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By Truckin Life
Posted 21st Feb 2012
They mustered before daylight, 704 trucks, drivers and supporters on a cool Wollongong morning.
The dawn air was filled with the aroma of coffee brewing, bacon sizzling and chrome polish as...
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By Truckin Life
Posted 21st Feb 2012
The Mack Titan changes up through the gears. We’re on the road and it’s the first taste of the 685hp MP10 engine. I have just driven the big truck out of the hook-up yard on the western side of Port...
By Truckin Life
Posted 21st Feb 2012
In the middle of November over 400 army reserve and regular army personnel from throughout Queensland, rendezvoused at Canungra during the 11th Brigade Collective training Activity.
They lived ‘in...
By Truckin Life
Posted 14th Feb 2012
To tell the story of Tasmanian logging you can't sneak around the edges, you can't embroil yourself in politically correct jargon and try to appease all sides. Rather you must strike right into the...
By Truckin Life
Posted 14th Feb 2012
While news takes the long way round with the printing of colour magazines, Truckin’ Life’s website can be updated by the hour when news is breaking. The partnership of the Truckin’ Life website and...
By Truckin Life
Posted 14th Feb 2012
To fit in a good day’s work, you start early. At the very first hint of the shift from night to daylight, Phil (Pip) Avery falls out of bed into a pair of jeans, tips Jack the Russel off his boots...
By Truckin Life
Posted 14th Feb 2012
Orange Creek Station tracks its livestock heritage back to the days of Kidman and today profitability is maintained by diversification – cattle, lucerne hay, citrus and of course the livestock...
By Truckin Life
Posted 3rd Jan 2012
This pint-size team belongs to truck owners and operators Nick and Lindy Annett, who operate out of Heywood, not far from the Victorian/South Australian border and about 20 minutes north of Portland...
By Truckin Life
Posted 3rd Jan 2012
The relentless electronic buzz of the alarm breaks the early morning silence; it’s 4.00am, even the crows aren’t out of the nest yet. A chilled glass of juice, a bowl of cereal and I’m just starting...
By Truckin Life
Posted 3rd Jan 2012
Within minutes of meeting Jake Thomson, his qualities are glaringly obvious. He’s an open, personable young man, and as you dig deeper it’s clear he is naturally skilled and multi-talented, but as we...
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