Graeme Elphinstone Honoured Among Australia’s Road Transport Legends Few names in Australian transport innovation carry the weight of Graeme Elphinstone. From his workshop on Tasmania’s east coast, Graeme built Elphinstone Engineering into a company whose designs reshaped industries as diverse as logging and Antarctic exploration. This week, his lifetime of dedication was recognised on the…
Trucking Through the Last Frontier in a Kenworth T950 Road Train. By Howard Shanks – First published in Truckin’ Life, Volume 19, No. 10, July 1996 with the title Peninsular Purrer! It’s been nearly three decades since this unforgettable yarn first rolled off the pages of Truckin’ Life magazine and into the hearts of readers across Australia…
Is It Time to Mandate CTI for PBS Vehicles? Weighing the Pros and Cons for Braking and Stability Compliance As Australia’s Performance-Based Standards (PBS) scheme matures, the spotlight has intensified on the systems and technologies that enable heavy vehicle combinations to meet its stringent performance thresholds – particularly in the domains of braking efficiency and dynamic stability. Among…
The Rockinger Drawbar Finder – How it works. Click the play button to listen to “Hooked First Time – Field Testing Rockinger’s Drawbar Finder with Graeme McKay Earthmoving”. Can a simple bit of hardware transform how tippers hook up? Howard Shanks hits the road to Ararat, Victoria, to road test Rockinger’s clever Drawbar Finder…
The 2025 Log Haulage Industry Code of Practice sets new national standards for safe and legal timber transport. Explore the latest compliance rules, safety protocols, and operator responsibilities shaping Australia’s forestry supply chain. After years of consultation, industry input, and field testing, the newly released Log Haulage Industry Code of Practicehas officially hit the ground –…
Click the play button to listen to “Why Haulmark Wins in the Wild”. Australia’s most durable side tippers! Haulmark Trailers: Heavy Metal in the Outback. Why Roma Transport’s Charlie Burke Backs Haulmark Side Tippers for the Harshest Work on Earth There’s a certain kind of toughness you need to thrive west of Roma, Queensland. Not…
New Elphinstone steerable Dog-Logger improves road safety and lifts productivity standards for Queensland-based Suncoast Harvesting. “If you’re interested in a good story on something new, then give Greg Watson at Suncoast Harvesting a call up in Gympie,” Graeme Elphinstone suggested. “We’ve recently commissioned a new trailer fitted with our EasySteer suspension and a full loadcell…
Iveco S-Way on Supercars Odyssey Coast-to-Coast, Melbourne to Perth to Darwin and Back: We join driver Timmy Jennings, behind the wheel of Australia’s longest Supercars road trip with Erebus Motorsport and IVECO. 📍 TOTAL DISTANCE: ~11,200 km round trip 🚚 TRANSPORT: IVECO S-Way 550 AS with B-double trailer set ⚙️ GCM: ~53 tonnes loaded 🛣️ Key Stops: Nhill, Kimba,…
The Deep South When fully loaded B-doubles crawl out of Tasmania’s unforgiving Southern Forests, every ounce of traction counts. We sent Roadtrains.com.au’s Technical Editor, Howard Shanks, deep into the Huon Valley to ride shotgun with veteran logger Peter Madden and discover how AIR-CTI’s central tyre inflation system (CTI) is helping loggers conquer steep inclines, save tyres, and…
Three of the latest Elphinstone Easyloader Trailers Hit the Road from Triabunna. Laid out at Elphinstone Engineering’s Triabunna factory in Tasmania are three brand-new Easyloader logging trailers, each spec’d a little differently. This trio, poised for delivery, highlights the remarkable flexibility of the Easyloader trailer platform. It’s not often that a logging trailer becomes the…