Vehicle transport across Australia, on our own trucks.
Most companies quoting you today do not own a truck. They take your booking and put it on a load board. We collect your vehicle, we carry it, and we deliver it — same company, start to finish.
- Goods-in-transit cover on every load
- Price held 30 days
- Photographed at both ends
Start your quote
Three questions. Takes about two minutes.
No deposit, no card details, and nothing to cancel if you change your mind.
38,000+
Vehicles carried
18 years
Operating in Australia
12
Depots nationwide
96.4%
Delivered inside the quoted window
There is a reason interstate car transport has a bad reputation.
It is not the trucks. It is the middlemen. Most operators advertising interstate transport are brokers — they quote you, then post the job to a load board and hope someone picks it up. That is where the six-week delays and the finger-pointing come from.
The broker model
- Your job is listed on a load board and waits for a carrier to accept it
- Nobody can tell you a departure date, because nobody has committed to one
- The quote is an estimate — the carrier can re-rate it later
- If the vehicle is damaged, the broker points at the carrier and the carrier points back
- You never learn the name of the person driving your car
How we run
- Your vehicle goes on our truck, on a run we already had scheduled
- You get a departure date at booking, not a vague window
- The price is locked for 30 days and does not move
- One company is accountable, because there is only one company involved
- Our drivers are employed, inducted and named on your paperwork
These are our trucks. Not a stock photo.
Anyone can claim to own a fleet. Here is ours, in our own livery, loaded with other people's cars.
If it has wheels, we have carried it.
Cars are most of what we move, but they are not all of it. Pick a category to see what it costs and how we handle it.
Sedans & Hatchbacks
The everyday move. Standard height, standard width, standard rate — the cheapest thing we carry and the one we carry most of.
SUVs & Wagons
Taller and heavier, so they take more deck height. Expect a modest uplift on the sedan rate, confirmed before you book.
Utes & Dual Cabs
Trays, canopies, bull bars and lift kits all change the footprint. Tell us the accessories and the quote stays fixed.
Prestige & Classics
Enclosed transport, soft straps, no ramps where clearance is tight. For cars where a stone chip is not an acceptable outcome.
Road Bikes
Carried upright in a purpose-built cradle with a front wheel chock — never laid over or strapped by the handlebars.
Cruisers & Tourers
Wider bars and panniers need more room on the deck. We allow for it rather than discovering it at collection.
Dirt & Adventure
Knobbly tyres, high pegs, tall screens. Straightforward to carry once we know the dimensions.
Multiple Bikes
Two or more on the same run share the deck and the cost. Clubs and dealers move this way regularly.
Caravans
Towed by a licensed driver on trade plates, or carried on a deck. Which one depends on the van, the route and the season.
Camper Trailers
Light, compact, and the easiest thing in this category to move. Often piggybacks on a scheduled run.
Motorhomes & RVs
Driven or carried depending on height and length. Grey nomad one-way returns are our bread and butter here.
Fifth Wheelers
Oversize by default. Needs permits and route planning, which we handle rather than hand back to you.
Tinnies & Runabouts
On their own trailer, secured to the deck. Straightforward and usually the cheapest way to get a boat interstate.
Half Cabins & Cuddies
Height becomes the constraint once the windscreen and targa go up. We check clearance before quoting.
Jet Skis
Small, light and easy to combine with another vehicle on the same run to keep the cost down.
Box & Car Trailers
Empty or loaded within limits. Tell us the tare and we will tell you the price.
Non-Runners
No engine, no keys, no brakes — we winch it. Tell us upfront so the right truck turns up, not the wrong one.
Unregistered Vehicles
Perfectly legal to carry on a truck. No permit needed while it is on our deck rather than on its own wheels.
Repairable Write-Offs
Moved for insurers, repairers and rebuilders. Documented condition at both ends, because it always matters here.
Project & Barn Finds
Half-assembled, no glass, missing panels. We have carried worse. Send photos and we will tell you honestly.
Light Trucks & Buses
Driven or carried depending on class and registration status. Both options priced so you can choose.
Tractors & Machinery
Low loader work. Height, width and mass determine the permit, and the permit determines the route.
Bobcats & Excavators
Common regional movement, especially around harvest and build cycles. Tie-down rated to the mass.
Forklifts
Compact but dense. Mass distribution matters more than size on these, and we plan for it.
Six ways we move a vehicle from A to B.
Most vehicles travel on an open carrier, because it is the cheapest way that still works. Everything else here exists because some vehicles — and some customers — need something different.
We come to the address you give us and deliver to the address you nominate. Worth being straight about what this means: a car carrier is up to 26 metres long, so we cannot always get down a cul-de-sac or under a low branch. Where the truck cannot safely reach, we meet you at the nearest sensible spot — usually a few hundred metres away, agreed with you in advance rather than sprung on you on the day.
You drop the vehicle at our yard, and collect it from our yard at the other end. It is the cheapest option we offer, typically 20 to 40 per cent below door-to-door, because the truck never leaves the freight route. Sensible if you live near a capital city and can spare an hour at each end.
The standard for everyday vehicles. Your car travels strapped to a multi-car deck alongside seven to ten others, sharing the trip and the cost. It is exposed to weather in the same way it would be sitting in your driveway. For the overwhelming majority of cars, this is the right answer.
A sealed trailer for vehicles that should not be seeing weather or road grit. Classics, low-clearance performance cars, freshly restored paint, and anything with a value that makes a stone chip an expensive problem. We use soft straps over the wheels rather than chassis hooks, and lift rather than ramp where clearance is tight.
