Beef Central’s exclusive Top 25 Livestock Transporters list for the first time ranks the nation’s largest stock transporters, by one-time uplift capacity. This authoritative list will be kept as a permanent feature on Beef Central to act as a handy reference tool for industry stakeholders. Click here to view.
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
As the commonly observed signs on trailer tailgates point out, “Without Trucks, Australia Stops”. By extension, without skilled livestock transport drivers, Australia’s livestock sector cannot keep moving forward…Read More
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
Welcome to Beef Central’s Top 25 Livestock Transporters feature, profiling one of the most important and often overlooked links in the complex Australian meat and livestock supply chain. Presented over the next three weeks will be a comprehensive summary on the Australia’s livestock transport industry, and its largest players…Read More
Beef Central, 24/03/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
Whether it is saving lives, improving animal welfare or reducing emissions, Australia’s livestock transport industry is currently undergoing a technology revolution. Beef Central has compiled a list of the most impactful advances in technology…Read More
Beef Central, 22/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
With a prime mover and trailer fleet capable of moving more than 12,000 head of cattle in a single lift, Martins Stock Haulage is a logistical livestock carrying force across Australia’s outback and arterial roads…Read More
James Nason, 17/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
The story of Road Trains of Australia is in many ways the story of how the pastoral potential of the modern northern Australian cattle industry was unlocked…Read More
James Nason, 17/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
Martins Stock Haulage has completed a successful takeover of Camrandale Transport at Quilpie, a significant family-built livestock transporting company in South West Queensland, Beef Central can confirm today…Read More
James Nason, 17/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
From a Gulf trucking pioneer, to a “mechanised swaggy” from the Riverina – the icons of the road award has been aiming to preserve the rich history of Australia’s livestock transport industry…Read More
Eric Barker, 17/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
Livestock trailer design has come a long way since the flat decks and detachable wooden stock crates of early Australian cattle and sheep trucks. Beef Central looks at some of the innovations and people shaping modern livestock trailers today…Read More
Beef Central, 17/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
One of the biggest growth stories of this year’s top 25 livestock transporters feature is Cloncurry-based Curley Cattle Transport…Read More
Eric Barker, 16/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) has formed a Transport Sustainability Taskforce with red meat supply chain representatives to measure animal movement and animal welfare metrics for the livestock road transport..Read More
Beef Central, 16/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
In an attempt to show the skill that drives Australia’s cattle industry, Beef Central tagged along with Frasers Transport Livestock Central Qld compliance manager Athol Carter as he carefully assembled a b-triple road train and headed out to Gracemere Saleyards to help load some cattle…Read More
Eric Barker, 15/04/2025
Top 25 Livestock Transporters 2025
Warwick-based Frasers Livestock Transport fleet size may not have changed much since the 2013 Top 25 but the company is moving more cattle than ever using less resource due to an operational strategy employed over the past 10 years…Read More
Eric Barker, 15/04/2025