Q: What’s your current role and past experience in the industry?
A: I’m a local trailer driver in but I still do dog runs to Dubbo and the odd interstate trip with a road train. I work with a company called Shaws Transport. I have also worked driving B-doubles around the eastern side of the country. I started in the industry as a coach driver.
So I worked for a company called Simons National Carriers and it was through working with them that I first learned to appreciate the importance of compliance. Not thinking of it so much as a necessary evil but being trained in a way that lets you see the other side of the coin of it all. Helping you to understand why you’re doing things and not just being told to do them.
Q: How long did you drive coaches for?
A: From about 2010 to 2013 before I drove trailers. I never actually drove rigid trucks, I just went straight from coaches to trailers. Even to B-doubles as well. I had one trip in a single trailer before I was driving B-doubles.
Q: When you were driving
