Why LinCon is building an all-wheel-drive Scania fleet At 75 metres above the ground, the truck beneath you stops looking like a truck and starts looking like a rather important insurance policy. LinCon makes its living putting people where ladders, common sense and ordinary cherry pickers fear to venture. Getting them there increasingly falls to…
Could a Chinese ‘Temu Kenworth’ challenge PACCAR’s Australian Truck Icon? Kenworth, and parent company PACCAR, have spent more than half a century building an extraordinary position in Australia’s heavy-duty truck market. But as FAW, Foton and SITRAK improve their products and pricing, could a Chinese manufacturer eventually produce a more affordable alternative to an Australian-built…
IVECO S-Way AS 550s join City Timber’s Melbourne fleet after nearly 50 years with the brand Melbourne timber wholesaler City Timber has added two IVECO S-Way AS 550 prime movers to a fleet relationship stretching back almost half a century. Founded by Con Peluso in 1976 and now run by sons Tony and Joe, the…
Scania P 280 4×4 XT water carts bound for Pilbara mines Premium Plant Hire is adding four Scania P 280 4×4 XT rigids to its fleet, including three 11,000-litre water carts destined for hard-to-reach drill sites in the Pilbara. Mining is rather fond of enormous machinery. There are dump trucks the size of suburban houses,…
IVECO Eurocargo ML160E32/P Road Test: More Muscle for Medium-Duty Freight With 320hp, 1,100Nm, a new eight-speed ZF automatic, S-Way-inspired styling and a serious safety upgrade, IVECO’s latest Eurocargo arrives with far more than a fresh badge. Howard Shanks takes a 12-pallet sleeper-cab curtainsider into Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs to find out whether this European middleweight offers…
The Biggest Buzz in the Southern Hemisphere How AIR CTI helps Warral Maldon move 7,000 hives for the Southern Hemisphere’s largest single movement of livestock Moving more than 70,000 frames of bees from overwintering sites across Victoria to more than 200 bee-drop sites spread across four separate almond orchards demands careful planning, a dedicated…
Scania Super 11 Front-Lift Waste Truck: 7% Less Fuel, More Payload Scania’s new Super 11 front-lift waste truck combines a lighter five-cylinder engine, claimed 7% fuel saving, strong low-speed torque and greater payload capacity in a package aimed squarely at Australia’s hard-working waste fleets. There is nothing particularly glamorous about the working life of a…
How Aussie CTI Keeps the Long Logger Moving Deep in Queensland’s coastal pine plantations, where soft sandy tracks, heavy payloads and relentless production demands collide, the world-first Elphinstone Long Logger Road Train is rewriting the rules of timber haulage. But moving more than 130 tonnes of truck, trailer and timber through the forests surrounding Tuan…
“I’ve just paid the registration on my old Dodge tipper for the 52nd year,” Rodney Linger smiled as he introduced himself, replacing the dipstick back into the Perkins 6-354 engine. “It still doesn’t use a drop a drop of oil,” he casually remarked, giving the left mudguard an affectionate pat as he walked back inside…
Driving Ahead of the Truck Professional Driver Behaviour and Defensive Driving Principles The best professional drivers do not wait for trouble to arrive. They identify the warning signs, create room and quietly remove the danger before it becomes an emergency. Driving Ahead of the Truck is the second instalment in a six-part road-safety series proudly…