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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Truckie’s new adventure down under
When Janine Hanson, 37, moved from England to Australia 10 years ago, the plan was to continue working as a podiatrist – but the lure of the outback was calling.
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Loving life on the road
Soon after Rusty York,74, stopped at a rest area between Cardwell and Ingham in his Isuzu MRP300, he revealed he had “no fixed address”.
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Driving for nearly 60 years and still loving it
At age 78, Michael Lewis still loves driving trucks but realistically intends to retire when he becomes an octogenarian in September 2024.
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Truckie Ralph Larkings, 66, keeps roadhouses stocked
Busy driver Ralph Larkings, 66, was making a delivery to a roadhouse beside the New England Highway when I saw him.
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Why I switched from the mines to trucking
Living at idyllic Mission Beach in north Queensland, Shane Jolly would be the envy of many Aussie truck drivers.
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Isuzu-driving plasterer is loving life in Australia
From the Land of the Long White Cloud, Tim York has been living across the ditch for 15 years and loves his job driving an Isuzu NPR in his job as a plasterer.
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Husband and wife team’s two-up dream journey
Nick Hanson and Dee Hanson, a young married couple from Stapylton, Queensland, have been driving multi-combinations two-up for six months and are loving it.
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Veteran truckie keeps wheels turning
With the famous landmark called the Pyramid in the background, veteran truckie Lindsay Petrie was parked up and spoke about being in Big Rigs paper not long after it started publishing. That was way back in the early 1990s.
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Going above and beyond
For 12 years Tarrant Foster drove a light rig for Coles delivering groceries around Townsville.
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