“We were both born into it – we tried to do other things but here we both are!”
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Home base is Australia
In most cases when a truck is sign written with the owner’s name, their hometown is also featured, but in the case of Jye Savage, who operates under the banner of JS Haulage, his address is simply ‘Australia’.
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Customising for the customer at Kennedy’s
Innovation. Grit. Integrity. Respect. Four simple words printed on the coffee mugs at the Kennedy Trailers manufacturing facility in Bairnsdale which could be interpreted as a mantra that has served the company well since its inception in 1986.
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Flannagan’s fleet keeps the wheels moving
In every direction from the remote high country Victorian township of Omeo, the roads out go up over a range of mountains or along a river valley, with the annual variations in weather keeping road crews busy keeping the roads open and maintained.
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Built in ’78 and resto still going great
“I only ever drove one 3070 in my life, around 1973-1974…Willaton’s in Morwell owned one. It was a single drive, but I always had a bit of an attraction to them, and this one came up.”
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Trucking timber for 40 years
For four decades, trucks adorning the Blair and Campbell name and blue and white paint scheme have been a familiar sight throughout Eastern Victoria as they haul timber and woodchip out of the bush and to mills and ports over both sides of the Great Dividing Range.
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Top team in East Gippsland
In terms of both geography and trucking applications, there are few more diverse places in Australia than the East Gippsland region of Victoria.
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Josh’s tip-top tow trucks turn heads at Castlemaine
With Covid restrictions lifted after weeks of lockdowns in Victoria, some sense of normality returned to the community, and one of the most popular truck shows in the state was back on the calendar with a large contingent of trucks and visitors to the Castlemaine Rotary Truck Show.
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Industry rallies for Coops
Andrew ‘Coops’ Cooper, a truck driver for over two decades based out of Albury-Wodonga, is currently battling osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer), and a benefit day has been planned for late January to help out Coops and his young family.
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Labour of love resto takes shape for youngster
Regular readers of Big Rigs with a good memory may recall a chat I had back in 2018 with the Geehman family from Gippsland, who had just undertaken the Crawling the Hume event with ‘Dusty Tracks’, their ex-Ascot NT 1979 model Kenworth K125.
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