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It all started with a young Sidney Richard McCutcheon and his second-hand “Brockway” truck in Narromine way back in 1928.

Brockway was an American brand later taken over by Mack, which hung around until the late 1970s. Back then trucks ran on solid rubber tyres, so you can imagine how bone-shaking it must have been carting drums of diesel, petrol and kerosene from Sydney to western NSW along dirt roads.

Fast forward 90 years and the fourth generation of McCutcheons is still going strong in the trucking, farming, earthmoving and heavy haulage games, with a fifth generation coming through.

Sister magazine Owner//Driver recently checked out some great old Macks and some impressive newer Kenworths on the four properties of two sets of McCutcheon cousins – grandsons of patriarch Sid.

“Both Mack and Kenworth have a history of reliability in our part of the

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