Direct drive or two-up: how urgent freight actually gets there
When a customer's timeline will not fit inside one driver's legal hours, there is only one lawful way to close the gap. Here is how the two options differ and what each one costs.
WA owned and operated since 2015
Western Australian freight, on our own trucks
Express, regional line haul, hotshot and storage across metropolitan Perth and country WA. Sixty vehicles, one hundred people, twenty-four hours a day.
Tail-lift and handlingMetro
2.5
ton selected vehicles
1.5 t on most vehicles · pallet jacks rated to 1,200 kg
supplied on request
Hotshot mobilisationDirect drive
4 hrTypical window from your call. Fastest
recorded: on the road in one hour.
Mobilisation windowHeadroom
Runs on the roadLive
Perth → NarroginWheatbelt distribution · depot to doorIn transit
Perth → EsperanceGoldfields line haul · return freightIn transit
Perth → Mount MagnetMid West · site deliveryLoading
About us
We pick up your goods and deliver them somewhere else in Western Australia, using trucks we own and drivers we employ.
2015Operating in Western
Australia since
0Vehicles, from cargo vans to
semi-trailers
0Employees across the network
24/7Including weekends and
public holidays
Why Lowki
A vertical operation, which is why the timings hold
We own and maintain our own fleet, employ our own drivers and run our own depot network. Nothing in the chain depends on somebody else picking up the phone.
Our trucks, our drivers
We are not a freight broker. The freight is carried on equipment we own and maintain, by drivers we employ, out of depots we run.
Twenty-four hours a day
After hours, weekends and public holidays included. A vehicle, driver and freight have gone on the road within an hour of a weekend phone call.
Metro and country under one operator
The whole Perth metropolitan area, plus the Wheatbelt, Great Southern, Goldfields-Esperance, Mid West and Murchison, and the Pilbara on request.
Compliance built into the run
Chain of Responsibility, load restraint and fatigue management are part of how the job is planned, not paperwork added afterwards.
How we work
Built around the jobs that cannot wait
Urgent parts to return plant to service, freight supporting a shutdown, a time-critical medical consignment. Work where the deadline is the whole job.
Urgent
Hotshot and direct drive
Hotshot mobilisationDirect drive
4 hrTypical window from your call. Fastest
recorded: on the road in one hour.
Mobilisation
windowHeadroom
A dedicated vehicle and driver on your job alone, mobilised typically within four hours, any hour of the week.
Two-up
Crewed so the vehicle never stops
Two-up crewingVehicle does not stop
Driver oneDriving,
inside fatigue limitsWheel
Driver twoRest
and fatigue break taken on boardResting
Two qualified drivers committed for the full
run
Two drivers on one truck: while one drives, the other takes their fatigue break. The only lawful way to close the longest time-critical runs.
Tracked
Booking through to proof of delivery
Proof of deliveryElectronic
Booking recordedReference issued to the customerDone
CollectedScanned
on to the vehicleDone
DeliveredPOD
captured and sentDone
Consignments are recorded from booking and collection to delivery, with updates and electronic POD sent to you.
Compliance
Journey Management Plans
Journey Management
PlanMain Roads
Sender, receiver and
siteDestination confirmed before
loading
Roads travelled and
timelineCompleted before the vehicle
departs
Prepared for time-critical and regional runs.
Prepared for time-critical and regional runs as a Main Roads requirement, and completed before the vehicle departs.
Systems
What sits behind the truck
You are hiring a freight operator, not software. But the systems are what let us tell you where your freight is and prove where it went.
Rates
Three ways customers engage us
Freight is priced on the work, not off a published table. Tell us the lane, the format and the timeline and you will get a rate against it.
Ad hoc and urgent
Hotshot, direct drive and one-off freight
Per jobquoted
How it works
- Dedicated vehicle and driver on your job alone
- Mobilised typically within a four-hour window
- Two-up crewing available where the timeline requires it
- After hours, weekends and public holidays
- Quoted on the call, no minimum order quantity
Scheduled runs
Regular cycles and fixed depot-to-depot lanes
Per lanequoted
How it works
- A rate card agreed per lane before the first run
- Tracked from booking and collection to proof of delivery
- Door-to-door, depot-to-door or depot-to-depot
- Return freight carried on the same lane
- A dedicated contact person within our team
Vehicle and driver hire
Capacity supplied to run under your direction
Per shiftquoted
How it works
- A vehicle and qualified driver for a single job, a shift or ongoing
- Replacement capacity for leave, breakdown or seasonal peak
- Licence classes matched to the equipment (HR, HC, MC)
- Our fatigue management and compliance obligations carried by us
- Ongoing arrangements reviewed at agreed intervals
All work is performed within Western Australia. Freezer and chiller freight is not carried.
Specifications
What we commit to
The operational parameters we hold ourselves to commercially. Each one depends on having a serviceable vehicle and a licensed driver available when you call.
Journal
From the journal
Notes from our operations and compliance team on how WA freight actually works.
What a hotshot really is, and when it is worth paying for
A dedicated vehicle, one job, no other freight on board. Where that changes the outcome on a mine site, and where a same-day service would have done the job.
Journey Management Plans: what goes in one and why
Sender, receiver, timeline, destination site and roads travelled, completed before the vehicle leaves. What Main Roads expects and how it protects both parties.