Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 409 i Deals On Wheels Australia

Jess Edwards’ adrenaline was pumping when she parked a 2012 Kenworth T659 near a farm gateway to collect her thoughts after narrowly avoiding an accident. She was about 30km north of Roebourne on the North West Coastal Highway in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. An impatient driver in a 4WD had attempted to overtake Jess on her left hand side as she was turning left. Jess avoided the collision by inches. Luckily she was only towing one empty stock crate. She usually pulls three trailers with about 150 head of cattle. Before her heart rate returned to normal Jess pressed record on her mobile phone to make a video of what she would have liked to tell the 4WD driver if he or she hadn’t raced off towards the…

Heavy Vehicle Industry Australia (HVIA) has announced a series of new features and improvements for the 50th anniversary of the next year’s Brisbane Truck Show. The iconic event will be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) from May 25 to 28, 2017. “The show has come a long way from its humble beginnings when 21 truck, trailer and component manufacturers and suppliers came together at Haulmark Trailers’ premises in Rocklea in 1968,” HVIA chief executive Brett Wright says. “The 2017 Brisbane Truck Show is the fourth that will be held at BCEC, and will feature up to 300 exhibitors displaying the latest trucks, trailers, components, equipment, accessories and technology. “As part of the celebration HVIA will be featuring an innovation, manufacturing and workforce development display on the…

Matt Winterfield is a qualified diesel mechanic and third-generation truck driver. And since 2010 he has been an owner-driver trading as Winterfields Float Hire. His wife Narelle helps with the bookkeeping and their valued employee Peter O’Dea drives their second truck. Based at Mount Gambier, South Australia, the company’s two trucks both clock up about 120,000km annually carting logging, earthmoving and farm machinery on their Drake steering widener low loader with self-tracking rear axles. Most of their work is within a 300km radius of home but they also travel as far as Adelaide, Melbourne and occasionally Queensland. Matt has climbed in and out of second-hand Kenworths more times than most people have had hot dinners. And he has chewed plenty of ears in praise of Cummins, Detroit and Caterpillar engines.…

Twelve months is a long time in the trucking industry. And so it has been for the annual Lights On The Hill Convoy Memorial Convoy. Following a mammoth turnout of trucks in February 2015, the event seemed certain continue moving ahead. Lights On The HIll had already outgrown the Gatton Showground, it’s long-time home up to and including 2014. A move to the wide open spaces of the Gatton racecourse last year appeared a step in the right direction. But problems arose, including access issues. A new venue in the shape of a new and larger showground was being mentioned as the answer for 2016’s event. However, it soon became apparent that the new venue would not be ready in time for its usual February date, and with no suitable…