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Road, rail, sea or air, one partner for every leg. Send the lane and the load; we send back legs, days and a price before anything moves.
Quote a moveFree load planner · Road, rail, sea and air
Plan the load. Check every axle. Free.
Pick the trailer, add your pallets and get a 3D loading sequence that keeps each axle group inside its legal limit. No sign-up, nothing stored on our side. When the load is ready to move, we can quote it the same day.
- 19 trucks, trailers and containersTautliners, mezzanine decks, drop decks, B-doubles, skels, rigids and a road train.
- NHVR mass limits built inGML, CML and HML, with axle loads worked out through every kingpin and turntable.
- A forklift sequence, step by stepWhich pallet goes where, in order, with the axle weights at every step of the load.
- A plan sheet you can sendCopy the run-sheet, or attach the load to a quote request in one click.
Free tool
Trailer load planner
Built for loaders, forklift drivers and whoever gets the call when a truck fails at the weighbridge. Pick the vehicle, add the pallets, and get a 3D load with a forklift sequence that keeps every axle group legal. It runs in your browser and your freight list stays there.
- 19 vehicle typesSemi, B-double, mezzanine decks, drop decks, skels with 20 ft and 40 ft containers, rigids, a road train.
- Every axle group checkedSteer, drive, tri-axle and dolly groups against GML, CML and HML, through every kingpin and turntable.
- Loading sequenceStep through the load pallet by pallet, with the axle masses after each step.
- Plan sheet and quoteCopy the run-sheet, or send the load straight into a quote request.
What next
Loaded it? We can move it.
The planner is free and stays free. Changeover makes its money moving freight, hiring out trucks and looking after small fleets. Pick the one you need.
Hire a truck or trailer
Rigid trucks, prime movers and trailers by the day, week or month. Cover a unit off the road, or add capacity for a contract without buying.
Ask about hireSupport for small fleets
Running 1 to 5 trucks? Compliance, NHVAS, real cost per km and the admin that eats your evenings. Start with a business health check.
See operator servicesFreight
One partner for every leg
Book one mode or several. We look after the handover between them, so you get one reference, one person to call and one invoice from the first kilometre to the last.
Road
Linehaul, metro and the changeover lanes we're known for. Semis, B-doubles and road trains where gazetted.
Road servicesRail
Interstate intermodal for heavy, bulk and long-distance freight, with road at each end.
Rail servicesSea
Bass Strait, coastal where a service runs, and international containers through the gateways.
Sea servicesAir
Next flight out when the deadline says so, domestic and international.
Air servicesService board
Everything we move or arrange
Filter by mode, open a row for the detail, or send it straight into a quote request.
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Customs brokerage, dangerous goods carriage, air cargo screening, insurance and finance are arranged through licensed partners. Transit times are industry planning figures, not promises.
Lanes
Plan a lane
Pick two hubs and we'll show the legs, the modes and the indicative days. Your quote carries the real schedule and the price.
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- Days
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- Distance
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Indicative days from typical schedules and corridor distances. Sea legs only where a scheduled service runs. No price is implied; your quote carries the real days and the price.
Click a hub to set it as the origin, then another as the destination. Not to scale.
Planning times
Australia, connected
Door to door, indicative and subject to service schedules. Rail disruptions typically add 1 to 2 days.
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Why the name
How a changeover works
A changeover is the oldest trick in linehaul: two drivers meet halfway, swap trailers and each turns for home. We built a business around doing that handover well, on every mode.
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Two trucks leave, one from each end
A Sydney driver and a Melbourne driver both start in the afternoon, each pulling a loaded trailer for the other city.
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They meet at the changeover point
At a yard near the midpoint, the trailers swap. Paperwork, seals and the reference stay the same; only the prime mover changes.
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Both drivers sleep at home
Each driver turns back with the other's trailer. The freight arrives overnight; nobody spends the night in a bunk or a motel.
