Western WORKHORSES

I tall started with a young Sidney Richard McCutcheon and his secondhand “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.

restored to pristine condition

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.

Deals on Wheels 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