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    ROCKY’S LONG AND WINDING ROAD

    Jan 16, 2020 4 minutes

    Robert ‘Rocky’ Bof was almost destined to become a truck driver from an early age. He remembers sitting on his uncle Emilio Missio’s lap while his mother drove their Bedford single axle low side tipper with formwork to a job site, then return home and bundle the workers into the tray and drop them off at the job. Rocky’s parents Greg and Teresa emigrated from the Veneto region of northern Italy in the 1950s. When they were settled in their new country, the couple purchased a concreting business named Brittania Paving from a retiree in Coburg, Melbourne, which happened to be the same suburb as the Bofs. They continued to operate the business through

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