The Truck Art Business Group is a quiet achiever within the Australian Heavy Vehicle services industry, providing a variety of support services.
As a quiet achiever, many entities across the industry are unaware of the heritage, size of the business or scope of services provided by the business group.
With a conservative start as a heavy vehicle spray painting business over 40 years ago, founder and owner Terry Gibbs has built the business into what it is today.
Starting out in Wagga Wagga, over several years, the business moved towards heavy vehicle smash repairs, and the manufacture and supply of heavy vehicle sleeper cabs for prime movers.
With a clear focus on supporting the heavy vehicle industry, Terry saw an opportunity to assist in driver fatigue management through introducing a variety of heavy vehicle cab cooling solutions. Initially providing the Viesa air conditioner systems as the Australian agent, this aspect of the business grew rapidly, providing opportunity for the introduction of several complimentary units, including Koolkat, Ecowind and Kompressor air conditioners.
As interstate customers were now seeking the services provided by Truck Art, Terry expanded the business interstate.
Truck Art Melbourne in North Altona and Truck Art Adelaide in Mawson Lakes were opened, and today still specialise in providing and fitting sleeper cab air conditioners.
Still seeking opportunities within the heavy vehicle industry, in 2010, Terry bought Dickinson Trailers in Wagga Wagga and later changed the name to Truck Art Trailers. Specialising in manufacturing vehicles for bulk stock haulage, Truck Art Trailers focuses on quality custom built livestock trailers and crates, providing the customer with a broad scope of custom features within their livestock trailers.
As a market leader in the custom-built trailer industry and still seeking opportunities to minimise costs and driver fatigue across the industry, Truck Art Trailers recently increased its services to include the VIGIA automatic tyre inflation and tyre management systems for heavy vehicles.
Truck Art Wagga has also continued to grow and has broadened its service base considerably through providing sand blast services, vehicle accessory fit-ups, dovetail manufacture and fitting, and 24/7 heavy vehicle towing services.
In 2018 Truck Art Wagga became a proud Premium Repairer for National Transport Insurance (NTI) and continues to offer efficient, high quality heavy vehicle repairs under the NTI system.
More recently, in 2021, Truck Art took the opportunity to purchase an air conditioning and tyre inflation systems importing business.
As a result, the Truck Art Distribution business was born and the process of moving the distribution business to Wagga Wagga began. Today Truck Art Distributors is the final piece in the current Truck Art Business Group, providing product distribution services for a host of products including air conditioning and tyre inflation systems to all states of Australia.
Today, the Truck Art Business Group employs 90 staff Australia wide, with five sites strategically placed in three states to ensure ongoing provision of critical service to the Australian heavy vehicle industry.
