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Australian Farmers Battle Mice Plague
April 12 2021
First comes the drought, the heartbreak, the dust storms and paddocks with desiccated crops. Then comes the rain, the hope, the great blue-black mountains of clouds, deluge, creeks and gullies running as red as blood. Families look out of farmhouse windows…
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MaxiTRANS Supports the Brisbane Truck Show
March 22 2021
MaxiTRANS, Australia’s leading trailer manufacturer and parts supplier to the road transport industry, is wholeheartedly supporting the 2021 Brisbane Truck Show to be held in May. MaxiTRANS will use the show to flag the 75th anniversary of Freighter…
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Freighter Celebrates 75 years as Australia’s Preeminent Trailer Brand
February 01 2021
The year 2021 marks 75 years since the first Freighter products rolled onto Australian roads. Freighter’s history is clearly as long as it is rich, and that legacy is a key component of every trailer that rolls off the line today. The origins of…
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Golden Grain
December 18 2020
Drought-breaking rains across South-East Australia opened the way, in 2020, for a dramatically increased agricultural planting of winter crops, more than has been seen for the best part of a decade. And as spring ripens towards summer, grain is being…