Crude reality

The little-known town of Eromanga is home to the furthest fuel station from the sea, and it’s a critical cog in Australia’s outback transport machine Dinosaurs roamed the vast Australian landscape 95 million years ago,

It’s showtime!

It’s a technicolour assault on the senses, especially for a young child. The oddly comforting smell of warm manure and fertile country dirt, against a backdrop of adrenaline-fuelled rides that tower above nearby buildings, a

Go west young man

Once a common trade, expert saddle makers Lyle and Helen Kent still bring their mobile shop to the bush! ROADBOSS joins them for their most recent adventure Dusk descends upon Mt Sanford Station’s near 250,000

By Harry Hunkin Alastair Brook 21 Min Read

The K’gari garbo

Reading a story on essential services workers performing odd hours – including a garbage truck driver – ROADBOSS wondered what is the coolest garbo gig in the land? We reckon we found it! “Not a

Storm chasers

When word came of an incoming snowstorm set to pummel the Snowy Mountains in NSW, the ROADBOSS crew jumped straight on a plane to chase down a beefed-up 4x4 MAN snow plough making waves around

By Cobey Bartels Alastair Brook 24 Min Read

The K’gari Garbo

Reading a story on essential services workers performing unsocial hours – including a garbage truck driver – ROADBOSS wondered what is the coolest garbo gig in the land? We reckon we found it! “Not a

By Graham Gardiner 3 Min Read

Go West Young Man

Dusk descends upon Mt Sanford Station’s near 250,000 hectares. Hundreds of noisy Corellas argue among the giant fig trees. Station hands emerge dressed in their ‘Sunday Best’ and I’ve arrived with ROADBOSS photographer Alastair Brook,

Crude Reality

Dinosaurs roamed the vast Australian landscape 95 million years ago, and before that sea-dwelling monsters traversed the oceans that drenched much of this now-arid continent. Today, the largest things traveling our expansive nation are trucks,

Storm Chasers

A ROADBOSS story usually starts with an idea, followed by weeks or sometimes months of back and forth, before we finally escape the office in search of adventure. There’s a lot of planning, pitching, sometimes

It’s show time!

On the eve of the Royal Queensland Show, better known as the ‘Ekka’, the ROADBOSS crew travel with Jamie Pickett and his FJF Amusements' crew transporting the biggest, baddest rides in the Southern Hemisphere from

In God We Truck

Harrison Hunkin immerses himself into the uniquely American trucking way-of-life, on a three-day trip with American truckers Doc and Tinkerbell Snow through America’s south In God We Truck. They’re not my words, they’re Daniel (Doc)

By Harry Hunkin Thomas Wielecki 20 Min Read

Mister Motion

Melbourne isn’t short of showcases for sporting spectacles. ‘The Cup’ has Flemington, tennis has Rod Laver Arena, and AFL and cricket the mighty MCG. Yet long before the city’s Grand Prix can scream into action

By Steve Brooks 24 Min Read
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HEART 7 Hits The Road

Featured in our second issue, Heart of Australia has just unleashed the first of five new state-of-the-art mobile health clinics

By Graham Gardiner 4 Min Read

Inside ROADBOSS’s Spring Issue

In many ways, ROADBOSS is more akin to a band than a publisher. For one, the team is made up

By Graham Gardiner 2 Min Read

Down Under Dog

Every few years, American Mack historian and collector Dan Thomas invites a group of close friends to join him on

By Harry Hunkin 4 Min Read

Beer money

A pub with no beer is just an ugly building, or so we’re told by a truck-loving publican whose taps

By Cobey Bartels 5 Min Read

The Great White Dyno

In a remote corner of outback Australia, ROADBOSS meets Rob Waters and his W-Model Kenworth, which holds the record for the fastest truck in the open-diesel category. With speeds reaching over 140mph, we wanted to

By Graham Gardiner 0 Min Read

Trans-Australian Blitz

Driving an old Chevy Truck across the Australian Outback is hard work. But, outback truckie Jeff Fulwood is doing it for a good cause ... in memory of his good mate and for charity. In

By Graham Gardiner 0 Min Read

Heavy haulage heroes

The ROADBOSS crew join heavy haulage veterans Mactrans as they transport a massive 200-tonne mining excavator from an embattled coal mine near Collie to Perth

By Harry Hunkin Jake Ashe 1 Min Read

Cattle carrying kings

ROADBOSS tags along with Australia's oldest family-owned livestock transporter, Fraser's, on an 800-kilometre road trip from an expansive cattle station north-east of Tambo in Central Western Queensland to the feedlots near Dalby with more than

By Harry Hunkin Sam Thies 0 Min Read

Truck with HEART

ROADBOSS joins Heart of Australia on an epic multi-day barge voyage around Cape York Peninsula to Weipa where it’s 26-metre, state-of-the-art medical clinic on wheels, HEART 5, performed important lung screenings for Rio Tinto’s bauxite

By Harry Hunkin 0 Min Read

World’s oldest FIFO

ROADBOSS follows a 60m road train to the hottest place in Australia with one over-qualified passenger: 85-year-old Mario Giacci, an Italian immigrant who has built two of Australia’s biggest transport businesses

By Jake Ashe Harry Hunkin 0 Min Read

Crude reality

The little-known town of Eromanga is home to the furthest fuel station from the sea, and it’s a critical cog in Australia’s outback transport machine Dinosaurs roamed the vast Australian landscape 95 million years ago, and before that sea-dwelling monsters traversed the oceans that drenched

It’s showtime!

It’s a technicolour assault on the senses, especially for a young child. The oddly comforting smell of warm manure and fertile country dirt, against a backdrop of adrenaline-fuelled rides that tower above nearby buildings, a tomato-sauce dipped dagwood dog for lunch and a strawberry sundae

HEART 7 Hits The Road

Featured in our second issue, Heart of Australia has just unleashed the first of five new state-of-the-art mobile health clinics bound for Western Australia, marking a major milestone in delivering the National Lung Cancer Screening Program and life-saving specialist care to rural, remote and First

By Graham Gardiner 4 Min Read

Go west young man

Once a common trade, expert saddle makers Lyle and Helen Kent still bring their mobile shop to the bush! ROADBOSS joins them for their most recent adventure Dusk descends upon Mt Sanford Station’s near 250,000 hectares. Hundreds of noisy Corellas argue among the giant fig

By Harry Hunkin Alastair Brook 21 Min Read

The K’gari garbo

Reading a story on essential services workers performing odd hours – including a garbage truck driver – ROADBOSS wondered what is the coolest garbo gig in the land? We reckon we found it! “Not a bad office, ay?” Paul Walters says as he jumps out

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