The Road Transport Industry employs over 380,000 Australians in a wide range of roles and it provides many career opportunities for you as an employee or as a business owner.
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​Over 70% of the trucks on our roads are owned and operated by small family businesses and they all have the opportunity to grow into large businesses with hundreds of trucks, just like Allan Scott (Scott’s Transport) and Lindsay Fox (Linfox) did.
Road Transport is the cardio-vascular system of Australia’s economy.
We bring in everything you need, from food and clothing to furniture and building materials and all the supplies needed by manufacturing, agricultural and mining businesses.
Then we take out the rubbish and transport finished products to market.
There are many types of trucking operations; general freight (things in cartons), livestock, massive Over Dimensional Freight that might weigh 100 tonnes that is carried on highly specialised trucks under police escort because they take up the entire road, to tanker operations for wine, milk, fuel etc and many more.
Trucks operate throughout Australia in all cities and towns, doing local work (under 500km), on highways between cities, across state borders and throughout rural and remote Australia. Put simply, trucks go everywhere and carry everything that we all rely on every day.
It's not all about driving, although that is the most obvious job, with the best office-window views.