Deals On Wheels #454

Working DEALS
was time to chase down his goal of owning
a Kenny.
“In 2017 I traded the Mack in and bought a
Kenworth T610 SAR, which I still have,” he
says, “I still remember the day I picked up
the new Kenworth after working with
James Leo from Hallam Truck Centre
to get everything right.”
Daniel, with the help of James, spec'd out
the Kenworth as a 19-metre quad-dog with a
BTE-built tray, suited perfectly for the bricks
he’d be carting.
“It was almost to the day that it was
delivered and I wandered down there pretty
nervous actually, but I was absolutely rapt,”
he recalls.
For Daniel, he’d achieved his dream and
taking delivery of that shiny new Kenworth
was every bit as special as he’d imagined.
“Taking the Mack off my old man was
grouse, but picking a brand-new truck from
a dealership is just something I'd always
wanted to do,” he says.
“Even the Kenworth hat and jacket are a
part of that memory, as silly as it sounds.
“I hooked it all up and off I went. It’s just
clicked over 200,000ks and compared to
the earlier trucks it’s been great.”
Another trick bit of equipment you’re sure
to see on the back of the T610 is Daniel’s
Manitou MTX 625 4WD telehandler, which
he says will get just about anywhere on a
construction site. It looks like a hoot to drive,
too!
Nowadays Daniel contracts for PGH bricks
and pavers out of Scoresby, servicing the
growth corridors around Victoria, from
Seymour to Lorne, the CBD and beyond.
“Late last year I got offered another
contract and so I knew I'd be needing
another truck,” he says.
The choice of what truck to get for the job
was a decision that came easily after many
years getting to know the ins and outs of
various Scania models, and one that allowed
him to continue a family tradition.
“For that contract I wanted a Scania, for the
particular application it was the way to go,”
he explains.
Many decades after his grandfather's first
Scania purchase, Daniel took delivery of a
new P 450 8x4 twin steer rigid tray top to add
to the fleet now consisting of his Kenworth
T610 SAR and the various other Scanias in
the King family.
“There’s a photo of me when I was two or
The trusty Scania
143 that served the
Kings for 30 years
and 1.8 trouble-free
million kilometres
I was
pretty
blown
away
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