Tibooburra to Olive Downs and beyond

Middle road is another option via Olive downs and I doubt you would have any proablems with an off-road van.

Your van should be able to travel along all of those roads with ease. Just drive to the conditions

When you see a Road Train approaching slow right down and get as close as possible to the left of the road giving the train all the room it needs.


Enjoy your trip



Cheers

The Landy
Thanks for the reply. It lead us to your Corner Country Report which will be good reading

As said an offroad van can be towed on the Olive Downs road but be warned it is a single lane track not a formed road over much of the distance. Far more interesting than taking the main road with less dust & corrugations. From memory there a few shallow dry creeks & jump ups requiring basic clearance & departure.
Cheers Craig..............

Hi Bob & Lorraine,
We travelled that route in June '06 and found the road wide and not too rough or sandy at the time we were there. However, this can sometimes lull you into letting the speed creep up a bit and then the dreaded bulldust pit will completely cross the road and can be a foot or two deep. Then it's potentially suspension breaking stuff. A red sign on the ground at the side of the road generally indicates a bad bull dust hole out that way.

Best tip we can give you is to take it slow and easy and when on the rough roads we drop our tyre pressures down to make the rig ride softer. Your rig is somewhat similar to ours....we tow a 19 foot Bushtracker with a V8 Auto 100 series and when on the corrugated stuff, we run 25 psi in the front tyres of the cruiser, 30 psi in the rears and 25 in all four tyres on the Bushtracker.....touching a large piece of wood...we haven't shaken the van to the point where anything falls off. We also, unload the fridge door shelves and stick that stuff in the Engel in the cruiser while travelling.....save the weight destroying the fridge door hinges over the rougher stuff.

We'll be out that way soon too....leaving Armidale on Sunday morning and heading to the Gulf via Cameron Corner....if you spot us we have our screen name on the Bushtracker....always on UHF 40. Some pics of our rig on our website. www.nomadznow.com

Hope this helps and have a safe trip.
Cheers
Rick & Julie
www.nomadznow.com