Hey everyone,

Can anyone recommend a freight company for cars (or let me know of any to stay away from)? I've heard that train is cheaper than truck.. I'm looking at getting a mini shipped from adelaide to sydney, anyone know roughly how much this would cost? Is insurance generally included in shipping costs?

Thanks

google search..... I am getting my GT shipped at the moment from Hobart to NSW $990 I got 3 quotes.... and it was cheeper by 300 compaired to the others.

Shop around.

Phone calls, phone calls and more phone calls. It might take you an hour but it can save you heaps. Transport loads vary from week to week, and sometimes they may have a space you can fill that would have been empty otherwise.
I do this about once every twelve to eighteen months for one reason or another and have found that an hour of your time can equal big bucks in your wallet.

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I sent a car to Canberra with TOLL Transport. They were good.

Importantly....

ask how the vehicle will be lifted (if it is not going on a proper car carrier).....a fella down here has had someone try to lift his Mini with a Forklift coming in from the side.....and I think Minimonaro had similar problems ex-UK....

tuther couple I've heard about are rail freight and diesal fallout wrecking paint...and car carriers off loading/rough handling mid journey....

you will have no problems though....think positive

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You will be unlikely get a cheap rate coming out of Adelaide using specialist car carriers. The reason for this is that there is no shortage of work due to the manufacturers getting cars over to the Eastern states. If it were coming out of Brisbane or Perth you could just about name your own price as they are always screaming for backloading. TNT used to beg me to find backloading out of Brissy. The only way to do it cheaper would be on a flat top semi (possibly). This has advantages and disadvantages. Loading is a problem if they have to fork it on (and they will), but it will stay on there all the way with no mid trip drops. The mini will always be loaded on a car carrier last as being so light it does not put the rear axle anywhere near the weight limit. We used to put the Jaguars up front and the Mokes on the rear for this very reason.

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when were you last at JRA Chris.......I worked fairly closey with them on an Army project early 1990s...

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cant see that chris over the drive you are aloud 16 ton and over the tri on the trailer 22 ton it has more to do with the freight in the middle of the trailer and the way the weight throws forward or towards the rear..... and prime mover weight aswell i'd go with a moke over the turn table then the jag right behind it as the weight would be throwen forward .... but then again is is a single drive primemover or bogie on the p/m next is the trailer bogie or tri axle ... ok i'm getting technical here sorry but it is something i know alot about i'll stop rambling now .... btw if it is coming on a semi ask for it to be loaded over the turn table less chance of it getting frowen around and if on a b dbl ask for it to go on the lead trailer or front of the b trailer this is the most stable part to be on the back of the b trailer swings big time
makka

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Yeah, I weigh trucks everyday too. In the early eighties when I was working in vehicle distribution at JRA I had to work out the loads so that the light and heavy cars were mixed. A driver got pinged at Marulen with a Jag on the back over the axle before we did this. I never worked out whether it was that particular trailer or not. They would have only been using bogey axles then I guess and t was just something we did to avoid the problem at TNT's request. There would not be many cars as heavy as Jags these days I guess and with tri's the problem may not arise. I always reckoned that car trailers were built too heavy and a bit more science should go into them to get their weight down. Car trailers then carried a lot less vehicles than they do now.

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Chris

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no worries was not haveing a go at you just it seamed weired to me as a jag even then would only have weighed max 2 ton
makka

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In the early eighties. They were building the first of the six wheel drive Landies over at Engineering Services then. They kept breaking and they kept fixing them. Can you remember the blokes name who did the army liason in new vehicles? I thought they went bust before 1990 but memory is a funny thing. That company only went bust because Paul Keating stuck a surcharge tax on luxury cars. it was a well managed company after the mangement buy out.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

The army has over 4000 landies and most of em came from Moorebank...our little project to build about 300 came along later....after the production facility had closed.

Ahhhh man...names....there was a team of about 4-5 we were working with, Tony was from the Southern Highlands....but the the older fella that you probably mean, I don't recall....I will be thinking about it though

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dont b lazy..
drive it back!
hheehe
and hope u make it home!
btw if u choose that option, make sure u with NRMA!
VERY handy!
or hire us to take it back...
was only last yr we gots our mini from adelaide..wouldnt mind a trip bak ther either
cyas
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kaz
hey mate, looks like your cars only running on three cylinders!
haha..funny that..

'89 toyota cressida
'71 morris mini k
66 morris van

George Fowler...technical.....Tony Hill...spare parts....my memory works (eventually )

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