Container Ramp – Forklift & Trolley Loading Ramp

About this unit

The Container Ramp is part of our container accessories range, held for sale and hire from our Queensland depot, delivered Australia-wide. Every unit is inspected before it leaves the yard: doors swung, seals checked, floor sounded and the frame photographed as found. Delivery is quoted against your postcode and site access, and we tell you before you commit whether the truck can set the unit down where you want it. Modification is available on this unit — doors, windows, partitions, insulation, power and fit-out — quoted separately and built in our own workshop.

Hire is available for short and long terms, with the same inspection standard applied to hired units as to sold ones.

Container Ramp is a container fitting designed to work with the corrugation and internal height of a shipping container, held in the Container Ramp accessories range and released from our Queensland yard for delivery to every state and territory in Australia.

Every listing on this page describes the actual unit. Condition is inspected and photographed before dispatch, the price shown is the Container Ramp only with delivery quoted separately against your postcode, and nothing on the page is a stock claim we cannot stand behind.

Buying a Container Ramp

The Container Ramp is sold as an individual unit, inspected before dispatch and priced as listed. If you are weighing up a Container Ramp against a newer or larger equivalent, the condition report and the access to your site matter more than the model year.

The things people forget

Two items get bought after the first wet season rather than before it: ventilation and desiccant. A steel box sweats when the temperature drops, condensation forms under the roof and drips onto whatever is stored below. Tools, electronics, paper and textiles all suffer. Deal with moisture before the Container Ramp is filled and you will never think about it again.

Fitting it to the Container Ramp

Container fittings are designed around the corrugation and the internal height, so buy accessories that are made for a container rather than adapted from a shed. Anything with a load rating should be fixed down so it cannot walk when the Container Ramp is lifted or towed. If you are fitting out a container that has already been modified, check clearances against the lining before you order racking.

Condition and grading

Condition is assessed on structure and function rather than appearance. A unit with faded paint and honest cosmetic rust can be perfectly sound; a unit that photographs well can have a soft floor or a door that no longer seals. We grade on shell integrity, door operation, seal condition and floor soundness, and we tell you which of those is marginal rather than leaving you to find out on delivery day.

Yard inspections

If you are within reach of our Queensland yard, inspections are welcome and there is no pressure to buy on the day. Send the product name from the catalogue and we will have the Container Ramp pulled out and ready before you arrive. For everything else, the photographs and the written condition report are what you rely on — and we would rather talk you out of a unit than sell you one that is wrong for the job.

Delivery and what it costs

The price shown is the Container Ramp only. Delivery is quoted separately against your postcode and site access, and it is the honest way to do it — a drop fifteen kilometres from the yard and a drop twelve hundred kilometres away are not the same job. Units are released from our Queensland yard and delivered to every state and territory in Australia. Queensland drops generally run on our own trucks; interstate moves on scheduled freight, with the booked window and carrier details confirmed in writing before dispatch.

Tell us about tight gates, low branches and overhead lines when you ask for a price. If a tilt-tray cannot reach the drop point, a crane or side-loader will, and knowing that up front is the difference between an accurate quote and a second invoice.

Changes, fit-out and modification

Anything that needs cutting, welding, wiring or lining is done in our own workshop rather than subcontracted, which is why we can tell you what a change will actually cost before you commit. Doors, windows, partitions, insulation, power, plumbing and full fit-outs are all container modification work we quote on the details of your job rather than off a price list.

Hire instead of buying

If the need is for the life of a project rather than forever, hiring is usually cheaper and you do not carry the asset, the transport or the maintenance. Buy when the Container Ramp is permanent, when you need a specific configuration, or when the hire term would run past the purchase price. Short and long terms are both available, and we will quote it against the same unit you are looking at here.

Further reading

For Australian standards for storage equipment, see Standards Australia. Nothing on that site is specific to this Container Ramp, and we do not give regulatory advice — but it is where the rules that apply to owning and moving a Container Ramp are published.

Related in the catalogue

• 20ft containers
• 40ft containers
• Browse all containers and trailers

Page catalogue: Container Accessories.

