Group Fleet & Maintenance Manager, Martins Livestock Haulage 

After seven years as a trade qualified mechanic Graham joined the Department of Agriculture as a cattle inspector for a short period, before joining a large truck and machinery dealership in a sales capacity.  

Over the years the dealership changed hands numerous times, with Graham being retained on each occasion as a key member of staff, progressing to a number of roles including Sales Manager, Service Manager and subsequently General Manager and shareholder.  

The final dealership operated three branches in the Hunter Valley and New England areas of NSW, operating franchises included Ford/ Sterling, Volvo, UD, Mitsubishi and New Holland industrial equipment.  

Graham joined The Martin Group of Companies in 2004, in varying roles including Work, Health, Safety and Compliance Manager, and currently Group Fleet and Maintenance Manager. 

Happily married with two sons the Emery family breed and show stud Angus cattle and Australian Stock Horses from their property at Gresford, in the Hunter Valley of NSW. Other Board positions held include Board Member & Vice Chairman of Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School. 

Partner, Holding Redlich 

Nathan is a partner in the national Transport, Shipping & Logistics group.  

Nathan brings over 20 years of experience and advises businesses in the shipping, logistics, road transport, commodities and offshore sectors, providing commercial and regulatory compliance advice and resolving disputes. 

Nathan has particular expertise in relation to heavy vehicle regulation and the Heavy Vehicle National Law and chain of Responsibility obligations. He regularly advises businesses and their executives on compliance, conducts compliance audits, assists businesses to develop and implement CoR compliance policies, manage incident response and respond to investigations and prosecution. Nathan enjoys working with supply chain businesses to help develop a mindset and practices that improve safety and productivity. 

Since 2016, he has been consistently listed as one of Australia’s best lawyers in the areas of Transportation Law and Shipping and Maritime Law in the ‘Best Lawyers’ rankings.

Peter was born and raised in Gippsland Victoria and grew up helping his father on the land and in his livestock transport business.

Peter completed his heavy vehicle mechanic apprenticeship but decided he would rather drive trucks than work on repairs full time. After operating his own livestock transport business for 15 years Peter then worked for Wodonga Tafe as an industry-based workplace trainer and Assessor having qualifications in Heavy vehicle licensing, Dangerous goods, Fatigue Management, load restraint and Victorian Livestock loading schemes.

He has had a lifetime involvement in the transport industry and now specialises in Transport Management, Quality accreditation and CoR compliance management. Peter is passionate about the transport industry and is an active advocate for the owner operator and small fleet owner best interests.

Owner Divall’s Earthmoving and Bulk Haulage

Andy Divall is the owner and Managing Director of Divall’s Earthmoving and Bulk Haulage, a company he established in 1991 with his brother Michael.

Andy has diversified the Goulburn-based company’s operations to meet the needs of the local community and strives to retain local staff by offering wide-ranging and professional opportunities.

In 2018, Andy was named a Kenworth Legend for his leadership and demonstration of strength, perseverance, and success in the Australian trucking industry.

Committed to safety, Andy has been an advocate for the ATA’s TruckSafe accreditation system, joining in 1999. In 2011, Divall’s won the TruckSafe John Kelly Memorial Award for fostering a strong culture of safety in every part of their business.

Head of CoR and Compliance, AusPost 

Lindy is a practicing lawyer with more than 20 years of Australian and International experience in all aspects of freight and heavy vehicle transport. Lindy spent seven years managing the Heavy Vehicle Prosecutions Department at VicRoads where she was involved in compliance, policy, investigations, prosecutions, and drafting heavy vehicle legislation. 

Lindy worked at Visy where she applied her expert knowledge across compliance, chain of responsibility, and accreditation schemes including the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme, WA Heavy Vehicle Accreditation, and HACCP. For the last seven years, Lindy has been the Head of Chain of Responsibility and Compliance for Australia Post and StarTrack. 

Lindy enjoys finding new ways to improve driver health and is a passionate advocate for driver safety. 

Founder – Austate Services 

Victor has been involved in the road transport industry for more than 35 years, starting in the family transport business as a truck driver in 1983. As the business grew, he moved on to management then ultimately managing the Victorian branch. 

With his extensive background knowledge of the transport game, Victor (along with his two sons) started their own family business manufacturing trailers. Austate Services is based in Minto and caters for all road transport equipment. They specialise in purpose-built trailers. Austate’s core values are respect, honesty, mateship, with a ‘do it once – do it right’ approach. 

Victor has been a member of TruckSafe since 2014 and values the safety of all on-road users and meeting the Australian Standards on all heavy road equipment. 

Founder, Transport Health and Safety  

Glyn Castanelli is a TruckSafe Board Member, founder of Transport Health and Safety and President of the National Road Freighters Association. His transport career began in 1989 and includes experience as a truck driver, owner-driver, fleet and operations manager, compliance manager, and independent auditor. This background gives him a practical understanding of the challenges facing drivers and transport businesses. 

Glyn is an approved Heavy Vehicle Accreditation (HVA) auditor, with wider auditing experience across NHVAS, WAHVA, AMCAS and CLOCS-A. Through Transport Health and Safety, he helps operators develop and implement safety management systems suited to the size, activities, and risks of their business. His work includes using digital systems to connect responsibilities, operational controls, training, and records, making safety management part of everyday operations rather than a separate paperwork exercise. 

Glyn’s focus is on practical, achievable improvements that protect drivers, support compliant operators and lift industry standards. Through his TruckSafe role, he supports alignment with national accreditation requirements and a clear pathway for operators to build and demonstrate their safety capability.

Becky has been involved in trucks and transport for nearly 20 years.

Her love of trucks began in the Northern Territory when she would help in the yard of a friend and his brothers’ small company on the weekends. From there Becky drove garbage trucks for Cleanaway and solo right through to truck and dogs.

A qualified tyre fitter and wheel alignment technician for cars, trucks, and heavy machinery Becky is passionate about transport and compliance especially in today’s busy world.

For the last three years Becky has been working at Turosi scheduling the live haul pickup with the company processing approx. 1.2 million-1.4 million birds a week depending on supply demand, and its growing. It has been a real eye opener learning things about poultry that the average person would never have known.

Becky works closely with people around her to better Turosi not only in production but also with compliance and understanding of it within the transport sector.

Her downtime hobbies include anything with an engine and spending time with her beautiful rescue greyhounds.