A different route every week
Younger truckie Jeff Anders opted to speak about the positive side of what the road transport industry has provided for him when we met in the tropics recently.
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30-year trucking veteran enjoying the ride
Veteran truckie Adam Hawks, 58, drives a Kenworth C509 for Nighthawk Transport and was picking up a backload of fertiliser from North Queensland, bound for Darwin when Big Rigs caught up with him recently.
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‘We need lots of young drivers or we will run out of them’
Aidan Pope hopes that more young men and women become truck drivers to ensure the long term future of the industry. “We need lots of young drivers or we will run out of them,” he said.
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The Drone Way: A truckie with a great eye and a big heart
For experienced MC truckie Ben Stamatovich, 48, the sky has become his playground and the open highway his canvas.
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A 6400km weekly round trip for veteran outback truckie
A third-generation truckie, Simon Roberts was already beginning to hone his truck skills from as young as five years old, while sitting on his father’s lap.
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Life on the road and running a pub
Veteran owner-operator Mal Wyton from the small sleepy hamlet of outback Muttaburra is committed to the road transport industry in the outback and also has a share with two other truckies in the local hotel.
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‘I never thought I’d get into trucking – far from it’
If you asked Fiona Christy, now 57, if she had any interest in driving a truck before she met her husband Norm Christy, the answer would likely have been a definite “no”. But now, after three decades behind the wheel, she says she’s still loving life on the road.
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Nearly 50 years behind the wheel
Within the next year Craig Hyde will become a member of the “nifty fifty” club of the road transport industry.
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‘It all started with a little toy truck’ for veteran outback truckie
“At school, they told me I’d never get paid to look out the window, but I proved them wrong,” laughed Perth-based owner operator Bill Carruthers, 62.
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FIFO truckie ticks one off the bucket list
A truck driver for the past 12 years, Rachel Thornton, 50, says she can now tick another item off the bucket list.
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