New Zealand Monster
Many thanks to our customer Penske Commercial Vehicles, Tauranga New Zealand for sending through this gallery of photos of the 4964 Western Star daycab they recently completed. This beast belongs to Dave Chambers who hauls chemicals for IXOM. The truck was customised by Penske and includes an SLS Drop Visor along with a complete 8″ monster stack air kooled exhaust system kit with straight tops.
From Dave “I would just like to thank the team at SLS Custom Stainless for helping me & my wife turn our Western Star into the beast that it is. Thanks guys we couldn’t be happier with the end result.”
SLS Trucking has been exporting DIY kits to customers in New Zealand for over 12 months but this is the first monster stack kit we have supplied. If your in New Zealand and are looking for a set of monster stacks or air kooled tops, get in touch with Shane Edmonds at Penske.
Dave Chambers WS4964
Aussie Style in Puerto Rico
Check out our customer, Paitos Trucking Inc’s Mack Titan. These guys are based in Puerto Rico and wanted to upgrade their air intake assembly to the Aussie style.
We supplied the full air intake assembly along with riser pipes, air rams, and SLS lighted pre-cleaner covers. The goods were air freighted to Puerto Rico & installed just in time for a local truck show where this Titan won truck of the show.
Angel of Paitos Trucking says “Best of Show! Everybody crazy about the australian look. My boss says thank you for your great service we are more than happy with all of you. You give the extra mile.”
ANZAC Memorial Walk
April 25th 2015 – Anzac Memorial WalkPeople experienced Anzac Day along the Newcastle Anzac Memorial Walk for the very first time – delivering a mixture of beauty, achievement, appreciation and genuine heartfelt emotion. We felt it very important to take the initiative of capturing this significant moment in Newcastle and the Hunter Region’s history.This video is proudly dedicated to all who served and are serving from Newcastle and the Hunter. (We suggest hitting the HD option for best video quality)
Posted by OOTS – Out of the Square Media on Tuesday, April 28, 2015
On April 25, 2015 ANZAC memorial walk in Newcastle, NSW was opened to the public. The $4.5 million project was completed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing in Gallipoli during World War I.
SLS Group was a supplier for the project and is very proud of the work completed by our profiling department.
Construction of walkway began last September and boasts a 450 metre walkway that offers 360° views of the coastline and city. Along the walkway there are a series of interpretive panels that incorporate the surnames of the 3859 servicemen that enlisted from the Hunter during the Great War, chronology of battles they were involved in, and other stories about Naval, Military, Aviation, Light Horse and Nursing Services during WWI.
The walkway, which uses 74 tonnes of stainless steel, runs from Strzelecki lookout to the Water Board reservoir at Bar Beach and showcases the local skills of the Hunter Valley.
SLS supplied, cut and folded the mild and stainless steel for the featured silhouettes and interpretive signs as shown in the photos below.
Soldier Silhouettes
10mm mild steel laser cut based on supplied DXF files
Engraving by: Total Engraving
Information Signs
6mm 316 grade electropolished stainless steel waterjet cut, folded & welded
Etching By: Newcastle Photo Art
A week today Newcastle’s Memorial Walk will officially open! Here is a video showing construction from start to finish and the amazing views.
Posted by Newcastle – City of Opportunity on Friday, April 17, 2015
ANZAC Memorial Walk
Immaculate Perfection
Back in 2010 SLS Trucking completed a full fit-out on Marty Rasmussen’s Kenworth T908. In 2014 Australian Custom Trucks magazine ran an article featuring Marty and his truck. The full article is available below. ATC has kindly given us permission to post the article here.
From the article:
With a truck in mind the next step was to get a customiser to turn his vision into reality. “I left that part up to Steve at SLS,” he tells ACT. “I told him that I wanted a clean smooth look and this was the second truck he has done for me. As the first one turned out exactly how I wanted it I left this one up to him and didn’t see it until it was finished,” however he says Steve Lawler didn’t disappoint, “it was exactly what I wanted.”
He says he and Steve are very similar “we are perfectionists, that’s why I go there because my expectations are high and his workmanship is first class. As far as I am concerned he is the best in the country.”
“It might cost a lot of money to get the best job but that doesn’t mean anything when it comes back exactly how you expected it to be.”
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Mid-America Trucking Show
On March 26 – 28 the largest truckshow in the United States, the Mid-America Trucking Show, took place in Lousiville, Kentucky. The show took place over 3 days and SLS Trucking had a representative there to check out all the latest products and industry news.
The show was massive, with more exhibits than you could handle. For anyone looking to make the trip to the States for a truck show, this is definitely the one to go to.
This years show featured more than 1,060 industry leading companies from throughout the United States and abroad, filling more than 1,000,000 square feet of exhibit space indoors and 200,000 square feet outdoors. Anything and everything having to do with the heavy-duty truck industry was on display including all the latest innovations in trucks, trailers and equipment.
Check out the gallery of photo below. Click on any image to enlarge it to full size. The gallery includes photos of the trucks in the PKY Truck Beauty Championship which took place at the show.
For more on MATS check out their website www.truckingshow.com. They have already started the countdown for next years show, only 359 days to go.
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Hoy Haul’s Superliner
SLS recently completed work on Hoy Haul’s Mack Superliner. Work included: Bumper bar swingplate with mudflap mods, grill mesh & bars, quarter guard mudflap bracket, quarter guard to fuel tank infil, pre cleaner covers, tank wraps, strap wrap & tank trims. Cab door handle & peeper window trim, DPF top cover, deckplate front & rear, Icepack 2000IC install, mudguard strips, front bumper dress trims and more.
Air Kooled Monster Stacks
Trucks of 2014
Check out the gallery below containing a few of the awesome rigs SLS proudly worked on in 2014.
Trucks of 2014
New Volvo FH Sleeper Cab
The work completed by SLS includes:
• Number plate covers
• Bullbar lights, lower trim
• Driving lights
• Drop visor, 12″
• Mirror trims
• Steer quarter guard infill
• Lower wing trims
• Tank trims, lighted
• Deckplate, hinged for easy maintenance & cleaning
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Mack Superliner
Some of the work completed by SLS includes:
Number plate covers, bullbar lower light trim, bullbar mudflaps with anti-swing wire, driving lights fitted to bullbar, s/steel steer flares, bug deflector, 14″ drop visor, pre-cleaner covers, lighted Moto mirror trims, cab step scuffs with MACK lettering. We installed 7″ air kooled exhaust stacks and made a set of smooth s/steel exhaust shrouds to match.
The air rams were shortened to line up with the roof. The tanks were wrapped in stainless with stainless tank straps & trims. Rear bunk trim with SUPERLINER lettering. Front & rear polished propeller deck plate with MACK logo, rear bar & mounting brackets.
The work also included relocating air & electrical lines, converting the cab rooflights, modifications to the grill mesh & bars.
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