I pull up at a set of traffic lights on a Melbourne suburban street and the truck beside me toots. Looking across, the driver indicates for me to wind my window down.
“Hey, mate. Never seen one of those before. Any good? What’ll it carry?”
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Victorian Truck Drivers’ Memorial rises above controversy
The word had spread that this year’s Victorian Truck Drivers’ Memorial on the King’s Birthday weekend would not be preceded by a convoy from Yarck into Alexandra, as has become the popular norm over the past few years.
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Record entries and crowds flock to Alexandra Truck, Ute and Rod Show
Twenty-nine years young, the Alexandra Truck, Ute and Rod Show continues to attract record entries and record crowds.
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Behind the wheel of Daimler’s EV future
“You’ve spent 25 years revving the shit out of an old ACCO and then they put you in this! You’d go friggin mad wouldn’t you? It’d just be too quiet.”
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The Truck Factory: the business truckies hope they never need
At Lot 6, Angle Vale Crescent in Burton, SA, you drive through the cyclone gates onto an unsealed forecourt with a scattering of trucks in front of an unassuming building/shed with an equally unassuming sign proclaiming it to be the home of The Truck Factory.
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New alliance power drives Condor comeback
The Condor name goes back to the 1970s and had always been a popular nameplate throughout UD’s history.
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Mercedes-Benz Atego delivers where it matters most
The 12-pallet, rigid truck market is a crowded one in Australia with every manufacturer from Japan and Europe offering a vehicle in this space for you to consider.
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Euro smarts take on American muscle
“Don’t touch the brakes!”
This was the instruction from Penske’s Steve ‘Gibbo’ Gibson as I head at speed toward a mock-up of a car on the road in front of us at the Australian Automotive Research Centre test track near Anglesea, Victoria.
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Fuso Shogun raises bar with 530hp punch
Back in 2019 I was invited to test drive the prototype of a brand-new Fuso – so new that it still had the codename, ‘Panther’.
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Industry urged to step up to save beloved trucking event
In 2012 Rob ‘Frenchy’ French and Roger ‘Slasha’ Marchetti were inspired by Bruce Gunter and the event he started – Haulin the Hume – to do the same out of Melbourne.
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