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    REMEMBERING MATTY

    Dec 07, 2022 4 minutes

    I finally made it! Matty Hillcoat’s Truckies’ Day Out has finally been knocked off my bucket list!! I have been wanting to attend this increasingly popular event for a few years now. I missed it in 2017, 2018 and 2019 due to an uncontrollable V8 Supercar addiction (the Bathurst 1000) and then I missed it in 2020 and 2021 due to the world going pandemic crazy and everything getting cancelled. However, 2022 saw the return of the Matty Hillcoat’s Truckies Day Out and I made it.

    It was the fourth running of this increasingly popular day and I obviously wasn’t the only one pleased to see it back. Record crowds and a record number of trucks rolled into town to show off their rigs, relax for the

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