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Rachael Heufel

Rachael Heufel

Heavy vehicle breakdown technician and first female technician for Southern Truck Centre (Hino), winner of the 2026 TWAL x Cummins Young Gunnette Award.

Aug 18, 2026

LouiseHOST
5:20
How did this all start for you?
5:24
So while I was in probably my final years of high school, I, I wasn't actually sure what I wanted to do.
5:32
[clears throat] But during school, I decided to take, like, the VET pathway, which is the certificate pathway.
5:39
And I was already doing, I was doing a cert too in engineering there, so a lot of metal fabrication work and things like that.
5:47
And then one of the career guidance counselors came up to me and she said, "Look, there's a Cert II in heavy commercial diesel going on, or is about to happen.
5:59
Would you like to do it?" And I just said, "Yeah, sure.
6:03
I'll give it a crack." So then I did that, which was through TAFE Queensland, and I was doing that while I was at school as well and completing all my other certificates and- It got to the point where the school was like, "You gotta either choose one or the other when it comes to your certificates, 'cause you can't...

7 MINS LATER

LouiseHOST
12:53
Yeah.

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