Words and photography by Riley Blue. Jaimie Kent took a 1999 Western Star that had once hauled scrap into Port Kembla Steel Works and rebuilt it as a heavy recovery truck for Kent Collision & Kustom. By the time ACT photographed it, the truck wore a vivid purple-and-green finish, playing-card artwork and dice — a […]
Words and photography by Chris Smith. A polished bullbar can look simple once it is bolted to the front of a truck. ACT’s visit to AJ’s Total Truck Gear at Torrington, near Toowoomba, showed how much engineering, drawing, cutting, fabrication and checking sits behind that finished surface. From polishing to manufacturing Anthony Thrush and general […]
Jon Kelly’s Western Star 6900 Butch Cassidy combined heavy-haul specification, PJs Custom paint and HHA’s in-house fabrication.
Steve Lawler reflects on ten years of SLS Group, his 1983 Kenworth display truck and the custom work that grew from a single job.
Mike and Judy Oliver’s Peterbilt 388 brought custom paint and polished detail to working road-train duty out of Cloncurry.
Anthony Latorre’s green K200 went from new truck to Castlemaine show winner in two months, with custom work by Thorpe and paint by Transart.
Blenners Transport has taken delivery of its 400th Kenworth, a T909 that marks almost four decades of growth from a North Queensland produce carrier to a national refrigerated transport operation.
Speedlink Logistics has launched its first A-triple with Arrow Transport, using the higher-productivity combination to move freight from Townsville to an infrastructure project in the Mount Isa region.
Foodbank NSW & ACT’s Volvo FH I-Save and Vawdrey refrigerated trailer have moved more than 1,000 tonnes of food and produce in their first 12 months.
Scania’s G- and R-series have achieved five stars in Euro NCAP’s haulage assessment, including a 96% crash-avoidance score.