Former baker rises to the challenge behind the wheel
It was ironic that I should meet up with 35-year-old Tasmanian truckie Daniel Poole as he was delivering to a bakery at historical Longford in northern Tasmania.
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Scientist turned truckie secures her dream linehaul role
When Alysha Douma last chatted to Big Rigs, she revealed her ambitions of getting into linehaul work – and now she’s done exactly that, carrying cars across Queensland, with her two fur babies coming along for the ride.
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Driver always looks forward to Saturday trips with son
When Tasmanian driver Cameron Matthews visited Cairns recently, he felt the heat big time.
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Just like daddy’s truck
Knowing how much his two-year-old little girl loves his truck, second-generation truckie Nathan Pearce, 43, made Riley a miniature version of her own.
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Courageous truckie gets back behind the wheel
Hers is an inspirational story of optimism and resilience. For Rachel Kriss, a 52-year-old grandmother from the Northern Rivers region of NSW, things couldn’t have been better – until a heartbreaking diagnosis saw it all come crashing down.
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Prowling the paddocks of the Riverina with a T358
“We have to put the truck through its paces, we have had it set up for just over 12 months, but you need to test it across all the environments we work in.”
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It’s a good life for this truckie as he travels the Apple Isle
It was freezing cold when Jamie Van Essen, 51, pulled up in his 1989 Mitsubishi Canter at High Clare Roadhouse in Tasmania at around 11am.
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‘If you want to be a truckie, put your head down and work’
Given that I see so many Collins Transport trucks through my great little town of Ararat, Victoria, I figured it was about time that I shared a story on one of their drivers in Big Rigs.
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Truckie ‘grateful to be alive’ after open-heart surgery
A truckie based in Bathurst, NSW has told how he’s finally back on the road after open-heart surgery – and grateful to be alive.
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Young owner-driver makes dreams come true
Calab Dihm grew up watching the trucks drive past his family’s 700-acre farm in Lang Lang, Victoria, and a dream formed in his head.
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