Dennis ‘Steeny’ Steenholdt started his career in the transport industry in 1964 at the age of 15. He worked for Lambert Leishout, in
Longwarry driving tractors spreading fertilizer.
At the age of 18 he got his truck licence and started working for Follet & Pope in Longwarry picking up farm milk in a J6 Bedford Semi 3 Deck. Two years later he began working for Mansons at Bunyip driving a 150 International delivering groceries. He the progressed to driving a Perkins powered Acco with a bogie trailer carting paper and pine board locally and interstate from Rosedale.
He began his interstate driving to Sydney in a Acco with a 185 V8 Cummins and 1418 Benz.
After marrying and starting a family 4 years later, Dennis started working for the Drouin butter factory driving a bottle truck locally. He progressed to driving a milk tanker. During this time, he also had a part time job carting wood chip for Kelvin Needham spanning over 13 years.
In 1979 started working for Woods & Reeves in Warragul as a workshop hand, he progressed into truck sales under the banner of South Eastern Trucks Warragul selling Volvo and UD trucks. In this same period, he worked part time driving for SAR Kenworth for John Rhodes carting poultry food to Yarrawonga overnight.
In 1988 his career progressed again becoming Business Manager of South Eastern Trucks for a further 12 years.
In 2000 he left his management job and purchased a concrete agitator truck with a 210 V8 Cat working as a owner /driver for Backwoods Readymix at Warragul. He then purchased a second truck a Ford Sterling concrete agitator, he worked both trucks up until semi-retirement in 2017.
At present Dennis aged 74 still works part time driving a Kenworth truck and dog for Blackwood’s Ready-mix. He still is helping a grain farmer during the harvest in Central NSW carting grain for the past 8 years.
Inducted in 2024
