We explore the ways in which Campbell Transport has evolved to provide comprehensive logistics services across the breadth of Western Australia, serving multiple industries and guaranteeing truck drivers’ safety.
THE GO-TO LOGISTICS PROVIDER
Home to vast plains and diverse environments, moving goods across Western Australia (WA), the largest state in the country, requires precision and thorough efficiency.
As such, WA’s heavy transport sector plays an integral role in the progression of numerous core industries, from mining to agriculture.
Providing cutting-edge logistics services since 1997, Campbell Transport has a history of innovating the bulk haulage industry and has grown to manage the biggest road-legal trucks in the world.
The company expertly oversees more than 200 top-of-the-range vehicles equipped with quad and triple road trains, making it the largest performance-based standards (PBS) fleet, combined with a supporting plant, and specialist machinery for any load, haul, and maintenance requirements.
The WA PBS Scheme offers improved efficiency by allowing higher productivity vehicle combinations, which have been assessed against stringent safety standards to operate on routes that would not typically be approved for prescriptive vehicles with the same mass and dimensions.
Thus, with an unmatched fleet, Campbell Transport is able to cover over 47,531 kilometres across WA, delivering its clients’ goods safely and efficiently across some of the state’s most remote areas.
MEETING THE NEEDS OF MANY
Since its inception, Campbell Transport has achieved a stronghold in WA’s agricultural sector. For decades, the company has been known for its unmatched grain haulage capabilities and its capacity to meet the needs of local farmers.
In the last 25 years, Campbell Transport has evolved to meet the changing needs of agribusinesses, initially ensuring the orderly delivery of crops before incorporating fertiliser and chemical transportation into its repertoire.
Nowadays, the company also supports the set-up and movement of sizeable agricultural machinery and complex equipment, becoming a vital aid for WA’s largest agrarian organisations.
Seven years ago, Cambell Transport entered the bulk haulage to mining market, providing both on-road and off-road services.
Subsequently, the company took the decision to accelerate its growth by branching out into more general freight operations, offering clients state-wide delivery services across a vast network of highly developed warehousing and depot facilities.
Today, Campbell Transport’s general freight division holds an admirable reputation for the seamless and safe delivery of goods. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, the company handles a diverse range of freight, including oversized loads, using 24/7 GPS tracking. Therefore, all clients’ logistical needs are met, offering robust and dependable freight management services.
Customers can also rest assured that their products are safely stored in one of the company’s many strategically located warehouses and depots, where goods distribution is managed in an efficient and transparent manner.
Campbell Transport’s depots span WA, including Port Hedland, Perth, Geraldton, Broome, Esperance, Kalgoorlie, Bunbury, and Jerramungup, each with comprehensive warehousing and bulk solutions.
As such, the company’s all-encompassing and world-class freight services expertly address business’ most complex storage and warehousing challenges.
FROM PIT TO PORT
Campbell Transport’s cutting-edge general freight and warehousing divisions are accompanied by its trusted mining services, which include drilling and blasting operations, crushing and screening, loading and hauling, and maintenance, making it front and centre of Campbell Transport’s activities.
Campbell Transport’s mining division is renowned for its adaptability and proactiveness, offering tailor-made and multifaceted approaches to customers’ needs. It also utilises top-of-the-range mining equipment and knowledge of the main roads’ PBS to issue its team with the necessary techniques to ensure maximum operational efficiency.
The WA PBS Scheme is also significant as it means the company can run heavier loads with specially engineered truck combinations.
For each workforce, Campbell Transport also offers on-site accommodation with comfortable facilities and amenities, ensuring that team members have a good standard of living with high-quality camp solutions.
The company’s enviable mining services lend themselves well to its turnkey pit-to-port capabilities for mining activities across WA.
To address the diverse demands of clients, Campbell Transport leverages the combined strength of state-wide bulk storage facilities, purposefully situated close to ports to maximise material transportation.
A highly knowledgeable and experienced team is also available to clients for pre and bankable feasibility studies to maximise project capabilities and ensure specific supply chain targets are met, whilst also cementing the possibility of future projects.
On top of this, Campbell Transport also boasts a tailormade pit-to-port rotating container system that centres around the loading of ore and concentrates into eco-conscious sealed containers for transportation. The system includes a purpose-built integrated lid that only opens and releases a product once the material is within the ships holds.
Regarding the bulk haulage of ores, mineral sands, and other mining products, the company is capable of providing enclosed storage or direct- to-port deliveries for ship loading.
Leveraging the unparalleled capabilities of industry-leading equipment and a highly professional team, the safe and timely delivery of materials is a Campbell Transport guarantee, allowing clients to focus on their core mining activities.
As such, the company is proud to offer end-to-end pit-to-port capabilities for mining operations in WA.
As a trusted industry partner, Campbell Transport understands the complexities involved in drill and blast, mining load and haul, crushing, haulage to port, shed storage, and ship loading. Indeed, the company’s comprehensive solution ensures seamless coordination and efficient transportation of valuable materials from the mine site to the port.
Campbell Transport has several on-port and nearby bulk storage facilities around WA to cater for any of its current and future clients’ requirements.
COMMITTED TO SAFETY
The high supply and demand of Campbell Transport’s operations mean that its trucks are on the road 24 hours a day, leveraged by a multitude of industries.
With such an extensive and complex operative network, the company has a highly stringent set of safety protocols that have been refined to create a robust and faultless safety system, monitoring the well-being of drivers whilst also delivering clients’ needs.
The system comprises a range of equipment that minimises risk for truck operators, including Seeing Machines, who uses cutting-edge software such as proprietary face and eye-tracking algorithms to detect fatigue in drivers working 12 to 14-hour shifts.
This is one of the many instances of real-time in-cab intervention where the driver is told to re-focus their attention. In these cases, Campbell Transport’s 24/7 Fleet Controller Services team are notified and subsequently contact the driver to discuss their fatigue levels and provide adequate advice.
This unobtrusive process prioritises staff welfare and provides a last-of-line defence for drivers, resulting in a significant reduction in driving incidents caused by fatigue.
Drivers’ safety is also monitored by an In Vehicle Monitoring System that gathers critical information and enables around-the-clock observations. The system comprises live GPS and fatigue tracking, truck diagnostics, and the continuous recording of several footage streams.
Regarding the latter, every truck has at least five cameras, each running through an independent system. As a result, in the rare event of an incident, the company knows exactly how and where it occurred. On top of this, a thorough investigation can also be conducted on how best to prevent a reoccurrence.
Given the transportation of goods across many landscapes in WA, the company also recognises the importance of the flora and fauna surrounding its operations. As such, each truck is equipped with Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) Thermal Imaging cameras, providing drivers with the visibility to detect heat-producing hazards such as cows, kangaroos, and camels present on the WA’s roads.
This highly-advanced software means drivers can react effectively to any potential incidents, allowing time for greater decision-making when faced with a potential hazard.
Alongside a comprehensive set of safety equipment, Campbell Transport generates regular road reports that create specialist haulage routes that are then examined by a professional safety team, who subsequently publish a detailed report for Main Roads Western Australia – a government body responsible for road access policies across the state.
This detailed and precise report reduces potential incidents, informing the maintenance and repair of many of WA’s arterial roads, including the Great Northern Highway, the Geraldton to Mount Magnet Road, as well as the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway.
Ultimately, Campbell Transport’s trusted and cost-effective transportation and warehousing solutions maximise the operational efficiency and profitability of clients’ projects across multiple industries, whilst also guaranteeing the safety of truck drivers and WA’s flora and fauna.