What condition means on this Container Ramp

Condition on a Container Ramp is not one thing. It is a set of separate questions, and buyers who treat it as a single yes-or-no usually end up disappointed on one of them. The ones that matter are structural soundness, water tightness, the state of anything that moves, and cosmetics — and they fail independently. A fitting can be structurally perfect and still leak at the door seals; it can be watertight and still have a floor that gives under a pallet truck.

The grade this Container Ramp is offered in is as a container fitting matched to standard corrugation. That describes what it is fit for, not how it looks. Cosmetic marks — scuffs, faded paint, old decals, minor dents that do not affect the frame — are consistent with any working grade and are not defects. What would be a defect is a hole through the panel, a soft floor, a seized lock or a bent frame, and none of those are being offered here.

How this Container Ramp is inspected before dispatch

The inspection list for a Container Ramp is short and unglamorous, and that is the point. It covers mounting points checked against a standard container, hardware and fixings counted, finish inspected, dimensions confirmed, packaging photographed as found. None of it requires special equipment; all of it requires someone to actually do it rather than assume.

The reason to spell this out is that buying a Container Ramp remotely is otherwise a leap of faith. You are trusting a photograph and a sentence. The inspection is what turns those into something you can act on: specific findings, recorded at a specific time, on the Container Ramp with your name on it. Anything found is disclosed before dispatch, not after payment.

Delivery and site access

Delivery is quoted against your postcode and what the truck can physically reach. That second part catches people out more often than the first. A fitting this size arrives on freighted as a packed item, and the driver needs a clear approach, room to set down, and ground that will take the load. Overhead branches, power lines, a steep driveway, a soft verge after rain, a gate narrower than the load — any one of these can turn a straightforward drop into a failed trip.

So the question we ask before quoting is not only where you are but how the truck gets in. Send a photograph of the approach and the drop point and the quote will reflect reality. If the truck cannot reach, the answer is a crane lift or a smaller unit, and it is better to know that before the truck is loaded than when it is idling at your gate.

Delivery is available across Australia; the yard it leaves from is in Queensland.

What modification is possible on this fitting

Modification is quoted separately once the layout is known, because the honest answer to "how much" is that it depends on what you are trying to achieve. A door in a flat panel is a different job from a door in corrugation. Windows in a lined space are a different job from windows in a bare shell. Power is a different job again depending on whether it needs to be certified for the use you have in mind.

The work is done in our own workshop rather than subcontracted, which is why the quote can be specific. Come with a sketch, a purpose and a constraint — budget, timeline, or the fact that it has to pass an inspection — and the scope can be priced against that. Common changes for a Container Ramp of this kind are fitting out a container, adding shelving or racking and improving access.

Hire as well as purchase

Hire is available on this fitting for short and long terms, and the same inspection standard applies to a hired unit as to a sold one. That is not a marketing line: a hired fitting that fails on site costs the hirer a day of labour and costs us the relationship, so the incentive to check it is identical.

Hire suits a project with a known end date, a trial before committing to a purchase, or a peak that does not justify owning a unit outright. Terms are quoted against duration and delivery distance. If you are weighing hire against purchase, the useful comparison is not the monthly rate — it is the monthly rate plus delivery, collected twice, against the purchase price less whatever the Container Ramp is still worth at the end.

Buying this fitting instead of the alternatives

The alternative to a Container Ramp is usually a fabricated equivalent or a purpose-built unit. That option wins on one axis and loses on others, and which axis matters depends on your site. Purpose-built structures are easier to finance and easier to insure as fixed property; a Container Ramp is faster to place, easier to relocate and usually cheaper per square metre of covered space.

The question worth asking is how long you need it, and what happens at the end. If the answer is "two years then we move", a Container Ramp that can be picked up and taken with you is worth more than a cheaper structure that cannot. If the answer is "twenty years and it never moves", the calculus changes, and it is worth saying so before you buy.

What buyers usually ask

Is the price negotiable? The price shown is the Container Ramp price. Delivery, modification and hire are separate. Ask about multiple units in one delivery — that is where there is usually room, because the saving is in the trip.

