Friendly driver Brett Woodbridge drives a modern Kenworth for Lindsay Transport and had delivered avocados when he stopped to chat.
Aged 57, Brett has been with Lindsay Transport for two years. “But I have been a truck driver for 25 years and I like it,” he said.
Brett added that the near new Kenworth was comfortable to travel in.
“It has a 610hp motor and an automatic gearbox,” he explained.
Brett lives in Townsville and most of his work is a shuttle run between there and Mackay, about 390km south.
“The Bruce Highway between the Burdekin and Bowen is really bad in spots,” he said.
He added that there were ample rest areas for drivers along his run but that this wasn’t the case further south of Mackay.
Two of the places he likes stopping at when he gets to travel north are at Cardwell.
“The pub there serves a good meal and the café with the big replica mud crab out the front has delicious fish. They look after me whenever I pull up there,” he said.
A Sydney Roosters supporter in the NRL, Brett is originally from NSW.
“I was from around the Riverina area of NSW and we came here to Townsville so my son and daughter could go to James Cook University. They both now have good jobs,” he said.
As for recreation, Brett enjoys going fishing at the seaside suburb of Pallarenda which is in sight of Magnetic Island.