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Game Changer

Somewhat quietly, game changing legislation takes effect from 1st of July that will have massive future benefits for all Machinery owners to have machines repaired at a competitive price using a repairer and parts of your choice. The “Right to Repair” legislation makes it mandatory for OEM’s to give access to repair information (and stops […]

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Contracts not worth the paper

  For the first time in history, we are hearing companies or indeed entire industry sectors telling their customers to go elsewhere. They are in the predicament of having to choose between going broke now or trying to renegotiate often fixed price contracts to something workable. So what’s gone wrong? Contracts can smell very fishy […]

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The Great Re-Shuffle

“The grass isn’t always greener” – we all know the truth in this saying but forget the risks and do it anyway. In an economy and society that is the envy of the rest of the world, it’s hard to understand why many people are trashing the safe, secure and proven concepts for uncertainty. In […]

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From Small Things

Some years ago in my motorbike riding days, I recall a friend whose wife encouraged him to give up smoking on the basis that he could do whatever he liked with the money. In a short space of time, he bought himself a motorbike. The money he saved paid for all the running costs, including […]

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Prepare for the unexpected

The next two years will be the most difficult time for many decades in which to manage business. We can usually plan for expected or reasonably foreseeable events and circumstances. Known unknowns are inconvenient, but also something we can handle. But Donald Rumsfeld once said, it is the unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t […]

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Bigger and Better

Bigger and Better Welcome to the new and improved Qld Rock Breakers (QRB)! We invite you all to come and see our state of the art, purpose built new facility. With over 2,000m2 dedicated to hydraulic attachments, we believe this is the largest purpose built facility of its kind in Australia. This represents a significant […]

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Getting DEF a(n)d Blue

Without trucks, Australia stops. Turns out, without DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid, often referred to as the trademarked brand AdBlue), earthmoving, construction, mining, agriculture and many other sectors of Australia and the world that relies on diesel stops (including luxury cars). It’s high time we looked at the sustainability and self-sufficiency of our economy. When we […]

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