HIGHLANDERS ON RIGHT TRACK
AS MANY BORN into rural farm life observe throughout their formative years, the trials and tribulations of a farmer’s existence can easily deter younger generations from pursuing the same path.
For Luke Sheridan, the farmer’s life on the land didn’t appeal to him, so an apprenticeship as a carpenter/builder was embarked upon. While the building game provided income and security, Luke still seemed to have an itch to be scratched. Deep down, Luke admits that he just always wanted to drive trucks.
Perhaps driving around farms and gazing upon the big trucks passing through his New South Wales rural hometown of Coolah lit a fire in his vocational soul that could not easily be extinguished – by hammers, chisels and a tool belt.
Leaving the building game behind, and pivoting into the direction of his ambitions, Luke took on a job as a labourer and then truck driver for a Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) bridge crew in Bathurst, while his wife Jacinta was attending university in the same town.
When an employment opportunity for Jacinta arose in Tahmoor, the Sheridans looked at a tiny point on a map,
