About 1200 people from across the state attended Carrick’s Tasmanian Truck Show, with a number of younger visitors being pitted against a stationary vehicle in an epic tug-of-war battle.

‘‘We had a couple of ropes tied on and they just had to pull the truck along and they all jumped on and pulled the truck inside the shed,’’ show co-ordinator Bryan Watson said.

‘‘It was probably about a six-tonne truck.’’

Hobart’s Barry Mitchell exhibited one of the 95 trucks on display at the event, showcasing a 1948 KB-5 International.

‘‘It’s been in restoration progress for about five years,’’ he said.

‘‘You do a bit and then you lose a bit of interest and leave it for a while and then get interested again and do it.

‘‘We only just got it finished in time, on Saturday we were still putting the bumper bar on at 1 o’clock to get it ready for today.’’

A Craig Green-driven Peterbilt truck won the Judges Choice award, while the Public Choice award went to an Elsewhere Haulage-owned Kenworth, driven by Mitch Scott. Deloraine’s Russell Grundy took home the annual trailer-backing competition.