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family ties

It was amazing – more machines than I’d seen in one place before and I tried to drive all of them.

Matt Ayres was 16 and in Year 10 at Saint Paul’s College, Altona when one weekend he and his dad, Rob, used an oxy torch to cut the curtain side body off the family’s general haulage truck and turn it into a flatbed. It was a leap of faith.

Out of the blue, truckie Rob had been offered an infrastructure job laying underground cables and

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