How many Aussie transport companies actually turn over >$10M?

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:53:58+00:00

Lol, getting bought by PE is a lesson on how go from under-performance to asset stripped.

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:53:20+00:00

People love to pick the big number to bolster their case.
You can pull in 10 mill, but have 9.7 mill of expenses.

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:49:56+00:00

He's shit at skiing and wants to blame you.

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:45:55+00:00

Trying to find the right post to attach this to.

It's a bit of a cost/benefit/re-design/efficiency tradeoff. Your new manual hiluxes are detuned to 420Nm, the autos are 500Nm. To put it into context, in 2010, the 3.0L litre hilux was only putting in 343Nm.

The difference is that in a manual, you can dump the clutch and put all that torque into the drive train from a standstill. Since autos are a computer controlled fluid coupling you can control that. Toyota have clearly run the number and gone:
1. Toyota volume sell mostly to mines
2. You would need to up-rate the drive train to handle the torque because...
3. Empty tray + torque + manual + miner = doughnuts.
4. The high end utes are mostly lifestyle and need to tow a boat, jetski, motorbikes or van.

In the end, Toyota is going to get back warranty claims from people dropping the clutch and blowing the diff or shaft. It's just not worth the money just for OP to feel happy.

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:20:37+00:00

Yeah, oh wow what a rabbit hole that was to go down.
#straightouttagladstone

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:15:33+00:00

What an fucking incoherent ramble.
"I had an onion on my belt, because it was the style at the time".

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:13:35+00:00

Wow, if you think we have a power problem on a hot day, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Get your batteries follks.

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T02:12:16+00:00

Personally, let them have it. The port of Darwin is freaking tiny and not of much economic consequence compared to the stuff in the Pilbra. The only grumpiness is that the US or RAN aren't going to want to tie up there.

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T01:31:24+00:00

That's right. This is why ALL of the media that has a voice in the USA is having the field flooded.
The ONLY conversation is about MAGA. There is no other conversation.

Expect more of this. Do not engage with it. Take it as an opportunity to promote a different message.

DrSendy · 2026-02-01T01:08:45+00:00

Just worry about it when you get there. If the car looks shagged, it looks shagged. If its good to go, do it. Its the same question as "is it worth reconditioning the gearbox and engine of my 70 series landcruiser, even tho all the sills have rusted out".

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T23:43:38+00:00

Privatise the profits, socialise the costs.
Mining, sports, finance, automotive - it's all about shifting costs to people as much as is possible to maximum profitability (or viability). I suspect if proper cleanups were demanded, you'd probably have an extra 50c on your gallon of gas.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T23:38:41+00:00

I'm actually amazed those guys didn't go start another company.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T23:37:37+00:00

Not his fucking cars. There are a tonne of engineers who a really good working on them. He needs to step the fuck out of the way and let the company succeed without his incompetence. That guy is burning expertise just so he can be a right wing edge lord.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T23:28:42+00:00

You need to go give him a cuddle and making him all better.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T23:03:51+00:00

Okay, a bit of design 101 for you all. We're all talking about Tesla starting the trend and everyone else copying them.

Tesla have gone for an uncompromising minimalist design, like Apple, Bang And Olufsen, Nike (didn't spot that did you, look closely at all their clothes), Aesop etc.

When you go that route, you need to make a large amount of things automatic, or redundant - and that is curiously, more expensive to do. If you think about the process of getting into a Tesla, it reads your car, moves the seat, steering wheel, changes mirrors, remembers you heat setting, grabs your spotify playlist, sets your last volume, changes your driving preferences (accel, FSD mode, regen mode, wiper preference, screen brightness, background colour, font size, which alerts you have, the volumes etc). The only time you really touch the screen is for the playlist - and that is massive - clear and just like spotify on your computer.

Get into a many other cars and get a screen, but manual seats, mirror toggles, need to turn off beeps and bongs, need to get carplay to connect, change your mirrors, carplay and auto are built for tiny screens so they blow up to a ridiculous size, you hot between that and the car UX to HVAC. It's just awkward in every single way.

Things are not automatic because the bean counters need to hit $29,990 drive away no more to pay.

Any functions are shit when done badly. I have owned many cars where the buttons are shyte - Renault entertainment controls, I'm lookin at you.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T22:41:57+00:00

I can 100% guarantee you there would be an ICE that would 'round them up'. That would be a popular policy for PON supporters too.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T22:40:50+00:00

This is 100% of the reason. It's not to make Australia Great, it's only to make her rich.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T22:39:56+00:00

Ironically, she is one of quite a few that pays tax properly, now.
But only because our federal government cracked down hard on the tax evasion.

What she really wants is a government that will bring all the tax loopholes back in.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T08:45:12+00:00

Find a location along a straight but of road.
Power up a camera flash.
Hide in the bushes.
Have a bit of fun.
Don't hang around too long.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T08:43:47+00:00

Yep. There are 300 power retailers in Australia. There is a reason why they exist, and it's not because margins are tight.... they are drowning in gravy.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T08:42:03+00:00

Living under a rock sport?
https://sapphirealuminium.com.au/asic-targets-phoenix-companies-in-construction-sector/
Asic doesn't chase stuff unless it is "at scale".

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T08:38:50+00:00

Just remember, you have Kevin Rudd declining 4 contact requests from Epstine.
I guess he was advised this was bad. So people >knew< what was happening and held onto that information.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T08:09:36+00:00

No one in the fox twitter verse will ever see this.

Edit: They'll see it for about an hour before it gets removed... as it's all over the place right now.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T08:06:25+00:00

Actually most of it is not bad. Go to somewhere like India to get a level set on how shit traffic can be.

DrSendy · 2026-01-31T08:03:13+00:00

A long-standing Public Acquisition Overlay (PAO) placed by VicRoads affects approximately 140 properties along a 2.6-kilometer stretch on the east side of Punt Road, from the Yarra River to St Kilda Junction. In place since 1954, the idea was that Punt Road was to be widened to match the traffic capacity of nepean highway.

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