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Truck drivers snubbed

A trip to Darwin for a change with a triple road train kept me busy for a week or so. On the way up I stopped at roadhouses and truck bays, including some new green reflector bays. Truck Central, the big new road train site at Wishart, has plenty of room for parking up to triples and a loading ramp (which I used to double up trailers).

While there, I chatted with a driver who told me that while BP had built the truck stop, it was the Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure which supplied the funds and land

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