The Maloney family from Maloney Livestock Transport at Tamworth – Tara, Isaac, Alex, Mick and Carolyn Maloney travelled to Canberra for the 40th anniversary ALRTA conference, where Alex is also a finalist in the 2025 Young LIvestock Transporter of the Year award, and the family also picked up their latest brand new B-triple trailer combination from Byrne trailers – pictured behind them – taking their total cattle deck numbers to 47 decks.
THE 2025 National Rural Carriers Convention is underway in Canberra, with 400 industry heavy vehicle representatives from across Australia attending to celebrate 40 years of the Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association.
The three-day event, hosted by the Livestock, Bulk and Rural Carriers Association based in NSW, brings together every sector of the livestock and rural transporting chain.
Issues highlighted by a panel of State representatives this morning included the unfolding impact on the livestock transporting industry from live sheep export phase-out in Western Australia, the ongoing work to gain support to build waste management facilities to help manage effluent from livestock trucks and efforts to create harmonisation of state-based laws affecting livestock transporters nationally.
Today’s event also features livestock trailer conversion and tyre changing challenges and test driving opportunities at the Canberra racecourse where the event is being hosted, and will culminate with the 40th anniversary ALRTA gala ball tomorrow night.
Keep an eye on Sheep Central for more coverage in coming days, and see our pictures of some of the many livestock and rural trucking stakeholders from around Australia attending the event below.
Kevin Kennan, Kevin Keenan Transport, Yarrawong, Vic, former long-term ALRTA staff member Colleen Mays who continues to work for the industry working closely with state-based associations, and Ian Wild, Wild’s Livestock Transport, Bald Knob, Sunshine Coast.
Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of Victoria CEO Alina Hawkins launching the Livestock Assist 2.0 program.
Addressing regulatory issues at the conference this morning were Michael Hopkins, CEO, National Transport Commission; Mark Parry, chair, Australian Trucking Association.; Bianca Slack-Smith, director, policy and regulatory reform and transport for NSW and Paul Salvati, chief operating officer, NHVR.
Peter Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Livestock Transport, Queanbeyan, ACT; Mick Sutcliffe, Sutcliffe Transport, Tintaldra, Vic and Phillip Boschetti, P&T Boschetti Transport, Colleambally., NSW.
ALRTA vice president David Fyfe from Fyfe Transport, Lake Grace WA and ALRTA president Gerard Johnson, Gerard Johnson Transport, Tambo, Qld.
Peter Edmonds, Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of South Australia; Russell Borchard, Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of Victoria; Ben Sutherland, president Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of Western Australia and Jarred Seiler, Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of Queensland.
Wade Lewis, Conference MC and president of the NSW Livestock, Bulk and Rural Carriers Association which is hosting the 40th ALRTA conference in Canberra.
Just some of the many modern workhorses on display around the ALRTA conference in Canberra today.
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