Transport names from yesterday..

GOVE FREIGHTLINES N.T. MORGANS MEAT TRANSPORT CANNON HILL BRISBANE O.D. TRANSPORT ALICE SPRINGS

Been trying to get a shot of that white one with a blue stripe from Koroit, but all the ones that have been into work of late have got Warrnambool on the door
Is that the one your thinking of Chocs ?

g'day Raggsie, chocs and all .. not sure if they have been added to the list but Merri Trans is/was from Koroit.. i think (or was that Allansford?) ...not sure if that's the crowd you're thinking of.....cheers

Merri.. Post #139 Detecta..

Nup not them..
I reckon they had a few Whites 4's or 9's can't remember.
Light to mid blue stripe around the waist about 4-5"

I'll get Raggsie on the fizz one night...
It'll all come back to us then..

chocs

How about Patons, from Koroit? Still going I think, they had white with a blue stripe.
Good outfit too, we had one of their trucks not that long ago, well cared for as they should be..
Cheers and see ya'll Sundy!
Richard

Patons was the one I was thinking of, still going as I said out of Warrnambool these days.
Millers has the Green stripe and I have been told on the grapevine that they have been bought out by Sargeants,
yet to be confirmed.
Detective, Merri was Allansford but I haven't seen any out here on the backroads so no idea what they have on them these days.

bigcam,the other company which was part of Carpentaria
was R&H Transport from Newcastle and TNT owned a controling interest (56%) in Carpentaria.

Some other transport names we can add include John Bain Transport,Townsend Deliveries,Refrigerated Road-
ways,and from the TNT stable Holyman's,Ibis haulage,
and TNT Darwin Express.

Hi Rene, John Bain sold out to TNT a couple times I think, wasn't it John Bain Transport, there was another one and then John Bain Westrans.
Rifridgerated Roadways was origonally Taranto Twinro.

Deeps tpt (Holbrook) Stan Elliot tpt (now Hume tpt) Merediths tpt George Godlewski

With new investors coming a board in the early eighties
with a participation of 50% Taranto Twinro changes its name for Refrigerated Roadways.Finally the company was bought by TNT in 1995.

About John Bain he sold also its company to TNT in 1995 and became head of all TNT's general freight opera-
tions for the Northern Territory.He left two years later and started Westrans Freighters managing the company until 2009 when he sold the business to Toll Holdings.

Here's something about big fish swallowing up little fish that I've never understood.

When I was driveing (2006) for a modestly sucessful but well established local/ regional frieght company, it was bought out by Toll.

Fair enough, but they just absorbed the business and dropped the trading name. Okay, they got the books, 10 or 15 mixed trucks and prevented the ex-owner from re-entering the trade for some stated period of time. But why?

Why couldnt they just have "earned" all the work away from my mob, and left it at that?

Why did (in this case) Toll just buy and burn?

I dont get it.
-b