Bikes travel upright in dedicated wheel chocks with straps run over the frame, not the handlebars. Compressing the front forks for two thousand kilometres is how fork seals die, so we do not do it. Multiple bikes on the same run share the deck and the cost.
Moving a company fleet, a dealership transfer, or two cars from the one household? Per-vehicle pricing drops sharply once the second unit is on the same truck. Dealers and auction houses run standing rates with us rather than quoting each movement.
From enquiry to handover in four steps.
None of this requires you to visit a depot, chase us for an update, or find out the real price only after the vehicle is already on the truck.
Tell us what and where
The vehicle, where it is now, where it needs to be, and roughly when. If it does not start, cannot be driven onto a ramp, or sits lower than standard, say so here — it changes which truck we send, not whether we take the job.
About two minutesWe come back with a price and a date
A real figure against a real departure, not a range. We quote the actual route and the actual collection window, and we hold that price for 30 days. If the corridor only runs weekly, we tell you which week.
Same day, most daysWe collect and document
A driver arrives inside the agreed window and walks the vehicle with you before it is loaded. Every existing mark is photographed and noted, both parties sign, and you keep a copy. That record is the reference point if anything is ever disputed.
Condition report signed by both partiesWe deliver and sign off
We call ahead so nobody is waiting around, then unload at the delivery address. Walk the vehicle against the collection photographs before you sign. Balance is settled at that point — not before.
Inspect before you signThe corridors we cover, and how often.
These are scheduled runs, not jobs we go looking for after you book. The east coast moves daily. Perth and Darwin go by rail on a weekly slot. Tasmania crosses Bass Strait twice a week.
| Corridor | Distance | Typical transit | Departures | Mode | From | Details |
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| Sydney Melbourne | 880 km | 1–3 business days | Daily | Road | $460 | Details |
| Sydney Brisbane | 920 km | 1–3 business days | Daily | Road | $470 | Details |
| Melbourne Brisbane | 1,700 km | 2–5 business days | Daily | Road | $690 | Details |
| Melbourne Adelaide | 730 km | 1–3 business days | Daily | Road | $390 | Details |
| Adelaide Perth | 2,700 km | 5–10 business days | Weekly | Road + rail | $990 | Details |
| Sydney Perth | 4,000 km | 7–14 business days | Weekly | Rail | $1,290 | Details |
| Adelaide Darwin | 3,000 km | 7–12 business days | Weekly | Rail | $1,290 | Details |
| Melbourne Hobart | 600 km | 3–7 business days | 2× weekly | Sea | $650 | Details |
Indicative from-prices for a standard sedan, depot-to-depot, one way, including GST. Door-to-door, larger vehicles and non-runners are quoted separately.
Pick a city. See what it costs from there.
Every state and territory, plus the regional centres in between. Select a capital to see indicative prices and transit windows to everywhere else we run.
Sydney
Indicative from-prices, sedan, depot-to-depot
Prices shown are indicative starting points for a standard sedan travelling depot-to-depot, one way, including GST. Your quote depends on the vehicle, the addresses at both ends, and the departure you choose.
What people say afterwards.
“Moved from Newcastle to Perth for work and could not face driving it. Quoted on the Tuesday, collected the following Monday, on the rail by Wednesday. Arrived within the window they gave me. The condition report was thorough enough that I stopped worrying about it.”
“Bought a ute sight unseen at a Pickles auction in Brisbane. Intercity collected it from the yard within the free storage period, which saved me the daily fee, and had it in Adelaide inside the week. Dealt with one person the whole time.”
“Posting from Townsville to Puckapunyal with two cars and a bike. They handled the paperwork without me having to explain it twice, and both cars turned up on the same truck. Third posting I have used them for.”
“The van went from Hobart to Darwin so we could pick it up for the dry. Bass Strait crossing plus the Track is a big ask and they were upfront that it would be three weeks, which it was. I would rather that than be told ten days and wait a month.”
“Enclosed transport for a restored HQ going to a show in Melbourne. They lifted it rather than ramping it, which I appreciated more than I expected to. Not the cheapest quote I got. Was not trying to be.”
“We move eight to twelve cars a month between our yards. Standing rate, same contact, invoices that reconcile. After two years I have stopped checking whether the delivery happened.”
What is happening on the network right now.
Weather closes roads, wet seasons stretch windows, and December fills up. We publish it here rather than letting you find out from a driver.
Wet season advisory — Stuart Highway
Northbound Adelaide–Darwin services are running to extended windows through the wet. We build the buffer into your quoted window rather than ringing you on day nine.
Price Lock now standard on every quote
The figure we quote is the figure you pay, held for 30 days. No fuel levy added later, no re-rate once the vehicle is already on the truck.
Second weekly rail slot — east coast to Perth
We have added a second booked rail slot each week across the Nullarbor, taking typical Sydney and Melbourne to Perth windows down by two to three days.
Christmas cut-off dates published
December fills first, every year. Pre-Christmas delivery cut-offs are now live on each corridor page so you can book against a real date.
Find out what your move actually costs.
Send us the route and the vehicle. We come back with a fixed price and a real departure date. If another operator is genuinely cheaper for what you need, we will tell you that too.
Straight through to us
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+61 489 989 099 Mon–Fri, 7:00am–6:00pm AEST
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bookings@intercityvehicletransport.com Replied to same business day
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12 depots nationwide Every state and territory
