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“I was 19-years old and running interstate, full time.”
WHEN IT COMES to truck drivers there seems to be very distinct categories they can be divided into. There are those who drive trucks purely as a job like any other, viewing their profession as quite simply a job to which they attend in return for a wage or income.
Some radiate into the trucking industry, lured by the attractive income potential (by working long and hard hours) to provide a secure lifestyle for themselves and their family.
Then there are those who are perhaps products of their environment, exposed to the trucking life by fathers or family members throughout their formative years; an exposure that can seem to have a direct impact on their very DNA, forming a passion so deep that they end up living and breathing trucking. Trucking to these is more than just a job or pay packet, it’s part of their very being. It defines who they are.
Ryan Haran of Bargo, NSW-based Haran Haulage definitely fits into this latter category.
Influenced from a young age by his father’s and grandfather’s connections with trucks, Ryan was almost preordained to become a third-generation truck driver.
A young kid whose childhood bedroom wall was decorated with truck posters, Ryan recalls school holidays and weekends as a kid, riding in his dad’s truck at all hours of the
