A blue Kenworth K100E owned by Victorian owner-driver Chris ‘Billy’ Keene has more than three million kilometres on the clock and is famous for playing a role in the popular Hollywood movie Ghost Rider.
I saw 52-year-old Billy, as he is affectionately known in the road transport industry, when he was parked up at a Townsville roadhouse.
“This is a very famous truck and had a part in the movie Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage, when some of it was filmed in Melbourne in 2005,” he said.
A veteran driver, Billy is based at Melton in Victoria and has owned the Kenworth for 20 years.
While it has done more than three million kilometres, Billy said it does have a new motor.
“This one has done about 100,000km,” he said.
Billy had picked up tiles in Brisbane, bound for Cairns, and also dropped off an excavator to Townsville when he met up with Big Rigs.
His truck had lots of dead insects in the front. “I ran into lots on the way up from Brisbane,” he said.
A supporter of the Richmond Tigers in the AFL, Billy said he was given the nickname by his much-loved father who is now aged 95.
“And it has stuck,” he said.
Billy added that he rates the Newell Highway as bad to travel on and wants to see more rests area for truckies with toilets.
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