Australia
Built to order for Australia
Food trailers, mobile kitchens and ablution blocks, specified against your menu or your site, checked against the Australian approval route before you pay, and delivered with the documents that get them on the Register of Approved Vehicles.
In Australia getting this wrong is expensive, because approval happens before first supply rather than after it. A trailer that arrives without an entry on the Register of Approved Vehicles is a trailer that cannot be sold, and no amount of paperwork afterwards fixes it.
So the route under the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 is established at the start, in writing, and the equipment certification for this market is done at manufacture. Several categories cannot be certified retrospectively here, so a unit built without them arrives unsaleable.
Getting it registered in Australia
Import approval before the unit is shipped under the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018, entry on the Register of Approved Vehicles before it is first supplied, and separately certified gas and electrical equipment. Which route applies to your unit is established in writing before you pay, with the authority and the documents named. The route for Australia, with the regulator's own source and the date it was read.
The range
What we build for Australia
Food trailers for sale
The food trailers for sale here are built to an order around the menu you actually serve, with the equipment schedule and the electrical design...
See the rangeCommercial food trailers
A commercial food trailer is separated from a market stall on wheels by three things: the surfaces it is lined with, the load its electrical design...
See the rangeCoffee carts and trailers for sale
A coffee cart for sale here is drawn around the machine, the grinder and the water treatment first, because those three decide the counter length,...
See the rangeMobile kitchens for sale
A mobile kitchen for sale here is a full production kitchen on a chassis rather than a serving hatch with a griddle behind it, which changes the...
See the rangeAblution blocks for sale
A portable ablution block for sale here puts toilets, showers and hand wash on one road registrable chassis, sized around the people it serves in a...
See the rangePortable toilet trailers for sale
A portable toilet trailer for sale here carries toilets and hand wash without showers, which makes it lighter, cheaper to service and easier to tow...
See the rangeMobile crib rooms
A mobile crib room is where a crew sits down out of the heat, so the specification starts with the air conditioning and the insulation and works...
See the rangeMobile bars for sale
A mobile bar for sale here is drawn around the pour rate, because chilled volume, ice and glassware storage all follow from how many drinks leave the...
See the rangePortable toilet manufacturers
A hire operator looking for portable toilet manufacturers needs a source of supply rather than one unit, and that is a different conversation with...
See the rangeAustralia
What is different here
What is true here and not in the United Kingdom. 8 things that decide a specification in this market and do not apply in the other one, each with the instrument or the authority it was read from.
Decides the unit
01Three masses, and two of them cannot be put on a weighbridge
Vehicle Standards Bulletin 1, Revision 6, defines tare mass as the trailer with no load, fluid reservoirs at nominal capacity, ready for service with all standard equipment and options fitted, including the mass imposed on the towing vehicle. Gross trailer mass is the mass transmitted to the ground by the trailer's tyres when coupled and fully loaded. Aggregate trailer mass is the total mass fully loaded, including the mass imposed on the towing vehicle. The bulletin is explicit that ATM and GTM are manufacturer specified ratings and cannot be measured on a weighbridge.
What it changes. The difference between ATM and GTM is the load carried by the coupling, which is what the tow vehicle has to accept. Two of the three numbers on the plate are declarations rather than measurements, so the evidence behind them is the drawing and the compliance work rather than a ticket.
Read from Vehicle Standards Bulletin 1, Revision 6, August 2026 2026-09-09
Gas certification has to exist at manufacture, and a CE mark is not it
It is an offence in every state and territory to sell or offer a Type A gas appliance that is not certified by an authorised Conformity Assessment Body. The certification must exist at the time of manufacture and cannot be added afterwards, and CE and CSA certification are explicitly not sufficient.
What it changes. The appliance is chosen before the unit is built or it is not chosen at all. An uncertified hot line does not make a unit late in Australia, it makes it unsellable there, which is a different category of problem from a missing document.
