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REMEMBERING REGIONAL ROADS

As any truck driver and operator knows, Australia’s rural and regional roads can be tough on trucks and drivers.

The photos shown on these pages are an all-too-common sight. No bitumen outside the fog-line; and maybe no intact fog-line at all.

Believe it or not, the trucks passing each other with little margin for error before dropping into the big hole are on a busy freight and tourism “highway”. It’s a stretch of the Murray Valley Highway between Cobram and Yarrawonga in northern Victoria.

Imagine the possible consequences for the driver and/or the gear if there’s heavy rain at

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