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Lachie Brown uses more than 100,000 litres of diesel a year trucking supplies around the Top End. (ABC Rural: Alys Marshall)

With the sight of empty supermarket shelves all too familiar to Australians, there is no disputing the importance of the work truckies like Lachie Brown do.

Mr Brown transports goods to and from some of the country's largest farms in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.