NTI has handed this year’s charity truck raffle prize to winner Robert Monks.  

Mr Monks picked up the new Toyota Tundra hybrid ute – nicknamed “Dusty” – and a New Age Caravans Manta-Ray MY25 from NTI’s Brisbane office.

The vehicles are worth a combined $285,000.

Mr Monks says the prizes will get “a great test drive” when he and his wife make the 2500km road trip back to their Hobart home.

“It was an incredible feeling to slide behind the wheel of this new ute for the first time, and to think, it all came about just by helping a great cause,” he said.  

This year’s raffle raised more than $468,000, pushing the total made through NTI’s annual raffle for motor neurone disease research to more than $3 million.

The fundraiser honours the transport and logistics insurance specialist’s former CEO Wayne Patterson, who died in 2018.    

“We’re grateful that so many people around the country join us each year in the hopes of winning an exciting prize, but more importantly to work towards better treatments and a cure for Australians diagnosed with MND,” NTI CEO Janelle Greene said.  

“Each day, two lives are lost to MND in Australia and two new cases are diagnosed. We hope our fundraiser will help researchers in their quest to crack the code of MND.”

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