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A special treat to celebrate truckie’s 70th birthday

Truck driver Robert Willmette will celebrate his 70th birthday on Melbourne Cup Day on November 5.

Dubbed the race that stops a nation, it will be held at Flemington Racecourse and broadcast in many countries.

“I will be having a week off to enjoy my birthday on this famous day,” he recently told Big Rigs.

Robert drives a Mack Super-Liner for Geoff Richards Transport and is based at Brisbane.

I saw Robert checking out his trailers at the BP Cluden earlier this month.

“I have to pick up produce from Mareeba, Giru and Bowen for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne markets. I came up with Ipec products,” he said.

Robert added that his favoured roadhouses are the Caiguna Roadhouse in WA and the Caltex in Goondiwindi. “Both are great for truck drivers,” he said.

He says that the most dangerous route to drive on was the Bruce Highway.

“It is not good between Rockhampton and Sarina. There is a high volume of traffic.”

This friendly truckie wants to see more rest areas for drivers at which caravans are banned.

Outside work Robert enjoys cars and has restored a super charged Commodore.

During the football season Robert barracks for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL and for Queensland in the State of Origin Series.

Wishing Robert a wonderful birthday, and we hope he backs the winner of the highest profile horse race in the country.

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