Graham Harsant, Author at Big Rigs

Perfect timing for truckies’ annual summit

The National Road Freighters Association (NRFA) came together on February 10 for their annual conference, this year held at Shepparton, Victoria, and the timing could not have been better, given the Closing Loopholes Bill was passed just a couple of days prior.
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Graham HarsantFebruary 21, 2024, 8:34 amFebruary 21, 2024 0 1543

Fatigue management, Features, Truck driver, Truckies’ health and wellbeing, Work diary

Sydney port offers no parking refuge for frustrated truckies

Look up ‘port’ in the Oxford Dictionary and they will tell you it is a place of refuge, among other things – for ships. You will have heard the old adage, ‘Any port in a storm’.
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Graham HarsantFebruary 15, 2024, 9:59 amFebruary 15, 2024 0 1358

Electric vehicle, EV, Features, New trucks, Test Drive, Zero emissions

Talking about a revolution: Test driving new game-changer from Mercedes-Benz

Over 100 years ago Karl Benz revolutionised the world when he invented the automobile. And the world laughed. But not for long. As soon as it was permissible to drive a vehicle without someone walking along in front of it with a red flag, transport was transformed. ‘Horsepower’ came to mean something else entirely.
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Graham HarsantFebruary 13, 2024, 4:36 pmFebruary 14, 2024 0 1564

Shows, Truck events

Truckies pull out all the stops for Koroit Truck Show

One of the nice drives out of Melbourne is to head south-west by Geelong along the Great Ocean Road – or the Princes Highway if time is of the essence – past the historic bluestone fences, through the seaside city of Warrnambool and arriving at the relatively sleepy Irish village of Koroit. Read More

Graham HarsantJanuary 29, 2024, 3:04 pmJanuary 29, 2024 0 941

Features, Mental, Truck events, Truckies’ health and wellbeing

Truckies Against Bullying launches in Bendigo

When it comes to supporting charitable causes, no one does it better than the truck industry.
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Graham HarsantNovember 9, 2023, 2:25 pmNovember 9, 2023 0 1908

Bio-diesel, Diesel, Electric vehicle, EV, Features, New trucks, Test Drive

Diving in at the deep end

Full disclosure: In the 18 years I have been playing with and writing about trucks, I have never driven a Volvo.
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Graham HarsantOctober 27, 2023, 3:27 pmOctober 30, 2023 0 1782

Diesel, Features, New trucks, Test Drive

Cruising the suburbs in the new Scania Super 500G

It’s 6pm on a Friday afternoon and I’m sitting in the usual traffic jams that beset the Hume Highway as you come off the Western Ring Road.
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Graham HarsantOctober 12, 2023, 9:10 amOctober 12, 2023 0 1924

Australian, Awards, Heritage, News, Truck events, Trucking awards, Vintage

Shell Rimula celebrates 23 years as event partner

An enterprise such as the Alice Springs National Road Transport Hall of Fame cannot be maintained without the involvement of two groups: volunteers and sponsors.
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Graham HarsantSeptember 13, 2023, 9:38 amSeptember 13, 2023 0 871

News

Future bright for National Road Transport Museum

A new hall and a truck driving and heavy machinery school are on the drawing board for a resurgent National Road Transport Museum in Alice Springs.
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Graham HarsantSeptember 12, 2023, 4:55 pmSeptember 12, 2023 0 743

Features, News

Celebrating luminaries and history makers in Alice Springs

The term ‘luminary’ used by Shell Rimula’s Nick Lubransky is an apt description of those men and women who were inducted into the Shell Rimula Wall of Fame this year.
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Graham HarsantSeptember 11, 2023, 2:39 pmSeptember 11, 2023 0 1264

Graham Harsant

Perfect timing for truckies’ annual summit

Sydney port offers no parking refuge for frustrated truckies

Talking about a revolution: Test driving new game-changer from Mercedes-Benz

Truckies pull out all the stops for Koroit Truck Show

Truckies Against Bullying launches in Bendigo

Diving in at the deep end

Cruising the suburbs in the new Scania Super 500G

Shell Rimula celebrates 23 years as event partner

Future bright for National Road Transport Museum

Celebrating luminaries and history makers in Alice Springs

A new truck for a new adventure

Sydney to Brisbane for $525 in electric converted prime mover

Outback truckie comes to the rescue

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