AS THE EAGLE FLIES
How do you become a camper manufacturer? For some it’s a long, slow and trauma-riddled path from making your first, finding a buyer, then moving on to your second, third and so on, as you build up a name and a reputation — attending shows, watching your bank account evaporate, and wondering where the next dollar is going to come from.
Then, very rarely, you’re in the right place at the right time, and you grasp an opportunity and there it is, all finished and pristine and travelling along as fast as you can build your product.
“SET-UP TIME REMAINS AT AROUND EIGHT MINUTES WITH PACK-UP AT AROUND TEN MINUTES. PRETTY GOOD BY ANY MEASURE”
For Darren Houston, a young electrician from the central NSW coastal city of Newcastle, that’s how he became the scion of the leading brand of slide-on camper on the Aussie market.
Wedgetail Campers had been through all those furtive, faltering stages a decade earlier, the first camper selling in 2009. The man behind it all, David Hazelwood, rapidly built his
