Mile Marker 61 – Tony O'Connell on Road Trains, Extreme Trucking, and Mack in Australia
We sit down with Tony O'Connell, vice president of sales and marketing for Mack Trucks Australia, to go behind the scenes of what makes the Australian market fundamentally different from North America, from right-hand-drive manufacturing to road trains, tipper and dog configurations, and the MP11 platform pushing 780 horsepower.
Tony shares his day-to-day leading the Australian Mack business, explains how the Wacol plant in Brisbane assembles both Mack and Volvo trucks in the same facility, and walks us through the rugged demands of operating in the outback where 360-tonne (~397 ton) mining…
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