downs run and ring you the day before if the timing is going to shift. It is the main reason we prefer to give a Warwick delivery a date with a bit of room in it rather than a promised hour on a promised morning.
Can you deliver onto black soil country around Warwick in the wet?
Not sensibly. The Condamine flats north and west of town are the same cracking clay as the rest of the Downs and they do not drain, so after decent rain the surface turns greasy and the material under it turns to putty. A loaded truck will bog and will cut ruts that last a season. We will move the date instead, which nobody out here finds surprising. If it is urgent, the alternative is to place the unit on the nearest hardstand or gravel and shift it across once the paddock has dried out.
Is the granite country south of Warwick easier to deliver onto?
In the wet, considerably. Decomposed granite and sandy loam drain fast and will carry a truck again within a day of rain that would shut black soil country down for most of a week. The trade-off is grip, because loose granitic gravel on a slope offers very little, and driveways through that country tend to be steeper and windier the closer you get to the ranges. The question changes from whether the ground will hold the truck to whether the truck can get up it and turn around once it is there.
Does a Warwick winter cause problems inside a container?
Cold on its own does not, but the swing does. Warwick gets hard frosts and clear days, so the steel drops well below the overnight air temperature and then climbs quickly, and moisture in the air inside condenses onto the roof and walls. Anything with batteries, electronics, paper or leather in it will notice over a season. Extra vents help, keeping the unit up off the ground helps, and loading things dry helps most of all. Do not store damp hay, green timber or wet canvas in a closed box and expect it to stay that way.
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Tell us about the job
We deliver to Warwick 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.
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