The ATA, NSW Police and Transport for NSW will join truck drivers at the Mundoonan Rest Area Northbound for ‘Coffee with a Cop’ tomorrow, Wednesday 9 December.
$203 million Newell Highway upgrades now open
A major upgrade to 27 kilometres of the Newell Highway has now opened to traffic, months ahead of schedule.
Keeping it fresh
When Big Rigs saw driver Lee Wells he was carting mangoes from Giru in north Queensland, bound for the Brisbane markets.
Rocking it out on the highways
Busy veteran truckie Hugh ‘Maca’ Macdonald has been delivering armour rock to the Port of Townsville for the past four months, destined for a new seawall. In between trips, he stopped to chat with Big Rigs about life and trucking.
Volvo’s VNR Electric goes into production early next year
Volvo Trucks North America will begin rolling out the first commercially available VNR Electric model from its assembly plant in Virginia from early next year.
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Helping customers to invest in new equipment
Australian trailer manufacturer MaxiTRANS has voiced its support for the Federal Government’s latest tax incentives, which aim to assist Australian businesses to invest, grow and create more jobs.
#PicOfTheDay – Ben Stamatovich
How could you not stop and capture this? The Mack Superliner was photographed while out on the Nullarbor.
Truckies left parched by contaminated water at rest areas
Most drivers Spy speaks to feel there is an overall shortage of rest areas around Oz, especially ones with facilities for truckies.
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Loving life on the highways
Ben McTighe worked in the yard and office of Rocky’s Own Transport before becoming a driver a few years ago and enjoys life on the highways.
A quarter of all trucks inspected have brake fault: TfNSW
An emphasis on education and an outcome-focused and risk-based compliance approach is having positive effects on safety in the trucking industry, reports Transport for NSW.
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