The woman, the myth, the legend!
As Slim Dusty wrote about her in one of his hit songs; the lady was a truckie. From 1960-1990, Thora ‘Toots’ Holzheimer serviced the Cape York town of Weipa via the Peninsula Development Road. The roughest, basically non-existent, track in Australia. She was a woman in a man’s world who didn’t bother teaching the boys how to do their job, she just did it better.
Toots had a dry sense of humour and wasn’t afraid to call a spade a spade.. Yet, she was universally famous for having an incredibly big heart and always putting others before herself.
A heroine like the remarkable Toots has never been seen on screen...yet.