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Grab for Brisbane bucks

IT’S RELATIVELY EASY to figure if something is successful or not. If not, it consumes funds then just wilts and drifts into oblivion. Much like any truck show ever held in an Australian city other than Brisbane.

If successful, however, it’s a better bet than Winx that envy and avarice will conspire with wanton self-interest to cause lascivious fingers to dip into the fiscal froth. Much like the Truck Industry Council’s (TIC) apparent willingness to shatter Brisbane’s stature as a world-class showcase of all that’s new and exciting in Australian road transport.

In what amounts to little more than an assault on the enduring success of the Brisbane Truck Show, the

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