Sam Hughes – better known as The Travelling Jackaroo – has revealed his plans of creating a mobile museum are now one step closer, with the purchase of a trailer.
For those who haven’t followed Sam’s story, last August he completed a three and half year charity run last August, travelling 27,250 kilometres across Australia in a 1957 model Chamberlain tractor. And in doing so, raised over $260,000 for his three chosen charities.
Along with being behind the wheel of a truck these days, while working for Queensland towing company Clayton’s Towing, Sam is in the early stages of creating his mobile museum.
It’s a project that’s been bubbling away for a while, with Sam first revealing the plans to Big Rigs about a year ago. “The museum will focus on the Aussie battlers – on the people who built the country including our truckies and the transport industry,” he said.
Since returning to his home in Maleny on the Sunshine Coast, Sam’s been on the hunt for the right truck and trailer to bring his plans to fruition.
This week he revealed that he had purchased a 10.5 metre trailer.
“I’m planning on getting the sides wrapped with the outback/show theme as sections of stickers with some quintessential aspects of Aussie bush and ag show history, a small living quarters up the front with bed/shower, etc, and the other 20ft dedicated to the museum aspects including a few digital displays and various exhibits/displays including ones that’ll be taken outside,” he shared on his Travelling Jackaroo Facebook page, which now has over 276,000 followers.
“Now that I’ve got the trailer I just need to make up my bloody mind and buy a prime mover to pull it,” he said. “I don’t mind spending a bit as long as it’s good and reliable. Just needs to look the part and do the job well, trouble is pulling the trigger and getting one!”
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