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Little Miss MACK

he always wanted a vintage fuel tanker
I’m just not a fan of beige

I’m pretty sure I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it in the future many times. However, half of you never listen to me anyway so I’m going to start this story by repeating myself. I love my job, I really do. Days like today where I set out to learn a little more about one of the coolest little Macks around, and end up meeting a character that you could honestly make an entire Netflix series on.

Steve Marriott is that man; a Cockney with tales that include being a driver/trailer-man on one of the world’s largest heavy-haulage moves in Saudi Arabia, to selling encyclopaedias in Germany to US servicemen, driving road trains between Adelaide and Darwin, or losing four years of his working life to injury from an accident that destroyed his beloved 428 Cobra Jet Mach One Mustang. Calm down people, the Mustang got rebuilt. Oh, and Steve was okay as well.

Meeting people like Steve though is what really makes my job enjoyable. So, let’s get into the

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