Australian Motorcyclist

COMPASS POINTS THE WAY Feeding the nation, one at a time

IT’S NOT OFTEN a motorbike story starts with a truck, but then again, it’s not often we experience a year like 2020. For the first time in seven years I climbed aboard the Kenworth, stuck it into gear and drove out of the Melbourne depot bound for Sydney. I was carrying 30 tonnes of frozen fries for McDonalds, feeding the nation one fry at a time!

My head had been spinning with a mix of disbelief and despondency as I sat in the trucking depot being inducted into

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