TRUCKS FIT FOR Kings
Jun 08, 2020
5 minutes
Words Cobey Bartels
I was virtually conceived in a truck!
Melbourne-based truckie Daniel King tells us it started for him like it did for many other operators, in the cab of his old man’s trucking putting in a mile.
“They reckon I was virtually conceived in a truck,” Daniel laughs when asked of his earliest memory in a rig.
“There are so many photos of me in the truck, because i was going to work with my old man for as long as I can remember.
“By the age of about 11 or 12, I was operating the forklift and delivering the bricks we carted to site. It’s all I wanted to do, to be in the brick truck helping,” he says.
Daniel’s teen years saw
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