PROHIBITION ON REGIONAL TRAVEL DIRECTIONS - WA
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To whom it may concern...and anyone else who is interested....
PROHIBITION ON REGIONAL TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
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Greg
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Reply By: Mick O - Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 15:48
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 15:48
Welcome back. Pretty much sown it up WA as they have in NT which is in all probability, a good thing. I hope they'll be able to police community members returning from high risk areas/venues (hospitals etc) or keep them isolated. It will only take one to get thru to decimate a community.
Hopefully next year is going to be an awesome year for outback travel. I'll be keen to see the first reports of 2021 coming back in off tracks as to the effect on corrugations. Perhaps they'll have subsided lol.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 16:10
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 16:10
Hello
Hopefully the various communities have some control measures in place to control/monitor movement?
I will be able to snoop around quietly given the nature of my work (mostly solo in the bush and then back to
home in office) though not many "outback" jobs on the books at the moment If I do get out there will try not to make too many corrugations :)
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Follow Up By: Mick O - Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 16:24
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 16:24
Just log into a EO tracker or similar so I can follow you from my desk and weep quietly to myself.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 16:30
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 16:30
Generally won't be anywhere too exotic (compared to some of your previous destinations) just SW WA - though it will be the great outdoors. Have installed Tracker but haven't turned it on.. yet...still house bound for 4 more days.
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Follow Up By: Member - Bigfish - Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 17:38
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2020 at 17:38
I think next years holiday season will be one to remember for all the wrong reasons! Every man and his dog will be out and about in full force due to this years
Easter holidays being ruined. Looks like we have 6 months of this social isolation so many will be planning next years holidays. From news accounts doesnt look like anything will be open to tourists till at least the end of the year......bugger!!!
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Follow Up By: Life Member - Duncan W (WA) - Thursday, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:36
Thursday, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:36
I've had to cancel 2 holidays, one in the GVD & one to
Broome and a conference in
Sydney but I've looked on the
bright side of things. Saved a stack of money by not going away, can't break anything in the Troopy, no punctures, saved a stack on fuel, and maybe I'll get to clean out the shed. And if I'm really lucky my wife won't have throttled me by the time we come out of forced hibernation.
And as Bigfish says once this lot is over I think the tourist areas will be swamped with travelers
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Follow Up By: Candace S. - Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 05:51
Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 05:51
"...saved a stack on fuel..."
But, aren't fuel prices dropping? :) Not that it matters, if you can't really go anywhere!
Personally, I'm not planning any traveling until 2022. Based on the 18 months time frame to produce a vaccine for this bug. (Some say it might be available sooner than that. Hopefully!)
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Follow Up By: Member - Bigfish - Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 07:25
Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 07:25
Canadace..it takes quite a while for fuel prices to drop in regional and outback areas. Still paying $1.44 in
Cairns.
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Follow Up By: Ron N - Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 18:11
Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 18:11
Bigfish, you and many others, are being reamed with no Vaseline, as regards fuel prices.
Below are the Terminal
Gate Prices for ULP and diesel over the last 5 days.
This is the price servos buy their fuel at (or you too, if you want to order in bulk).
You can see the current profits on fuel retailing are in the order of 35c/L to 55 c/L - which is price shafting on a scale with armed robbery.
The long-term average profit level on fuel retailing by servos is 2c to 3c a litre.
Terminal Gate Pricing - ULP and diesel
Cheers, Ron.
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Follow Up By: Member - Bigfish - Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 18:24
Saturday, Apr 04, 2020 at 18:24
FNQ has been screaming foul for decades...all on deaf ears..
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Follow Up By: Candace S. - Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 16:15
Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 16:15
I've always wondered how much profit was being made on the 3.20 per liter diesel I bought at
Warburton Roadhouse last year! Note they also added on a bit for using a credit card.
Granted, they're fairly far out there. But I only paid $0.10 more per liter at Ilkurkla Roadhouse.
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Follow Up By: Ron N - Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 18:14
Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 18:14
I got ULP from BP
Redcliffe (W.A.) today, for 87.9c/L.
60 litres = $52.74. It's like living in Saudia Arabia.
The worst part is not being able to burn up a tankful a day!!
Cheers, Ron.
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Follow Up By: Gordon B5 - Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 20:36
Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 20:36
you have to realise that they have no turnover in those outback communities I was turning over more than 4 mill litres/year they would be lucky to sell 50,000 litres/ year what do they have to charge to make what I was ? They need to at least cover their cost if they can. maybe they sold a bit more than I said but still its not like their on a major highway or have a supportive rural community eg. farmers
If servos didn't have shops you wouldn't have very many anywhere you can't survive on fuel alone & thats from experience
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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Tuesday, Apr 07, 2020 at 20:20
Tuesday, Apr 07, 2020 at 20:20
Ron N,
I lived & worked in Saudi Arabia from 1998 to 2002. At that time, Petrol sold for approx 22 cpl, and it had only just gone up from about 12 cpl. no fuel tax in Saudi, so price is very low.
Macca.
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Follow Up By: Ron N - Tuesday, Apr 07, 2020 at 20:41
Tuesday, Apr 07, 2020 at 20:41
Hey, Macca - I can recall buying LPG in
Adelaide in May 1998, and it was 16c a litre - and there was no tax on it here then, either!
It really mattered to me, back then - I had a Bedford 4 tonne truck with a V8 Holden in it, and a 200 litre gas tank!
I think we were paying about 30c a litre in
Perth at that time, they were really shafting us on LPG.
Cheers, Ron.
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Follow Up By: Member - rocco2010 - Tuesday, Apr 07, 2020 at 20:42
Tuesday, Apr 07, 2020 at 20:42
If you are given to wondering about the price of essentials (diesel and beer) in remote
places it may be best not to go.
I am usually just grateful that I can get them.
I wonder more how it is that two BP servos barely a mile apart in a suburb adjacent to
my home can have a 10c a litre differential on their diesel price.
Travel safe people
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Reply By: Member - rocco2010 - Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 18:18
Sunday, Apr 05, 2020 at 18:18
Restrictions in WA have been cranked up a notch.
Travel between the regions is already restricted but there also are limits within the regions, notably in the
Kimberley from a few days ago.
Now people in Kalgoorlie have been told there's no heading to the coast at
Esperance for
Easter, with a roadblock already at
Norseman.
Norseman police on twitter
Stay safe people
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