Flat out during harvest
Tassie truck driver Matt McKenzie is looking forward to busy times ahead as harvest time kicks in.
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SA truckie calls time after 50 years behind the wheel
As 2020 comes to an end, long-time interstate truckie John Furler will swap the truck cab for a caravan, signing off on a career that has taken him all over Australia.
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Bushfires keep Brett busy
Brett Macklin is doing the rounds of his B-double with an iron bar in his hands, checking all the tyres on his 19-metre log trailers after a run down Dunstan’s Road to Nariel in the upper reaches of north-eastern Victoria.
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From tradie to truckie
Matthew Daley from Hobart was driving a Muskett’s 2015 Kenworth K200 with a quad dog loaded with plantation timber from Koonya and was on his way to Long Reach when he stopped for a chat.
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40 years behind the wheel, and counting
We first saw this impressive Norton Transport 500hp Scania as the demo pulling a B-double. Roger Neal is the man driving it and Big Rigs caught up with him as he pulled out of a truck stop on his return to Burnie from Hobart.
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Busy days ahead
It’s always good to catch up with old friends, as it was when we met up with owner-driver Andrew Arnold from Bridport.
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The right decision for this Tassie truckie
From driving tractors and farm machinery, Luke Williams soon progressed onto something much bigger – and after three years as a truckie, he says he couldn’t be happier.
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Keeping it fresh
When Big Rigs saw driver Lee Wells he was carting mangoes from Giru in north Queensland, bound for the Brisbane markets.
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Race is on to get job done
It has just gone 8.30am and Craig Radford works his way up through the gears as he heads out of the little town of Benambra in a remote corner of the north-east Victorian alpine region, with another long day hauling timber on the schedule.
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Transport legend will just keep truckin’
“I’ll just keep going as long as I can. When I can’t do it anymore, that’s when it’s time to give up. A fella asked me a few years ago, ‘When are you going to retire?’ And I said I’ll retire when they start to dig the hole. My mother lived to 107 so I’ve got a bit to go to catch her age haven’t I,” said Bill Ferguson, who recently celebrated his 88th birthday.
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