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A partnership formed at a Christmas gathering five decades ago has served as the bedrock for the thriving container transport entity known and respected among industry today as Secon Freight Logistics.

38 Coast to Coast

Based in Brisbane, SGGS, operates a fleet of 100 prime movers carrying dangerous goods all over Australia. A record recent order through Daimler Trucks will see its fleet expand considerably over the next few years.

46 Push it to the Limit Micway Transport works around the clock with some of Australia’s biggest food and retail organisations, and with the help of Isuzu, it has ensured that it has the most efficient vehicles to carry out its freight tasks.

TRUCK & TECH 50 A Star is Born

The Western Star X-Series is set to extend the brand’s hardwon reputation for durability in combination with the finesse of the latest technologies.

58 In Quad we Trust

Rocky Lamattina & Sons have unveiled a 30-pallet split quad Kenworth that has got tongues wagging in the industry.

TEST DRIVE

76 Horses for Courses

Scania has had the edge in the horsepower rankings for a long time in the Australian market, at least. Now it has surpassed its own previous rating with a 770 horsepower V8.

William Craske Editor

Amid some of the early predictions of how 2023 might advance, a report issued late last year by DHL projected that 70 per cent of export businesses expected industry would recover. It was a marked improvement, also specified in the report, against the record low of 47 per cent of those surveyed during the COVID-19 period. In the age of ‘Big Data’, it’s striking to see how numbers are continually applied ahead of time to cultivate an outcome. Polling data prior to elections is one field where this is best known to happen. Looking into how polls influenced behaviour, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business discovered that voters would often switch sides after consulting polls as they sought the wisdom of crowds so that they might feel part of a winning team. The findings verified, what’s more, that the opinion of ‘experts’ usually had more weight on voter decision-making than that of their peers. A selected group of voters were asked by researchers to state their opinions on a variety of real public policy questions, and then presented them with fabricated poll results on the same topics. When the test subjects learned many experts favoured a position, opinions shifted by 11.3 per cent. But