Robert (Bob) East began his truck driving career in1958 in Lenswood, SA, and his wife Bev joined thebusiness in 1959.
He began with transporting heavy equipment suchas bulldozers and scrapers and other machineryand equipment. Bob hauled these heavy loads from Adelaide to the Strzelecki Track as well as to Moomba, the Andamooka Opal fields, Mt Davies, APY Lands, Mintabie and the Coober Pedy Opal fields.
Bob also spent 10 years driving and hauling logs out of the Mt Crawford Forest where he transported these loads to numerous places across the state of South Australia.
The Stuart Highway was Bob’s home away from home from 1958 until he retired from truck driving in 2012.
He was dedicated to truck driving and the trucking industry.
Bob enjoyed the lifestyle on the road as with all Australian truck drivers, and he shares the valued camaraderie of good mates made along the way.
Some of the trucks that Bob operated over this period of time on the road include Oshkosks, Macks and Kenworths.
Robert (Bob) East has recently retired his Oshkosh truck. This Oshkosh is proudly now in its final resting place having earned a site at the National Transport Hall of Fame at Alice Springs.
