Founded by Stuart Schifferle around 25 years ago, Schifferle Freight Services, formerly known as Berrigan Hay Logistics, is building a farming and trucking business based in country New South Wales.
The transport business started out of a need to cart hay and straw out of the family farm in the grain-growing region of NSW. Stuart bought a truck and trailer combination to start with and as the need to cart more hay emerged, he bought more B-double combinations. Assisting him today in the family business are his son Jackson Schifferle and son-in-law Kyle Hawker.
“We cart 10 B-doubles full of hay, straw and grain every day. We also do straw delivery to a mushroom grower in Sydney every week, carting at least three to four B-Doubles,” says Stuart. “We have a range of trucks and over 50 pieces of trailing equipment.
“Ten of those trailers are from MaxiTRANS including Lusty EMS Stag B-doubles that we bought in 2020, another Lusty EMS B-double set that we can also use as a road train, also bought in 2020, two sets of tri axle dollies, and a set of used drop deck Freighter T-liners that are 10-years old but working as new.
“I bought my first set of Freighter trailers for a straw job in 2018. It is a good combination that I had custom-built for hay cartage. The beauty of the trailer is that when we have finished unloading the delivery, we can load the A trailer on the B trailer with the help of hydraulic hooks and drive it back home as a single setup. We can also lift the B axles off the back so we only have two axles on the road instead of six. The B trailer being like that can also carry more bales of hay for us, which is another plus.”
Apart from the quality and efficiency of Lusty EMS trailers, Stuart also appreciates that they are Australian-made trailers and offer a huge variety for customers to suit different needs.
“MaxiTRANS is a big enough manufacturer so in terms of volume, they are able to get a lot done pretty quickly,” says Stuart. “I believe this is also one of the reasons we have so far been able to get the trailers in a more timely manner.”