<span class="highlight">Nullarbor</span> <span class="highlight">diesel</span> prices

Thanks OldMal,

Im heading that way over Christmas.
Good to know!

Cheers

After Norseman, we took the road direct to Hyden which involves approx 250 kms of dirt road but it's in very good condition as a couple of new mines have opened up in this area and the shire has had to upgrade the road. We cruised at 90 - 100 km most of the way in our Nissan Patrol with a slide on Sunray camper. It saves approx 90 km if heading to Perth and a lot nicer drive with vey little traffic compare to the normal Great Eastern Hwy route. Lots of wildflowers out at present but they will be gone by end of Oct I reckon

Yep, The Caltex at Penong is our favourite - the big trucks use it, which is a good sign - huge tanks and big turnover. Its usually the same price as Ceduna.

Unfortunately that is the effect of the "Border Village Cartel".

All the $1.7x odd prices are set by the one company which has the management contracts on all of those stations (separately owned locations, but all run by one company). The company is the Border Village Company and you can see their management trawling up and down the highway in matching pootrols.

They are vultures preying on the unsuspecting, wreaking their trail of extortion and unscrupulous racketeering on your regular travellers minding their own business.

They similarly extort for their "accommodation" for what it is worth, and provide no additional services and barely any products - not even a spare fuse or light globe in many of them.

Interestingly Mundrabilla and Eucla (and Norseman, Nundroo and Penong) are independently owned.

May I strongly invite you all to join my boycott of the Border Village and instead support good natured, friendly business people who understand service and are reasonable about their profit expectations like Bruce Mulroy at Mundrabilla.

Plan on staying at Eucla too - not only is their accommodation better, in my view, they are nice people to boot.

Cheers
Andrew finding a set of glasses so that he can look down his nose at the Border Village Caper every time he bumps into them.

That's why I have a range of 2600klm plus or 1900/2000 Ks with the Caravan on

You have to stop at the Penong hotel. Best rump steaks with mushy sauce for under $14(and its home kill). Thats one of the best parts of the trip I reckon. And the Penong caravan park is good, nice and clean. They also permit dogs.
Matt

Gees those prices are cheap, the places in northern/western WA are all $1.60 to $1.80 that I have been recently.