Auckland to Queenstown delivery and moving

Sending something the length of the country takes a bit more thought than a cross town drop off. SoundMove is a marketplace, so instead of ringing around for quotes you describe the job once and drivers come to you with their own prices. Here is what the Auckland to Queenstown run involves and how the bidding side of it works.

The trip covers roughly 1450 kilometres of road plus the Cook Strait ferry, and the driving itself is typically reckoned at 18 to 20 hours. It runs south on State Highway 1 through the Waikato and the central plateau to Wellington, across the strait to Picton, then down through Kaikōura and Canterbury before turning inland through the Mackenzie Country and over the Lindis Pass into Central Otago. Sailing times, weather on the strait and that long South Island leg are all things a driver has to weigh up. Rather than guess at a rate, you post the details free and each driver decides what your job is worth to them and prices their own bid accordingly. You are under no obligation to accept any of them.

Every driver has to be identity-verified before they can bid, and each bid shows you who you would be dealing with. Where a driver has completed jobs you can see their ratings and reviews, though someone newer to the platform may not have any yet. On a trip this long it is worth asking in your listing for drivers to set out how they plan to load, when they expect to sail and how they will keep you posted, so it comes through in their bid. Once the job is booked you can message your driver directly. When you accept a bid you are charged then, and SoundMove holds that money. It is held until the job's done, and released to the driver when you confirm, or automatically 24 hours after the driver marks it done if you haven't raised an issue. The SoundMove Guarantee can also contribute up to $500 towards an insurance excess on an accepted insurance claim, subject to terms.