Thread: caravan transport. west to east.

Back on subject thought. Personal option if transporting a van or car go with a reputable car transport company. They specialize in that field, have the correct equipment and experience and worse case the best insurance. If u were to move house u wouldnt use a dirty stock crate now would you just because they said they were cheap

I hear what people are saying about back-loading, however there is significant unused capacity returning across the Nullabor from the West. Sitting in Perth or elsewhere on the West coast for days or longer waiting for a forward load to your home state, can send you broke very quickly, so the choice is:

• waiting around and hoping for a full value "forward" load,
• taking a "back" load or partial load for little better than the price of fuel burnt,
• running across the Nullabor empty.

Some owner drivers are willing to take the back-load price, to get back home where they can get regular forward loads.

The other aspect is the unofficial backload, where company drivers will take cash for a load the boss doesn't know about.

Just so people understand that I'm not talking through my hat, we recently tried to negotiate a price to return several non-goer vehicles from the WA Goldfields, one a prime-mover. We have contact with a low-loader owner operator who regularly does loads to the goldfields. His usual price from Sydney to WA is $12,000.00+ he will do a WA goldfields to Sydney for as little as $4,500.00, maybe it's two forward loads but the price coming back sure is lower.