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TRUCKIES' HOLIDAY - 2012
Dear Viewer
If you after lots of trucks at work, this story may not be for you. This one is a little different. In 2012 as editor of Truckin' Life magazine I got together with Liz Martin of the National Road Transport Haul of Fame in Alice Springs and we planned a day of kicking back and looking at all the positive aspects of working in road transport. We gained some corporate support and we put on the truckies' day that is documented here - mostly through talking heads. The collapse of print publishing and problems with the Hall of Fame never saw this day repeated - but hey, it was a great idea and we had a bit of fun!
Enjoy! All the best, Bruce (Honeywill).
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OLD SCHOOL: THE WARRIOR
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Dear Reader This story is about a bloke I ran across in Central Queensland. Jim Hair is one of the bush's gentlemen and a bush mechanic without par. His story is an example of a family business being built on one truck, Jim's R-Model Mack known as The Warrior. When finally the hard working engine saw its last sunset, Jim replaced it with a US Mack 500 hp tank engine, doing all the engineering t...
THROUGH THE HEART 2012
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Dear Viewer This trucking video features two stories covering operators driving across Australia, north to south, along the Stuart Highway along with two stories from Central Queensland. CONTENT: 1:23 THROUGH THE HEART: We catch up with old mate Lindsay Davies pulling three trailers up the Bitumen (Stuart Highway); 14:00 ALL THOSE BULLDOGS: A look at Tony Champions classic collection of histori...
AUSTRALIAN TRUCKING 2012
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Dear Viewer As we slowly catch up to the present time, I filmed this trucking documentary in 2012 while I was, once again, the editor of Truckin' Life magazine and this program gives a cross section of trucking in Australia a decade ago. Included in this program: 1:45 IN THE PILBARA: Filmed at the height of the resources boom before the crash in global markets, this is a story of road train ope...
TRUCKIN' AROUND NEW ZEALAND
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Dear Viewer This program is something of a shift from the road train videos I filmed in Outback Australia. I crossed the Tasman and spent a month or so putting this program together. We travel from the very bottom of the South Island to the tip top of the North Island. In New Zealand I met some real trucking characters, Kiwi truck owners and drivers hauling sheep, cattle, logs and milk, bulk an...
ROAD TRAIN V - 2003
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Dear Viewer In this road train video I filmed transport operations in Queensland, on the notorious Tanami Track (although it has improved over the past 15 years), and several stories in Western Australia. CONTENTS: 2:10 FRASER LIVESTOCK TRANSPORT: We profile a long standing Queensland livestock operation that has grown from regional work to extend out into the road train country of Western Quee...
ROAD TRAIN IV OUTBACK ODYSSEY 2001
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Dear Viewer Outback Odyssey is the fourth road train video in the series. I filmed these stories in 2001. Please note there are two stories in this program that you may have seen before on the Long Highway Channel - the VRD cattle lift in the NT and the Channel Country cattle lift in far Western Queensland. Apologies for the duplication, however this version shows the context in which these sto...
ROAD TRAIN III - 1999
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Dear Viewer The last year of the 20th Century was a busy one for yours truly. Plenty of mainstream journalism going on and towards the end of the year all hell broke loose in Australia's close northern neighbour, East Timor which I covered for TV networks. However we still had time to shoot a road train video, the third in the series. And this is it. Content: 4:33 Bronco Branding in Western Que...
ROAD TRAIN II 1997
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Dear Viewer Following the launch of the first of the Road Train series of trucking documentaries, there was a demand for a follow up. The first road train video achieved significant success with distribution and sales in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. I was approached by a European production house and sold Nederland's rights of the video and it was remade in Dutch. This video, Road Train I...
ROADTRAIN!
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Dear Viewer This is a version of the first Road Train video I produced in 1993. It was mostly shot in 1992. With VHS video tape distribution through the 90s in Europe and Australia, it has had more than a million views so you may have seen these stories before. If so, apologies. The program was then re-published in 2011 in my years at Truckin' Life magazine. It is now something of an historic d...
MACK TRUCKS AUSTRALIA: 1991/1992
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Dear Viewer The bulldog traditionalists had their hearts further broken in 1990 when French company Renault bought out the American company. A flurry of poodle vs bulldog jokes ensued but the bottom line was that the Yankee iron of the bulldog breed would never be the same leading through changes of global truck ownership to where today Mack is owned by the global Volvo Group. This video is bla...
KENWORTH'S TOP END ROAD SHOW
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Dear Viewer In 1994 Kenworth Trucks launched a series of new models. The main launches were in the capital cities, but the Kenworth people took a convoy into Outback Australia to strut their stuff with remote operators. At the time I had my own video business, Balanda Productions, based in Darwin, and the Kenworth folk contacted me to cover the convoy's journey through the Northern Territory. T...
MACK TITANS AT WORK
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Dear Viewer I normally hesitate to make public promotional videos I have made for truck companies, however as some of these are now 25 to 30 years old, there may be some historic interest. There were a lot of bleeding bulldog hearts by the end of the 1980s, early 1990s when the beloved shape and sound of the Super-Liner Mk II was being replaced by the, at the time, strange shapes of wind tunnel...
MOVING ROCK WITH GULF TRANSPORT
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Dear viewer Another blast from the past. By the end of the 1990s, the group of companies under Jim Cooper's Darwin-based Gulf Transport flag made up the undisputed largest road train fleet in the world. I made a series of promotional videos for Jim Cooper and he was certainly one of the industry's gentlemen to deal with. This video is a case history of one of Gulf's contracts to quarry and proc...
DRIVING THE CUMMINS COMMAND
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Dear Viewer, Around 1990 there were big changes in truck technology. Highways in Eastern Australia were opening up to B-Double access and engine tech was transforming from high rpm power black smoke engines to computer managed high-torque engines. Moving from high rpm power to high torque peaks at lower revs was a bit of a culture shock to us on the road at the time (30 years ago now, bloody he...
Return of the International
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Return of the International
Brisbane Truck Show 2019
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Brisbane Truck Show 2019
Chasing Gold: Goldstar Transport
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Chasing Gold: Goldstar Transport
Perth BP Show and Shine Truck Show
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Perth BP Show and Shine Truck Show
Desert Trucking
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Desert Trucking
Cattle Lift at VRD
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Cattle Lift at VRD
Bush Mechanics
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Bush Mechanics
Volvo Quad Road Train
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Volvo Quad Road Train
Cattle work and Road Trains
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Cattle work and Road Trains
Outback Queensland Sheep Lift
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Outback Queensland Sheep Lift
Channel Country Cattle
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Channel Country Cattle
Century Zinc Run
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Century Zinc Run
Into the Heart
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Into the Heart

