The company’s extensive fleet of extendable trailers allows it to offer professional, competitively priced services for pipe haulage across Australia.
Generally delivering to laydown areas or to right-of-ways (ROWs) to sling pipe, occasionally there is a variation on long distance pipe haulage to site.
A recent task the company executed was the complete opposite – transporting pipe that had already been laid to be reused some 3,000 km away.
The project involved harvesting the pipe from the ground in outback Western Australia and reducing it to lengths of 20 m, loading the pipe onto the extendable trailer fleet then delivering to the site in rural New South Wales to be reconsolidated into a pipeline again.
Managing inclement conditions
While somewhat the reverse of the norm, Beattie Transport undertook this project as required and all was well.
However, although Australians are aware of the arid, dry conditions throughout the majority of outback central Australia, heavy rains are not usually anticipated.
Shortly after commencement of the project, Beattie Transport’s first ten trailers left the harvest site loaded without incident, but along the route torrential rains affected the next round of trailers.
Some of the second round of extendable trailers heading to the uplift site were stranded due to washed out roads.
Furthermore, with the storm being widespread across the country, not only were the roads affected but the destination site was flooded too.
This necessitated a re-work of the initial plan.
The Beattie Transport Operations teams in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane were all involved in rescheduling a major portion of the fleet to complete tasks already under way, and then re-mobilise to meet their commitment at the harvest site.
Drivers that were loaded and heading to washed-out areas were redirected.
Those closer to the inbound delivery site were directed into Beattie’s Adelaide depot to wait out the weather.
When the worksites were re-opened, the Beattie team liaised with operators to have trailers that had been diverted via Adelaide to arrive as directed to meet stringing requirements.
In the meantime, trailers loaded in the west had also been travelling through adverse conditions to follow on and complete the deliveries as required.
The project, although delayed by several days, was finally completed within budget and without additional costs being incurred because Beattie Transport was able to work closely with its customers for a mutually beneficial outcome.
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