The popular Transporter Parade Convoy featuring 25 flashy trucks kick-started celebrations for the NTI Townsville 500, and this year for the first time along a new route.
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It’s triple the fun for this livestock owner operator
When Big Rigs saw owner-operator Mick Voerman early on June 15 he was hauling livestock in a triple from Reid River on the Flinders Highway to Townsville Port for live export.
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Livestock legend honoured with an OAM
Outback owner-operator Mick Pattel, who received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his work in the livestock transport industry, was hard at work cleaning the double decks of his trailers when Big Rigs contacted him.
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Just another ordinary day in the rugged outback
Driving triples and quads on red dirt corrugated roads around Weipa on Western Cape York, in far north Queensland, is just an ordinary day for 41-year-old Josh Henry.
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Keeping truckies nourished at popular rest area
When Big Rigs saw Dineshreddy Chowlapally, just after 9am, he had just pulled up in an Isuzu 450 to set up his popular fruit stall.
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Ingham truckie keeps the wheels turning
Aidin May, 31, drives a Kenworth T659 for Oakdare Holdings and was heading from Townsville to Rubyvale near Emerald when I saw him recently.
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Veteran truckie excited about his next chapter
When I met up with South Australian driver Dave Morgan, he was counting the days until he retires.
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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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