Fleet Focus

Everybody has their ups and downs in life. You know – the usual highs and lows. But in his 50 years so far, East Coast log truck and forestry operator Ricky Kuru’s lows have been devastatingly, destructively deep. And the highs? Extraordinarily, spectacularly high.

The trend started early: The kid who doted on Dad Jack and lived for the hours they spent together in truck and machinery cabs, turned into a teenager who fell out with his family over his rebellious ways….

Which saw him kicked out of school and fathering a child before he was 15, ending up behind bars….and sleeping on the streets.

Then the rebound: He found his partner for life (wife Leanne)... ... 

Suddenly noticing just how many trucks on the nation’s highways now wear the distinctive black Mainstream livery has given many people the impression the firm has come from nowhere. 

However, says founder and managing director Greg Haliday, the firm is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and it has been there all along, just ‘in hiding’. 

It has been steadily expanding its network by acquiring other trucking firms, bringing them into the fold to extend its reach and to provide the service standards Mainstream demands for its customers.

“We just didn’t bother to rebrand everything that was there because the cost would be millions — I thi... ... 

The decarbonisation of freight movements will be a major contributor to global sustainability and climate change targets.

One of the world’s biggest logistics players has a clear timeline for achieving carbon neutrality across its broad range of activities and is spreading the net wide to gather early experience with alternative energy sources and technologies.

DB Schenker is a 100% subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn and since 2002 has been the logistics arm of the state-owned German rail operator. The company’s history goes back much further however and in 2022, DB Schenker has been celebrating its 150th anniversary.

To reach its ambitious declared goal of cl... ...