When Paul-Henri Lecocq first met his boss Henry Moxham, they needed a translation app to communicate.
The Frenchman arrived in Australia in July 2025 with little English.
When he moved to Coonamble to work as a truck driver in September, he only planned to stay for the required 88-days to satisfy conditions of his working holiday visa.
More than six months later, he's still in the district and proving the language barrier doesn't have to get in the way of mateship.
"It was very hard. Sometimes when . . .
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