TREASURE HUNT

Ron Finemore has been in the transport and logistics game for more than 60 years but still likes to keep things simple. Adhering to long-standing basic values has seen regionally-focused Ron Finemore Transport consolidate its footprint across eastern Australia, winning major contracts to serve customers from Rockhampton to Adelaide and everywhere in between.

The company leads the way in embracing the latest safety and technological innovations in its incredibly young fleet and is growing faster than the labour market can provide workers.

“We do what we do and we try to do it well,” Finemore explained, with trademark simplicity.

Finemore got started in 1962, when he launched the transport side of his parent’s farming supplies business.

Over the next 40 years, he built up a formidable reputation for excellence and was crowned GM Supplier of the Year for logistics three years running.

Finemore Holdings was bought out by Toll in 2001, but Finemore had no intention of retiring, so when Wodonga’s Lewington’s Transport went into receivership, Finemore bought back into the game, launching Ron Finemore Transport in 2004.

With 280-plus prime movers, 700 plus employees and depots in