Cummins Asia Pacific Magazine - Issue 1 2023

Emerald Carrying Company:
Polished to perfection
The words are prominent on the door of the Kenworth – PRIDE, CARE, RESPECT, EXCELLENCE –
and in a nutshell they reflect what Emerald Carrying Co is all about.
The culture at ECC is obvious: Pride in
everything IS everything!
The stunningly immaculate Queensland
fleet will this year haul 4 billion litres of fuel
to mines, fuel depots and service stations.
ECC’s operational and maintenance
standards are of the highest order, with
the company’s fleet of 155 prime movers
and 350 trailers running on high utilisation
schedules.
In fact, high utilisation is a trademark of
the fleet with some of ECC’s fuel-haul
B-doubles clocking 450,000 km a year on
triple-shift work.
Cummins is the best
engine brand on
the market in terms
of reliability and
aftersales support.
Matt Haylock
ECC fleet manager
Loyalty to suppliers
Kenworths with Cummins power
dominate at ECC. What is obvious is the
strong relationship that has been forged
over the years between ECC and its
suppliers: Loyalty received is deserving of
loyalty in return!
The relationship with Cummins, dating
back to the 1980s, is evident with ECC
recently putting into service a set of
B-double tankers promoting the Cummins
brand – in particular the Euro 6 X15 with
the accompanying message ‘We’re ready
when you are’.
“Cummins is the best engine brand on the
market in terms of reliability and aftersales
support,” says ECC fleet manager Matt
Haylock without hesitation.
“We run our trucks into some extremely
remote areas across Queensland, the
Northern Territory and New South Wales
so reliability is crucial.”
When a Kenworth has done around
1.2 million km, ECC rebuilds the engine
or replaces it with a brand new one
depending on how quickly the kilometres
have been accumulated. The ISXe5
dominates in a fleet which has recently
seen the first Euro 6 ISX engines
enter service.
The latest innovation at ECC is the ‘Super
Triple’, a PBS-certified combination that
operates on the 900 km trip between
Townsville and Mt Isa, hauling 130,000
litres of fuel – a gain of up to 22,000 litres
compared with the capacity of a standard
roadtrain triple.
The Super Triple, with 600 Cummins X15
horses in harness, features a tri-drive
Kenworth T909 pulling Tieman quad-axle
trailers and tri-axle dollies, with a loaded
weight of 156 tonnes. Early fuel figures
show the Super Triple running at
1.18 km/litre.
Impeccable presentation
If high utilisation is a trademark of the
fleet, just as important is the presentation
of the trucks – they are generally washed
after each shift – and the way they are
maintained.
I guessed that the impeccable Kenworth
K200 in the photo accompanying this
article was probably 12 months old with a
few hundred thousand kilometres on the
clock. It is, in fact, a 2016 model with over
one million kilometres under the ISXe5
rocker cover.
ECC runs a stringent maintenance regime
which underpins the company’s fleet
reliability and safety commitments.
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