Fresher drivers, fewer fatigue breaches, no overnight costs. Your freight keeps moving while both drivers are in their own beds.
For operators
Support for small fleets
Running 1 to 5 trucks means you're the driver, the dispatcher and the accounts department. We take the parts that keep you up at night, starting with a health check that shows where the money is leaking.
Business health check
Compliance status, your real cost per km, what you should be charging and where to save. A written list of fixes in priority order.
Book a health checkCompliance and NHVAS
Chain of Responsibility, fatigue and work diaries, maintenance records, NHVAS mass and maintenance accreditation. Set up once and kept current.
Get compliantBack office and marketing
Business setup, terms of trade, invoicing and BAS referrals, fuel tax credit claims, plus a website and Google Business Profile that bring work in.
Hand it overTruck and trailer hire
Cover for a unit off the road, or extra trailers for a contract without buying. Tautliners, flat tops, drop decks and skels.
Ask about hireBuying power
One truck has no leverage on fuel, tyres and parts. Pooled across the network it does. We pass the discounts through.
Join the poolInsurance and faster payment
Introductions to a licensed insurance broker and to invoice-finance partners so you're not waiting 60 days to be paid. We refer; the licensed partner advises.
Get an introductionQuestions
Load planning, answered
How many pallets fit on a semi-trailer or a B-double?
With standard 1165 × 1165 mm pallets: 22 on a 13.6 m tautliner semi-trailer, 34 on a 26 m B-double (12 on the A trailer and 22 on the B), and 68 on a B-double with mezzanine decks on both trailers. A 3-axle rigid takes 12, a 2-axle rigid 8. A 20 ft container holds 10 and a 40 ft container 20.
Those are floor spaces. Weight is the other limit, which is why the planner checks every axle group as well as the count.
What are GML, CML and HML?
They are the three NHVR mass-limit levels. General Mass Limits (GML) apply to any registered vehicle. Concessional Mass Limits (CML) allow a little more on some axle groups, but the operator needs NHVAS Mass Management accreditation. Higher Mass Limits (HML) allow more again and need road-friendly suspension, accreditation and an approved HML route.
For a 6-axle semi-trailer the combination gross is 42.5 t at GML, 43.5 t at CML and 45.5 t at HML. For a 9-axle B-double it is 62.5, 64.5 and 68 t.
How does the planner work out axle weights?
By lever-arm statics. Each pallet's weight sits at its position on the deck; the planner resolves it through the trailer's axle group and its kingpin, then through the prime mover's drive and steer axles, and through every turntable and dolly on a B-double or road train. Tare masses and coupling positions are typical figures for each combination.
Treat the result as a close estimate and always confirm at a weighbridge, especially near a limit.
What does "auto-rearrange to fix axle overloads" do?
After the first packing pass, the planner tries swapping whole rows forward or back until every axle group is inside its limit, keeping heavy pallets low and spread across both lanes. If it can't find a legal arrangement, the warnings panel tells you which group is over and by how much.
Does the planner store my freight list?
Only in your own browser, so it is there when you come back on the same device. Nothing is sent to us unless you choose to attach the plan to a quote request.
Can I send my load plan with a quote?
Yes. Press "Get a quote for this load" in the Weights panel, or tick "Attach my load plan" on the quote form. The vehicle, pallet list, gross mass and pallet spaces go into the request, so we can price it without a second phone call.
What is a changeover?
A changeover is when two linehaul drivers meet partway along a lane, swap trailers and each head back to where they started. The freight keeps moving overnight and both drivers sleep at home. It's where our name comes from, and it's how we run our busiest road lanes.
Get a quote
Tell us what's moving
One person, not a queue
Send a brief: what, from where, to where and when. You get a plan with legs, modes, transfer points, indicative days and a price before anything moves. If a leg slips, you hear it from us first.
Operators: the same form books a health check or a hire. Pick what you need and skip the fields that don't apply.
Mon to Fri, 7 am to 6 pm AEST