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    VISIBILITY AND COMMON SENSE

    Jun 09, 2019 4 minutes

    PERTH TRUCKIE Lynette Newbey has been carting dangerous goods for most of her 20-year trucking career. These days she’s employed to drive a Volvo FH16 with two or three trailers, carting ammonium nitrate to mines in remote Western Australia.

    Ammonium nitrate is an ingredient used by the mines to make explosives. Lynette is comfortable and confident carting the oxidising agent, and explains that without other ingredients and a detonator, her cargo is dangerous but not explosive.

    “We’re not as volatile as petrol tankers.”

    Working a 12-day fortnight, Lynette travels regularly to Kalgoorlie and occasionally to Port Hedland, sleeping in the Volvo up to eight nights each fortnight.

    “I personally just love the freedom,”

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