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Sixty years of road transport experience across two countries equips Ausway Transport to meet its newest ambitions.

The Sooch family became involved in road transport in Northern India as far back as 1962 where Gurdev S. Sooch started a trucking company, prior to emigrating to Australia with his family in the mid-‘70s. Gurdev’s son, Bill Sooch established Ausway Transport in Melbourne with a single truck in 2003 and while Bill remains heavily involved in the operation, his son Bobby Sooch is now the General Manager, making this the third generation of the family to be involved in transport.

Ausway Transport provides express interstate parcel deliveries, with growing dry and refrigerated food contracts on the Melbourne-Sydney and MelbourneBrisbane routes. There are occasional trips into Northern Queensland, as well as a daily Melbourne-Adelaide service. The process is underway currently to acquire accreditation to operate in Western Australia. In addition to its fleet of rigid trucks, Ausway Transport currently has more than 60 late model prime movers and 70 B-double sets including drop deck mezzanines. Some new B-triples will be joining the fleet following the PBS approvals being handled by Smedley’s Engineers and will be destined for operations into North Queensland and South Australia. The majority of prime movers are Kenworth and Volvo, and two R 620 V8 Scanias are the latest additions with several more currently on order. In the past Ausway has used other American brands, and Bobby Sooch recognises the value of operating locally manufactured products such as Kenworth and Volvo as it contributes to the overall economy