International Rucker wanted - New Zealand to Australia

**Vann** · 10th October 2015, 10:12 PM

Hi all. I'm looking for a rucker to take some Wadkin parts to Camoz in New South Wales, Australia.

I'm in Wellington, New Zealand. Camoz is in Morisset NSW (north of Sydney), Australia.

There are a number of items totalling 6.5kg (~15lb). But help with even a few parts would save Camoz a LOT of postage cost. The largest single item weighs in at 3.5kg (~8lb). Camo is in no hurry, so if you're travelling internationally over the next 6 months or so, and have spare baggage allowance, help would be appreciated.

Just a thought on international ruckering - the rucker needs to be able to declare that he/she has packed the items themselves, so packages should not be sealed until they've reached the country they're intended for. I've heard too many stories of people being suckered into carrying drugs etc. We want to be ruckers, not mules.

Cheers, Vann.

**clear out** · 11th October 2015, 08:58 AM

Hi Vann,
You're on the Oz forum mate not the Canadian one so you'd better tell the troops what a Rucker is!
In all seriousness you may have some luck.
A mate of mine and his bro have just returned from a week over there.
He had a few Viva and Triumph 7 parts in his baggage for sure.
As he's in the Navy I wonder if like in Canada serving members get a massive luggage allowance?
H.

**Vann** · 11th October 2015, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by clear out

Hi Vann,
You're on the Oz forum mate not the Canadian one so you'd better tell the troops what a Rucker is!

I first struck the term "Rucker" on one of the American forums, and soon worked out that to "rucker" is to have a tool moved from A to B for another toolie, by someone who happens to be going that way anyway. Imagine you live in Brisbane and want to buy a tool in Melbourne, but it's "pick-up only" or fragile (and you don't want to risk a commercial carrier), or it just too damned expensive to ship.

So you put out a request on the forum for a rucker. Someone may live near the seller, he picks it up. Someone else is travelling home to Sydney from Melbourne, he picks it up off the first guy and ruckers it Sydney, where it might sit a week until a third forumite picks it up and takes it to Brisbane.

It sounds complicated, but I've read of some amazing combinations coming together in just a matter of days.

And the term itself? I wondered if it was something to do with rucksack - as in to carry something a long distance. Or maybe an abreviation of trucker (with the "T" omitted). But it turns out it's named after Keith Rucker...

Originally Posted by schor on the Canadian forum

It is attributed to Keith Rucker of vintagemachinery.org. He needed a machine moved across country and the term was coined.

Cheers, Vann.

**camoz** · 12th October 2015, 12:48 PM

Vann,

Your a classic

. I think the standard approach is that the guy wanting the goods is supposed to request the Rucker

.

Your too kind

, but if they are anything like me, on returning from an overseas trip, I have to pay excess luggage (never have any extra space). I'm happy to pay the postage Vann, but I guess if it works in with someone's trip then perhaps I can pay them instead of the postman.

Cheers,

Camo

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