Travelling far and wide
It was a cool 16 degrees when I saw young driver Tomo Kuhl parked up at a Stanthorpe roadhouse in southern Queensland.
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Destined to become a truckie
Versatile Joshua Markwort, 36, had been a farmhand and shearer before becoming a truck driver about eight years ago.
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VIDEO: ‘Divine intervention’ as church travels along the highway
Originally due to be demolished, this historic 115-year-old church and church hall was transported along the Flinders Highway on a 390km journey from Hughenden to Townsville.
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Loving life on the road
Soon after Rusty York,74, stopped at a rest area between Cardwell and Ingham in his Isuzu MRP300, he revealed he had “no fixed address”.
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Driving for nearly 60 years and still loving it
At age 78, Michael Lewis still loves driving trucks but realistically intends to retire when he becomes an octogenarian in September 2024.
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Trucking industry out in droves in support of Townsville convoy
A record 245 trucks and 85 motorbikes participated in the Power 100 Townsville Convoy for the Cure on Sunday, May 28. Thousands lined the streets along their route to wave and cheer them on.
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Truckie Ralph Larkings, 66, keeps roadhouses stocked
Busy driver Ralph Larkings, 66, was making a delivery to a roadhouse beside the New England Highway when I saw him.
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Why I switched from the mines to trucking
Living at idyllic Mission Beach in north Queensland, Shane Jolly would be the envy of many Aussie truck drivers.
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Isuzu-driving plasterer is loving life in Australia
From the Land of the Long White Cloud, Tim York has been living across the ditch for 15 years and loves his job driving an Isuzu NPR in his job as a plasterer.
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Veteran truckie keeps wheels turning
With the famous landmark called the Pyramid in the background, veteran truckie Lindsay Petrie was parked up and spoke about being in Big Rigs paper not long after it started publishing. That was way back in the early 1990s.
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