Truckie makes road transport Wall of Fame

Fifty-five years of truck driver Bert Dunn’s life were spent on the road.

Now retired, having completed his last run to Adelaide in 2016, the Miners Rest local was inducted into the Shell Rimula Wall of Fame over the weekend.

As one of the road transport industry’s highest honours, the award celebrates service and achievement in that community.

Mr Dunn was one of over 50 people welcomed into the Wall this year, based at Alice Springs’s National Road Transport Hall of Fame.

In the early 1960s, he started driving trucks to Melbourne and Sydney, transporting wood and potatoes for his dad’s pulp wood business.

Running his own truck a few years later, Mr Dunn moved livestock and refrigerated freight around Australia. Later, with a fleet of 12 trucks, he headed Dunn’s Transport.

He said the hours were long and the work difficult, but he has happy memories.

“The many adventures and the lifelong friendships I created made it all worthwhile,” Mr Dunn said.

“I’m very honoured to be inducted and to be placed up there with all the previous people.”

He encourages anyone passing through Alice Springs to visit the Hall of Fame.

“It’s very good. Everyone should pull in and have a look at it because it’s very interesting.”