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TRUCKER'S STORY * Australia - Live freight keeps the Boyles trucking
Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Age, by Mathew Murphy -October 5, 2007: -- Fifty years ago Kelvin Boyle cut a lonely figure driving up and down the Princes Highway, transporting livestock around the Western District for local farmers... The old Ford truck that his father lent him when he started the business in 1957 was his constant companion, with hundreds of cattle and sheep proving to be more transient friends... Now Boyle's Livestock Transport employs 33 people, with 16 trucks transporting livestock along Australia's highways... From humble beginnings Boyle's has flourished, its success capped off this week by winning The Age/D&B Victorian Business Award for rural services... Anthony says that if the drought breaks next year, Boyle's might diversify into freight, where demand is expected to double by 2020. But the core element of the business, which his father understood all too well, would remain the same... (Photo by Damian White - Fifty years ago Kelvin Boyle (left) hit the highway with an old Ford truck he borrowed from his father. Today, thanks to sons Rodney and Anthony (right), Boyle's is a big name in the livestock transport industry)Labels: truckers stories
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