DOIN’ THE HARD YARDS

Admission time! I go from one extreme to the other sometimes. I will sit down to write a story and spend countless glasses of bourbon trying to work out a starting line or I will have an abundance of opening acts and spend countless glasses of bourbon trying to choose which one to use. The lesson being. I probably need to restock my bourbon.

However, this month I have a dilemma. I can’t decide which opening stanza best represents the amazingly cool truck on these pages.

Option one was starting this cool story on Method Earthworks exquisite Kenworth T909 tipper with a wedding speech cliché, using the dictionary to define ‘method’ purely because it truly does reflect the company that Jeff and Lori Turner have built. ‘Method: a quality of being well organised and systematic in thought or action’. That definition encompasses all that Jeff and Lori have prided themselves on and has led them to putting one of the coolest T909 tippers in the country on the road. It represents a small fleet of well-organised and successfully run tippers.

That was starting option A. Starting option B is driven by a quote from Greg McDonald, a man that knows how to put a cool truck together. At a function in early 2021 Jeff Turner, the man behind Method Earthworks, was at a function with Greg and was floating the idea of purchasing a Kenworth T909 to add to his small fleet.

“I admitted that a 909 was my dream truck, but it was probably too big a truck for the job,” Jeff recalls. Greg then dropped some philosopher-level wisdom on Jeff that would