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Mike Williams
Story by Mike Williams
photos by Mike and Rosalie Paul
Our Aussie reporter Mike shows us the spectacular drive from Sydney to Perth.
Name: Mike Williams From: Sydney, New South Wales A bit about me: I’m a full-time truck driver, parttime podcaster and writer and a frustrated chef! My favourite drink is coffee and my favourite food is lemon tart. Favourite truck: Got to be the Kenworth T909
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spent several years driving across Australia from Sydney to Perth and back. Three and a half years of it with my Rose and our pup Ollie. Eight thousand kilometres per week. That’s a total of about 1.5 million kilometres! We drove this awesome big cab Kenworth K200, which we lovingly referred to as Angela. She was well set up for the run too. As well as a
comfy bed, we had a fridge and a freezer plus a microwave. She even had a toilet! A massive 600hp series 2 Cummins driving an 18-speed Fuller Road Ranger transmission kept us trucking along towing a B Double set of Freighter drop deck chiller tautliner trailers. Our run started in Sydney on Monday night about 8:30pm. We drove down to Wagga Wagga and
We saw some great sights on this epic journey
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