How Elphinstone’s Long Logger Road Train revolutionises timber haulage productivity Elphinstone’s bright-green Long Logger Road Train is more than an impressive 66-wheel timber haulage combination. It is a working example of how smarter trailer engineering can move the same freight task with fewer trucks, fewer drivers, less diesel and lower emissions. There are moments in…
Winter Truck Air System Maintenance: How to Stop Moisture Freezing Your Brakes Cold weather exposes every weakness in a truck’s air brake system. From tired air dryer cartridges to moisture sitting in trailer reservoirs, winter is when small problems can quickly become frozen air lines, dragging brakes and costly roadside delays. Winter has a habit…
Elphinstone Engineering Teases New Forestry Transport Innovation Elphinstone Engineering is preparing to unveil a new specialised forestry transport solution designed to improve payload efficiency, productivity, and operational performance for Australian timber haulage operators. Deep inside the workshops at Elphinstone Engineering, sparks are flying as fabrication teams assemble what could become the next significant step forward…
Will the Scania Longline Transform Australian Line-Haul Trucking? Scania’s Longline Could Be the Truck Australia Didn’t Know It Needed. Australia has some of the toughest, longest-distance freight operations on Earth, yet strangely, and somehow, we’ve also normalised the idea that drivers crossing this gigantic continent should live for days at a time inside a cabin…
Protran Solutions To Showcase Sunswap Solar-Electric Refrigeration System At TruckShowX 2026 For years, the refrigerated transport industry has been fed the same story: if you want serious cooling performance, you need a diesel refrigeration unit hanging off the front of the trailer, rattling away through the night, burning fuel by the hour, disturbing nearby residents…
Resurrecting Krystal Dreams (Ford LTL 9000) Born in the horsepower wars of the 1980s, this Ford LTL 9000, aptly named “Krystal Dreams”, became a legend on the notorious East–West run across the Nullarbor, where fast trucking was king. Now, its restoration brings that golden era roaring back to life, thanks to Highland Haulage owner…
Diesel Panic, Price Boards and Sunshine: Why the Cold Chain Is Starting to Ditch Diesel If you want to understand Australia’s relationship with diesel, don’t watch the news. Watch what happens the moment the word “Middle East” appears in a headline. Within hours the country goes into a familiar routine of panic filling, muttering at…
How to Reduce Refrigerated Trailer Fuel Costs on Long-Haul Runs If your fridge motor is quietly burning a hole in your margins, you’re not alone. Refrigerated-trailer fuel costs are rising across Australia. Diesel reefer consumption is under scrutiny, long-haul refrigerated transport operators are feeling the squeeze, and the numbers are getting harder to ignore. Protran…
Freighter at 80: The Name That Carries Australia Every trailer has a story. Some carry freight. Others carry history. For eighty years, Freighter has done both, standing quietly behind the trucks that opened highways, built industries, and connected a continent. This is the story of the trailer brand that became part of Australia’s backbone. Long…
FTE 28 Pallet Split Quad Review The quiet integration of a proven PBS workhorse into mainstream Australian freight Split quad trailers are not new. They have been quietly proving themselves on Australia’s PBS network for years. What is changing now is their integration into everyday fleet operations, as more operators recognise their ability to deliver…