I will be moving from Wollongong (NSW) to Traralgon (VIC)next month and looking for the ways to relocate my household items.
I have asked few interstate removalist via internet but all been very expensive even without insurance.
My Budget is very tight and therefore need help from you guys.
Has anyone recently moved interstate with household items and paying reasonable rates and fully satisfied from the service, please advise?
Yeah my cousin did this for relocating from Perth to Sydney, she paid $400 for her car to be moved the whole way on a truck (which is WAY less than the usual charge, due to searching for a trip that was already being made and piggybacking onto that), and then crammed all of her stuff into the car, using essentially every square centimetre of space apart from the drivers seat (so that she could still drive it to the depot, although I think she had the seat as far forward as it could go and still be drivable), and thus got all her stuff and her car driven all the way across the country for $400. (If you drove yourself, it would probably cost that just in fuel.) Then she caught a flight, and used her full weight allowance, to transport the stuff that she would need for the first week or so until the car arrived.
Thanks for the suggestion but my household items could not fit in a car.
It is a good idea and I am flexible with my dates too.
Yes, backloading. I used it once - from NSW to VIC. Saved a lot of money. Those guys even did multiple destinations in Victoria for me.
Thanks super8 for the interesting and useful link.
I have registered with the site and posted the job.
Let's see if that works for me.
Depending on how much gear you have, hiring a 20ft container and shipping it can yield cheap rates as well.
However you wont tend to find a great deal of backloading from Syd to Vic, since most product originates from Sydney in the first place
Hi Copie, how you can hire a 20ft container, please let me know as I believe all my gear can fit in the container.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Contact Royal Wolf, they are a manufacturer/logistics company that specializes in containers. You should be able to get a single trip container (meaning its only done one trip from origin to destination) for a few weeks for pretty cheap, i hired a 40 foot for a month and all up was about 170 including delivery/pickup.
Hi Copie,
Does Royal Wolf only deal will hiring of containers? What to do suggest about actual moving of container. I am looking at move from Sydney to Perth. Thanks.
Thanks Copie
The other option i suppose is hiring a truck for the trip, you can get 4.5t that are car license compatible for reasonably cheap as well and do it over a weekend.
All I can suggest is look into backloading. This is when a removalist already has a trip booked but still has room left in the truck. You have to be a bit more flexible with your dates but it can mean pretty good savings.
HTH