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Chemistry of Reliability with Iveco

Articles, Features, Truck Articles27 June, 2025

Chemistry of Reliability: Packaging Traders Builds In-House Fleet with IVECO Muscle Click the play button to listen to “ Chemistry of Reliability with Iveco Trucks”. https://www.roadtrains.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Iveco_Packaging_Mix_01.mp3 When customer service is the lifeblood of your business, relying on third-party freight can quickly become a liability. For Sydney-based Packaging Traders, one of Australia’s most innovative food-grade packaging…

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Jun272025

Solo Resources Invests in 50 New IVECO Trucks to Power Growing Waste Contracts

Articles, Features, News, Truck Articles24 June, 2025

Solo Resources Invests in 50 New IVECO Trucks to Power Growing Waste Contracts When it comes to waste and recycling, there aren’t many bigger names on the street or in the job than Solo Resources. For decades, the company has been a quiet powerhouse behind Australia’s waste management services, and now they’re making noise again…

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Jun242025

McHale 991 Hi-Speed Bale Wrapper: Review

Articles, Farm Machinery21 June, 2025

McHale 991 Hi-Speed Bale Wrapper: Review When it comes to slick, efficient round bale wrapping, the McHale 991 Hi-Speed bale wrapper is certainly worth adding to the pointy end of your list. The 991 Hi-Speed model boasts twin aluminium dispensers that maintain consistent film stretch while delivering 60 bales per hour. Thanks to generous rain…

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McHale 991 High-Speed Round Bale Wrapper wrapping silage in a paddock during harvest.

Avant 745 Arbour Pro Operator Review

Articles, Construction Equipment, Farm Machinery21 June, 2025

Avant 745 Arbour Pro Operator Review Words and Photography by Howard Shanks Tasmanian-based arborist cites the addition of a new Avant 745 articulated loader as a real game changer for his operation, speeding up worksite clean-up time with improved material handling capabilities and lower ground footprint. Arborist John Douglass, the owner of iClimb Tree Solutions,…

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Jun212025

The Avant 745 Arbor Pro expertly lifts a massive Norfolk Pine trunk with ease – showcasing its power, precision, and efficiency in demanding arborist and tree removal operations.

Breaking Ground with a Scania R770 & MTE Linkwing

Articles, Features, Truck Articles19 June, 2025

Click the play button to listen to “Breaking Ground with a Scania R700” Breaking Ground with a Scania R770. How Australia’s tunnelling boom is driving demand for heavy haulage expertise like those offered by D & P Solutions and their V8 Scania trucks. Australia is in the midst of an unprecedented tunnelling boom. Megaprojects are underway…

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Winter Battery Care for Trucks:

Articles, Features, News, Tech Tips, Truck Articles4 June, 2025

Winter Battery Care for Trucks: Keep the Cold from Killing Your Cranking Power If you’re like me and live in a region where the winter mornings bite hard and the frost settles thick across your windscreen, then chances are you’ve come up against the dreaded dead battery at least once. Nothing quite ruins the start…

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MMW Highway-Bowl side tipping trailer: Review

Articles, Features, Truck Articles2 June, 2025

MMW Highway-Bowl side tipper quad road train review. Mining company executives have little time for the finer details of truck and trailer specifications and even less for manufacturers marketing garrulity. Except, that is when your trailer combination promises to deliver a 10 per cent payload increase. Townsville based trailer builder; Mick Murray Welding knows this…

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Winter Battery Care for Tractors

Articles, Farm Machinery1 June, 2025

If, like me, you live in a cooler climate with long frosty winter mornings, then there is a high probability that you’d have undoubtedly encountered a battery that has failed to crank an engine once or twice. But let’s face it, replacing a battery on an icy cold frosty winter morning is no walk in…

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Crusin’ the Corrugations!

Articles, Features, Truck Articles24 May, 2025

Crusin’ the Corrugations! In the wet season the track is impassable. In the dry season it’s a long dusty corrugated track, 800 odd kilometres or so. Yet this is where one Kenworth T6 travels each week delivering much needed supplies to remote centres inhabitants. It is a little before 4am in Mareeba one Saturday morning…

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May242025

Endurant XD Pro – Under the microscope

Articles, Features, Truck Articles21 May, 2025

From the late eighties through to the end of the last century, Eaton globally dominated the manual transmission market with their popular Roadranger gearboxes. So popular were Eaton Roadranger transmissions that many European manufacturers had to fit them merely to get a sale here in Australia. In fact, there was a time once, where if…

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