Happy driver Peter Cheesman was travelling back to his home base of Townsville after delivering equipment to an electrical sub station when Big Rigs yarned to him.
Peter, 47, works for Law Transport and was travelling in tandem with another company driver as they parked at the Gold City Roadhouse on the outskirts of Charters Towers.
Peter drives a Kenworth T610 and had dropped off equipment to a location at Cape River along the Gregory Development Highway between Charters Towers and Clermont.
He likes stopping at the Calcium Roadhouse which is 50km past Townsville along the Flinders Highway.
“It is good there, especially the food,” he said.
While Peter said the rest areas in the vicinity are “pretty average” he signalled out one near Cloncurry which is good.
“It has all the facilities we need,” he added.
Peter’s hobby is landscape gardening which is one not many drivers I have interviewed have nominated.
He added that he likes the job and said Law Transport is a good company to work for.
“I have been doing this for two years,” he said.
A connoisseur of fine food, his favourite is seafood, especially of the shelled variety.
“I do enjoy prawns and bugs,” he said.