Getting into the festive spirit
With his impressive beard, truckie Jamie Jansen would be an ideal Santa Claus over the fast looming Christmas period.
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‘I knew this is what I wanted to do’
Growing up on an SA dairy farm, 26-year-old Kyle Nicholas-Benney became fascinated with trucks, tractors and machines at a young age.
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Switching from the office to the great open road
Kayla Trainor was checking the trailers on her triple road train when I saw her parked along the Townsville Port Access Road recently.
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‘When it’s in the blood, it’s in the blood’
The son of a truck driver, Wayne Rogerson, 50, grew up around trucks but didn’t initially think it would be the path he’d follow.
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Triple the fun for young outback truckie
Starting his career in the workshop, it wasn’t long before former diesel mechanic Tom Bromley, 28, made the switch to being behind the wheel.
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Owner-operator has plenty of work on, despite rising costs
A big storm was in the vicinity when Big Rigs saw owner-operator Ted Markwort near his truck at the BP Cluden in Townsville.
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Trucking on for over three decades
It had been raining heavily just before I came across Shane Hurley in Townsville on October 26, but the driver’s comfort level had improved after a recent heat wave.
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A love of trucks lures third generation truckie across the ditch
After losing his father when he was just eight years old, third generation truckie Shane Mitchell, 35, says he has an old neighbour to thank for teaching him everything he knows.
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Heading into the tropics
Clayton Walker was driving an Iveco Stralis for Mainfreight when Big Rigs saw him one evening, carrying general goods from the south, bound for Townsville, Cairns and Mareeba.
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‘This is a hard game and it’s not for the faint-hearted’
Born and bred on a cattle station near Alice Springs, William Rosie, 48, says truck driving is in his blood.
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