ScreedPro’s Innovative Scania P380 Words and photography by Howard Shanks ScreedPro’s new Scania NTG P380 is pumping more than just tiling screed to building and constructions sites around the country, their unique custom-made pump truck is eliminating deadly silica dust and greatly reducing production costs and time while enhancing safety in the workplace. West Australian…
DetailsKenworth T410’s Winning Edge Words and Photography by Howard Shanks Every premiership winning football team has at least one multipurpose utility player on their side. Successful winning transport companies, like premiership winning football teams, have at least one multipurpose utility truck in their fleet, Kenworth’s new T410 is certainly ticking all the boxes as the…
DetailsThe above specifications highlight the unique flexibility of Kenworth’s custom engineering capabilities. From the heavy-duty factory optioned spec of the original owner through to the modified spec of the present owner, this old toiler of the bush is one Kenworth that keeps on keeping on.
Increased productivity with proven reliability may have influenced key determining factors in the decision for Triple-H Contracting to specify a Kenworth T659 8×4 fitted with a Kennedy folding quad dog and AIR-CTI central tyre inflation, but it was the committed back-up service and improved safety features that finally sealed the deal, as Howard Shanks discovered.…
DetailsExpanding Harvest Fleet Words and Photography by Howard Shanks Growing grain and lots of it is what they do best in far north-west New South Wales, however with variable rainfall over the past few years it has highlighted the economic and environmental fragility of broadacre farming systems. We asked Howard Shanks to investigate one lot…
DetailsBuilt to survive the notorious Tanami Track Words and Photography by Howard Shanks There’s not many trucks or trailers can handle the pounding of the corrugations along the notorious Tanami Track deep into Western Australia’s Kimberly country or the 400 odd km run from Cloncurry and the Century Zinc mine near the top of the…
DetailsScania 6×6 XT Spreading with Precision Words and Photography by Howard Shanks It’s somewhat uncanny that for all the technology coming into trucking today, the trucks themselves still lead hard lives and need to be built tough. And, no one knows that more than, Tim Murfett, manager of Launceston based Altrac Spreading, after all, his…
DetailsHow Freightliner trucks came to Australia Words by Howard Shanks, Images supplied by Freightliner (First Published – March 2002 – revised Jan 2019) Back in 1982 two trucks quietly rolled into the Mulgrave headquarters of Mercedes Benz (Australia). Not well known at the time, only a handful of truck fanatics and industry commentators recognised them…
DetailsCummins X15 Euro-6 Road Test. New emission regulations may be just around the corner, but Cummins and Kenworth are certainly getting ahead of the game with real world testing of their Euro-6 engines and models. Technical Editor Howard Shanks joined the Kenworth Safety Truck tour to experience the new high torque output of the Hummin’…
DetailsBarker B-Double Curtainsider Review For equipment to last when their regular runs are throughout the back blocks of Queensland, top quality components are a must. When Oakey based, Auchenroad Haulage’s Shane Wadley orders new equipment he always specifies the best components and that’s exactly what he did when he purchased this Barker B-Double Curtainsider from…
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