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @helennicholson9530slim
    @helennicholson9530slim 5 днів тому

    Good On Ya Kneed More Women Truckies❤

  • @Jaysin261
    @Jaysin261 13 днів тому

    Couldn't take it after 3min.

  • @braydonkanjira9520
    @braydonkanjira9520 Місяць тому

    You see Mate? Our Aussie Truckers are the best in the world and the greatest too.

  • @user-kl9vq9os4w
    @user-kl9vq9os4w 2 місяці тому

    Bet he wishes he had a dollar for every time he lifted that bullbar up.

  • @Rimraz
    @Rimraz 3 місяці тому

    They don't make em like that anymore!! Trucks and people!

  • @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059
    @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059 4 місяці тому

    He's decked out in Hamptons colours

  • @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059
    @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059 4 місяці тому

    And as for Volvo trucks, they belong in Europe. I don't belong on the highways in Australia. They're rubbish

  • @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059
    @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059 4 місяці тому

    North American trucks are the best trucks on the road European truck should stay in Europe it's that simple and as for electric trucks you fucking blokes are fucking dreaming

  • @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059
    @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059 4 місяці тому

    Can you believe these clowns want to go electric? I'm not talking about the drivers either

  • @tonyelberg7814
    @tonyelberg7814 4 місяці тому

    GREAT VIDEO MATE, I MISS THE OLD TRUCKS, HES A GOOD OLD BLOKE, SAYS YOUR NAME LIKE HE MEANS IT

  • @greglewis1146
    @greglewis1146 4 місяці тому

    Nice Bunk

  • @davidmonro3270
    @davidmonro3270 5 місяців тому

    Across the stony ridges, across the rolling plains, young Harry Dale the driver, comes rolling home again.

  • @davidmonro3270
    @davidmonro3270 5 місяців тому

    All vehicles powered by Internal Combustion Engines were made obsolete over fifty years ago when emission levels were made by governments. Since then all these engines have been turned into scrap iron jungles trying to use old technology. Ask CAT or V.W.. Because vehicle mfrs. cannot meet these levels they continually change the goal posts to appease them. I could be excused in believing [after what happened to Ralph Nader] politicians are absolutely scared of the vehicle industry. A friend of mine, the late Ted Pritchard of Melbourne designed and built the lowest emission engine in the world. It was a steamer. External combustion, controllable. He took it to America and demonstrated it to Senators from Washington , the motor industry and others, successfully. Was happened? Nothing. The Labor govt. gave him $300K. to build three engines, one on the road, one on a dynamometer and one for spares. Tell me if I'm wrong, this is while they were giving G.M. and Ford $750 and 500K yearly. When the other govt. took over they took $200K. off him. This gave him one engine and no money to test it. Did they take it off the Americans? They are so gutless they would not dare. Put a steamer back to back with a diesel and i can tell you which is going west. So now we are stuck with a stack of chrome burning premium fuel and producing more poisonous gas than ever. I could fill the Mitchell Library on diesels. I had thirty years as a seafarer working on them. Don't try to kid me.I am just hopeful this email is printed and let a few of you wake up. When I was a kid I thought the old N.R. Mack came from heaven. Times change but engine mfrs. are like trams or donkeys going down the same old track.

  • @evolveausevolveaus
    @evolveausevolveaus 6 місяців тому

    Thanks as always Bruce

  • @21COOL-BIG-DADDY68
    @21COOL-BIG-DADDY68 8 місяців тому

    Shit I did a contract up at GROOTE ISLAND n.t 2008 those blokes had double side tippers doing the dam reclaim bunch of good blokes I actually meet Richard gulf up there as well cheers ol mate 👍😊👍

  • @willad1872
    @willad1872 8 місяців тому

    must be some sheep stations around there.

