About me:
Candidate Info :
I have significant experience in operating Heavy Machinery, both in NZ and Australia.
Refrigerated Fresh Produce, General Freight, Tankers, Liquid Dairy products, NZ.
AUSTRALIA. WA
Semi Tippers, Grain and Fertiliser,
Payloaders , Skidsteer, Telehandler, Farm machinery.
MELBOURNE
HC, Refrigerated, Metro, Country, interstate.
Container, refrigerated and Ambient.
Loading and unloading using EPJ or MPJ.
GPS navigation system,
Worked for previous employer, approximately 3.5 years. Finished employment, 6th March 2020.
Work casual,daily/weekly okay.
Can work some weekends.
Own Transport.
Forklift license
White card
BFM
Work location, South East Melbourne preferred, but flexible.
References available from employers and clients.
Experience :
Worked As Driver NZ class 5 Australian HC at various transport companies from December 1974 to January 2016
• Semi Tipper, carting Fertilizer, Grain and Seed, for Cropping Farmers.
• Truck n’ Trailer tipper, carting Grain and Fertiliser.
• Road Train (on farm) carting Oats Hay, for Cropping Farmers.
• Operating a Bobcat, Loader, Telehandler and Forklift, on Cropping Farms.
• Operating Tractors with various attachments, on Cropping Farms.
• Operating Mango Tree Hedger.
NZ EXPERIENCE:
• Truck only, metro deliveries, pickups from local growers, General Freight.
• Truck n’ Trailer, Curtain sided, Flat deck, delivering, Fresh Produce, General Freight, Timber to Metro and Intercity clients.
• Truck n’ Trailer Refrigerated, Line haul of, Fresh Produce, Bottled Milk.
• B Train, Refrigerated, Line haul of, Bottled Milk, Fresh Produce.
• Semi, 40ft Refrigerated, Line haul of, Fresh Produce, Bottled Milk, Meat products.
• Semi, 40 and 50 ft Stainless Tubes, pickup and delivery of, Fresh Cream, Milk, Fats, Vegetable Oils, Whey, between Dairy Companies and Processors.
• Clean Driving record, no significant accidents.
Whetheral Transport
Bay of Plenty NZ.
Metro and rural pickups, delivering to Supermarkets, Independent Retailers and Wholesalers, operating Truck only, Semi and Truck n’ Trailer combinations. Most of this work involved working to time constraints and reversing into loading docks off busy roads.
Linehaul, pickup and delivery of Refrigerated Fresh Produce, General Freight, Timber to various clients throughout the North Island of NZ.
Loading and unloading trucks, breaking down pallets for various consignments, ensuring documentation is correct and signed for by client upon delivery.
B and SL Porter
Bay of Plenty NZ.
Pickup and delivery of Bulk Cream, Milk and Whey from Fonterra Dairy Factories and distributing to other branches.
Pickup and delivery of Bulk Vegetable Oils from Processors and delivering to the end user.
This position involved shift work of, 3 nights on, 3 days on, driving, B Train, Semi, 40 and 50ft Tubes and Truck n’ Trailer combinations.
Cleaning of Stainless Steel tanks, by automated hot water washer, dispensing detergents and sanitisers, documenting process, time and location.
The use of GPS navigation for locating Factories in Rural locations.
Other Employment, Retail:
I worked for the NZ Supermarkets for a period of 9 (nine) years, as a Department Manager.
Firstly Progressive Enterprises, (now Woolworths), secondly Foodstuffs, whom are the main players in the industry.
Worked As HC SEMI at Rural Enterprises from April 2012 to June 2015
I travelled overseas a lot.
Returning to WA, for 3month intervals, to work on the grain farms, during harvest and seeding.
I worked through an agency, Rural Enterprises.
My role involved:
Carting Grain / Fertilizer, Oats Hay, Water, Drums of farm Chemicals.
Pozzi track, picking rocks in paddocks.
Payloader, loading Grain/Fertilizer into Storage sheds and onto trucks.
Maintenance, prestart servicing farm machinery.
Inoculating/Drafting sheep. (Do not want to work with sheep again).!!!
Tractor propelled Hay conditioners, field bins.
Reversing/Unloading truck n trailers into augers, to fill Silos.
Cleaning Silos.
Worked in Katherine for a couple of months, (mid Oct – mid Dec), driving an armor-plated tractor, setup for pruning Mango trees.
Season finished early, due to rain, kept getting bogged.
Accreditation
HC Licence,White/Green OH&S Card,BFM Fatigue ManagementSkills
- Unload Containers
- Light Indoor Labouring
- Dock in Transport Yards
- Stocktakes
- Receiving
- Raising Invoices
- Organising delivery runs
- Order Picking
- Dispatch
- Customer Service Queries
- Data Entry
- Ute
- Manual Work Required
- Steel/Long lengths
- Transport Yard
- Order Picking Fork (LO)
- double reach fork
- Container Fork
- Stores/Warehouse
- Forklift
- Truck & Dog
- Chassis Tipper (Semi)
- Water Tanker
- Local Work
- Tyres
- Load/Unload trucks
- Articulated Fork Lift
- All Terrain Forklift
- Light Outdoor Labouring
- Labourer
- Machine Operator
- Multi Axle Platform Trailer
- Truck and Dog
- Labouring
- Western Star
- Volvo
- Sterling
- Scania
- Nissan UD
- Mitsubushi
- Mercedes
- MAN trucks
- Mack
- Kenworth
- Iveco
- Isuzu
- International
- Hino
- Ford Truck
- Foden
- Freightliner
- DAF
- skel
- Pan / Van
- End Tipper
- Demolition
- Milk tanker
- Liquid Tanker
- Tippers
- Tautliner
- Tankers
- Stock Trailer
- Refrigerated
- Pantech(Rigid)
- Agitator
- Synchro Gearbox
- Road Ranger(Full Manual)
- Manual gear box
- Road Ranger (Auto)
- Auto (Fully Automatic - not Road Ranger)
- Trucks
- Timber
- Produce
- Plastic Pipes
- Multi-drop
- Milk
- Manual
- Machinery
- Livestock
- Grocery Stores
- Grain
- General Freight
- Containers
- HR 12 Tonner
- MR 8 Tonner
- HC Semi
- CAR
- Linehaul
- Regional/Country Runs
- Driving
- Management
- Transport & Logistics
Work History
- Rural Enterprises
- various transport companies


