Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 392 i Deals On Wheels Australia

Neil Kadel has been driving trucks “ever since his feet could touch the pedals”. Trucking was in the family; his late father Ally Kadel and brothers Colin and Ronald were all involved in the industry. “My old man had trucks in Roma and had a couple of C1800 Internationals,” Neil recalls. “One had a Cummins and the other a Perkins. They were the biggest trucks that he bought. “He did rig moves in the country north of Injune and around Roma.” Nowadays, Neil and wife Raelene own and operate Kadel Contractors out of their depot in Injune, central Queensland, employing nine staff. The Kadel line-up contains three Western Star prime movers with two drilling rigs, an Acco drilling rig and a new MAN TGS with a SM20 drill on its…

Parts supplier MaxiParts has expanded its retail offering with a new online store — www.maxiparts.com.au — hoping to provide a time-saving platform for its customers. The MaxiTrans subsidiary says the MaxiParts Online ordering site lists more than 10,000 parts available for purchase, and offers home or workshop delivery and pick-up from any of its 19 retail and three wholesale outlets throughout Australia. “MaxiParts has developed this online service with the aim to save our customers time and money,” national branch operations manager Simon Hole says. “Now, no matter where they are, from axles and suspensions to toolboxes and portable fridges, customers will have access to our great range of products.” The online store can be accessed by desktop computer, tablet or mobile. MaxiParts says it is adding new products daily…

If you’re a start-up business or an existing business growing, at some point you will probably consider the option of buying used equipment or vehicles. One of your biggest questions will be whether to buy new or used. DEPRECIATION This is important regardless of your budget, as the main reason for choosing is the question: What about depreciation — the gradual decline in a vehicle’s value over its useful life? Have you thought about why people by used equipment and vehicles? People who swear by used recommend you buy a vehicle when it’s one to three years old, after depreciation has already taken its biggest bite. The idea is to own it during the time the loss of value has slowed down and then sell it on before the repair…

When it came to topping-up one of Australia’s largest and most specialised truck fleets, a cookie-cutter solution simply wasn’t going to cut it for building materials giant Hanson. Enter the team at Isuzu Trucks and the FYJ 2000 Agitator — a model that has redefined the term ‘fit-for-purpose’. With sector revenue projected to top a staggering $6.2 billion dollars in 2015, Australia’s ready mixed concrete manufacturing industry is serious business indeed. And as one of the country’s leading suppliers of heavy building materials to the construction industry, Hanson is as serious as it gets, owning and operating 60 quarries, 229 concrete plants and two precast concrete facilities across Australia. Hanson is part of the Heidelberg Cement Group, which employs 57,000 employees at approximately 2,600 locations on five continents. Along with…

You don’t have to look far to find examples of Intertruck’s penetration into the New Zealand market, particularly when it comes to the 9800i cab-over. Some of the examples are, in fact, absolute stunners. At a saleyard south of Auckland, for instance, Nationwide Livestock’s Mike Mathieson was entirely happy to showcase two stunning 9800i combinations under his management, with one of the two also owned by him. An affable 38 year-old with 20 years’ experience in livestock haulage, Mike made the decision less than two years ago to venture into his own business and along with the two 9800s, also manages livestock loadings for nine subcontractors. “It keeps me busy,” he says with a broad smile. However, when it came to buying his own truck Mike admits he had a…

At a time when quantities of ‘back yard’ AdBlue are increasingly becoming available throughout Australia, the iconic road transport company BagTrans has confirmed why truck operators need to be aware. “VDA approval is critically important to the reliability and cost of running our fleet which is why we only use VDA approved AdBlue”, fleet manager Joachim Egger says. BagTrans operates more than 100 rigids and prime movers and 160 trailers for metro and interstate haulage. The interstate fleet is made up of Mercedes-Benz and Volvo and Japanese rigids are used for local deliveries. The fleet is continually being updated. “When AdBlue is not VDA approved it has not complied with strict European rules on how it is manufactured and there is no way of knowing how it was blended or…

Hot on the heels of announcing the return of the International brand to the Australian market, parent company Navistar has opened a comprehensive proving ground facility at Indiana in the United States. Located little more than an hour’s drive from Navistar’s global headquarters near Chicago, the Navistar Proving Ground covers more than 270 hectares and will provide full in-house testing facilities across the entire portfolio of models from light weight rigids and school buses to line-haulers, heavy-duty specialists and military vehicles. Recently purchased from the Robert Bosch company, the site includes a 5km paved and banked oval in addition to the full composite of commercial vehicle testing facilities including: • brake testing capabilities which include infrastructure, complete instrumentation and computerised data acquisition • structural durability and accelerated mileage accumulation on…