Deals On Wheels #454
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Classic DEALS<br />
Fruits<br />
OF THEIR<br />
LABOUR<br />
It looks good,<br />
but it was<br />
built<br />
to work<br />
G<br />
ood things come to those who wait. It's<br />
one of those throwaway lines parents<br />
normally use when they are not allowed<br />
to swear at their kids for continually<br />
asking for some annoying new toy. The<br />
original line was “all things come to those<br />
who wait”, which seems as redundant as<br />
the line “it’ll be in the last place you look”<br />
(of course it will, why would you keep<br />
looking after you’ve found it?). Anyway, I<br />
digress. Nowadays, the more appropriate<br />
line is “good things come to those who get<br />
off their arse and earn it”.<br />
Never has this been personified better<br />
than with the simply stunning Kenworth<br />
T909 of Frank Commisso Transport. The<br />
company’s flagship truck, a 26 metre-long<br />
Viagra pill, is a detailed work of art and the<br />
result of generations of slog.<br />
I seriously had to go back to my motel<br />
room after interviewing Frank and his two<br />
sons, Marcus and Joel, for a nanna nap. Just<br />
hearing the effort they have put in to grow<br />
the transport and their fruit company, Go<br />
Troppo, wore me out.<br />
This story runs second really to the photos<br />
you have all been perving at and it is kind of<br />
about the big T909, but more importantly<br />
this story is about passion and work ethic<br />
– two elements that just emanate out of the<br />
Commisso family.<br />
Passion is an attribute of vital importance<br />
to our industry and on so many levels. “Find<br />
a job you love and you’ll never work a day in<br />
your life” – that is passion. Every day when<br />
you cruise the road and see gleaming rigs,<br />
that is passion. Tooting the horn when you<br />
see a kid on the roadside doing the arm<br />
thing, that is passion. Standing in a cool room<br />
while a smiling Italian man asks if you’d<br />
like an apple. You decline, he insists, you<br />
decline, he strongly insists, you accept, then<br />
you realise “my god, that’s a fantastic apple”.<br />
The smiling Italian man laughs because<br />
he knows how good the apple is. That is<br />
passion.<br />
That is also Frank Commisso, the man<br />
knows his fruit and vegies. I don’t mean just<br />
that he knows pumpkins and string beans<br />
are fruit not vegetables, or that he knows<br />
what the hell an oca or romanesco is (for<br />
the record oca is like a yam and romanesco<br />
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