Read from Energy Safe Victoria, gas appliances and online sales 2026-09-04
The site facilities duty is written in a regulation and expanded in a code, and the code is the useful half
Regulation 41 of the model Work Health and Safety Regulations requires adequate and accessible facilities, including toilets, drinking water, washing and eating facilities, in good repair and readily accessible. The model Code of Practice on managing the work environment and facilities is where the content sits: what adequate means for the number of workers, the nature of the work and the risks.
What it changes. It is the mirror image of the British position, where the duty names functions and the code has no ratios. Here a specification argues from the Code, which is why a unit for an Australian site is sized against the crew and the shift in the Code's own terms.
Read from What Australian law asks of site facilities, with each provision and read date 2026-09-05
Heat is a design input here, not a comfort question
A crib room, an ablution block and a hot line all have to work on the day the ambient is highest rather than on the day it is mildest. Refrigeration rated for a showroom is not rated for a yard in February, extraction sized for a temperate kitchen starves in one that is already at forty, and a mess area without shade and cooling is a facility on paper.
What it changes. It changes the equipment schedule rather than the trim. Cold chain, ventilation and the power to run both at once are specified against the worst day the unit will work, and that day is a different day here.
Read from Our own specification rule. It follows from the equipment ratings rather than from an instrument. 2026-09-09
Decides the business
05Four trailers a year through the concessional route, and then a different route entirely
Trailers with an aggregate trailer mass of 4.5 tonnes or less need an approval before they can be provided to the Australian market, and they are expected to comply with the applicable Australian Design Rules. A manufacturer or importer may apply for a concessional Register of Approved Vehicles entry for up to four low ATM trailers in a twelve month period, entered vehicle by vehicle. Above that the route is a vehicle type approval, which is a different piece of work with different evidence.
What it changes. It is a constraint on the business rather than on the unit, and it is the reason a fleet order for Australia is planned as a type approval from the first conversation rather than discovered as a cap on the fifth trailer.
Read from Low ATM trailers, Department of Infrastructure 2026-09-04
The first importer becomes the Responsible Supplier, and an overseas company cannot be one
Under the Electrical Equipment Safety System the first importer of in scope electrical equipment is the Responsible Supplier, and to register they must be an Australian or New Zealand legal entity holding an ABN or a New Zealand IRD number. An overseas based company cannot be registered. There is one Authorised Officer for each Responsible Supplier entity.
What it changes. It decides who imports before it decides what is imported. Either the buyer holds it, or a local entity does, and that is a commercial structure to settle at the start rather than a form to fill at the port.
Read from EESS, manufacturers and importers as Responsible Suppliers 2026-09-08
Decides the operation
07In Queensland one council licenses the unit and every other council can inspect it but cannot touch the licence
Under the Food Act 2006, an application for a food business carried on from mobile premises goes to any local government for an area in which the business intends to operate. The Act then calls that one the first local government and every other one a second local government. A second local government has the same powers the first would have had, except that it may not cancel, suspend, impose conditions on, or take any other similar action in relation to the licence. It may only advise the first.
What it changes. The choice of issuing council is a real decision rather than an administrative one, because it fixes who can suspend the operation and who can only report it. It is made once, at application, and it follows the unit for the life of the licence.
Read from Food Act 2006 (Qld), sections 52, 89 to 92 2026-09-09
New South Wales runs the opposite rule, and the garage needs consent as well as the pitch
The NSW Food Authority says a mobile food vendor notifies the local council, and that the prior consent of every local council in whose area the vehicle will be used for storing, preparing or selling food may be required, covering street trading and operating on private land or public roads. It adds that council approval may also be required for garaging or maintaining the vehicle at particular premises, especially where those premises store food supplies and equipment used in the vehicle's operation.
What it changes. A unit that crosses council boundaries in New South Wales carries a different administrative load from the same unit in Queensland, and the place it sleeps is itself a consent. Two states, one country, opposite mechanics, and the operating plan rather than the build is what changes.
Read from Mobile food vendors, NSW Food Authority 2026-09-09
Tell us what it has to do
Menu, or site headcount. Either is enough to start a specification.