Scott Menz has been driving trucks before any normal kid was legally allowed to hop behind the wheel of a car.
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Trucks are all Scott has ever known, having made his way into the driver’s seat at the tender age of 13.
Now 40-odd years later, Scott is still behind the wheel and boasts an impressive career.
Like many sibling relationships, he was inspired by his brothers to get involved in the transport industry after watching them for years.
It didn’t take much convincing before he decided to open Menz Freight and Containers, a locally owned and operated company out of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales.
“We started in ‘91, mainly dealing with general freight, containers and rails to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane,” he says.
As work picked up, the need to increase his fleet became apparent, and Scott knew exactly what he wanted.
The fleet comprises five Kenworths, all bought second-hand and restored. He likes to bring them home and do them up “real nice”.
“I fixed them up good. I redid the motors, the suspensions, gear boxes, brakes and painted them, the whole lot,” he says.
“I just go right through them. Whatever needs doing, I’ll fix it.”
The Menz fleet is easy on the eyes, with his 2004 Kenworth T404 catching our attention.
Purchased 10 years ago, Scott painted the rig much like the rest – a deep red, with white fixed lines wrapping along the sides of the cab.
White scrollwork compliments the cab’s design, and the stainless-steel bull bars pull eyes to the front of the truck.
Scott’s vision behind the design is quite simple.
“I bought a truck in ’96 and painted it red and white.,” he says. “It worked, and I never looked back.”
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