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Why You Should Consider Long Term Truck Rental for Your Business
Renting vs buying You have committed to making regular deliveries but your business doesn’t have the capital available to invest in heavy transport. You think that it is more cost effective to rent a truck than borrow the funds needed. Perhaps your...
Semi-Trailer Hire – All You Need to Know
What is a semi-trailer? A Semi trailer is the most popular haulage vehicle on the roads in most countries. The trailer has no front axle with the load being carried by the hauling truck or tractor. There is a single turning point making reversing, co...
Semi-Trailers The Major Types to Know About
When the layperson sees a truck they just see “a truck”, but if you know what you’re looking at then you know the variety of types and combinations is nearly endless. And each one is intentionally matched to where it’s going, the job it’s g...
How Do Refrigerated Trucks Work?
Refrigerated trucks are a wonderful thing. They’re why ice cream is even possible as a summer snack. However, refrigeration is also a counterintuitive thing. Why? Well, because you can’t actually “make cold”. So, how exactly do some pipes and...
New Prime Mover Offerings at SCTR
SCTR has undertaken an extensive review of its prime mover offerings and has introduced several Mercedes Benz Actros prime movers to our fleet. These will replace the big American Kenworth and Freightliner prime movers that SCTR has previously run fo...
What is the NHVAS?
The National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme (NHVAS) is an Australia-wide programme that recognises compliance of heavy vehicle operators with their statutory duties under road transport law, as well as exemplary safety and management practices. I...
5 Uses For Prime Movers and Semi Trailers
Heavy duty trucks such as prime movers and semi-trailers, serve an important function allowing for the transport of goods and equipment that wouldn’t be possible with smaller vehicles. While most people may not think about it, without semi- trailer...
What trucks can you drive with a LR-Light Rigid License in NSW?
The six vehicles classes include C, LR, MR, HR, HC and MC vehicles. Let’s quickly go through the differences between each. Vehicle licence classes in NSW Class C – Car licence: a vehicle of up to 4.5 tonnes as the gross mass of the vehicle is per...
What trucks can you drive with a car licence in NSW?
In order to understand which truck models you can drive with a car licence, we should first go through the different licence classes in Australia. Licences vary according to the class of vehicle in question. There are six main vehicle classes which a...
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