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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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