Truckie says this spot is a top place to stop
When Big Rigs saw Gary Simmons parked outside the Detention River Roadhouse, he was sitting in the cab of a new Kenworth.
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Almost two decades on the road for this Tassie truckie
A truckie for the past 18 years, Dex Ballard works for Kile Transport based in the beautiful Huon Valley region of southern Tasmania.
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Just days out from Christmas, stranded truckie says he and his drivers can’t wait to get home
Veteran small fleet owner Dennis Dent says he’s “cranky and just wants to get home” after being stuck in Far North Queensland by flood waters in the wake of Cyclone Jasper.
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Trucking in the blood for young gun truckie
“If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life,” goes the saying and in the case of 22-year-old Nick Madden from Nathalia in northern Victoria, this statement certainly has some resonance.
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‘Some of the roads are dirt and the truck handles them well’
Veteran driver Graham Gunn, 64, walked into the Ouse Roadhouse in Tasmania and parked his flashy Iveco 4×4 across the road.
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‘Why I’m walking away from the trucking industry’
A former truckie has shared why he has decided to walk away from the transport industry, describing it as “all but slave labour”.
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Road train driver makes childhood dream come true
Growing up in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley and watching the countless road trains go past was enough to inspire Chris Pearson, 30, to follow the same path.
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Water drilling family says big move is ‘not what we expected’
It was a major tree-change of sorts for the Haighs, selling up their Queensland home and moving 3000 kilometres away to a remote 5000-acre farm, about 200 kilometres north of Alice Springs.
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Two-up couple lured to the west to drive triple road trains
It was back in 2014, after moving to Australia from the other side of the world that Prakaash ‘Pats’ Karuppanasamy, 40, and his wife Kokilavani ‘Koke’ Prakaash Devan, 37, began their journey into the transport industry.
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Young livestock truckie’s path to success
Growing up on a farm in Briagolong, Victoria, Melissa Ryan began driving horse trucks when she turned 18. These days, you’ll find her behind the wheel of a 2022 Kenworth T909, pulling B-doubles and road trains loaded with cattle.
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