Youthful looking Roland Gibbs drives a Kenworth K200 for Pat Carew Transport based at Logan Valley in southern Queensland.
Aged 46, Roland was carting aluminium from Brisbane to Cairns when Big Rigs caught up with him recently.
“I have been a driver for 24 years and it is a great job working for a good company, which I have been with for six years,” he said.
Roland is another truckie who enjoys stopping at the BP Cluden Roadhouse.
“It is very good here with lots of parking,” he said,
At first Roland was reluctant to have his pic snapped for Big Rigs, for fear of his many mates making humorous comments. But he soon agreed.
Roland added that there were not enough rest areas for drivers. “We do need more,” he said.
Roland enjoys fishing when he gets a chance but said he usually didn’t have much luck.
But when I told him another driver had caught a prized barramundi in a riverway near the roadhouse he was interested.
Roland barracks for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL and his favourite player is back rower Jeremiah Nanai.