Kenworth K200 Active Cabin Entry Explained Words and Photography by Howard Shanks Reliability, maintainability, availability and safety (RAMS) are four key attributes Huon Delivery Service owner, Johnathon Price, cites as critical features when he specifies new equipment. Their new fully optioned K200 easily ticked all those boxes as Howard Shanks discovered. Based in the picturesque…
Cub Cadet ride on lawnmower review. Boasting a wide 50-inch cutting deck with three blades, 24 horsepower Kohler engine and hydrostatic drive, the Cub Cadet LTX1050 is well suited to cutting council parks and grounds up to 1.6 hectares (4 acres). We sent Howard Shanks off to cut 2.5 acres of grass and put the…
Kenworth Driver Coaching and Training Drives Higher Profits – Case Study. Reliably delivering around half a million litres of diesel every day to outback Queensland customers requires more than the best equipment and good management. We sent Howard Shanks to the coal fields in Queensland’s Bowen Basin to find out how K&S Energy’s Driver Coaching…
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…
Kenworth 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…
The 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.…
Expanding 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…
Built 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…
Scania 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…