RETRO Return

Deals on Wheels: Let’s rewind nearly 10 years. You had your own TV show, a fleet of flash trucks in your business Heavy Haulage Australia (HHA), and from the outside it looked like it was good to be Jon Kelly. What happened?

Jon Kelly: At the end of the day a lot of people forget that I did sell the business (HHA). Unfortunately, when McAleese bought in they didn’t have enough firepower to get through the downturn in the economy and it took out a lot of players in heavy haulage.

We needed additional equipment and they had surplus capacity to assist us so it was good fit in theory