a handful of trucking snippets

A Handful of Trucking Snippets

The news this week includes new electric tippers, and refuse trucks as well as more conventional diesel prime movers, also in a handful of trucking snippets are management changes at Volvo and a new camera from Teletrac.
Read More
lifetime of lorries, quarries and tips

Lifetime of Lorries, Quarries and Tips

Aiden Kelly is General Manager at North West London-based Kingscote Haulage, and the job he has been enjoying for the last 44 years, is moving muck, living in a ’lifetime of lorries, quarries and tips’ he’s worked on some of the England’s capital city’s biggest civil engineering projects, moved millions of tonnes of muck, and helped to shape the current skyline.
Read More
rural trucking operations looking to the future

Rural Trucking Operations Looking to the Future

Based in Bolwarrah, about half an hour out of Ballarat in Victoria, Mark and Kaye Rix run a small rural bulk freight business from their small property on the edge of the settlement, Marcay Transport is one of many small rural trucking operations looking to the future.
Read More
a truck within its comfort zone

A Truck Within its Comfort Zone

Some trucks look to be designed for a particular task, and Tim Giles finds when driving a Western Star 47X as a tipper and dog, it is a truck within its comfort zone.
Read More
a mix of truck and five-axle dog combinations

A Mix of Truck and Five-Axle Dog Combinations

Marcay Transport runs a mix of truck and five-axle dog combinations pulled by Freightliner Coronados and the rest run as B-doubles, pulled by Cascadias. The operation is based in Bolwarrah, about half an hour out of Ballarat in Victoria, Mark and Kaye Rix run a small rural bulk freight business from their small property on the edge of the settlement. The trailers used in the fleet are a mixed bunch with some arriving second hand and others built specifically for Marcay.
Read More
growing up around heavy machinery

Growing Up Around Heavy Machinery

The Murada brothers loved growing up around heavy machinery as their father operated an earthmoving business which included three bulldozers, a prime mover and a float used to shift the machinery from job to job. 
Read More
tipper business among the sugar cane

Tipper Business Among the Sugar Cane

Mick and Michelle De Winter run a small landscaping and tipper business among the sugar cane in the quiet backwater of Jacobs Well in the middle of a large sugar cane growing area of the Gold Coast.
Read More