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OUT OF THE WOODS

Truckies are the backbone of our great sunburnt land. They’re honest, hardworking, extremely hospitable people, and importantly, they tell it like it is.

My assumptions were confirmed when I ventured out to Goondiwindi, west of Brisbane, to meet Andrew Woods, director of Woods Transport (an important cog in the Woods Group agribusiness juggernaut).

And funnily enough, all of those qualities above are mirrored through his fleet of Kenworth trucks, which happen to be the backbone of his business.

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Woods Group has been a ‘Kenny’ kind of company for decades. Andrew struggles to remember the days without a Kenworth truck in Woods livery, and that’s fair enough considering they purchased their first way back in 1972.

“My father, Tom Woods, bought our first Kenworth SAR out of Brown and Hurley

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