From a one truck start in 1946, within 25 years Ken Thomas built TNT to be the largest transport company in Australia. This is his story.
David Wilcox has had an interest in transport since boyhood. The
first fifteen years of his business career were in the transport
industry. Initially this was in the overseas passenger services of
P&O, and their Australian agents, Macdonald Hamilton and
Co.
In the mid 1950s David saw the coming decline in the passenger
liner service as airlines developed, so considered his career
options. The Hughes and Vale decision prompted a move to road
transport, and a trainee position at Mayne Nickless. At age 21 he
was their first general freight salesman in Sydney. From there he
went to F.H.Stephens, and in due course was their NSW sales
manager. David was in the initial class of the Transport
Administration Course offered by the Sydney Technical College. He
graduated and became a member of the Institute Of Transport in
1958. For family reasons he left the Industry and spent thirty six
years, mainly in self-employment, at Crescent Head.
Now retired, he has had the time to indulge in his passion with
transport to do the research and to write his first book The
Truckie Who Loved Trains. David lives at Blackalls Park, Lake
Macquarie, NSW.
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