Rebecca Schnell and Bigfoot truck. Photo: Supplied
Rebecca Schnell's regular job is as an emergency room nurse in St Louis, Missouri.
But she has a side gig that's even more adrenaline-filled: strapping into a five-tonne Monster Truck and taking it for a spin and a car crush or two.
Rebecca drives for Bigfoot - the team behind the original Monster Truck from the mid-70s - as does her husband Darron.
She's in New Zealand as part of the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow-N-Fire, which kicked off in Dunedin this weekend before moving to Wellington and then Auckland.
Rebecca's tour here is all the more remarkable, because just four months ago she was having brain surgery.
She also lost her friend and mentor, Monster Truck legend Dan Runte, in a motorbike crash just a week before she headed to New Zealand. She speaks to Kathryn about how she got into driving big trucks.
