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POOR ROADS * Australia
* NSW - Trucks are paying the penalty for poor roads
Sydney.NSW,Australia -Western Advocate, by BRIAN WOOD -June 11, 2014: -- Trucks on the stop-start Great Western Highway run to Sydney go through brakes at around 10 times the rate of trucks on other routes, Bathurst transport operator Graeme Burke has revealed... Mr Burke says it is a farcical situation and he questions whether the route should still be called a highway... After compiling some damning statistics about the highway and stewing about the inadequacies of this major transport corridor, Mr Burke has decided to speak out... He told the Western Advocate that he pays in excess of $300,000 a month in both state and federal taxes to run his trucking business and wants to know what he gets back in return... Mr Burke said the Great Western Highway forces his mechanics to reline the brakes on his trucks on the Bathurst to Sydney run every 70,000 to 100,000km... Mr Toole [Member for Bathurst Paul Toole] said the NSW Government was in the process of spending $48 million on putting in seven new overtaking lanes on the Bells Line of Road...
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