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The first stage of the new M6 motorway is facing major delays.

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.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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The old Melbourne market site on Footscray Road will be leased to the port.

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.

  • Kieran Rooney
Tesla cybertruck.

Why Australia should never be overrun by Musk trucks

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

  • Jacob Elmasry
The NSW government will spend $30 million on a road safety testing centre.

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.

  • Catherine Naylor
The vast Moorebank intermodal terminal in Sydney’s southwest.

‘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.

  • Matt O'Sullivan and Matt Wade
Rawlinna Station has been flooded by the rains over the nullarbor. Picture: Facebook

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.

  • Jesinta Burton and Jacob Shteyman
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The video was released today to raise awareness of the common, but deadly, occurrence, reminding drivers to be vigilant when using regional rail crossings.

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.

  • Mikala Theocharous
Truck driver Pardeep Dahiya shows where a man stowed away under his truck from Nambucca Heads in NSW to the Gold Coast on November 20, 2023.

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.

  • Laine Clark
Carolyn Lister was killed when the bicycle she was riding was crushed by a truck.

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.

  • Felicity Caldwell
officers from Ku-Ring-Gai Police Area Command found a man suffering serious injuries. He later died.

‘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.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt and Heather McNeill

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