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HOW MANY of you are in an association? I heard there are over 200,000 truck drivers in Australia. While that covers a pretty diverse group, from a local refuse truck driver to someone pulling quads in Western Australia, we are all driving trucks. But are you a driver of a truck, or a truck driver? By that I mean more about your job. Do you deliver for your own business, deliver for your employer fence supplier, or do you work for a transport company?

Drivers doing local runs, whether they work for a transport company or their direct employer that manufactures products,

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