How Aussie CTI Keeps the Long Logger Moving Deep in Queensland’s coastal pine plantations, where soft sandy tracks, heavy payloads and relentless production demands collide, the world-first Elphinstone Long Logger Road Train is rewriting the rules of timber haulage. But moving more than 130 tonnes of truck, trailer and timber through the forests surrounding Tuan…
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…
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…
The 2025 Log Haulage Industry Code of Practice sets new national standards for safe and legal timber transport. Explore the latest compliance rules, safety protocols, and operator responsibilities shaping Australia’s forestry supply chain. After years of consultation, industry input, and field testing, the newly released Log Haulage Industry Code of Practicehas officially hit the ground –…
Queensland-based Sunchip Group has had Mack trucks and Elphinstone trailers operating in one form or another for over 30 years. But thanks to the proven reliability of their existing Mack Super-Liner and Elphinstone Long Logger fleet, they placed an order for ten more. Roughly three hours’ drive north of Brisbane, hidden within the verdant embrace…