Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 406 i Deals On Wheels Australia

Brompton Road is a small family-owned and operated company based in Bullsbrook, 25km north of Perth on the Great Northern Highway. Charlie Berne and his wife Julie started Brompton in the early 1970s. Today the couple’s two sons Jason and Tim are an integral part of the business. Deals On Wheels recently caught up with Charlie and Jason at the BP Kewdale truck stop. The boys had just grabbed some breakfast and were about to head off to unload. “Except for a brief time offshore I have been with dad since the day I left school in ’95,” Jason says. “That’s over 20 years now.” Like many operators Brompton Road saw the advantages of specialising. The company has been working for rail companies for the past 30 years. “I should…

Fuso Geelong, in partnership with MatchWorks, has been named the winner of the inaugural Innovation in Disability – Team Award at the prestigious NESA National Employment Awards for Excellence at a gala dinner held in Melbourne recently. NESA (National Employment Services Association) is the peak body for the Australian employment and related services industry. When 19-year-old deaf job seeker Chris Linahan went to MatchWorks Geelong to help him realise his dream of becoming a diesel mechanic, this employment services provider realised that they needed a custom approach. To make their task more challenging Chris does not lip read, solely communicating via AUSLAN. MatchWorks’ answer was to form a special team to make Chris’ dream come true. They then turned to Fuso Geelong Dealer Principal, Richard Furnari. A philanthropist through and…

Iveco has signalled it has serious intentions for continued growth in the Australian van and light-duty truck markets, following the addition of 22 new wheelbase and volume combinations for its award-winning range. Joining the van line-up are new 7.3m³, 10.8m³ and 18m³ volume versions of the 35S; while the ranks of higher GVM 50C have been bolstered with new 9m³ and 10.8m³ variants, bringing the total volume options across both the 35S and 50C vans to 12. The most notable additions, however, have been to Iveco’s cab-chassis models across both the single and dual-cab range. The car-licenced 4,495kg GVM Daily 45C is now available in a choice of five additional wheelbases: 3,000mm, 3,450mm, 4,100mm, 4,350mm and 4,750mm. Dual-rated (4,495kg and 5,200 kg GVM) 50C models now feature a choice of…

At a quick glance, there’s a lot to make you think life has been very good for Steve Tyquin for a very long time. The meticulously restored homestead on rolling farmland, the small but perfectly preserved collection of iconic Aussie cars, and the immaculate trucks and trailers. It’s all mightily impressive and there’s no question, pride pervades. Even the workshop and driver’s room are more museum than truckie’s hangout. Meet this big, burly bloke for the first time though and it’s soon apparent that the showpieces of success have not come without long labour or harsh lessons in the raw realities of commercial life. There are no silver spoons in this story. In fact, it’s an abrupt Steve Tyquin who concedes that the impacts of ‘the recession we had to…

Fuso Truck and Bus has lauded its top dealers at the 2015 Dealer of the Year awards in Melbourne. The company presented the prestigious Metropolitan Dealer of the Year to Fuso Geelong, which also took out the award in 2013 and 2014. Fuso also presented the sought-after Rural Dealer of the Year to Murwillumbah Truck Centre. Fuso Truck and Bus director, Justin Whitford, praised the Fuso network at the awards presentation. “In what has been another challenging year for the retail truck market, our national dealer network has continued to push for sales growth across the country,” he says. “Major metropolitan dealerships and rural dealerships have worked tirelessly to ensure the Fuso business is front of mind for both our existing and conquest customers.” Whitford presented the Metropolitan Dealer of…

Dubbo’s Golden Oldies Truck Club’s motto is “preserving history on big wheels”. And that’s exactly what happened on August 13 when it organised the 2016 Dubbo Vintage Truck and Tractor Show. It was a big occasion, with the club celebrating 10 years in existence. As well as trucks, the show featured a wide variety of machinery, including vintage trucks and trailers, vintage tractors, vintage and classic cars, vintage motor bikes, stationary engines and steam traction engines. Brian Musgrave, head teacher of manufacturing, engineering, construction and transport at TAFE Western Dubbo College, added another audible dimension to the event with a number of static diesel engines, including an old two-stroke Detroit and a V8 Cummins. “We used them as teaching aids for many years but their days are over because the…

Mark Lienhop is a 35 year-old driver originally from Harcourt, about half an hour out of Bendigo. He has been driving trucks since turning 21 and most of those years on interstate work at the wheel of B-doubles. Not so long ago, with a wife and two growing children, he decided it was time to head home at night, every night. But finding the right ‘local’ job was the big question. Around the same time, Steve Tyquin was looking for someone with a responsible attitude and a good track record. Following an introduction by one of Steve’s drivers, Mark joined the company earlier this year and now has the reins of the company’s new A-double combination. Mark concedes it’s early days in the A-double and while there’s a lot to…