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25/06/2026

🎉 The 90,000th Australian-designed and manufactured Kenworth truck was officially delivered to McColl's Transport today during a celebration at PACCAR Australia’s Bayswater production facility in Melbourne.

⏱️ KENWORTH Australia commenced local manufacturing in 1971 and reached an early milestone in 1974 with the delivery of the 1,000th Australian-made truck – a K125CR for Switzers Transport Services.

🚛 More than 55 years later, the 90,000th Kenworth has been produced at Bayswater, and delivered to Geelong-based McColls Transport during an all-employee event celebrating Australian manufacturing, where both vehicles were displayed.

🤝 Kenworth employees were joined by McColls CEO, Simon Thornton, along with National Fleet Manager, John Hovey, who accepted the keys to their new T909 from PACCAR Australia Managing Director, Damian Smethurst.

👉 Full story https://bit.ly/4oJSFEC

18/06/2026

💡START YOUR NOMINATIONS💡

👏 Entries are now open for the 2026 HVIA National Awards, and HVIA is inviting members to put forward the people, teams, projects and initiatives in their businesses that deserve national recognition.

🏆 Following a record number of nominations in 2025, the awards have become an increasingly important opportunity to recognise excellence across every part of Australia’s heavy vehicle industry, says HVIA CEO Todd Hacking.

🗣️ “The 2025 awards were a tremendous success, not only because of the record number of nominations, but because of the quality and diversity of the stories behind them.

💡 “We saw member companies and individuals of all sizes and backgrounds recognised for their contribution to the industry, and the new categories helped shine a light on areas that are absolutely critical to our future – workforce development, mentoring, sustainability, innovation and community leadership.

🎉 “The awards give us a way to recognise that work nationally, but it starts with members taking the time to nominate the people and projects that deserve to be seen. We know those stories are out there, and we are encouraging every member to look across their business and start their nominations.”

👉 Read more here https://bit.ly/44kNth2

👩‍💻 Nominate here (before August 7) https://bit.ly/4fSBjmS

09/06/2026

💡 The war in the Middle East has, perversely, achieved something that decades of government policy hasn’t – bringing hydrogen and diesel prices close to parity, Hiringa Energy’s Ryan McDonald wryly observed in his address at HVIA’s TruckShowX 2026 conference on May 18-19 .

⛽ Purely on that metric, it’s an encouraging development for the New Zealand-based hydrogen fuel producer and distributor as it works hard to build out a heavy vehicle hydrogen refuelling network in Australia.

🚛 Across the Tasman, the company has developed a network of four refuelling stations throughout the north island, servicing heavy-duty long-haul trucks operated by operators including NZ Post, TR Group and HW Richardson Group

💰 Earlier this year, Hiringa was awarded a $788,000 grant from the NSW Government to progress Australia’s first green hydrogen refuelling corridor, including selecting the appropriate refuelling technology, securing approvals for infrastructure works, and identify the network’s future customers.

🛣️ The initial focus will be developing three sites along the Pacific Highway between Sydney and Brisbane, which are expected to be online Q4 2028. The company has plans for another 10 refuelling sites by 2030, to connect major freight corridors between Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

👉 Read the full story https://bit.ly/3QA8Zv7

07/06/2026

🚛 Attendees to 2027 Brisbane Truck Show sister event TruckShowX 2026 grabbed the unique opportunity to experience an on-road test drive of the latest low- and zero-emissions vehicles on offer in Australia, ranging from battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to hybrid diesel-electric and diesel-hydrogen units – and even fuel-efficient diesel models.

🛞 The driving opportunities took place on the incredible roads around the event’s host venue, Rydges Resort Hunter Valley, over the two-day conference period.

📸 Photographer Alastair Brook was there to capture all the action – check out all the images here https://bit.ly/4uQH1dn

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06/06/2026

🚨 The pace of change facing transport operators is only going to accelerate, Julie Russell, a director and third-generation member of family-owned Russell Transport warned in her opening address to HVIA’s TruckShowX 2026 conference on May 18-19.

🗣️ “When I reflect back across my time in the industry, I see a pace of change that appears to be getting faster, and disruptions that are both unpredictable and often occurring at the same time,” said Julie, who is also Deputy Chair of the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.

🚛 “My family has been in the road transport industry for over 100 years, and in this time we have seen enormous change across the societal, cultural, political, regulatory and technological landscape.

🌏 “Even on the geopolitical front, there has been changes which has affected how we operate and how our supply chains function.

🐎 “My grandfather’s first key decision was whether to go with the new technology of the day or stick with the horse and cart. The advancement of our heavy vehicle fleet from that decision onwards has evolved and continues to evolve in regard to the size of the vehicle, the different makes, models, the products we carry, and even our employment structures.

👩‍💻 “They all evolve as new technologies and standards were introduced.”

👉 Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4dUx9tm

01/06/2026

🎉 Hendrickson Australia and Freighter Group leveraged their presence at TruckShowX 2026 to unveil new truck and trailer products soon to be available to the Australian market.

⚙️ Hendrickson, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of medium- and heavy-duty mechanical, elastomeric and air suspension for trucks and trailers, took the opportunity to present ‘ELECTRAAX’, a high-efficiency, lightweight electric drive axle designed for medium-duty trucks and buses.

🚛 Freighter Group, the leading trailer manufacturer, took the opportunity to launch ‘DryX’, a new dry freight van solution designed from the ground up for telematics-first logistics, which will be available to order from Q4 2026.

👉 Read the full story https://bit.ly/3Q8OnKh

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29/05/2026

😆 It’s not quite ‘The Epic Split’ featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme – the viral commercial released in 2013 by Volvo Trucks to demonstrate the stability of its FM trucks using dynamic steering.

🏆 But it was epic enough for Mader Group to win the best selfie award judged by NTI’s Craig Carmody at TruckShowX 2026’s golf day held on Sunday, May 17 at Rydges Resort Hunter Valley.

🏌‍♂️ More than 50 eager attendees joined us ahead of the two-day conference for nine holes of fun and frivolity – as well as some serious golf (and networking).

👏 The gun team comprising VE Motion’s Dean Panos and James Morgan, TreviPay’s Piers Gorman and HVIA’s very own Harrison Hunkin were named the overall winning team; while Mark Lampard and Brad Yarwood from GoEV, Air Brake Systems Pty Ltd’s Glenn Hambleton and BetterFleet’s Russ Yell were judged the most enthusiastic.

⛳ Individual prizes were also awarded for closest to the pin (Jost’s Joey Coles) and loudest shirt (BetterFleet’s Russ Yell).

📸 From the comfort of his mototorised buggy, snapper Alastair Brook captured the shenanigans.

👉 Check out all the images here https://bit.ly/4dLI5tf

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20/05/2026

🎉 TruckShowX 2026 has been judged an unbridled success, with a record 463 transport industry leaders attending this week’s landmark conference and expo to “share ideas, challenge assumptions, showcase innovation and, most importantly, help shape the future of freight and transport in Australia”.

📢 “This year’s theme — ‘Driving the Future’ — could not be more relevant as our industry navigates transformational change in technology, sustainability, productivity, safety and supply chain disruption,” Todd Hacking, CEO of organiser HVIA, said in his opening address.

💡 Held at the sprawling Rydges Resort Hunter Valley in regional New South Wales on May 18-19, the conference featured more than 60 of the industry’s leading thinkers, operators, suppliers, innovators and technical experts sharing their expertise, insights and real-world experiences over the two-day event.

👉 Read the full story https://bit.ly/3RiSL9Q

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