Hi mate. You put this video together very nicely and great views too. Well done

For cleaning Windscreens while out on the road, I used to carry a spray bottle of CT18. Sure dissolves the bug guts.

I'm interested in the Hume hwy, do you have an exact location, id like to take a look

Brad, gotta hand it to you. That was a great intro. Keep up the great work.

Interesting historical recap.

Thanks Brad, really interesting ! As a Wagga resident I have travelled the Hume for 35 years and have always been fascinated by its history and especially the old roads. Remember vividly many years ago regularly coming over the Cullerin late at night, aways hairy !

Hey Brad. I would love your channel to be mandatory viewing for all route, intra & interstate drivers. There’s a few out there who could learn from your professionalism, relaxed attitude & patience on the road in charge of a big handful of heavy haulage responsibilities. Your insights into historical aspects of your profession are valuable and well presented. As someone who shares the road often with blokes like you, I’d rather pass and or be passed by you & more than happy to share the journey. On ya bloke, keep on keeping on.

I wont forget that storm, it was horrifying at my place especially when i was driving in it up the mountain being that close to it. Fantastic video as usual Brad.

I like these types of videos. One day in the future I'm going to walk the old range road on the Mulligan Highway, just south of Lakeland Downs. I walked it in 1982, just as they were starting the earthmoving for the new range road. The contrast between the two is incredible.

I grew up going through there many times with my parents in the 5o,s..

We had storms on the 15th of January in Wagga recorded 106kmh winds with many trees down and many road signs down and I had a small tree branch landing on my car in Wagga CBD it put a small dent on the roof luckily enough that Temora had a storm with no wind just small hail. My car is a 2006 VZ commodore adventra (AWD commodore) now I gott get that fixed😂what is the point of the duplication of the Barton highway it goes in to 1 lane at the border then it goes in to 2 lanes after the border. Amazing lightning ⚡️ show

Nice mate. Your channel just oozes authenticity as always.

wow that was some great footage of the lighting ,you do a good video ,the camera shots are just great make you feel like you are there in the cab.I am interested in the Hume Highway well the old 1 anyway a lot of history and little places we used to call in at for a feed.safe travels ,David.

Love the footage of the lightning. I was driving a KW 104A between Toowoomba and Goondiwindi one night through an electrical storm. It was amazing.

Hey mate finally up to date now & have subscribed to the channel. Nice storm, would you've recorded that last Thursday morning cause nice light show but parts of Sydney got hammered. Anyway bring on next video. Cheers.👍👍👍👍👍

Yeah mate the Tarcutta stuff was full of memories. I forgot some of the old trucks existed, the old 90 and the Commer etc. The road wasn't so good back then either. I think the trailers were 36-38 foot. Ahh when I was young. I looked on Google maps and I couldn't find Silvies either, but I spose that's to be expected. Thanks for the video's mate.. cheers.

I live in Tarcutta and I've seen the photos of the bog and alot of trucks were parked up near our club and rural supplies at the time of the bog as they couldn't get passed the pub as we have photos of it all at our post office

Mate I’m a bricklayer i would happily give my labour for free to build a monument to honour the men and women who worked in road transport in an era when our roads were third world goat tracks

Lovely Ep and spots and how quick are them forklift operators, How good are them sliding gates,

Nice one mate. Much appreciated..

I have to wonder how many blokes could tarp a load these days. A great bit of history mate and thank you. Many years back coming home from Melb', I tried to follow the old Hume north bound, I think I got as far as Bunker Hill or there abouts. I do love history.

Great presentation mate. I was born in Benalla. The Hume Highway came straight through town. Watching the cavalcade of trucks never ceased to fascinate me. I worked for TNT for 20 years, and trucks and transport history are interesting topics. 😀👍

Wow , seeing the old photos of the internationals reminds me of dads 56 inter, used to go on day trips , no seat belts in those days too , thanks mate

Great video. Thanks! Loved the old photos. We had asphalt on the school assembly place and we had a problem of our feet getting hot and our shoes sticking to the surface. Ouch!

Awesome history lesson. We all love hearing about how life was like years ago.

