grodscorp@grods.comBrendan Nelson’s Big Truck Adventure
 | Posted by Scott on Monday 1 September 2008, 9:23 am Categories: Politics Tags: BrendanNelson, LiberalParty, speed, TruckDriving |
After literally months of planning, opposition leader (sic) Brendan Nelson has hit the road with an overnight truck driver as a shameless media stunt to paint him as “in touch” to get in touch with the real issues that face ordinary people.
Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says all decision-makers should spend 12 hours in a truck to understand the issues long-distance drivers face.
Dr Nelson travelled from Melbourne to Dubbo on Saturday with truck driver Rod Hannifey.
Dr Nelson says the 12-hour journey opened his eyes to the economic pressures facing drivers.
“The people who make the laws that affect the trucking industry don’t actually have to live them,” he said.
What complete and total shite. According to Dr Bren-doc’s logic, politicians can’t make informed decisions about anything without first experiencing it. I look forward to Nelson spending a night in a homeless shelter so he can formulate homeless policy, injecting heroin so he can formulate drugs policy, having a baby so he can formulate maternity policy, and turning tricks on the street so he can formulate sex trade policy.
Brendan Nelson’s Big Truck Adventure had one objective: this photo.
This is the “before snorting speed” shot. The “after snorting speed” shot has been suppressed by Liberal Party spin doctors.
Perhaps the most insightful piece of information to come out of the whole exercise is this.
Dr Nelson spent the night in the truck and says it is the best night’s sleep he has had in a week.
Those must’ve been some pretty good downers he took at the end of the trip to counteract the speed.
Monday 1 September 2008, 10:02 am #Ant Rogenous
Didn’t the opposition dismiss Rudd’s order that MPs spend time in homeless shelters immediately after the election as a cynical and pointless exercise? How is that different to joyriding in a truck for 12 hours?
Monday 1 September 2008, 10:26 am #michelle
Twelve hours in a truck is hardly experiencing the issues the drivers face. He needs to be up for 24 hours straight, putting lives at risk (including his own) for fear of losing his job if he doesn’t make the delivery on time.
Maybe then he can scratch the surface of understanding what the drivers deal with.
Monday 1 September 2008, 11:58 am #notallright
they’re not putting everyone’s lives at risk if they use speed. what i don’t recommend is using lsd to keep driving for 40 hours. i found out what hendrix was talking bout in purple haze that night!!
Monday 1 September 2008, 2:27 pm #philip travers
Look!I think you are really wrong about Nelson on this,and getting a good night’s sleep just proves it!I think politicians lives are pretty crazy,where they are called to make serious decisions outside of any type of experience.They go home with over inflated self image and a over inflated sense of what they are achieving.To be able to sit therefore in a truck is almost therapy,a therapy that brings a new alertness to reality.A sort of grounding rather than melatonin flightiness.Just to be accepted by a complete stranger,as the truck driver did for Nelson,is both a sense of real bonding and a release from phoniness,for awhile.The photo shot is a reward,but the big reward for Nelson is he done it,and was accepted by strangers,without a real big red carpet waiting for him.Next he should try something that includes muscular stimuli,as a challenge say on ocean fishing or science based, rather than military.So you cannot do this for every lobby group ,but what if the truckies want desperately to be more accepted by strangers!?I have suggested ,more than once,exactly what Nelson has done!?Apart from the length of this input,have I offended you!?I think truckers should be long distance,ambos,prison transfer staff,worker transport,pensioner transport, work organisers and contacts for individuals outside their localities,and all round full potential citizens as men and women of Australia!They cart almost everything,from organic fertilisers to huge transformers.Both the truck and humans driving them do a lot of good for Australia,and can do even,more.That doesn’t mean I am without criticism,or wanting rail and sea routes used more effectively.Therefore 9 out of ten for Nelson’s effort,which is a longitudinal number,as people think about it more deeply.
Monday 1 September 2008, 2:54 pm #John Surname
I think Philip Travers stole Nelson’s speed.
Monday 1 September 2008, 2:54 pm #Tobias Ziegler
Spacing. Paragraphs. Coherence.
Please.
Monday 1 September 2008, 3:27 pm #David
My brother-in-law used to use weed and whiskey to take the edge off when he needed a bit of sleep, but Brendan “did-you-know-I’m-a-doctor” Nelson could have prescribed himself some mandrax.
Tuesday 23 September 2008, 1:47 am #Hector
Phillip, you’re a well known troll, your posts aren’t funny, they are stupid irrelevant and boring, can you please just shut up.