Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 440 i Deals On Wheels Australia

When the first issue of Deals on Wheels rolled off the presses in 1985, Australian soapie Neighbours was making its debut on TV, ‘We Are the World’ by USA for Africa was blasting across the air waves, Super Mario Bros was being unleashed on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Coca-Cola released New Coke, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple to found NeXT, and Volvo began production of the FL in a bid to regain lost market share in the medium-duty truck category. While some failed to fly – especially New Coke, which would go down in history as one of the worst marketing blunders of all time, others such as Neighbours, Super Mario Bros and the Volvo FL would stand the test of time. As has Deals on Wheels, which marked its…

It's for all these reasons that we use Kenworth Truckies are the backbone of our great sunburnt land. They’re honest, hardworking, extremely hospitable people, and importantly, they tell it like it is. My assumptions were confirmed when I ventured out to Goondiwindi, west of Brisbane, to meet Andrew Woods, director of Woods Transport (an important cog in the Woods Group agribusiness juggernaut). And funnily enough, all of those qualities above are mirrored through his fleet of Kenworth trucks, which happen to be the backbone of his business. ABOVE AND BEYOND Woods Group has been a ‘Kenny’ kind of business for decades. Andrew struggles to remember the days without a Kenworth truck in Woods livery, and that’s fair enough considering they purchased their first way back in 1972. “My father, Tom…

Kenworth DAF Melbourne is offering a 2015 T909 prime mover for sale. With Eaton 22 series Ultrashift transmission, Meritor RT46-160 diffs, and Airglide 460 suspension, this all-rounder is versatile enough for the highway or roughest outback track. It’s powered by a 550hp Cummins ISXe5 Euro 5 engine with a torque rating of 1,850 lb-ft. The ISXe5 can be equipped with Advanced Dynamic Efficient Powertrain Technology (ADEPT) – a suite of electronic features that interact with Eaton AMT’s, dynamically adapting to operating conditions to enhance fuel economy with no impact on productivity. The truck has travelled 1.4 million kilometres and had a full in-chassis rebuild at the 780,000-kilometre mark. This prime mover used to be a part of a leading operator’s fleet. This was one of three Kenworth trucks the business…

the K200 set an entirely new standard for Kenworth Time flies! Or at least it has certainly flown jet-fast since Kenworth shocked the socks off the cab-over community with the arrival in late 2010 of the stunningly-styled K200. Inside and out, the K200 set an entirely new standard for Kenworth’s seemingly ageless K-series cab-over. In fact, almost from the moment of its first appearance, this radical rebirth of a model increasingly seen as outdated and even agricultural compared to its continental competitors, was suddenly saluted as the most dramatic and innovative design change in the long history of Kenworth’s cab-over class. Success was immediate. More to the point, it put Kenworth back in the cab-over spotlight, largely nullifying the complaints and criticisms which were all too stark when measured against…

it’s a supreme country music show The odds were slightly against this year’s 32nd Penrith Working Truck Show reaching the heights of previous events held at the Museum of Fire, especially when measured against the high mark of 2012’s 25th anniversary running of the show. Rain appeared to be the main concern, with 30mm falling on the Friday night, barely two days before show time on the morning of Sunday, March 31. Organisers acted quickly, ushering some of the 60-tonne park floats ahead of schedule on Friday, and holding back others until the grounds began to dry on Saturday. “It was by the skin of our teeth with the weather that hit on Friday night,” says Museum of Fire CEO and show organiser Mark White. “Some of these B-doubles are…

See the video @ TradeTrucks.com.au Two years ago, Cummins Inc. paid a heap of money – around US$600 million – to consolidate a joint venture with transmission and drivetrain specialist Eaton Corporation. The result was an entirely new division called Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies. In many minds, including this one, it was one of the smartest moves by Cummins in decades. Nor was it naïve for Eaton to strengthen ties with its fellow American to shore up defences against the rampant rise of European interests. ‘Fortress America’ fighting back, so to speak! Sure, Eaton and Cummins have worked closely for decades, but never this close and never with the complete intention of creating advanced powertrain packages developed as a single integrated unit. Overdue? Probably! Necessary? Absolutely! I have no intention…

Ground-breaking new research has revealed what we always knew – that print advertising helps drive digital traffic and enquiry. The research – analysing digital enquiry numbers of hundreds of our dealers over a two-year period – found a direct correlation between digital enquiries and advertising in Deals on Wheels magazine. Clients who advertise in print and online receive almost double the amount of enquiries of those that advertise online alone! Separate research also shows that adding print media to any other media channel delivers stronger consumer brand affinity and purchase intent, beyond that achieved when advertising is seen on any other two channel combinations. The same research also shows that consumers are more likely to trust a message delivered in printed media and are, therefore, more confident about their purchase…

Surprisingly, the Mitsubishi/Fuso Canter generated the most enquiries of any truck model on the Bauer Media Group classifieds network for the period January 1, 2019 to April 19, 2019. The ‘little truck that can’ accounted for 6.4 per cent of enquiries in the period, ahead of another surprise packet, the Freightliner Argosy (4.2 per cent). In third place was the Isuzu NPR (3.56 per cent), just ahead of the Hino 500 Series at 3.4 per cent and the Hino 300 Series at 3.1 per cent. Filling out the top 10 were the International/Iveco Acco at 3 per cent, the Volvo FH (2.23 per cent), the Mitsubishi/Fuso Fighter (2 per cent), Volvo’s FM (1.7 per cent) and Isuzu’s FSR (1.5 per cent). Top 10 enquiries by model…

I wanted a big bonnet They say ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, or in today’s terms ‘a pixel is worth 1,024 bits’. Either way, you get my drift. However, when it comes to Muscat Haulage, whatever I write here has very little chance of getting read. The truth is, even I’m distracted by the images of the Muscat’s Kenworth Legend 900s as I view them on the screen beside me as I write this story. I completely understand if you haven’t read past the first few paragraphs, but if I can drag your attention off the shiny big trucks for a minute, it’s worth reading up on a family that is so entrenched in trucking, I’m pretty sure they would have diesel-scented air fresheners hanging throughout the house.…

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