Bo Chandler drives a Scania R650 for Rockhampton-based Sunstate Heavy Towing and was ready to pick up a 12m long steel support at Townsville when I saw him.
The 41-year-old has been a driver for 14 years and before arriving back in the north 24 months ago had been based at Warrnambool in Victoria.
Asked if there are enough rest areas for drivers, he said many more with toilets are needed in Queensland.
“They are pretty good in NSW and Victoria,” he added.
Bo rates the worst highway as the Beef Road out from Middlemount in Central Queensland.
I asked Bo if he had carried any loads which stood out in his mind.
“I had to retrieve a backhoe from a waterway out from Barcaldine which had been submerged for six days. It went in as the operator was working on a boat ramp,” he said.
His hobby outside work is watching motor sports such as the Bathurst event and V8 Supercars.
“I have a WRX14 sports car which is on-road registered,” he said.