This truck is stopped in the town of Elliot, Northern Australia. Elliot is located on the Stuart Highway, just north of Alice Springs. At the time I was there, the Stuart Highway,which runs from Adelaide in the south, thru Alice Springs, to Darwin in the north was for the most part a one lane road.

 It was quite an adventure when traveling by bus to meet one of these trucks , both vehicles would be traveling in excess of 60 MPH, no one would slow down, each vehicle would drop one wheel off the pavement , pass, wave at each other, and continue on their way.

Dust would fill our bus, sitting in the back , I couldn't even see the driver! (No wonder everybody drinks!) That is adventure enough, but when they meet, or pass one another, that is a real treat!

Never a dull moment in the outback of Australia!!

Gary is a Travel Writer and Photographer living in Sarasota, Florida