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…
A quarter-century on call: Dananni and IVECO Daily mark 25 years together When a multimillion-dollar mining operation grinds to a halt because one vital component has failed, all that expensive machinery suddenly becomes little more than very impressive scenery. That is when Dananni HOTSHOTS gets the call—and the clock starts ticking. In the mining,…
Scania Safety for Dangerous Goods When you are carrying Dangerous Goods, there is no room for shortcuts. For more than four decades, Morrow’s Logistics has built its reputation on safety, reliability and trust, supported by a fleet increasingly standardised around Scania trucks. Carrying Dangerous Goods is not a job for crossed fingers, cheap equipment or…
Treading Lightly – How MAN’s 18.340 4×4 with AIR-CTI is Revolutionising Spreading in Tasmania On a rain-soaked Tasmanian morning, the mist hangs low over Deloraine’s rolling hills, and the waterlogged paddocks glisten momentarily when the sun peeps through the clouds. Most trucks would be parked up, waiting for the ground to firm up. But not…