Ken Blanch Transport has added a Fuso Shogun 510 to its Taree-based fleet. The Shogun joins a Freightliner Cascadia and Mercedes-Benz Actros as the latest models provided by local Daimler Truck dealer, Mavin Truck Centre. The business owner, Ken Blanch, sought a truck that could haul bricks and steel around the region, but also go…
Kenworth K220 Breakdown – Whats new and Whats not. Kenworth unveiled its next level cabover, the K220, on Friday June 3rd in Brisbane to a crowd of 500 dealers, customers, and industry partners. Director Sales and Marketing, Brad May says “The K220 celebrates Australian ingenuity to engineer a uniquely Australian product to optimise the capability…
In the ever-increasing multi-combination market Kenworth’s Cabover is the unquestionable industry leader. What has made Kenworth’s COE the preferred choice with many leading fleets for decades? It’s task we gave Howard Shanks and the story begins at Kenworth’s Bayswater factory in Melbourne, Victoria. With the introduction of multi combination vehicles in one form or another…
Tasmania mid-winter, and it is still just as cold as when the state was little more than a penal colony. There is one exception however, it is considerably warmer in the cabin of a Kenworth T6… Seriously though, we’re here to checkout a new concept that increases log truck stability and payload. It was a…
With the rapid increase in heavy vehicle running costs, the following tips on how to match your tyres will undoubtedly see you extract a few extra thousand kilometres out of your tyres. But ultimately, it will make all the difference to your bottom line. Furthermore, it might even save you costly downtime from changing a…
While U.S. Freightliner customers will start enjoying massive reductions in fuel expenses as early as late 2022, with the announcement of the all-electric eCascadia that will enter series production later this year. Unfortunately, however, Australian customers will have to wait some time before they can start reaping the benefits of massive diesel savings because there…
Our journey in the Vähälä Actros 2663 Road Train begins in the Oulu, Northern Finland, in the dead of winter, where temperatures plummet to minus 40°Celcius. Here winter presents both the trucks and their drivers with a particular challenge, short days, icy roads and poor visibility. Finnish transport company Vähälä Group was founded in 1937…
Mack Anthem receives high driver acceptance from Richers Transport team. The Maryborough Queensland based company also welcomes significant fuel savings the Anthem returns. Richers took delivery of one of the first Mack Anthem prime-movers off the Wacol production line. Now since joining the fleet, it’s racked up over 200,000 kilometres. Another three Anthems have joined…
Tasmanian based Andrew Flynn is one innovative operator that repurposes old highway prime movers to suit his growing firewood business. This striking K100G is one of Andrew’s creative custom builds that enables him to deliver generous loads of 4.2-meter-long firewood logs to his expanding customer base. We sent Howard Shanks to investigate. The winters in…
The introduction of Mack’s B-Model in 1953 bought a raft of new technology and design concepts that would prove a complete departure from conventional trucks of the time. One of these more noticeable design concepts was found at the truck’s rear. Here top-mounted dual-reduction carriers were married with Mack’s Camelback suspension that eventually Mack marketed…