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

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
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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

Regulatory news roundup

HVIA was active on the advocacy front over the past month, responding to a raft of proposed regulatory changes and

By Graham Gardiner 4 Min Read

World-first eco adventure

High above Yarra Valley is a freshly completed ‘eco’ home awaiting delivery to a sustainable housing community – a highly

By Dan Gardner Alastair Brook 3 Min Read

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

A testament to trucking

If ever we needed a reminder of the vital, irreplaceable role trucks and the transport industry play in keeping our economy (and broader society for that matter) ticking along, the global fuel crisis has surely delivered it. As a colleague recently wrote, across Australia, trucks

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 a family transport business that has survived for almost one hundred years and now has a presence in both hemispheres. The Monjean family have been

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 Track is a rest area. Like the landscape all around,

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 man bounces from his chair to meet me as I

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 former Olympic gold medal-winning equestrian rider, stands aloft a viewing

By Harry Hunkin Alastair Brook 20 Min Read
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