HOGAN’S HERO
HAULING A FOUR METRE WIDE paving machine under escort down one of Australia’s major highways would be a big deal for most truckies.
But it’s just another day at the office for Allan Stuckings, known fondly in the Hunter Valley heavy haulage industry as ‘Stucko’.
When Owner//Driver recently caught up with Stucko, he was supervising the unloading of the machine, which he’d carted from Wardell on the north coast of NSW nearly 600km down to Rutherford near Maitland, the main base of his employer Hogan’s Heavy Haulage.
Most of the way he’d been able to keep the wide load in the slow lane, using the highway’s generous shoulders, but sometimes the small convoy had to take up the whole road to cross
