Happy Victorian driver Dallas Borer had a bigger smile on his face than the size of the tank he was hauling when Big Rigs saw him on February 7.
Based at Drouin in Victoria’s Gippsland region, the 52-year-old truckie was driving a Kenworth K200 for Stephenson Transport.
He was parked up at the BP Cluden in north Queensland with a pilot escort near him and they were just about to leave.
“I picked up the tank at Parkes and it is being delivered to Stuart which is nearby here. It’s for a sewerage treatment plant,” he said.
Dallas added that the worst highways he encountered on the way up were between Moonie and Goondiwindi and the Gregory Development Road which is also known as the Belyando. “They were both terrible – I got held up on the Belyando,” he said.
Dallas also likes stopping at the BP roadhouse at Jerilderie for one main reason. “They look after us truckies there,” he said.
Outside work Dallas enjoys helping with the family farm where a variety of vegetables are grown.
In the AFL, Dallas barracks for the Carlton Blues.
Whilst he doesn’t follow any NRL team in the rival code he does support NSW in the rugby league State of Origin series.
Just as we were finishing our chat, Dallas got a phone call and, along with his escort, departed from the roadhouse parking area – still with the same huge smile on his dial!