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909 REASONS TO STOP AND STARE

WELCOME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, and those who are neither. This is not your standard truck profile. Sure, the photos show an amazing Australian built piece of art, a truck that packs more wow factor than a Cirque du Soleil performance. Yes, we will talk about SoilWorx, the family-owned Melbourne company responsible for putting this total package on the road. Of course, I will also cover the driver of this top notch T909, Mike Batten – young man that SoilWorx has trained up through its ranks and who now pilots one of Melbourne’s most eye-catching units. But first, we need to acknowledge someone else, a young admin office worker by the name of Samantha Johns.

Where am I going with this you may ask? Fair question. We all know truck driving is more than just a job – it’s a way of life, and ever since Gottlieb Daimler first put a 4hp (0.7kW) engine in front of a two-speed box back in 1896 to invent the truck, the truck driver was born.

The day after Mr Daimler invented the

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