Tachoblog

Now we all know that dumped plastic bags (and other plastic waste) are a big problem when it comes to keeping our respective countries (and seas, oceans, etc) neat, tidy and environmentally sound, but did you know that toilet paper is a problem in Australia? Neither did Tachoblog until we read about it on TwoCrowsDown’s excellent blog ‘Diesel and Dust’.

Tachoblog doesn’t know how they do it, but yet again etruck has found another great video that we have to share with you.

As it’s Friday, Tachoblog thought that rather than just bringing you one video from this year’s Heritage Truck Association Show (held back in May in Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia) we’d wrap up the series with the final two clips.

At Tachoblog we like to make the midweek that little bit better for you, so today we have a collection of classic Australian trucks on parade at this year’sHeritage Truck Association Show In Beenleigh, Queensland.

Normally, obviously, Tachoblog wouldn’t directly lift a post from another blogger, but this is a special case so we have. Over on Biglorryblog they’ve put a call out for help finding a classic Mack DM600 that was stolen from the Shell truck stop Kewdale, Western Australia on the 30th May 2010.

Thanks to etruck and Alwaysoffroad, Tachoblog can bring you this great clip of heavy haluage in the Australian Outback.

TwoCrowsDown from the Tachoblog Tribe sent us in these pictures of a Mammoet’s Western Star that he’d taken at AV Trucks in Guildford, Perth, Western Australia.

Tachoblog’s back after the Easter break, we hope you had a good one and didn’t fall for our two April Fool posts from last week. If you didn’t see them then you might want to have a look at Scoop! No More Smelly Exhaust Fumes Thanks To Aromatab and Tachoblog Reports On Hyundai’s Move Into Funerals.

In Australia, the Leader of of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, was attending an event calling for the dualling of the Princes Highway in Winchelsea. Naturally enough there were TV film crews waiting to film his arrival but both they and Tony Abbott got a lot more than they bargained for.

Organised by the Australian Trucking Association, the Aussie equivilent of the UK’s Road Haulage Association and Freight Transport Association the aim is, according to the ATA, to ‘bring the trucking industry together to inform the community and politicians about the importance of the trucking industry, the issues the industry will face in the coming years, how to drive safely around trucks, and the great careers that are now available.’