TOOTS - woman in a man's world by Donna Vawdrey.
Toots Holzheimer, a hard-working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to the 1990's, across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula.
Toots delivered freight to the northerly tip of Australia for over 30 years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand (without a forklift until the late 1980's) and then driving for days alone. Toots and her husband Ron constructed their own roads and built their own bridges, renewing them after each wet season.
She coaxed her "Old Girl", a M.A.N diesel truck, up and down the steep slopes of the Great Dividing Range.