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Steady as she grows

Followmont Transport now boasts 22 owned and operated depots in Queensland and regional New South Wales. Its trucks travel upward of 39 million kilometres each year, making it one of Queensland’s leading freight operators. It all started in the ‘80s through a strike that had positive repercussionsforthenew business.

“Followmont was founded by my father and a business partner in 1984 off the back of a rail strike,” Followmont Transport managing director Mark Tobin told ATN.

“They went and bought one truck to start

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