Australasian Transport News (ATN)

TAKING THE CAB-OVER OPTION

The funny thing about doing my job is that I can put hours and hours of time into researching a story and countless days trying to track down particular trucks. However, truth be told, I just happen to stumble across many of my stories and this one is a prime example.

As it happened, I was working hard in the office one day (I was really surfing Facebook), scrolling through countless motivational memes, a bit of welcomely shared food porn and countless cool trucks when the name Ricky Jones scrolled by, accompanied by an extremely good looking Volvo. I scrolled back up, had another look, did a bit of Facebook stalking and found plenty more shots of this stunning machine and figured that I needed to know more.

So I jumped on the big tin taxi,

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