During my recent trip from Adelaide to Melbourne, it was again a great pleasure catching up with many friends from our old days on the road, stopping for a chat along the way and discussing current developments in today’s road freight industry.
It was somehow comforting to find that despite all the doom and gloom, things seem much the same as in those good old days around 1986 when I owned my first truck.
Stopping over at the BP Roadhouse at Cobden in south western Victoria, on our way from Geelong to Adelaide, we caught up with Noel Locker from Cooma in New South Wales.
Noel was taking a load of pellets from Cobden to Tarcutta. He was driving a Wal Fitzgerald Transport’s eye-catching Kenworth 50th Anniversary Legend SAR, with a 500 Cummins up front, and told us he has been driving Wal for four and a half years now and it’s all been good.
“He certainly looks after us and his gear. I picked this one up new in September last year,” Noel said.
“It’s a great truck, comfortable, loads of power and ideal for the work we do. All in all, I’m pretty happy now, find it a great job and what a way to see the countryside in all the seasons as well!”