Your WiTA Team

Nat Kascak currently runs Adelaide to the Alice and Darwin transporting dangerous goods. Across a 16-year career, Nat’s amassed an impressive body of work including fuel tanker and quad work across WA’s remote Pilbara region. Out on the road, she completed a Paramedic Science Degree before briefly stepping away from trucking to work in the field. The lure of the road too much, Nat returned to trucking and has more than earned her stripes doing both intra and interstate local and long-distance remote area work transporting everything from parcels to fuel to iron ore.

Darryl Bothe is a thirty-year veteran IT specialist with a strong and varied background in – and focus on business value creation through the alignment of technology and business strategies. With a broad skills base, Darryl is also a skilled negotiator with tertiary qualifications in business management. Darryl runs his own PC Technician business and is a successful business coach and IT Project Manager. Darryl takes care of WiTA’s IT operational requirements.

Roslyn Anderson is the 2020 ATA National Trucking Industry Woman of the Year and the 2018 NSW Road Freight Industry Transport Woman of the Year. Ros has extensive expertise and experience across a number of sectors within the road transport sector, has an MBA and is a Certified Practicing Accountant and Chartered Accountant. A Justice of the Peace, Ros is Treasurer of the Sydney Chapter of Convoy for Kids, has served as a Director on the Board of TWAL and currently oversees WiTA’s financial administration, review and reporting.

Barry Fletcher joined the WiTA Board in June 2021 with an impressive portfolio of industry knowledge – including a thirty-one-year stint managing his own trucking company. Across an impressive working life, Barry has held numerous long-term Board positions with NATROAD, SARTA, the SA Wine Grape Growers Assoc and the SA Freight Council. In his “spare” time, Barry volunteered for twenty years with the SES and had a ten-year tenure as a Councillor on South Australia’s Berri-Barmera Council.

Fiona Armstrong is the inspiration behind WiTA’s ground-breaking “Foot in the Door” female heavy vehicle driver training and recruitment initiative – set to commence Q2, 2023. The pilot will support fifty licensed, inexperienced women into sustainable employment nationwide, before expanding to encompass all women interested in pursuing trucking careers. Fiona’s broad skills base encompasses mechanics, finance, IT systems development and business management.

In March 2022, veteran MC driver and “Transport for Christ Australia” Chaplain Leanne Kelly accepted the WiTA Board’s invitation to fill the role of organisational Chaplain. For the past 12 months, Leanne has supported those in crisis, listening to their stories, grieving their losses, and helping them heal. In January 2023, Leanne – who currently drives for QLD Health – was appointed as Director to the WiTA Board. Leanne is currently studying a Cert IV in TAE supporting her passion to train and educate new truck drivers to be safety focussed, professional operators.

Danyelle “Giddy Up” Haigh was appointed to the WiTA Board in January 2023.
Recognised for her considerable achievements, Danyelle’s featured in multiple podcasts, books, magazines, newspapers and radio interviews. She also starred in popular TV series “Outback Truckers” for 6 seasons; Adventure All Stars for two episodes and now has her own TV show – “Outback Farm” airing later this year. Danyelle regularly drives her pink Mack road-train in convoy with hubby Anthony across outback Australia with a governess and their two little ones in tow, drilling bores – bringing lifesaving water to remote cattle stations. Danyelle follows the mantra – “We only have one life and it’s for living, loving and taking risks – all with no regrets!

In 2023 WiTA proudly welcomed Kattie Risk as Company Director. An Indigenous MC driver based in Darwin, Kattie has over 14years experience as a heavy vehicle driver and is currently an outback cattle quad road train driver. Kattie’s work see’s here travelling a vast expanse of territory throughout the Australian outback. Prior to joining WiTA, Kattie worked in the mining, earthworks and general freight sector in a fifo capacity transporting everything from oversize hauls, livestock, fuel and machinery to remote and outback locations. In addition to her Directorship with WiTA, Kattie sits on the board for Durran Durra and her local fire brigade, the latter being a passion derived from being a volunteer firefighter within her local community the past seven years.

Appointed Women in Trucking Australia CEO in 2019, MC driver Lyndal Denny works with a talented Board of professionals whose strategic focus remains on creating employment and training opportunities for women seeking to establish trucking careers. Across a ten-year trucking career, Lyndal’s driven road trains throughout WA, SA, NSW, Victoria, and across the top-end. The recipient of a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow for her work in road safety, Lyndal is also an Ambassador for OzHelp’s “Health in Gear” initiative, a BigRigs Columnist and an Executive Judge for the SA Community Achievement Awards. Lyndal does regional road train work out of Adelaide.