48 | Sister companies offering enjoyable Livestock truck side on by stack. Tanker at factory in the evening. Kelly Deeks Sister companies Central Transport and Midlands Rural Transport in Reporoa are both offering enjoyable and meaningful careers for anyone who maybe hasn’t realised exactly what a career in the transport industry could do for them. The two companies’ HR and health and safety manager Andrew Sinclair was himself a school teacher and principal with a 30 year career in education before getting into the transport industry, and he says he had been unaware of the kinds of opportunities that were available. “It was a real eye opener for me,” he says. “One of the things I talk to the local high school kids about is the fact that if you were to enter teaching, it would take you something like 15 years before your pay rate would catch up to the person who went truck driving straight from school.” He says truck driving is a viable and very worthwhile career, and the beautiful thing about the transport industry is the opportunity to work with a variety of cargoes, customers, and trucks. “You could do 10 years of milk tanker driving then want a change, and go and drive a livestock truck or a logging truck, or get into management and become a dispatcher or a fleet manager. There are so many parts to the industry.” RURAL SERVICES » Central Transport
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