  • @craigtomkinson2837
    @craigtomkinson2837 9 місяців тому

    Awesome

  • @kakakarauna3813
    @kakakarauna3813 9 місяців тому

    Brings back memories I drove logging trks for 30 years klc in murrupara north island NZ

  • @KahuvaImmanuel-ph7wk
    @KahuvaImmanuel-ph7wk 10 місяців тому

    😢❤

  • @bobbob-fg5wy
    @bobbob-fg5wy 10 місяців тому

    What a great yarn from a salt of the earth Aussie. Thanks for bringing it my way.

  • @Brigalow01
    @Brigalow01 Рік тому

    Gary and Ross are true blue Aussie’s.. hard working and smart businessmen.. good to see you’s are still going strong

  • @mcgee1703
    @mcgee1703 Рік тому

    You painted a weststar pink!your going to hell

  • @DELTAFORCE3
    @DELTAFORCE3 Рік тому

    Some of that money you know go down south

  • @DELTAFORCE3
    @DELTAFORCE3 Рік тому

    You get the Mack the road train is unfair

  • @DELTAFORCE3
    @DELTAFORCE3 Рік тому

    So where is the little guy with the magic

  • @waynesmith7683
    @waynesmith7683 Рік тому

    God made one paradise AUSTRALIA Than broke the mould ,and I’m proud I’m a Aussie.

  • @peternewman958
    @peternewman958 Рік тому

    If your going to use music it should be a very light accompaniment not predominant over the voice. Always check your editing audio spectrum to ensure the music level is well below the voice audio. Music louder than the voice totally spoils what could be a great video.

  • @blake8591
    @blake8591 Рік тому

    👌🏻nice truck!! But wish it was pulling a b double or road train👍🏻

  • @R00RAL
    @R00RAL Рік тому

    how is Glen Mc Grath ?

  • @R00RAL
    @R00RAL Рік тому

    Wow, brings back memories..

  • @R00RAL
    @R00RAL Рік тому

    bags of Amfo ?

  • @R00RAL
    @R00RAL Рік тому

    why does he use the clutch ?

  • @eddieweigel9490
    @eddieweigel9490 Рік тому

    How many B model Mack’s did you drive SIR

  • @eddieweigel9490
    @eddieweigel9490 Рік тому

    Old school Mack’s are the best no DEF no Computers non EGR all brute mechanical power presented by Bull dog Mack

  • @eddieweigel9490
    @eddieweigel9490 Рік тому

    We don’t make them anymore in the states it’s a shame that Mack stopped making the Bulldog Titan they stopped making the Mack super liner AKA “The Super Dog” many years ago they had a fantastic lineup the B R RD tin nose DM 600 tin nose DM 800 U model great great trucks today they have a handful in there lineup I’ve been a major fan of Bull dog Mack’s since I’m a young kid drove a lot of Mack’s and there is nothing like the old school bulldogs

  • @porfiriolopezjr9192
    @porfiriolopezjr9192 Рік тому

    Where can I get that bumper?

  • @rodneyflying9124
    @rodneyflying9124 Рік тому

    get rid of the bloody back ground music ffs

  • @HarryCurrie-bz9ei
    @HarryCurrie-bz9ei Рік тому

    Well done to Julie and her rig of the year what a cause breaks my heart my gran died of breast cancer keep up the good work Julie ur a legenf

  • @michaelgarland6468
    @michaelgarland6468 Рік тому

    Love you Paul Wonbon! You give me hope, I have trucks and heart attacks too brother, !love your work mate

  • @bennieknape4857
    @bennieknape4857 Рік тому

    Good show,

  • @bennieknape4857
    @bennieknape4857 Рік тому

    Now I see why we like ,Australians ,here in Texas we have a bit in common long drives and camping oh yeah and cows.

  • @RARDingo
    @RARDingo Рік тому

    A lot of that dirt is sealed road nowadays

  • @gameon2546
    @gameon2546 Рік тому

    2023 this is still gold

  • @bruthabluez
    @bruthabluez Рік тому

    Old skoool truckah ! Old boy workin like hes still in his 20s ! Trucka to look upto ! Along with my oldman Raaawjaaah

  • @truthhurts4555
    @truthhurts4555 Рік тому

    Don’t send shit to japan

  • @linorful
    @linorful Рік тому

    This is basically a freaking truck commercial and it's stupid

  • @kangaroobarnanning5343
    @kangaroobarnanning5343 Рік тому

    By the soot coming out of the stacks I'd say he's got it tickled up a bit 😁😁😁

  • @normlittle9902
    @normlittle9902 Рік тому

    Ceep up the good work 👍

  • @thatsbollox
    @thatsbollox Рік тому

    Just a lazy 35,000 head of cattle being run on that first station....and the owners have another 6 just like it or bigger.

  • @lynegan1186
    @lynegan1186 Рік тому

    I love this truck from Joseph Egan