Kalgoorlie will cook a roof by day and frost it by night

The long road, priced in the open

Stock for Kalgoorlie and Boulder is kept for the Goldfields and checked before it is loaded. You can have photos first. If the timing is tight for a shutdown, say so early. A lease day does not become a same-morning promise because the roster starts Monday.

Kalgoorlie (6430) and Boulder (6432) are one urban area with different yards: mine-service workshops, old residential streets, newer estates. Coolgardie (6429) is a separate small town on the way and should be named if that is the address. A lease beyond the bitumen is a third thing entirely, with its own permission to enter. Put the site rules in the enquiry or the truck stops at a gate.

Tool stores, prospecting kits, and a house that is already full

Mining and mine-service businesses want a tool store or a consumables box on a hardstand that already exists. Stacking comes up on tight leases. It needs castings on castings and ground that will not slump. Side by side is usually saner. Prospecting and exploration kits — samples, a small plant's spares, camping for a crew — want a lock more than they want cubic metres. Households want the spare room back in a town where storage units are not always the easy answer.

Dust is the daily tax. It packs into door seals, roof valleys and any vent you were proud of. A broom and a check of the gasket after a windy week keeps the 'watertight' claim honest. Red dust holds moisture against steel once the night cools. That is how a box that never saw the ocean still rusts.

Fuels and oils for a workshop follow the dangerous-goods rules, even this far from a port. Dangerous Goods Containers: What You Actually Need is the primer. A long freight bill is a bad reason to put a drum in a plain container.

Forty degrees, then a frost

Summer afternoons on a dark roof are brutal. Lighter colours, shade if you can find it, and nothing heat-sensitive in the top layer of the load. People working inside need airflow and should not pretend the box is a site office without treating the heat. Winter nights drop below freezing often enough to matter. Condensation follows the swing: hot day, cold night, drip. Pallets and a vent are the minimum.

Hardstand in town is kind to the truck. A lease pad of fill is not, until someone tells you it was compacted. Ask. A corner that sinks in the Goldfields is a door problem you will live with until the next crane, and the next crane is not cheap out here.

An empty container is a sail in a dust storm. Do not leave it light and unsecured on an exposed pad while you wait for the fit-out to arrive next month. Load it, or tie it down, before the first big wind.

Drums are still drums, even in Boulder

Distance does not relax a dangerous-goods class. Read that article if the load includes fuel or oils. Tool steel can stay in a plain watertight box.