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From a one truck start in 1946, within 25 years Ken Thomas built TNT to be the largest transport company in Australia. This is his story.

About the Author

David Wilcox has had an interest in transport since boyhood. The first fifteen years of his business career were in the transport industry. Initially this was in the overseas passenger services of P&O, and their Australian agents, Macdonald Hamilton and Co.

In the mid 1950s David saw the coming decline in the passenger liner service as airlines developed, so considered his career options. The Hughes and Vale decision prompted a move to road transport, and a trainee position at Mayne Nickless. At age 21 he was their first general freight salesman in Sydney. From there he went to F.H.Stephens, and in due course was their NSW sales manager. David was in the initial class of the Transport Administration Course offered by the Sydney Technical College. He graduated and became a member of the Institute Of Transport in 1958. For family reasons he left the Industry and spent thirty six years, mainly in self-employment, at Crescent Head.

Now retired, he has had the time to indulge in his passion with transport to do the research and to write his first book The Truckie Who Loved Trains. David lives at Blackalls Park, Lake Macquarie, NSW.