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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Electric or bust: truck industry demands urgent U-turn

Janus Electric offers kits to retrofit heavy diesel trucks with electric engines and batteries. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Veteran trucking boss Shirley Saywell is an optimist, an environmentalist, and usually a big fan of Australia's 'she'll be right' attitude. 

But the business owner, who operates eight semitrailers out of Euroa in north-east Victoria, has watched the daily cost of diesel rise by $400 to $500 for each truck over the past month, and it is making her question the nation's approach. 

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