Plodding and pedantic

To all those shiny pants who are making hot air about the shortage of people interested in taking up the role of truck drivers, take note. One of my workmates, John, undertook a job to what we Queenslanders refer to as Mexico the other week. John had taken up the role of truck driver in 1968 at the age of 21. Road transport has been his only source of income since. To have been constantly and professionally involved for how many decades, one would expect that he would be treated with some semblance of respect.

Coming out of Melbourne, John was given the going-over by Victorian police at