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Big Rigs National Road Transport Newspaper

Locality: South Melbourne, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9690 8766

Address: 11-15 Buckhurst Street 3205 South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.bigrigs.com.au

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22.01.2022 Lindsay's is to defend safety charges with total fines of more than $5 million as a result of the tragic death of a driver in Tanah Merah, Qld, in November 2018.

21.01.2022 Like a lot of high school students, Rebecca Wadlow knew what she liked and what she was good at but wasn’t sure how she could turn that into a career.

18.01.2022 A trip from her home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to Australia sparked the start of a flourishing career down under for Becki Jones, who is Lease and Rental Manager at PACCAR Australia’s PacLease division in Laverton, Victoria.

18.01.2022 Young road users in the NSW town of Deniliquin are getting a taste of what it’s like to be in the truck driver’s seat this week, through a road safety exhibition that uses virtual reality to teach them how to safely share the road with trucks.

17.01.2022 Show us your rig! It’s #PicOfTheDay time post a photo of your truck, along with some key details in the comments below or share them with us via Facebook Messenger. We’ll post the best one in our Facebook cover slot next week and a selection of the best pics in our print edition of Big Rigs!

16.01.2022 DRIVERS WANTED: Looking for a job? Check out our Careers & Training section at http://ow.ly/uioT50CyQQd for current openings for drivers and other roles.

16.01.2022 With two Electronic Work Diaries options now approved for use, Toll Group is among the first to implement the Teletrac Navman technology, with a five-driver pilot program now underway.

15.01.2022 ‘TIL THE COWS COME HOME: Loaded with cattle, this Calomba Transport Kenworth made a quick pit stop, before heading east. Thanks for sharing Ann-Marie Hicks #PicOfTheDay

15.01.2022 One of our favourite feature stories of 2020, the one about Townsville truckie Jo Veneman giving old buildings a new lease on life.

14.01.2022 The ATA’s Industry Technical Council has developed a ‘proof of concept’ project in the form of a rigid drawbar converter dolly, which does away with the typical hinged drawbar. During the ATA’s first online Technical and Maintenance Conference, NTI Transport & Logistics Risk Engineer, Adam Gibson, explained the concept.

10.01.2022 "As we count down the days to the end of 2020 most of us can’t wait to see it gone. In so many ways this year has been highlighted by disappointments... But the trucking and the whole of supply chain can build on all the positives to come out of it," writes Jaquelene Brotherton, Chair of TWAL.

10.01.2022 Chelsea Bowers has taken on a pool of apprentices to take out a TAFE Queensland SkillsTech Apprentice of the Year award, sponsored by Viva Energy.

10.01.2022 Our man from the south, Jonathan Wallis, stops to chat with a few truckies for his latest Southern Snippets column.

09.01.2022 The ATA's first online Technical and Maintenance Conference is on right now and it's free for anyone to watch. There are stacks of handy workshop tips, such as this clip from PACCAR on changing a cabin filter, and live sessions, including the Castrol Vecton Industry Awards from 5pm today. Click the link below for details on how to get involved.

09.01.2022 From a tiny Queensland ghost town, former truckie Dennis ‘Mad Dog’ Madigan painstakingly restores his old Diamond T.

06.01.2022 Let’s see some of your best truck pics. Share them in the comments below or via Facebook Messenger, with some info about the shot, as part of our #PicOfTheDay. We’ll choose one to appear in our Facebook cover slot next week and will publish some of the best pics in our upcoming print edition of Big Rigs. Check out the Reader Rigs gallery at https://www.bigrigs.com.au/index.php/category/reader-rigs/

05.01.2022 Got a great pic of your truck you’d love to share show us by posting them in the comments below or sending them through via Facebook Messenger, along with some key details for our #PicOfTheDay. The best one will be published in our Facebook cover slot next week and we’ll choose some of the best ones to appear in Big Rigs newspaper in print!

05.01.2022 At age 89, and more than 50 years after starting his Melbourne-based company, a proud Danny D'Angelo is as committed as ever to producing Aussie-made truck and trailer equipment.

03.01.2022 Winners of the 2020 Australian Freight Industry Awards were honoured over the weekend during a virtual awards event, broadcast from Melbourne. Click through for the list of winners.

03.01.2022 The South Australian electric vehicle road user charge should include heavy vehicles and be set within the existing national system for setting heavy vehicle charges.

02.01.2022 I’ll just keep going as long as I can. When I can’t do it anymore, that’s when it’s time to give up. A fella asked me a few years ago, ‘When are you going to retire?’ And I said I’ll retire when they start to dig the hole, said 88-year-old truckie Bill Ferguson.

02.01.2022 DRIVERS WANTED: Looking for a job? Check out our Careers & Training section at http://ow.ly/Zij350CsUlr for current openings for drivers and other roles.