Fuel Distributors of Western Australia celebrate their 20th Anniversary

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THE TRANSPORT AND MACHINERY MAGAZINE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ISSN 2202-6193

100007516 April 2019 | price $6.95

TRANSPORT magazine

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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS

The head of Fuel Distributors Craig Burrows, the boy from Corrigin turned Fremantle Docker, steers a ship of nearly 150 crew as the company sells and distributes petroleum products throughout the State

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• Buoyant WA Mining Sector

• Operation Long Run

• SLOMO Laws – 12 months on

• Fatal truck crashes fall dramatically

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FDWA 20th Anniversary

YOUR ‘LOCAL’ FUEL PEOPLE –

Fuel Distributors of Western Australia celebrating 20 years

By Russell McKinnon

From Fremantle Dockers centre half

forward to business boss, Craig Burrows is dedicated to his current team with as much desire in the office as he had on the field. It's the nature of sport to be on the top of your game and Craig uses skills learned

from country to metropolitan Australian rules football to carve out a niche in the petroleum industry.

The head of Fuel Distributors, the boy from Corrigin turned Fremantle Docker, steers a ship of nearly 150 crew as the company sells and distributes petroleum

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“It’s been really enjoyable and now to have 150 employees and a fleet of 39 trucks, well, it’s a helluva ride, really”

products throughout the State. Based in Kwinana at the hub of the State's fuel distribution network, Craig's company successfully negotiates the everyincreasingly regulated industry demands to make a profit and survive in these manic, penny-pinching times.

So successful, in fact, that Fuel Distributors has emerged from a frontroom organisation in Ardross to its current Kwinana Beach base in just 20 years and the signs are that it will be around in another 20.

Craig admits the road to survival has

had its ups and downs, but he has enjoyed every minute of those 20 years.

“It's been really enjoyable and now to have 150 employees and a fleet of 39 trucks, well, it's a helluva ride, really.”

Craig says the lessons learned in football apply equally well in business.

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