OUR TRUCKING HEROES DEEN’S GOOD DEEDS

WE MEET THE ICONIC AUSTRALIAN TRUCKING FAMILY THAT HAS BEEN BUSY HELPING AUSTRALIANS IN NEED FROM GOONDIWINDI TO STANTHORPE TO PETERBOROUGH IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ACT JOINED THE DEEN FAMILY ON A RECENT HAY RUN TO TAREE TO HELP OUT A COMMUNITY DEVASTATED BY DROUGHT, FIRES AND FLOODS

CHRIS SMITH

It is a Friday afternoon in late January, and I am catching up with one of Brisbane’s most iconic trucking families, the Deen family. A few cousins surround me. They are typical Aussie blokes. The conversation goes from the Holden Maloo ute Mussy Deen just bought, which after this month’s announcement, seems like an excellent investment, to the latest Mack Super-Liner 1988 rebuild in Australian Custom Trucks magazine, done up by Dennis Kelly. Jock Deen, from Gainscout Transport Services, is doing up a 1988 Super-Liner. He says they just caught up with Dennis and truck whisperer Glen Beutel recently to see the truck first-hand. “I am doing mine up at the moment, and I was getting the tank measurements off Glen, I want to lift the bonnet higher,” Jock says.…

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Australian Custom Trucks (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 22, 2020

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