Regular maintenance and service is the key to ensuring that you get the most reliable service possible from your truck. All Isuzu cabover trucks require the cabin to be raised or tilted to provide access to the engine bay when service and maintenance work is needed. Thankfully, the larger, heavy-duty Isuzu trucks have an electrically…
DetailsSharpgrade’s 1.6 box blade leveller has transformed Tasmanian based Otta Group’s Terex PT50 Positrack loader into a precision laser grading machine. It now delivers the performance of much larger grading machines with the agility and manoeuvrability of a skid steer, as Howard Shanks reports. ‘New infrastructure to lift economy’… It’s a sentiment brandished repeatedly from…
DetailsThumping 2500 HP V8 MACK drag truck remembered. It would be considered more than an ambitious project, even by today’s standards, to bolt a 2500 horsepower V8 Mack engine into a truck chassis with visions of running it down the quarter-mile in 11 seconds or less. Nevertheless, back in the mid-nineties, that’s what we set…
DetailsJCB 3185 – Review for used buyers There are few tractors in production today that have stood the test of time quite like JCB’s Fastrac 3000-series, a model that was introduced two decades ago. During it’s long production run the Fastrac 3185 in particular has become an exceptionally popular model, we sent Howard Shanks to…
DetailsByford A-Double Milk Tanker Review Over the past decade PBS vehicles have steadily been increasing the efficiencies and productivity of heavy vehicles as demand on the freight task increases. We sent Howard Shanks to northeast Tasmania to investigate one of the latest PBS vehicles on trial in the state. The innovative A-Double combination on trial…
Details6900 Western Star Review If you recall at the conclusion of last month’s Cat powered Mack Titan review Richo offered us one of their 6900FX Western Star for another used truck review. This week he’d arranged a few runs out into the desert to collect plant and equipment as well as a few iron ore…
DetailsCleary Bros Transport has introduced the Freightliner Cascadia to its iconic yellow fleet based in on the New South Wales South Coast. The Port Kembla company chose the Freightliner thanks largely to its advanced safety technology, including Active Emergency Braking with pedestrian detection, Lane Departure Warning and SideGuard Assist, a system that uses radar to…
DetailsMack Titan with Smith built Belly Dumper Roadtrain It’s hot here! Damn hot! The humidity is stifling and the dust a greyish black. But it’s also home to three Cummins powered Mack Titans that haul 160-tonne payloads of processed manganese in an innovative trailer combination built by J Smith and Sons; Howard Shanks joined Kerren Smith for…
DetailsFurniture hauling specialist Williamson Bros is reporting a 20 per cent fuel saving with its new manual Freightliner Cascadia. The Kempsey based company, which runs a 20-truck fleet, opted for an 18-speed manual Eaton manual for the 13-litre model. The Cascadia, hauling a B-Double and with Gross Combination Mass of 40 tonnes, completed its first…
DetailsHeavy Haulin’ Kenworth One question I often get asked is, how much worth is in a Kenworth? To answer this question, I took a ride in 15-year-old T950 on a heavy haulage run to Port Latta. In Launceston early Monday morning the thick blanket of fog that rolled in from the Tamar River during the…
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