Truck & Driver UK – July 2019

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TEAM T&D

Truck & Driver July 2019

Hauling feed to the port was hard work in the heat

Between the mining area of the Pilbara and Perth, 7m- to 8m-wide loads are commonplace

Hooking up to the third trailer at Wubin, 250km north of Perth

The six members

of Team T&D so

far are...

Paul O’Callaghan

Ireland, Australia

and all points in

between

Location Ireland

Currently

driving Scania R580 Topline

Chris Maddison

Sufferer of acute

Fodenitis

Location

Holmfirth, West

Yorkshire

Currently driving

Foden Alpha XL

Luke Vernon

Pioneer of truck

vlogging

Location West

Wales

Currently

driving Volvo FH 500

Dual-Clutch

Russell Oliver

Shine bright like

a diamond

(geezer)

Location

Somewhere in

Europe

Currently driving Scania

S730

Mat Ireland

Writing, rockin’

and rollin’

Location Suffolk

Currently

driving Daf XF

440 Super Space

Simon Butler

Marine

machinery

mover

Location

Hawkinge,

in Kent

Currently driving Renault

Range T 460 AML 6x2 with

Comfort interior trim

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Disclaimer: your employer has

to be okay with it. And why

wouldn’t they be? We’re being

all super-professional and that

“Maybe you’ll get to deliver

one,” a fellow driver said as we

uploaded sheep at Fremantle

wharf. My appetite for adventure

was running wild as I studied the

map of Australia and traced the

Great Northern Highway from

Perth to Wyndham, a distance of

3200km. Working away quietly,

transporting cattle and sheep

within close proximity to Perth, I

finally got the call to deliver a new

Kenworth C509 to Wyndham.

Two flat trailers

As previously noted, my

employer is engaged in

everything from mining and

livestock haulage to mineral

transport and fuel haulage. The

plan was to load two flat trailers

with bagged cattle feed for a

livestock export depot in Broome