Equipment
Business
Regulations
Life
Custom Rigs
Gear
Tag: australia
Business
Australian trucking troubadour Jayne Denham in U.S. stride with ‘Black Coffee and White Lines’ single
With trucking-inflected singer-songwriter Jayne Denham’s GATS appearances upcoming, we took some time with the artist this week to get a more perspective on what she’s got planned for this U.S. trip, which follows some extensive time spent writing and recording in Nashville in prior years,
August 16, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Update from SuperRigs, Nashville on Australian troubadour Jayne Denham’s run through U.S. trucking
Australian singer-songwriter Jayne Denham makes an appearance on Overdrive Radio's podcast before performing at SuperRigs in Nashville on June 16, 2018
June 15, 2018
Business
Terrorist truck attacks spur attention to AEB systems around the world
Australia is reportedly moving toward mandating AEB for all new heavy trucks, following Europe’s lead, after automatic braking prevented further loss of life in last year’s truck attack at a Christmas market in Berlin.
June 28, 2017
Business
Book of photo essays spotlights essential nature of trucking, down under and beyond
Australian photographer/author Alice Mabin’s exceptional story is one of near-tragedy turned to new appreciation of the essential nature of trucking in all modern economies — her new book, “The Driver,” trumpets that message.
April 10, 2017
Voices
GoPro vid of Chris Dinsdale’s Australian 1980 Kenworth cabover/Cat 3408 loaded at 174,000 lbs.
Chris Dinsdale of Australia shared this vid of what he describes as “my 1980 KW cabover hauling two 45-foot trailers loaded with steel at a gross weight of 174,000 lbs.”
January 6, 2017
Overdrive Radio
‘Renegade’ country singer-songwriter Jayne Denham, live at GATS
Australian singer-songwriter Jayne Denham is on her first trip to the U.S., as Overdrive reported last month. Hear her live from the Great American Trucking Show here.
August 26, 2016
Channel 19
New music vid: ‘I became an American,’ by Jennie Simpson
Australia-born Jennie Simpson’s new “I Became an American” single is about what it means to her to be a citizen of the United States after making her working life here as an owner-operator.
July 2, 2016
Voices
Cabover road-train run in Australia with Chris Dinsdale
Multiple views in Dashcam Central of a road-train run with KW cabovers in Australia — Cameras mounted “on the front, the back, even over the 18-liter Caterpillar 3408.”
March 29, 2016
Business
Chris Dinsdale presents ‘Huge Roadtrains of Northwest Australia’
GoPro view through the windscreen of a Kenworth K100 looking at massive roadtrains in the North West of Australia.
December 29, 2015
Custom Rigs
Rod Hannifey’s Australian ‘Industry Vehicle’
Australian owner-operator Rod Hannifey and his Kenworth K200 cabover and double curtainside flats run the roads down under hauling freight and promoting share-the-road-type initiatives as well as driver-advocacy over parking and other issues there.
May 12, 2014
Channel 19
Trucking music from down under; cargo theft in ATL, and more on prevention
Owner-operator Gordon Alkire recommends the War-Lok security devices for truck/trailer/cargo theft prevention — and a new trucking tune by Australian former driver Caede Ridgway.
October 28, 2013
Page 1 of 1