Robin Bruckner

Mar 31, 2014

ROBIN BRUCKNER
Hometown: DeBeque, Colo.
Occupation: Company driver
Company: CTAP LLC

I have been around trucks all my life. My dad was an OTR driver ever since I was a little girl, and there was nothing better than riding with dad during the summer! As a driver in the oilfields of western Colorado, I have the opportunity to see some beautiful places and drive with other amazing drivers. Many people ask me why I chose driving as a career, and I always reply, “My office view changes every day. Does yours?”

In Australia, road hazards from wild animals are common -- you’ll notice guards on the fronts of most trucks. Plentiful numbers of kangaroos, wild pigs and wombats can be an ever-present problem in Australia.

Road trains, kangaroos, wombats, oh my: Trucking down-under

Australian truckers are a world apart from U.S. counterparts (they do haul on the left side of the road, after all), yet this conversation with father and son trucking vets Kevin and Mitch Forbes shows plenty in common, including regs, training issues.

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