Drivers should be using this Sydney motorway about now. It’s on track to be three years late

Drivers should be using this Sydney motorway about now. It’s on track to be three years late

A giant sinkhole above the M6 has had major consequences for the cost and completion of the multibillion-dollar underground motorway that will link to WestConnex.

  • byMatt O'Sullivan

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Old Melbourne Market site transformed to take trucks off local roads

Old Melbourne Market site transformed to take trucks off local roads

Making the site available to shipping companies is expected to drive down truck movements across inner-west suburbs.

  • byKieran Rooney
Why Australia should never be overrun by Musk trucks
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Cars

Why Australia should never be overrun by Musk trucks

The allure of the Cybertruck’s design must not overshadow the real risks it poses.

  • byJacob Elmasry
Old airstrip and a few sheep paddocks could help shrink Australia’s road toll
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Road safety

Old airstrip and a few sheep paddocks could help shrink Australia’s road toll

Big trucks will barrel down a former runway at up to 100km/h under a $30 million plan to improve road safety.

  • byCatherine Naylor
‘Sydney’s best-kept secret’:Inside the hub that is flying beneath the radar

‘Sydney’s best-kept secret’:Inside the hub that is flying beneath the radar

Covering a site the size of Sydney’s CBD,a vast hub in the city’s south-west is the most important piece of infrastructure that few know about.

  • byMatt O'Sullivan andMatt Wade
Search for missing group hampered as six months’ rain in 24 hours cuts off WA from eastern states

Search for missing group hampered as six months’ rain in 24 hours cuts off WA from eastern states

Police have grave concerns for seven people missing in remote WA outback,as search efforts continue to be hampered by heavy rainfall which has cut the state off from the rest of the nation.

  • byJesinta Burton andJacob Shteyman
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Watch the heart-stopping moment a freight train barely misses truck

Watch the heart-stopping moment a freight train barely misses truck

Video footage has been released of the heart-stopping moment a truck is nearly collected by a freight train after it ignored a rail crossing.

  • byMikala Theocharous
Boozy decision lands truck stowaway in wrong state after 350km drive

Boozy decision lands truck stowaway in wrong state after 350km drive

Rather than call a cab,a 43-year-old who hitched a lift in the undercarriage of a B-double truck has endured a white-knuckle two-state ride.

  • byLaine Clark
Carolyn Lister died in a truck driver’s blind spot,five years after a call for change

Carolyn Lister died in a truck driver’s blind spot,five years after a call for change

Details of Lister’s final morning,and the national policy decisions that led to it,have been laid out in a report from a Brisbane coroner.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
‘No survivors’ after mining truck carrying explosives crashes in Pilbara

‘No survivors’ after mining truck carrying explosives crashes in Pilbara

At least three people are dead after a truck carrying a “significant quantity” of ammonium nitrate and a car collided on Tuesday afternoon.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt andHeather McNeill
‘Deaths will be on you’:Truckie turned to meth to meet demands

‘Deaths will be on you’:Truckie turned to meth to meet demands

Robert Ireland told politicians more deaths would be on their heads if they blocked legislation to give minimum standards to road transport workers.

  • byAngus Thompson