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    TAKIN’CARE OF BUSINESS

    Nov 10, 2019 4 minutes

    BRAEDEN McCARTHY is only 26 but he already owns a fledgling business in north east Victoria, which allows him to indulge his passion for trucks and machines.

    The Benalla local completed a plumbing apprenticeship and gained five years of truck driving experience before he established Earth Haul Excavations in his home town last year.

    “I’m surviving and moving forward so it’s definitely working.”

    He left a truck-driving job with Brady & Kibble to venture out on his own. He loved driving the company’s 2007 Kenworth K104B Aerodyne, but as he travelled along the Hume Highway he couldn’t help thinking about his childhood dream of running his own business.

    Last year he bought a 1985 Mitsubishi FM 515 tip truck and a

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