Farmers & Regional Business

A ute bought three states away, a tractor from a clearing sale, a header that needs to be somewhere before the crop is ready. Regional movement has its own timing, and its own version of “the address”.

The address is not a street

Most of our regional deliveries are to a property rather than a house number, and that changes what we need to know:

• Whether the access track carries a loaded truck, particularly after rain
• Whether there is room to turn a 26-metre vehicle around, or whether we unload at the gate
• Gates, grids and stock: who opens what, and who closes it
• Whether the last stretch is unsealed, and what it is like at this time of year
• A mobile number that actually has reception, and a second one that does

Tell us honestly. A driver who knows to unload at the gate has a good day. A driver who discovers a boggy track with a loaded trailer does not, and neither do you.

Clearing sales and interstate machinery buys

Buying at a clearing sale interstate is common and the constraint is nearly always the same: the vendor wants it gone, often within days, and the property is nowhere near a freight corridor.

Give us the three numbers that matter — height, width and mass — from the compliance plate or the manufacturer’s specification rather than an estimate. Those determine the permit, the permit determines the route, and a wrong figure means the movement does not happen.

Seasonal timing

Harvest, sowing and shearing all create the same problem: everyone in a region needs the same equipment moved in the same fortnight. Regional corridors run less frequently than capital-city runs to start with, so a missed departure is measured in weeks rather than days.

If your movement is tied to a season, book against it early. We would much rather hold a slot you end up not needing than tell you the next run is in ten days.