A MASSIVE $410,000 was raised at Canberra’s Rise Above Cancer Convoy, which attracted about 480 trucks on April 8. The trucks assembled at Beard near Queanbeyan early on the Sunday morning and travelled through Canberra before lining up for a truck display at Exhibition Park (EPIC), Mitchell. The convoy attracted about 200 motorbikes and 480 trucks.
Chief executive officer of Rise Above – Capital Region Cancer Relief, Melissa Gardiner, was excited to see the lineup area at Beard full of trucks. “We never usually fill it,” she says.
Generous Elvin Group bid a record $67,128.49 to be the first truck in the convoy. The company’s general manager, Chris Rutledge, led the trucks in a Kenworth 10-wheel agitator.
Following Elvin’s Kenworth were trucks owned by the other top bidders: Icon Water;…