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    Imperfect crossing

    Nov 10, 2019 5 minutes
    Rod Hannifey

    I OFFER THE FOLLOWING comments on the Toowoomba Second Range as constructive criticism from a truck driver’s point of view. I am not an engineer and some of my comments may well have reasons for what has been built being done that way. But again, with all the hype about this road, it will be there for well over the next 100 years and every truck that uses it will be affected.

    These points are for north, or Brisbane-bound travel:

    1. I rang and reported a major dip at the point on the old road where the new road verges away to take the bypass. Why was this not fixed?

    2. Last week at 65 tonne, I was back to just over 60 kilometres per hour up the first long (over 1 kilometre) incline towards the northbound airport

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