Now Delivering Sundays: How Weekend Runs Work

Most garden jobs happen on the weekend, and until now our trucks didn't. If you wanted three metres of mulch for a Saturday afternoon, you either took delivery on a weekday and worked around the pile for a few days, or you spent the morning you'd set aside for spreading waiting for a truck. We now deliver on Sundays, and the Saturday run has been extended to match. Here's how the weekend works.

What's Changed

Two things. Sunday is now a delivery day across all three zones — it wasn't before, at all. And Saturday has been extended: it used to be a short morning run finishing at midday, and it now runs to 1pm, starting an hour earlier at 7am.

Everything else about delivery is unchanged. Same trucks, same yard in Altona, same zones, same rates.

A Weekend Run Is One Run

On a weekday you pick a morning, an afternoon, or anytime. On a Saturday or Sunday there is one option: 7am to 1pm.

That's deliberate rather than a limitation we're apologising for. A weekend is a single run out of the yard, so there is no afternoon shift to offer and no honest way to narrow the window further. Promising you a 9am–11am slot and then arriving at 12:30 is worse than telling you the truth up front: the truck is out between 7am and 1pm, and your load is somewhere in it.

Day	What you can choose
Monday to Friday	Morning 7am – 12pm, Afternoon 12pm – 5pm, or Anytime 7am – 5pm
Saturday and Sunday	One run, 7am – 1pm

If you need a tighter window than that on a weekend, ring the yard before you order rather than after and we'll tell you honestly whether we can do it.

Order Saturday, Delivered Sunday

The 3pm cutoff works the same way it always has: order before 3pm and the earliest date we can offer is the next day, and after 3pm it's generally two days out. What's new is that the next day can now be a Sunday.

Order before 3pm on a Saturday and Sunday is available. A job you decide on over Saturday breakfast can have material on the driveway before lunch the following day. Leave it until after 3pm on the Saturday and the earliest becomes Monday — so if the weekend is the point, order in the morning.

The calendar does this arithmetic for you and simply won't offer a date that's too soon, so there's nothing to count yourself.

What It Costs

The same as any other day. Delivery is charged per truck load at your zone's flat rate — $70, $80 or $95 depending on where you are — and there is no weekend surcharge. A Sunday load to Footscray costs exactly what a Tuesday load to Footscray costs.

The per-load rules don't change either: one load is up to 8m³ of a single material, and two different materials always travel as two loads. If that's new to you, Where We Deliver sets out the zones and the pricing in full, and you can check your own suburb on the Delivery areas page.

Booking a Weekend Delivery

Add what you need to the cart and pick your date in the When would you like it? step. Weekends now appear in the calendar alongside weekdays — if a Saturday or Sunday is selectable, it's available. Choose one and the time options collapse to the single 7am–1pm run automatically, so there's nothing extra to set.

Days we can't deliver are crossed out in the calendar rather than hidden, so you can see at a glance whether the weekend you had in mind is on or off.

As with any day, your chosen date is a request rather than a confirmed booking until we come back to you. We confirm before dispatch. Longer regional runs in Zone 3 are booked with a confirmed window, same as they are midweek.

How Far Ahead You Can Book

Up to about nine weeks. Weekend capacity is the thing worth planning around — there are two weekend days a week and rather more people who want them, so if your job depends on material landing on a particular Saturday, book it in early rather than on the Thursday before.

Public Holidays and Shutdowns

We don't run on Victorian public holidays, and that hasn't changed now that weekends are open. Long weekends are worth a second look when you're planning: the Monday is usually out, so the Sunday before it tends to go first.

The yard also closes over Christmas. Those dates are blocked out in the calendar as soon as they're set, so you'll see them crossed out rather than finding out after you've ordered.

Getting Ready for a Weekend Drop

The preparation is the same as any other delivery, with one addition worth thinking about: a tipping truck at 7:15 on a Sunday morning is louder than the same truck on a Wednesday. If your drop point is tight against a neighbour's bedroom window, it's worth either mentioning it when you order or picking a weekday instead.

Otherwise the usual applies — a specific drop zone, roughly 3.5m of clear width, firm ground, nothing low over the drop point, and cars and bins moved the night before. Before the Truck Arrives walks through the lot.

One practical note: take delivery on the Saturday if you're planning to spread on the Sunday. A load that lands at midday on the day you meant to finish the job tends to become next weekend's job.

Before You Order

Check your zone and rate on the Delivery areas page, browse the range in the Catalog, and see the full terms on our Delivery page.

Anything unusual about your access, or a weekend timing question the calendar can't answer? Call us on 1300 21 21 11 or use the Contact page. We'd much rather sort it out before the truck is loaded.