Aug 08, 2011

Since 1972 we have travelled all over our great country in trucks carrying freight and helping keep the wheels of industry turning but since 2007 we have started using every chance we can get to explore our great country on motorbikes.

The exercise started out as a bit of a stress buster and was very effective but by accident we found it was a great way to catch up with customers, find lots of routes which are not truck friendly allowing us to cross them off the work list and also to keep track of the development we contribute to and to learn and anticipate of more to come. So there you go we have found another way to make work time fun time.

2009 saw our great Darwin bike ride when we retraced the route of our 1971 working holiday up the east coast of Australia across to Darwin through Mt Isa, then down through the centre and home travelling some 11,300kms in all. An interesting reflection on the passage of time and how road transport (freight) has changed so much of what Australians take for granted, also to note the numbers of regional and national projects our company has been part of. Needless to say it was also a thrill to catch up with some of our trucks in our travels. (I will eventually transfer the travelogue onto the website so it is here for viewing).

Continuing on from there we have decided to undertake a series of study tours of the UK and some of Europe (the first in 2010 travelling 5,560kms - and I will eventually transfer the travelogue onto the website for viewing also) and possibly the USA over the next several years and will do so on motorbikes again. Some of the stress busting may well be a little lost and there will no doubt be inherent stress's involved with different road rules and languages but we are up for the challenge and are looking forward to exploring transport routes and developments throughout and discovering where the industrial revolution began and compare things with what we have here in Australia.