Thanks for all the info i am from Sth Auas and yes it was not just the Bog that year we had to try and get to sydney via Balranald as well and then they were building the road uo and directed all trucks through the Slush where they were removing the Dirt for that part of the Old Hay Plain. Any where that the Muaar ran it broke it Banks as well and wiyh the never ending deluge what a mess. Cab ovef Foden buried that deep the driver just stepped into it to sleep. At 87 know how fond memeories or very strong mateman ship when being forced to work togther. I was also held up in the Razor Back issue but that wasn all about the ver growing grab of State governments claiming excesive Road Tax then you payed so much a Mile. Once this was over it was then uploaded into the Price of fuel so ever road user paid and not just a selct few. At that very time Thoimas Nation Transport were very heavily involved to have this done . Reg ansett as weel became involved also. Those were also the days of Marulan checking every thing you had even toilet paper in the cab i was asked for once. Aussie Bob. 87.

Tarcutta: The Halfway Mark Between Sydney And Melbourne, From Memory! My Uncle Took Me Down The Hume 60 Years Ago; We Stopped At Yass And Gundagai, Had A Good Look Around And Went Back To Elizabeth Bay In Sydney. I Drove It Myself 15 Years Ago; No Comparison!! Last Few Times I Found The Mixed Grill At Truckstop 31 At Marulan One Of The Best Feeds I Ever Had!! Is It Still As Good As It Was 15 Years Ago? I Was Lucky Enough In 2021 To Grab The Very Last Of The Landcruiser 200 Series Sahara's, The Last To Have The Twin Turbo V8 Diesel! I Intend To Do A Lot Of Fanging Up And Down The Hume Shortly; Looking Forward To Meeting Old Jockeys Along The Way!! And Looking Forward To Your "Reprises!!" G'day From Adrian, Of Blackheath!!

Great to see, keeping our history alive .

Tarcutta Ampol is the place to fill up on LPG in either direction, Melbourne-Sydney or Sydney-Melbourne, if you're there after 6am. Petrolspy says there's LPG in Holbrook, but that's no longer the case.

The cruel thing is that the Hume Highway. The most important road in Australia was only made a dual highway fairly recently. The Holbrook bypass I think was the holdout. Very political bypass around Euroa another. The Hume was always known as the goat track. It hasn't changed that much - even with the dual sections there's still lots of sub standard areas. A cousin was killed on Pretty Sally back in the late 1960's in a high powered Falcon. Narrow Single highway The Pacific Highway between Sydney and Brisbane was only completed in the last few years and still contains some very sub par dual sections.

I remember those days, those trucks and getting stuck behind them on hills. The good old days. Thanks for the memories.

So when did they finally seal the whole highway with asphalt ?

Thanks Brad good work. The trucking industry in this country is unsurpassed anywhere in the world and the little bits of its history as you just described are in my opinion are quite valuable. I found it very interesting. Thanks for the yarn. Stay safe.

Lived at Borambola, played footy for the magpies out the back of the horse and jockey at Tarcutta, great days never really thought of the old track, thanks for the video

Thanks for the video. A while back I found a video called "Soil Stabilization with Cement 1959" kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5WUqpWrjL2FnLMsi=tWIuCeNfhUq-5q2k it shows roadworks "24 mile north of Holbrook" Thought you might be interested. Ian.

Every time I used to go through Tarcutta back in the early 80's the local cop would be there with his hairdryer checking passing traffic speeds.

I always wondered about that section, it followed creeks and was very low lying and flat. 1956 was wet across eastern Australia. D7 also had a cable blade and was about that size. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for sharing that. The big things in history are always remembered, its the little things like this that are usually forgotten. Thousands of people every day would drive straight passed there at 110 km/h without even knowing that over 70 years ago they would have been bogged. Thanks again

interesting. 50 years ago i found a "sydney rd" sign that was still in place on the side of mickelham road north of melbourne. it was just beyond where the black stuff stopped and most traffic turned right to get to the hume highway. it wont be there now. the nsw dept of main roads used to film some of what they used to do and lots of it, if not all of it is on youtube. films from the 20's using horses and films from later. i was impressed with innovative ways to load the tippers before loaders were invented. they built a ramp and dozers pushed the load up the ramp over the edge into the back of the truck.

The Hume was all sealed before WW2 but this section of road was torn up for roadworks at the time.