Dalby Carrying Co.

The Dalby Carrying Company was a transport and commission agency established by Samuel Joseph Hawkes in 1926.

Starting the business at that time with one Model T Ford with a tray top, by 1941 the Dalby Carrying Co. was one of the foremost organisations of its kind in the west, with a fleet of 21 trucks on the road.

The Dalby Carrying Co. was best known for the services it rendered to farmers and graziers in the Dalby district, carting great numbers of stock and large quantities of farm produce to and from the railhead, including the first wheat grown for market in the Jimbour area.

Samuel Hawkes was also a land and stock agent, and in addition to the Cunningham Street depot, he ran a garage in North Street which specialised in motor repairs, machinery repairs and the servicing of tractors.

Dalby Carrying Co. also specialised in house and furniture removals, and had a repository for the storing of furniture on Hospital Road.

In 1948, The Dalby Carrying Co. undertook what was believed to be the biggest haulage ever undertaken in Australia at the time, by removing a large residence, located at Wyreema, near Toowoomba, to St. George, a distance of 290 miles. This feat definitely lived up to their advertising slogan of "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime".