The door of the dust-crusted semi-trailer swings open and Kym Mozol emerges, grinning and weary.
The truckie clambers down, gratefully accepts a mug of instant coffee and pulls up a plastic chair to enjoy a rare moment of peace in the soft dawn light of Australia's largest desert.
For the past 14 hours he has been knocked, bumped, bounced and shaken, steering the vehicle through the night along the "rough as guts" track from Ceduna, on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, to Tjuntjuntjara, 650 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie on the West Australian side of the Great Victoria Desert.
