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FINAL TRIP * Australia - Trucks make it
It all started with Jim Bell’s Dodge and a few cream cans in 1938, and has since grown into a 44-vehicle operation spanning four generations
Cooroy,Queensland,Australia -The Sunshine Coast Daily, by Grant Reynolds -24 June 2008: -- ... But come June 30, the trucks from Cooroy institution Bell’s Transport unload for the last time... Alan Bell said after 70 years, with three of four brothers in semi-retirement, and with the fourth generation nearly entirely female, there was no one coming through the family ranks to carry on the haulage tradition... A sad day and proud day, Mr Bell said, reflecting on a career where he’d carted everything from cows to human cargo for day trips in Noosa National Park in the ‘60s... The brothers have seen it all in both the transport and the community, from the closure of the timber mills to rising petrol prices and a shortage of good drivers... The Bells, all born and bred Cooroy lads, said good old-fashioned customer service had seen the business turn into an inter-generational success story with depots at Hervey Bay, Bundaberg, Rockhampton and Brisbane, and a workforce of about 100 and 58 trucks...Labels: trucking industry stories
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