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Outback, Truckie Profiles

Outback truckie answers call of the road

After getting out of the game for several months, this experienced truckie is back in the driver’s seat, pulling anything up to four trailers of cattle.
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Danielle GullaciJanuary 22, 2024, 8:27 amJanuary 29, 2024
Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

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. Read More
Danielle GullaciNovember 13, 2023, 2:51 pmNovember 21, 2023
Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

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. Read More
Alf WilsonNovember 12, 2023, 9:34 amNovember 12, 2023
Outback, Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

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.  Read More
Danielle GullaciOctober 31, 2023, 1:00 pmNovember 8, 2023
Outback, Second generation, Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

Passing the baton from one generation to the next

Speaking to Brad Russell, 37, he recalled the first time his late father let him get behind the wheel. “The first time my dad asked if I wanted to have a drive of the truck, I thought I was king,” he said. Read More
Danielle GullaciOctober 16, 2023, 6:24 amOctober 18, 2023
Truckie Profiles

This truck is his ‘own little office’

It was raining when Robbie Del Mansor was making deliveries at the scenic Atherton Tablelands hamlet of Tolga when Big Rigs saw him recently. Read More
Alf WilsonSeptember 29, 2023, 8:43 amSeptember 29, 2023
Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

Loving life on the road in the tropics

Before gaining a job as a truck driver, Cairns-based Allan Gong worked as a tree lopper. Read More
Alf WilsonSeptember 26, 2023, 11:26 amSeptember 26, 2023
Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

Rising fuel costs concerning for owner-operator

Adam Gee, 45, has been an owner-operator for the past five years and a truck driver for two decades. He drives a 2013 Kenworth 609. Read More
Alf WilsonSeptember 16, 2023, 8:24 amSeptember 16, 2023
Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

Three decades behind the wheel

Friendly driver Kevin Henderson had stopped at a rest area beside the Bruce Highway south of Cairns and was happy to yarn to Big Rigs. Read More
Alf WilsonSeptember 14, 2023, 10:58 amSeptember 19, 2023
Truck driver, Truckie Profiles

Helping to keep roads clear

Part of the duties for Matt Coubrough and Shane Black is clearing fallen tree branches from the road between Mount Molloy and Mossman in far north Queensland. Read More
Alf WilsonSeptember 7, 2023, 12:35 pmSeptember 7, 2023

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