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Extravaganza Parts and accessories stands were spread across three floors at the Brisbane Truck Show. Here’s a snapshot of some of the standouts
Garrett Motion Australia GM Paul Carlsson
Garrett’s light duty credentials Garrett Motion Australia GM Paul Carlsson highlights the many ways to gain from the BTS. The local arm of global US firm that helped boost engine output through turbochargers, Garrett has a range of both heavy and light machinery options, including those for trucks. But, as Carlsson notes, fleet owners and their managers are also performance and leisure machine fans. Thus the Garrett stand accommodated both. Whereas Garrett used to do heavier-duty truck turbos, it is now more focused on fitting lighter rigids, such as Isuzu, Hino and Fuso. “In most cases, you’ll get guys come up and say ‘I don’t have your turbocharger in my truck but I’ve got a twin-turbo ski-boat that I want to do up’ – and that’s why we have the performance stuff here,” Carlsson says, noting
that they might also have company utes or private performance cars as part of their lives. They can be “truck drivers, fleet owners, managers that are successful as far as their work-life goes” who may have little opportunity otherwise to see the performance range, which, interestingly, is where the most BTS enquiries are focused. Carlsson’s 2021 is chequered with similar events planned as far back as November. He insists there was little concern about the BTS going ahead and the value of it, and other such events, is broad. “It’s a way of getting in front of the customers out there – the end-users, the installers – and talking to them. It works well,” he says, not to mention the opportunity for education and advice nights Garrett can provide to the likes of diesel mechanics.
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