The Red Baron

For our Autumn Issue, Harrison Hunkin travelled from one end of the globe to the other for his story on a family transport business that has survived almost 100 years and now has a presence

By Harry Hunkin Alastair Brook 11 Min Read

Billy rolls on

We’ve built a reputation for all-out adventures here at ROADBOSS. Sometimes, though, we’re forced to stop chasing the horizon and look at where the tracks began. This journey is one that the Clark brothers, fourth-generation

By Cobey Bartels 29 Min Read

Honourably discharged

Volvo’s FM Electric connects a 20-tonne eco home to its destination 180km away but, in addition to volts and amps, is this battery powered truck charged with an impossible task? Some people think the moon

By Dan Gardner Alastair Brook 26 Min Read

Trucking’s Swiss Army Knife

How’d a bloke from rural Australia end up as a viral social media sensation in the United States, amassing over 600,000 followers and millions upon millions of likes. ROADBOSS travelled to Massachusetts, battling the near-negative

By Harry Hunkin Thomas Wielecki 18 Min Read

Bridging the gap

ROADBOSS heads to a remote part of South Australia to document the incredible logistical effort involved in transporting livestock trucks across a flood-ravaged section of the Birdsville Track Some 125km from Maree up the Birdsville

By Thomas Wielecki 27 Min Read

Mercedes-Benz trucks ethical eggs

From a humble flock of 40 hens at age nine, today 25-year-old Josh Murray presides over an egg empire comprising 165,000 hens that ships 65,000 dozen a week – and now his first truck! A young

By Cobey Bartels 37 Min Read

Road to Rome

A flash Volvo FH weaves its way through Europe hauling some particularly special cargo – two of Aussie Olympian Edwina Tops-Alexander’s priceless horses. ROADBOSS’s Harrison Hunkin found his way on the adventure Jan Tops, the

By Harry Hunkin Alastair Brook 20 Min Read

Higher ground

The ROADBOSS crew joins house-moving legends Mackay and Sons on an epic – and heart-warming – journey shifting a classic home from flood-ravaged Lismore to higher ground with a convoy of jet-black Mack Super-Liners There’s

From cradle to grave

ROADBOSS traces the incredibly complex – and interdependent – supply chain critical to the smooth operation of one of Australia’s busiest and most remote regional airports on Hamilton Island Like the flock of Currawongs patiently

ROADBOSS Summer Issue Out Now

ROADBOSS’s Summer Issue is out now – our milestone eighth edition marking our first two years of publication. What started out as a germ of an idea to fill a gap in the market for

By Graham Gardiner 4 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,

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

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Lobster luggers

It takes two-and-a-half hours by ferry to cross the Bay of Fundy, the ancient body of water that separates Canada’s

Critical connection

The Northern Territory is a vast, punishing expanse with a road network spanning roughly 36,000km – just shy of Earth’s

A testament to trucking

If ever we needed a reminder of the vital, irreplaceable role trucks and the transport industry play in keeping our

By Graham Gardiner 4 Min Read

Trucking across two hemispheres

For our Autumn Issue, Harrison Hunkin travelled from one end of the globe to the other for this story on

Precision transport

After the devastating floods in Lismore, one family chose not to demolish their home, but to move it. In this documentary we follow the full process of lifting, splitting, transporting and rebuilding an entire house,

By Graham Gardiner 0 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

Lobster luggers

It takes two-and-a-half hours by ferry to cross the Bay of Fundy, the ancient body of water that separates Canada’s oldest city of Saint John, New Brunswick, and the wild and rugged province of Nova Scotia. The freezing waters of the bay are so dark

Red eye

It’s 2:00am on Tuesday morning and Port Augusta is asleep, but for a depot at the edge of town that lights up the night. I'm standing beside one of the iconic red trucks that keeps this region ticking along. Cochrane’s signature livery is synonymous with

Critical connection

The Northern Territory is a vast, punishing expanse with a road network spanning roughly 36,000km – just shy of Earth’s 40,000km circumference – and a great deal of those roads are more remote than most Australians ever venture. As any Territorian will tell you, there is

The Red Baron

For our Autumn Issue, Harrison Hunkin travelled from one end of the globe to the other for his story on a family transport business that has survived almost 100 years and now has a presence in both hemispheres. In the second in the two-part series,

By Harry Hunkin Alastair Brook 11 Min Read

Billy rolls on

We’ve built a reputation for all-out adventures here at ROADBOSS. Sometimes, though, we’re forced to stop chasing the horizon and look at where the tracks began. This journey is one that the Clark brothers, fourth-generation custodians of TJ Clark & Sons, have already been on.

By Cobey Bartels 29 Min Read
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