In many ways, ROADBOSS is more akin to a band than a publisher. For one, the team is made up of a motley crew who each bring different skills and talents to the ensemble, led by our creative muse Harry Hunkin and me as the backroom manager and producer pulling everything together to ensure the band stays on track.
Like many musicians, all of us – including writer Cobey Bartels, photographers Alastair Brook and Thomas Wielecki, and art director Andrew McLagan – have been (work) mates for years, brought together by a shared belief that creative excellence is still the key driver of commercial success in the publishing game.
And as with the most successful (creatively and commercially) bands over the generations, we’re all perfectionists – only willing to release our latest ‘record’ when it meets the lofty heights we set out to achieve with ROADBOSS.
Top-Bottom: ROADBOSS’s Harrison Hunkin and Cobey Bartels on assignments for the Spring Issue
While our upcoming Spring Issue is running a few weeks late, we firmly believe it’s our strongest yet, jam-packed full of epic yarns about the vital (and often unnoticed) role heavy vehicles play in all aspects of Australian life – all illustrated with exquisite photography.
From Harry’s adventure following saddle makers Lyle and Helen Kent to the outback Mt Sanford Station in their not-so-ordinary Hino, to Cobey’s contrasting journeys to Thredbo ski resort to check out a beefed-up 4×4 MAN 18.320 ploughing snow and his epic trip with the IOR crew transporting 95,000 litres of diesel to the furthest servo from the sea, and my own expedition to the world’s largest sand island K’gari (Fraser Island) with a fleet of highly customised eight-wheel-drive heavy-duty garbage trucks, this will be one for the ages!
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