To Those Who Wait

February 12th, 2012

Day one arrived, four days late, but it arrived and not a moment too soon. The final few hours, when I knew I was about to leave were the worst and my mind was little able to cope with the ...

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A Single Step

February 10th, 2012

They say that every journey begins with a single step and nothing could be more true of my upcoming transcontinental trip. I was all booked in for a leisurely five hour flight, out of Sydney, to Perth. But as it turned ...

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Road Lore

January 17th, 2012

Many drivers will recall the 'good old days' when drivers helped each other or as a minimum hailed a stranded driver on the two-way to ensure all was in hand. It isn't such a relic of days gone by though ...

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The times they are a changing

January 14th, 2012

Twenty eleven didn’t conclude quite the way I planned it… A change to my domestic arrangements saw me tooling around on Christmas Eve in a three tonne Pantech loaded with my chattels as I hurriedly established myself in my new ...

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Ignorance Is Bliss

January 9th, 2012

I was just listening to ABC 702's Breakfast show with Wendy Harmer and Angela Catterns a show that is usually good value and a bit of a laugh, almost a 'Blondes Eye View' of current happenings (no offence girls). But ...

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Wrapping Up

December 30th, 2011

Well 2011 is nearly at an end with only one run left before the donk goes silent for the last time this year. Fear not though 2012 will see more of DoaTD. To the vast majority of car the drivers I ...

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Considered Response

December 22nd, 2011

Woo hoo! The Honourable Anthony Albanese has finally responded, who said that Government doesn't respond to the people, it's just the wheels turn very slowly. I am a little disappointed though as the response does come across as regurgitated waffle but ...

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Christmas Brake

December 20th, 2011

Well it’s just around the corner, Christmas that is, and it’ll soon be just another splatter on the windscreen. It would be nice to think that everyone will make it out the other side, but they wont. If you’re heading ...

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Turn It Up

December 13th, 2011

If you thought that putting together a multi-combination, like a B-Double was a simple case of backing the A trailer under the B, then think again. The pictures below illustrate what can happen when trailers are mismatched. In this ...

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The Long And The Short Of It

December 12th, 2011

I have vague memories of sitting in the back seat of the family car as we spent our holidays driving around the UK. My older sister would poke, pinch and torment me, her speciality being the ‘Chinese Burn’ were she ...

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