Highway Horror
Submitted: Monday, Jun 14, 2021 at 23:13
ThreadID:
141971
Views:
8196
Replies:
4
FollowUps:
10
This Thread has been Archived
Joe Fury
G'day
Explorers
I trust you won't mind me giving you a 'heads up' on what's going on in the inland
Pilbara, seeing there are already so many caravanners and other travellers making their way into the region, but more so if you are contemplating a road journey into the
Karijini National Park or possibly further into the
Kimberley region.
The road trip north of
Newman has only recently been made a great deal more dangerous, I don't say this lightly, simply because there are now even more Quad trailered road trains on the Great Northern Highway making their way to
Port Hedland carrying Iron Ore from a newly developed
mine about 80 kilometres north of
Newman and plying the 360 or so Kilometres to Hedland.
The
Auski roadhouse to
Port Hedland section of the highway has for some years now seen these Quad trailer road ore trains running almost nose to tail from various mines in the eastern end of the Hamersley Ranges, putting it simply there are more of these buggers on the road and they operate 24/7.
So if you are thinking of Karijini as a destination try and time your journey as a day light only trip, it will be infinitely safer.
Safe travels : Joe
Heavy haulage on the GN Highway ~ inland Pilbara