WEST ALONG THE WARREGO

Anyone regularly travelling Queensland’s Warrego Highway will, at some point over the past six months, caught a glimpse of Martin Rieck’s new Mack Super-Liner hauling B-double livestock trailers. However, Martin has been on the road for much longer than that, while his association with trucks goes back to his family’s property in north-east South Australia which he says was ”nearly one million acres in the desert”.

The property, south of Innamincka and west of Cameron’s Corner, ran cattle. Out of necessity Martin bought his first livestock truck. More trucks were upgraded over the years.

“Dad always had trucks, not livestock trucks, but he had an earthmoving business, so we always had trucks to shift around and supply the fuel,” Martin explains.

“Working with the stock was first and foremost, so I was bought up more machinery to