For many years Garry Cullen drove trucks at Gladstone in Queensland, delivering furniture.
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Veteran driver looks back at life spent on the road
Veteran driver Doc Holliday has the same name as a famous American gunslinger, and he became emotional when a friend gave him a copy of Big Rigs which featured a DCO-F International.
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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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Trucking’s a good life for this friendly truckie
Based at Warrnambool in Victoria, owner operator Paddy McKenna was far away along the Port Access Road in Townsville when Big Rigs spotted him tending to his trailers.
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It’s a family business through and through
Andrew Lock, 59, has run the Adelaide based family business Lock Transport for two and a half years but has been a truckie for most of his working life.
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Successful former jockey onto a winner as he turns to trucking
From the saddle of racehorses to behind the wheel of a truck is the story of 61-year-old Tasmanian driver Craig Luttrell.
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Outback truckie says ‘it’s a big dream come true’
Ezekiel Clifford, 31, started out driving utes and vans, but these days you’ll find him steering a 2018 Mack Titan and triple road train on the weekly 3400-kilometre round trip from the Queensland town of Pittsworth to Mt Isa.
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Towing operator celebrates 32 years in business
For more than half of his life Cam Duffy has run a towing business on the scenic Atherton Tablelands in North Queensland.
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Sludge overcomes more hurdles as he continues his recovery
It’s been over seven months since a motorcycle accident left Sludge with horrific injuries and though he’s continuing to improve each week, Sludge says there’s still a little while to go.
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