Any Grey Nomads travelling on the Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Yamba (North of Rocky) should be aware to expect long long delays.
I drove up to Yamba and back yesterday, and the journey took an extra 1 hour of travel between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale. The road works are long, many and the surface is really bad through the road works. We started back late in the evening and ran into very heavy rain north and south of Calliope where the dirt road surface was breaking up, with deep pools of water which will be worse today with all the heavies travelling on the road during the night.
Thanks for posting the warning Tim. Although I'm not up there at the moment there a lot who will get caught in the roadworks. If only they had known they could have avoided it all.
The rain will be hampering progress and wrecking work already done which hasn't yet been sealed. I could be heading to Emerald with a job in the next few days so we'll have to watch road conditions very carefully. Thanks for the warning. Safe travels to everyone on the road over the silly season.
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I know you are in the Transport Industry and see more of these conditions than we will ever do, but last night was a scary drive and i have been driving for 50 year. I feel sorry for the truckies, with the constant delays on this section of the Bruce Highway, and the condition of the road. We overheard a radio conversation between two truckies where one was detailing a clutch rebuild on his truck, caused he belived, by the constant stopping and starting with all the road works, on this section which is part of his usual run.
The road surface during and after the heavy rain last night was dangerous for all of us.
By the time they rebuild the road base, the open surface will be mutilated before it gets sealed. It will be too wet to seal. They've had a bad year as far as road conditions and repairs go with floods and cyclones, but they'll have to catch up soon. Why they try to do the northern roads in the wet season instead of timing it to be done in the dry has got me beat, but that's government departments for you. These days the work is contracted out, or "outsourced", and the contractors do it when it suits their timetable, not the climate in the region. It could be a long time before those roads are workable again.
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