Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 3000
Trams, laneways and tower loading docks. Melbourne rewards a crew that knows which street they can actually stop a truck in.
Coverage
We cover metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, including the inner city, the Bayside suburbs, the Eastern Suburbs, the Northern Suburbs, the Western Suburbs, the Mornington Peninsula, Geelong and the Yarra Valley. Tell us both addresses and we will confirm the details in your written quote.
Services
Door-to-door moves within your city, handled by our own crews and trucks.
Planned long-distance moves between Australian capitals, with one point of contact.
After-hours and weekend office relocations organised around your business.
Full or partial packing by our team, using proper materials and a clear inventory.
Boxes emptied, contents placed where you want them and packaging taken away.
Short and long-term storage for the gap between moving out and moving in.
Vehicle transport arranged alongside your move, so the car arrives when you do.
End-of-lease and pre-settlement cleaning booked as part of the same job.
Local knowledge
On tram routes you cannot unload from the tram side, and in much of the inner city that removes the kerb you actually wanted. Roads like Sydney Road, Brunswick Street, Chapel Street and Bridge Road are all tram corridors with limited standing. The practical answer is usually to load from a side street and carry, or to work outside peak tram frequency - both of which change the shape of the day and should be priced in, not discovered.
The CBD hook turn exists because of the trams, and it is not something you want a loaded pantechnicon negotiating at five o'clock. Routing a truck through the grid is a planning decision made before the day. It rarely changes the price, but it does change the departure time, which is why we ask what time you actually need to be out.
The tower buildings around Docklands, Southbank and the CBD generally run a booked loading dock and a booked service lift, with a height limit on the dock that rules out larger trucks. Some require an induction, most require padding in the lift, and many will not release a dock on weekends. Two bookings usually have to line up - the dock and the lift - and the move is planned around whichever is harder to get.
Fitzroy, Collingwood, Carlton and Brunswick have rear laneways that look like an easy answer and often are not. Many are single-vehicle width, some have a bollard or a bin cage halfway along, and a truck that goes in may not be able to turn around. We would rather look at it beforehand than reverse three hundred metres on the day.
Anything moving between the west and the rest of Melbourne is at the mercy of the West Gate Bridge and the tunnel approaches. Peak congestion there is genuinely severe, and there is no clever alternate route for a heavy vehicle. Where a crossing is in the plan we build the departure around it, which often means starting early.
Interstate
The corridors that start here. See interstate relocations for how a long-distance move is planned, or local moving if you are staying in Melbourne.
The country's busiest interstate corridor, with the most regular departures.
A short interstate run by Australian standards, and a well-worn one.
The long east-coast run, usually planned alongside Sydney departures.
Across the Nullarbor, booked well ahead.
Questions
More general questions are answered on our FAQ page.
Tell us the two addresses and the date. We will come back with a quote in writing and confirm exactly what we cover.