Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Words by Anthony John-Pier. Photography by C5 Photography. Aaron Pendlebury’s Volvo FH16 showed that custom truck culture was not confined to conventionals and cab-over Kenworths. The heavy-haulage Volvo combined Scandinavian engineering with a deliberately Australian custom treatment. ACT’s Issue 2 feature focused on a working truck that had to move serious machinery while still carrying […]
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Words and photography by Enver Djemal. For GRS Towing founder Barry Hunt, buying a tow truck straight off the shelf rarely made sense. His fleet was built around the work it had to do, and ACT’s 2013 visit found equipment chosen for low loading angles, flexibility and the ability to recover unusual loads. The custom […]
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
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 […]
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
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 […]
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Jon Kelly’s Western Star 6900 Butch Cassidy combined heavy-haul specification, PJs Custom paint and HHA’s in-house fabrication.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Steve Lawler reflects on ten years of SLS Group, his 1983 Kenworth display truck and the custom work that grew from a single job.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Mike and Judy Oliver’s Peterbilt 388 brought custom paint and polished detail to working road-train duty out of Cloncurry.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
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.