How Murrells Freightlines keeps Ron Duncan’s Kenworth T909 moving through the toughest runs in Australia — with an AJ’s 18-inch polished alloy drop bar doing its job every time.
Ron Duncan — Murrells Freightlines, NSW
Kenworth T909 'Working Man Edition'
18-inch polished alloy drop bar (FUPS)
Cooktown QLD Perth WA, interstate
Ron Duncan runs one of the most demanding interstate routes in the country — Cooktown in far north Queensland all the way to Perth, flipping between roadtrains and quad single slide liners depending on the job. With a 62-truck fleet relying on uptime, keeping the truck moving through remote country is everything.
Running both roadtrain and quad configs meant one hard constraint: overall length. The quad had to stay under 22m and the B-doubles under 26m — ruling out a conventional full bullbar. Ron needed something FUPS compliant that looked right on the truck and could survive genuine wildlife strikes on remote roads, without adding length he couldn’t afford.
The AJ’s 18-inch polished alloy drop bar was the answer — compact enough to stay within length limits for both configurations, FUPS compliant, and finished in show-quality polished alloy that suits the Working Man Edition. Australian-made and hand-finished, it’s proven itself across every kilometre of Ron’s route.
Polished alloy engineered for repeated wildlife impacts — 500,000+ km and numerous strikes later, still straight.
The only solution that kept the truck legal within strict length limits for both configurations.
Guards and mounts have copped damage — the bar has shielded the critical front-end every time.
Hand-finished to handle everything from Cape York corrugations to WA outback highways.
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