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Keeping danger at bay

G’DAY ALL. With the release of the rest area guidelines,

I spoke with Austroads, asking was there any guidelines for stopping bays.

I was told no and asked to formally submit a request with my reasons for same and did so that week. My reason for asking was a trip where there were quite a number of unmarked bays, each barely large enough for a truck and certainly not wide enough to get safely off the road. These seem to appear in groups and then there are none for possibly hundreds of kilometres.

Whilst even our green reflector bays have guidelines for safe line of site

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