The Young Person in Transport Award goes to…Luke Cannon, at the Bull Carters Ball at the Livestock and Rural Transporters Association Conference in Marcoola Queensland, last weekend.
Luke is now a Fleet Operations Saleyards Logistics officer at Frasers Livestock Transport, after starting with Frasers in 2014 in the welding/maintenance section of the Warwick workshop. His personal character and integrity were immediately evident from the way in which he conducted himself, carrying out duties to direction as well as displaying early an ability to self-start.
Luke is a second-generation employee of Frasers (Luke’s Father Kevin also currently works at Frasers and has done for the past 22 years) and displays immense pride and professionalism in every task that he tackles and is committed to following the career highway of his profession.
He is described as a punctual, reliable self-starter who has matured and developed into an extremely capable young man he’s never afraid to take on feedback both positive and negative as he learns new mindsets and exposed to new things.
Luke graduated from the workshop to progress into driving, firstly, single trailer articulated vehicles, then once Luke obtained his MC licence he was then able to progress his driving skills and experience into operating B-Double configurations. Over the course of the next few years this was advanced to Type 1 and 2 Road Train combinations including but not limited to B-Triples , BAB Quads and ABB Quads etc throughout his tenure as a driver.
When well known Rural Queensland identity, Vaughan Johnson pulled into the IOR Diesel fuel stop at Barcaldine and came across a Frasers road train that Luke was refuelling, Vaughan said he was blown away by his dedication and professionalism, remarking that passion loyalty and enthusiasm beamed from Luke.
The experienceLuke gained on-the-road has given him valuable insight to overall operations and held him in good stead when he was moved to an Operations role for Frasers in 2021.
