What NSW tells your customers. The NSW Government's advice on choosing a removalist (opens in a new tab) sets the expectations your site will be read against. It tells people to compare a few removalists, get a written quote itemised so every charge can be accounted for, and read the contract before signing. It points out that removalists aren't required by law to insure customers' belongings and that most insure only their vehicles, that AFRA accreditation can be checked on AFRA's website, and that smaller removalists may not be members. Under the Australian Consumer Law a move has to be done with due care and skill and, where no time was agreed, within a reasonable time, which the guidance says can depend on busy periods and public holidays. Complaints go to NSW Fair Trading.
Drivers and licence classes. In NSW a car licence covers vehicles up to 4.5 tonnes GVM. Above that, a Light Rigid licence covers rigid trucks up to 8 tonnes, Medium Rigid covers two-axle trucks over 8 tonnes, and Heavy Rigid covers trucks with three or more axles over 8 tonnes. If you hire through your website, the jobs page should name the class each of your trucks needs, which saves you sorting through applicants who can't legally drive them.
Units and strata. By our count of the ABS 2021 Census tables, roughly three in ten of Greater Sydney's occupied private dwellings were flats or apartments, and more than a third were rented. Moving a unit often means working to the building's by-laws and its manager's rules: set hours, a booked lift or loading bay, protection for lifts and corridors, and in some buildings a bond. Bright & Duggan, a strata manager based in St Leonards, in its checklist for residents also lists height restrictions for moving trucks and how long vehicles may stay in a loading zone. A site that shows you already work this way tells the customer, and the building manager, that you've done this before.
Tolls, NorthConnex and clearways. Linkt's vehicle classes count anything towed or carried on the roof in a vehicle's height and length, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tunnel are the exception to the two classes, with a single toll class for all vehicles. Trucks over 12.5 metres long or 2.8 metres high travelling between the M1 and the M2 must use the NorthConnex tunnels rather than Pennant Hills Road, unless the pick-up or delivery can only be reached from Pennant Hills Road, and Transport for NSW fines trucks recorded passing both of its monitoring gantries. If your trucks are over those limits, that shapes the route, and the tolls, on jobs heading north up the M1. On clearways, the rule is simple: no stopping or parking during the signed hours.
Coming south from Queensland, and fire ants in Sydney. The Australian Government's outbreak site says fire ants spread when people move soil, potted plants and things that have been stored on the ground, and that movement restrictions are there to stop them leaving infested areas or crossing state lines. NSW suspended turf moving into NSW from Queensland's fire ant infested area after an interception in November 2024, and in September 2026 a single nest was found at a commercial premises in the Enfield area of Sydney. The rules shift as the response does, so your won't-carry list should link to the NSW fire ant response and restrictions (opens in a new tab) rather than paraphrase them. We're an Adelaide team, and we work with Sydney businesses, including Western Sydney Stump Grinding and Resolve Forward, by phone and email.