Up the Dusty Track | A Classic Road Trains Story Some stories don’t age. They just gather dust, kilometres, and proof. First written more than twenty years ago, this classic Roadtrains story revisits Northwest Queensland, the Schmidts, and the equipment that is still out there working today. A note from the author Some stories don’t…
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…
Haulmark Drop Deck Widener Review Haulmark trailers, built in Queensland, have long carried a reputation for doing things properly. Not just well, but properly. From their livestock trailers to the pioneering through loader system, Haulmark has always shown a knack for looking at a transport problem and calmly engineering a solution that makes everyone else…
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…
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…