Guardian Australia · Petrol prices

Trucking in a fuel crisis: the Australian driver sacrificing his paycheck for diesel – video

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Frank is a truck owner-driver, meaning he owns his own truck, picks up contracts wherever he happens to be in Australia and pays for his own fuel. He can spend up to two months at a time on the road, and lives by the rule-of-thumb that one third of a job's pay should go to fuel, one third should go to truck maintena…

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