Highway Tractor Spares Pty Ltd have new owners as at 1st July 2007, Peter Osborne the director of Equipment Direct Pty Ltd along with Bill Capell the director of Komex Equipment Pty Ltd are merging together and are now the new directors of Highway Tractor Spares Pty Ltd 125 South Gippsland Highway, Dandenong Vic 3175.

Peter Osborne has worked in the earthmoving industry for more than 25 years. He started his career with William Adams (The Caterpillar Dealer in Australia) as a mechanic and progressed through the ranks of the company until he became Major account manager in sales.
Peter saw the opportunity to use the knowledge he gained as a mechanic and salesperson, together with the contacts he attained to form his own company in 1999.
Peter takes great pride in generating repeat business, bearing in mind that worldwide reputation, respect and knowledge is paramount to the success of his company.

Bill Capell has been in the earthmoving industry for over 30 years. He began in the parts department for Forcepower Komatsu and progressed to major accounts manager for equipment sales before spending 3 years at William Adams in International Sales and purchasing of used equipment. He then spent 7 years at Komatsu Australia as National General Manager for used equipment. Bill is looking forward to incorporating his worldwide contacts into Highway Tractor Spares.

Stephen Phelps has worked in the Earthmoving Industry since 1971, he began at Robe River Iron Associates as a shift fitter then in 1979 moved onto Lieghton Contractors as a shift foreman. In 1983 Stephen worked with Malcolm Moore BTR as a service manager. Then in 1989 Stephen was self employed and was working as an earthmoving mechanic contractor. In 1995 Stephen worked with Highway Tractor Spares at the old yard on South Gippsland Highway as a parts manager then Stephen moved to Horsham in 1999 and worked with Ovest Machinery until 2005 in parts and  machinery sales. Stephen came back to Highway Tractor Spares in 2005 and is doing a fantastic job as our parts manager, over this time Stephen has worked on Volvo, Caterpillar, Komatsu, Mitsubishi Grader, Terex, Averling Barford, Case, Hitachi and the list goes on, Stephens knowledge is second to none and our customers are very happy with the service he provides.

Shirley Peters has been with Equipment Direct for over 6 years and in the earthmoving industry for more than 20 years.

Shirley is  well prepared to handle any or all enquiries and are well known in the industry. All existing staff will stay on with Highway Tractor Spares, combined we have over 100 years experience in the earthmoving industry and believe this is paramount to ensure the business continues to run smoothly and efficiently.

Highway Tractor Spares  wish to advise their customers and suppliers that business will run the same, we value all of our customers and suppliers and trust that our relationship will continue.
We have started our first week off with better than expected sales and we will certainly be exercising a vigorous marketing and advertising program to promote our business.