The red eye

ROADBOSS climbs into one of Cochrane’s iconic red rigids on an overnight mail run into the beating heart of remote South Australia, to find out how one company became the lifeblood of the region There…

King of The Bowl

ROADBOSS joins Australia’s most prolific goat carter, Rocky Capisciolto, who moves more than 600,000 free-roaming beasts around ‘The Goat Bowl’ and beyond each year … and he does it for the love of the game…

By Cobey Bartels Alastair Brook 19 Min Read

Lobster luggers

ROADBOSS travelled cross-country through snowstorms and border crossing searches to meet what we’d heard were the hardest of North American truckers, travelling back and forth across the breathtaking Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia hauling…

By Harry Hunkin Thomas Wielecki 20 Min Read

Reservoir dogs

Back in the ‘70s a teenager ducked out of a movie he wasn’t interested in, and he bought a book about underwater diving instead. Today, Norm Hayden runs a quietly remarkable water infrastructure operation with…

By Cobey Bartels 35 Min Read

Critical connection

ROADBOSS spends time with outback road builders F&J Bitumen following one of the harshest wet seasons on record, as they repair critical stretches of highway from Darwin to Katherine, and out to the WA border…

Power & Passion

OzWide Freight’s Luke Ashton takes immense pride in his business and the community he serves – exemplifying what it means to be part of the Australian trucking industry Pride and passion run deep through Luke…

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
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Mother & Son (in-law)

Harrison Hunkin recently drove from Melbourne to Brisbane with his mother-in-law and her new Hino 500 – and photographer Thomas…

Cotton country

In our Spring Issue, ROADBOSS follows fourth-generation cotton hauliers T&FS Woods across the black-soil plains of Moree, to find out…

By Cobey Bartels 6 Min Read

New regulations roll on

The official start of the revamped Heavy Vehicle National Law was among a raft of significant policy regulatory developments afftecting…

By Graham Gardiner 4 Min Read

Made In Australia milestones

Local manufacturers Kenworth and Volvo celebrated milestones, BEV charging pioneers NewVolt and Zenobē achieved landmarks, and The Drake Group and…

By Graham Gardiner 5 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

Mother & Son (in-law)

Harrison Hunkin recently drove from Melbourne to Brisbane with his mother-in-law and her new Hino 500 – and photographer Thomas Wielecki was there to capture all of the shenanigans It’s a tight squeeze with three adults in the cab of this Hino 500. That along…

Cotton country

In our Spring Issue, ROADBOSS follows fourth-generation cotton hauliers T&FS Woods across the black-soil plains of Moree, to find out how the world’s finest fibres get from paddock to port “Ha! My kids are way better looking, mate!” The bloke leaning against the bar at…

By Cobey Bartels 6 Min Read

The red eye

ROADBOSS climbs into one of Cochrane’s iconic red rigids on an overnight mail run into the beating heart of remote South Australia, to find out how one company became the lifeblood of the region There are so many places I’d rather be than Port Augusta…

King of The Bowl

ROADBOSS joins Australia’s most prolific goat carter, Rocky Capisciolto, who moves more than 600,000 free-roaming beasts around ‘The Goat Bowl’ and beyond each year … and he does it for the love of the game Countless immigrants have chosen Australia for a better life, and…

By Cobey Bartels Alastair Brook 19 Min Read

Lobster luggers

ROADBOSS travelled cross-country through snowstorms and border crossing searches to meet what we’d heard were the hardest of North American truckers, travelling back and forth across the breathtaking Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia hauling the finest lobsters in the world It takes two-and-a-half hours…

By Harry Hunkin Thomas Wielecki 20 Min Read
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