In 1968, Tommy and Ceilya Warry, my dad and mum, purchased a brand new 1968 FC100 Toyota truck from Rockhampton in Central Queensland. They drove the Toyota home to our house in Goovigen, where I still reside to this day. From the day they bought the truck until the early 1980s, it was used for a variety of different jobs and contracts in the Goovigen area.

Dad used the truck for cream runs from Goovigen to the Wowan Port Curtis dairies, as well as to distribute freight in the area that came off the train at the train station right across the road from their house. Dad and mum also owned the Shell fuel depot and back then, before fuel tankers, the Toyota truck would cart fuel to neighbouring properties in the Goovigen area in 44-gallon drums. She worked these jobs up until the early 80s when dad and mum purchased their property DawnDale in Goovigen. From that time on, the Toyota was used for farm jobs such as carting cattle and grain, usually incredibly overloaded but that never bothered her. The crate that was on the back of the truck was made by dad’s friend, Harold Price. Pricey made it for dad at no charge, however, he made a deal that dad would use it to cart his horses to campdrafts in return. The crate still has HG Price 1971 welded into the bottom angle iron.