Kenworth delivers 90,000th Australian-made truck to McColls Transport Kenworth’s 90,000th Australian-built truck has rolled out of Bayswater and into the hands of McColls Transport, carrying with it more than 55 years of local manufacturing, hard-working operators and the unmistakable confidence of a big-bonneted T909. There are milestones, and then there are milestones that arrive wearing…
Gundy’s Way | Custom K220 Words and Photography by Rod Simmonds. Bright yellow paint might get Will Gundesen’s new Kenworth K220 noticed, but it is the detail, specification and quiet personal touches that make this Foodstuffs line-haul unit something special. There have been plenty of new Kenworth K220s hitting the road recently, but one just…
Irvine’s Purple Perfection K220 Words and Photography by Rod Simmonds. Painted in deep purple, the new Kenworth K220 combination for Irvine Cartage Limited sure is a standout. With its new Bulk Transport Trailers bin and five-axle tipping trailer, the combination is unmissable against the green Waikato landscape. It is about as subtle as a purple…
Alloy Wheel Care You’ll get no argument from me that polished alloy wheels with neat tyre-blacked tyres make any truck a stunning machine. Yet the inherent light weight of alloy wheels initially drove their popularity as more and more trucking operators strove to reduce truck tare weight to increase payloads. The transport industry’s push for…
Climbing Out of the Huon: How Kenworth’s T909 and AIR-CTI Keep Loggers Moving When fully loaded B-doubles crawl out of Tasmania’s unforgiving Southern Forests, every ounce of traction counts. We sent Roadtrains.com.au’s Technical Editor, Howard Shanks, deep into the Huon Valley to ride shotgun with veteran logger Peter Madden and discover how AIR-CTI’s central tyre inflation…
A Man, A Dream and a very big Kenworth. Words and Photography by Rod Simmonds. There’s a certain romance to livestock transport. Not the rose-petal sort—they don’t make scented candles called Essence of Effluent Tank—but a gritty, uniquely rural professionalism born in the dust, dung and dawn chill of stockyards across Australia and New Zealand. It’s…
Twin City Strengthens Inland Network For more than four decades, travellers rolling along the Hume at the Victoria – NSW border have known Twin City Truck Centre as a dependable beacon for Kenworth and DAF operators. Whether you were hauling out of the Riverina’s rich agricultural belt or pounding highway miles between Melbourne and Sydney,…
Walking Houses: The Kiwi Way Inside Prestige Building Removals’ Craft of Moving New Zealand Icons Words and Photography by Rod Simmonds If you spend any time roaming the North Island of New Zealand, you’ll soon notice the houses. Not just their styles—those classic timber bungalows with deep verandahs, wide eaves and native timber frames—but their…
First Aerodyne on Logs in NZ: Nigel Laing’s Mighty K220 Takes on the Rimutaka Ranges Words and Photography by Rod Simmonds There’s a certain logic among seasoned log-truck operators: if you’re going to order a new Kenworth K220, you may as well make it something special. For Wairarapa operator Nigel Laing, that meant going all-in; the first K220…
Ultrashift Kenworth T610 shines in quarry These are good days for Kenworth. The company is logging good sales numbers, and that includes high volumes for its T610SAR in vocational applications. So we sent Technical Editor Howard Shanks off to a sand quarry in Western Victoria to put a T610SAR with Cummins Integrated power coupled to…