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electrical and stormwater systems just waiting to be struck at any given moment when excavating by traditional methods. Because of the significant liabilities companies can’t afford to take out any services, or worse, risk worker injury or death.” quality Australian-made and supported products and the Directors Matt Clough, Ned Popovic and James Hennessy, can draw upon more than 50 years of combined industry experience.

Located at Arundel on the Queensland Gold Coast, Vac Truck Industries (VTI) is emerging as Australia’s leading OEM manufacturer in its sector, providing complete vacuum truck solutions to a broad number of sectors including the construction, civil, electrical, infrastructure, mining, drilling, and oil and gas industries in Australia. Over just a few years VTI has grown to become a major national supplier across these various sectors. Key to VTI’s success has been focus and investment in development of evolving technology to produce Australian designed, engineered and manufactured hydro-excavation vacuum trucks, high pressure hydro drain cleaning systems and liquid waste collection systems.

Since its beginning, VTI has expanded and diversified its offerings significantly, with various packages and specifications designed to meet the changing demands of their clients’ industries. The equipment covers a range of volume sizes and power capabilities as well as various sizes of tanks for fresh water and spoil.

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VTI was established four years ago with the intent to provide the local market with readily available, high-

“We based our manufacturing processes around Australian assets with a priority of keeping jobs in Australia,” says Matt. “Our focus is to build trucks which suit the challenges of Australian conditions, and at the same time make a conscious effort to keep their operation simple. With no disrespect to vac truck operators, it’s vital to keep them userfriendly by being simple to use and simple to maintain.”

The level of simplicity is evident with equipment such as the pumps and blowers fitted to VTI trucks being hydraulically driven by the trucks’ engines via the power take off (PTO) connection, obviating the need for an auxiliary engine. The result is a less complicated truck with a lower tare weight and lower noise levels when operating, which is important for residential or night works. Using the truck’s engine to power the equipment also has the benefit of reducing emissions to the Euro 6 standards met by the current model trucks used as the platforms for the hydro and vacuum equipment. Those same exhaust emission standards may not be

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“We pride ourselves on the aftersales service and support we provide. It’s all well and good selling something, but it’s also important how you manage it after the initial sale and how you support your customer. Frequently when people buy one of our trucks, they’ll be back to buy another one and we find we do a lot of repeat business.”

Operating in a market which is considerably specialised, yet highly

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competitive, the VTI business has grown rapidly from its beginnings.

“It took us nine months to put our first unit out due to the amount of research and development necessary to achieve the end results we insisted upon, and since then we’ve delivered nearly 100 trucks,” says Matt.