Can I inspect it first? Yes. The yard is in Queensland and inspections are welcome by arrangement. Bring a torch and a tape measure; the two things buyers most often wish they had brought are light and a way to check that the dimensions suit what they intend to put inside.

How do I pay? Bank transfer or PayID. The order number goes on the transfer reference so the payment can be matched without an email chain. Card payment is not offered because the surcharge would have to be added to the price.

What if it is not what I expected? Say so before it is modified or dispatched. Once a unit has been cut, painted or delivered, the scope of what can be undone shrinks quickly — which is why the inspection photographs exist and why we send them.

Do you deliver to my area? Delivery is Australia-wide. The quote depends on distance and access, and both are things you can influence by describing your site accurately.

What to check when it arrives

Check the Container Ramp against the photographs before the truck leaves. That sounds obvious and is routinely skipped, because the driver is in a hurry and everyone wants the job done. Ten minutes spent walking the Container Ramp with the listing open on your phone is the cheapest insurance in the transaction.

Look at the four things that are expensive to fix: the floor, the door and its seals, the frame at the corners, and the roof. Everything else is cosmetic. If something does not match, note it on the delivery paperwork and photograph it before signing. A note made at delivery is a conversation about a fix; a note made a week later is a conversation about who is responsible.

Then leave it alone for a wet week before you load it, if you can. Water finds the weak point on its own schedule, and a dry week hides more than a wet one reveals.

Cost of ownership beyond the purchase price

The purchase price is the smallest part of what a Container Ramp costs over its life, and the parts that follow are worth planning for. There is delivery in, and — if it ever moves — delivery out. There is the surface it sits on, which determines whether it stays level and whether the doors keep operating. There is whatever it takes to keep water out as the seals age.

And there is the cost of the space it occupies, which in a city yard is not nothing.

Against that, a Container Ramp depreciates far more slowly than a fitted-out building and can usually be sold into a live market rather than written off. The resale value is the reason used units hold their price, and it is the reason buying a sound used unit rather than the cheapest available one tends to work out better over five years.

Looking after a Container Ramp

Most of what shortens the working life of a Container Ramp is avoidable, and the avoidable parts are the same on every site. Standing water on the roof. A base that settles unevenly under one corner. Seals that were never looked at because the doors still shut. Fixings that were cut in and never sealed. None of these are dramatic failures; they are slow ones, and they compound.

A sensible routine is seasonal rather than constant. Before the wet season, clear the roof and check the door seals. Once a quarter, operate every moving part and look at the corners and the floor for anything new. Once a year, walk the whole thing with a torch and a camera, and compare the photographs to last year's. That comparison is what catches a problem while it is still a touch-up rather than a panel replacement.

The terms used on this page

A few terms come up repeatedly when buyers discuss a Container Ramp, and they are worth defining plainly because they are often used loosely. Cargo-worthy means the Container Ramp would still be accepted for freight — structurally sound, watertight, no holes. Wind and watertight means exactly that: it keeps weather out, without any claim about freight certification. As-is means what it says, cosmetic and functional faults disclosed but not rectified.

One-trip, sometimes called single-trip, means the Container Ramp has made one loaded voyage and is effectively new in service terms. Grade A describes the best cosmetic condition in a used band, not a structural standard. High cube refers to the extra height — around 9ft 6in against the standard 8ft 6in. Cor-ten and corten steel are the weathering steel most containers are built from. Where a term on this page is not one of these, it is being used in its ordinary sense and not as a rating.

Next step on this fitting

If this fitting looks like the right unit, the fastest way to a firm number is to send the product name and your postcode. That gets a delivered price, which is the only price worth comparing against another supplier's delivered price. If the layout needs changing, describe the change at the same time and both can be quoted together rather than in sequence.

If it is not quite right, say what is wrong with it. Too long, too short, wrong colour, wrong grade, wrong end of the budget — every one of those is a useful description, and it is quicker than starting the search again from the top of the catalogue.

Photographs of this unit

Delivery & hire

Delivery is quoted by postcode and site access — tilt-tray where the truck can reach, crane where it cannot. Hire is available on this unit for short and long terms, with the same inspection standard applied to hired units as to sold ones. Modification is quoted separately once we know the layout you need.