Brandon Harmse

road train operator, moving oil and gas drill rigs across the cooper basin including Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia, we pull the rigs apart and transport loads as road trains or triple road trains aswell as oversize.

Also do fridge fans and general freight servicing SANTOS and BEACH ENERGY camps across the cooper basin.

When no driving is done I do maintenance on my truck and trailers servicing and greasing the prime mover aswell as repairs, same for the trailers/ float.

Carted livestock across South Australia, Victoria and NSW, this included picking cattle up from farms, sale yards, feed lots and delivering them to Abattoirs, farms or feedlots across Australia, cattle only, not sheep.

When there was free time, Id wash the crates out and clean the prime mover and polish the truck, as well as do basic maintenance that we where allowed to do.

Started off as a swamper and a mechanic, pulling apart Oil and Gas drill rigs and loading them onto trailers where they'd be taken to the new lease for assembly.

A lot of the time I'd be operating front end loaders doing lease clean ups and loading when the rigs are off location, this was with forks, bucket and stingers.

When in the depot I'd be servicing and doing maintenance on trailers, dollies, trucks, loaders, vehicles and various other machinery.

I then got my heavy vehicle license and started driving trucks moving drill rigs, doing fridge van work delivering food to camps for SANTOS and BEACH ENERGY as well as doing general freight.

Was a field mechanic working on machinery, this included generators, fuel pumps, fuel tanks, bowsers and other odd jobs in between, did a lot of government sites, including raaf base, various sites in the city, prisons, railway sites, hospitals etc and a lot of rural sites.

Work included, servicing, load testing, maintenance, battery changes, repairs and running units to ensure they are working.

also installed generators and tanks.