6900 Western Star Review If you recall at the conclusion of last month’s Cat powered Mack Titan review Richo offered us one of their 6900FX Western Star for another used truck review. This week he’d arranged a few runs out into the desert to collect plant and equipment as well as a few iron ore…
Mack Titan with Smith built Belly Dumper Roadtrain It’s hot here! Damn hot! The humidity is stifling and the dust a greyish black. But it’s also home to three Cummins powered Mack Titans that haul 160-tonne payloads of processed manganese in an innovative trailer combination built by J Smith and Sons; Howard Shanks joined Kerren Smith for…
Heavy Haulin’ Kenworth One question I often get asked is, how much worth is in a Kenworth? To answer this question, I took a ride in 15-year-old T950 on a heavy haulage run to Port Latta. In Launceston early Monday morning the thick blanket of fog that rolled in from the Tamar River during the…
Kenworth T610SAR makes life a little easier out on the road. This special application engineered Kenworth T610SAR is making the road ahead a lot easier for Tas Road Express operator, Daniel White. The past decade has not been an easy one for him, rather it has been a long tough haul on the road to…
First Freightliner Cascadia 126 Operator’s first impression. Conbar Transport livestock haulage devision welcomes a new Freightliner Cascadia to their fleet. Hauling livestock at a maximum combination weight of 68 tonnes, the new 16-litre Cascadia 126 is already impressing with its fuel efficiency. “Livestock hauling is tough on fuel and each run is different, but the…
What does Ad-Blue do? The inspiration behind this advice article began when a reader wrote in asking why modern trucks have a warning sticker next to the electrical master or isolator switch advising to wait at least 80 seconds before turning off after the engine has shutdown. The simple short answer is to the let…
How to change the Cabin Fresh Air Filter on a Kenworth K200 The cabin fresh air filter or pollen filter is a standard feature on all Kenworth trucks. Its primary function is to clean the air that comes into the interior of the cabin and filter out any pollen, dust and other airborne material. Over…
Kenworth T410SAR – First viewing and in depth features review. Kenworth T410SAR provides payload and productivity advantages When it comes to “Australian Made” nothing can lay claim to this title like Kenworth’s SAR model, it is after all designed and built right here in Australia. It was in fact born in Victoria back in the…
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.…
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…