Veteran truckie John Andrews has made more comebacks than Dame Nellie Melba. When I saw him on January 5 he was checking his Mercedes 580 at a roadhouse parking area in the tropics.
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A veteran truckie is tipping flood water levels over the Macrossan Bridge along the Flinders Highway to go a lot higher with severe rain continuing to fall on North Queensland. Read More
Outback truckie Paul Williams reckons the Barkly Tablelands Highway in the Northern Territory is by far the “worst bitumen road in Australia to travel on”.
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The Captain Cook, Gillies and Palmerston Highways as well as the Kuranda Range section of the Kennedy Highway in Far North Queensland are important routes for road transport and are used by hundreds of trucks daily.
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Friendly driver Garreth Haines was far away from his home at Yatala in southern Queensland, carrying asphalt for roadworks when Big Rigs saw him. Read More
Old mates Ted Markwort and Trevor Southern reckon that friendships made in the road transport industry remain for decades – and probably life. Read More
Based at Yatala in southern Queensland, Darrell Orr was parked up in his Kenworth T410 at the Frances Creek rest area on the Bruce Highway, south of Ingham, when Big Rigs saw him and stopped for a chat.
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Well known Cairns and Atherton Tablelands driver Rob Del Manso had just pulled up in a refrigerated Hino to make deliveries at a strawberry farm when Big Rigs chatted with him recently.
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