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By Truckin Life Posted 20th Mar 2013
With no family connections in the trucking industry Clancy Chapman started work as an offsider on a Coke truck, but after only three months Gene Burns, the then owner decided he’d had enough and...
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By Truckin Life Posted 4th Mar 2013
“When I bought the truck I wasn’t an owner of Followmont, I was just the operations manager. It had been owned by one of Followmont’s subbies who tipped it over. It had just been rebuilt by Royans...
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By Truckin Life Posted 4th Feb 2013
“If you want a Cat motor, you buy a Cat Truck,” Associated Towing’s John Knowles said. “Predominately we’ve always run Cat running gear, and we’ve always been very happy with them. From what I’ve...
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By Truckin Life Posted 17th Dec 2012
“It was being driven by Ray then,” Dan Baumann said. “He pulled into a job and told the blokes there they’d done a bit of work on the truck; we’ve put on a new bullbar, added high rise air cleaners,...
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By Truckin Life Posted 9th Oct 2012
“What are you doing?”Emmanuel asked Donna. “Nothing,” she replied, with a cheeky smile. You sure?” Unable to keep a straight face Donna confessed that she had sent a photo of their brand new truck to...
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By Truckin Life Posted 18th Sep 2012
Is there such a thing as Karma? Peter Gangell reckons there is and it has come back to bite him, big time! A dyed in the wool CAT man, he is now looking over one great big red bonnet that houses a...
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By Truckin Life Posted 7th Aug 2012
My original intention was to do up a show truck and to honour my father who passed away not long before we bought this one. I decided to do the Peterbilt up as Optimus Prime, out of the Transformers...
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By Truckin Life Posted 7th Aug 2012
With the sun glinting on the highly polished chrome, the bonnet towers over my head and I’m 6′3″. I have to climb up three steps, and the 1947-style door opens with that distinctive click of a very...
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By Truckin Life Posted 7th Aug 2012
It’s a civilised 7am. Out to the right the sun is dancing across the horizon, the paddocks look dry and almost grey as the stubble from the last harvest lies waiting to be churned back into the soil...
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By Truckin Life Posted 7th Aug 2012
Time was when Mack screamed its American-ness – when the Bulldog was proudly born in the US of A… A North American purebred. That was a time when there wasn’t much talk of economies of scale, world...
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