HIGHWAY 31 REVISITED
to know some of the words we used about the Hume Highway back in the ‘60s. Sometimes it was because we’d hit an unexpected pothole and (usually) ridden out a humungous tankslapper; sometime it was because we were just about to run out of petrol in the middle of the night and that service station we’d been counting on had closed at 10pm; sometimes it was because tandem teams of half a dozen or more semis (fortunately no B Doubles in
