The Australian truck market is one of the most competitive and heavily saturated markets around the world. It is so in all categories, especially the medium duty market. That first leg pick-up market and
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Bumper crowd headlines magnificent Muster
Consider me officially blown away. Wow.
I guess those two sentences are a pretty abstract way to start a truck show summation, but allow me to expand and expound on those six words. I am lucky enough to
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Business Spotlight: Expanding Darling Downs Haulage’s legacy
Like many in Australia’s illustrious road transport industry, James Gilbert grew up around trucks. The familiar smell of diesel, the grime and the exhaust. With a father who loved trucks and built a
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TOTM: TKN Earthworks’ clean sweep
Earthmoving, demolition and shiny are not words that tend to go together with ease. I’m not saying they don’t align with each other at all, but if you were undertaking one of those word association
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Test drive: New FUSO Shogun
1997. That was the last time I was anywhere near a FUSO truck, that’s 29 years ago. 29 years is a very long time – to put it into perspective, it is 156,000 viewings of Smokey and the Bandit,138,000
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Melbourne operator’s gargantuan goals allow it to reach for the stars
There are plenty of Kenworth enthusiasts around Australia, and for that matter, the world. Think of the truck lovers who search eager eyed for older models and crystal clear photos of the iconic badge.
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Business Spotlight: Queensland operator lives the dream with growing fleet
Kim Woods started his business like many other Australian owner-drivers have over the years – with one truck and a dream. A devoted partner willing to sacrifice. A deep motivation to dedicate hours upon
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Inside the industry’s diesel debate
Ross Transport isn’t averse to tough times. As a proudly family owned and operated transport business since 1975, the Illawarra-based outfit has lived and steadily grown through peaks and troughs, through
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OwnerDriver celebrates 400 editions and growing legacy
The year was 1992 when the notice was first issued to the Australian road transport industry. In August of that year, small independent Brisbane-based newspaper and magazine company Publishing Services
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TOTM: Doug’s dream Kenworth
One of the great things about trucking is how easy it is to slip into the ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ – that affliction where you kind of forget how old you are. It enables us to rock out like Australian
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