Old Kwikasair SARs

A pic emailed to my by ex kaa driver.

Hi Squeak, 135 ended up at distribution in Brisbane, was a slimline with an 8V71, if my memory is correct. The cab got burned and Re Car repaired it, back in the 80's. First truck I ever saw with a soft feel steering wheel, and had a Recar logo in the middle. It was actually a K 125.

I'm pretty sure 217 ended up at Refridgeration in Brisbane, was involved in a reasonably light roll over and written off.

The slimline KW 8v71 ex TNT Roadfast Sydney, I delivered to TNT Contrans in Adelaide in 1982, cant make out the fleet number,
The ERF was at Cooks River Rail in Sydney wth a Flexi-Van.

Great this Railtrailer,what a dashing piece of history.

I found a better pic of the slimline I posted earlier, fleet number is 5NA133

heres some more numbers for you werkhorse.KT016,KT026,KT020-grey ghosts.KT089-slimlineKW.KT201-w900[wrote off].KT153SAR[wrote off]. 1KV167-KAA triaxle,1PV125-triaxle.1PW053-curtainside A trailer. :)Heres one more KB173-TNT ghost[in TNT colours]

Hi Rene, Australia is a big place with a population that is very small in comparison to America or Canada, so even large transport companies cart all sorts of stuff for anyone, in those days at least. The Containers we were carting were part of a contract with the Cotton Board, standard COSCO containers for export to China. We also subied for SPD and Brambles, even Linfox, all through Carpentaria, and these companies are the opposition, unreal eh, I don't know if it still happens today. Only time I ever towed vans was Refridgeration and Linfox distribution to Woolworths. At TNT Distribution it was all flat tops and tarps on rainy days, or ropes on sunny days. I'm still pretty quick at tying knots, I got a lot of practice.

Thank you bigcam for the detailed informations.It's very interesting.What kind of containers you was pulling...
standart QRX small boxes,shipping lines containers or TNT jumbo rail containers?

Thanks once again everyone

Heres one more KB173-TNT ghost[in TNT colours]

Thats a different one ......... is it an EX TNT used as storage ??? what do you mean by ghost ???

Alltrans Railfast, fleet number 1DA149