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Lucinda Garbutt-Young

End of the road as diesel drives truckies to the brink

Truckies are calling for renewed fuel excise relief, to help take a load off their businesses. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

For almost 40 years, Paul Kahlert has watched new generations of truck drivers learn from their parents about how to move produce and crucial supplies across the country.

They have been lifelines for small towns, which often rely on road trains for their food, clothes and school supplies.

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