Roadhouse Blues

yep, plan ahead then...just keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel....

you had to be expecting that :) got that stupid other song out of my head anyway....AAAAAAAAH!

God gets even with them every so often by raising the water level of the Ashburton.
No doubt their premiums are faily high.

That sounds like the turn right to pick up miners wallets, $20 a hamburger place ? I refused to give them my custom (had plenty of fuel), and toddled down the roo infested highway to the next place. We were stuffed, eyeballs hanging out. Arrived at 9.30pm, everything closed.
I rekkon the ripoff owner phoned em !!

I discovered in 1995 that the Barkley Roadhouse were in the spin doctoring & ripp off busniness. Signs up saying that it costs $500 a day to run their generators (at those costs solar would be more cost effective) so "naturally" our prices are a bit higher... Yeah like $5 for an icecream and the diesel was around $1.80 ltr. An overnight site with limited power 6am - 10pm was gonna cost us $32, we drove on to the threeways where sensible prices returned...

This sounds like the location for that now famous film, that box office hit, "Pirates of the Ashburton"!! Me ole mates at Nanutarra Roadhouse!

They do have a reputation don't they. I already knew about 'em when I pulled in there about 2 years ago. It was getting a bit late and we were contemplating an overnight stop and we did need a top up of diesel. But I played it wise and firstly asked in the office about a spot to camp the caravan for the night. He told me it was $28.00 a night for a powered site. I told him I didn't need power having solar panels etc. He said it was $28.00 a night whether you had a powered site or unpowered site! The sites were real close the fuel pumps, trucks coming and going all night, lit up like Sydney Harbour Bridge on New Years Eve etc, etc.

We had words, not very nice words, suggesting he could expand, not his business, but his aaasehole by sticking his van sites and his fuel into a body cavity.

We had just enough fuel to get to Onslow and we headed off there. Arrived just after dusk and stayed in Onlsow for 2 weeks.

This is the same business that a few years ago, had the overnight camping spots along the Ashburton River shut down as it was affecting his "caravan park". I use the term loosely for a patch of dirt 30 metres way from his fuel pumps.

Sure, I know his overheads are high but the prices he charges and his attitude is way over the top.

I'll pass thanks,,,,,,,,

,,,,and as I now have an offroad van and long range tanks, I'll pull in there, have a slash, flush the toilet and leave - just for the hell of it!

Bilbo

I can handle the ripoffs. It's the arrogant, cranky, grotty and incompetant staff that irk me. Some of these places could be gold mines if wasn't for the frontline staff. Then again, I wouldn't work there for less than 150K a year. Why would ya?

I once bought 1,600 litres of diesel at a roadhouse near Broome and they wouldn't let me off 45c for a drink - I kid you not! The brain sugeons at Yellowdine, the wizened old crone at Murchison.......hmmmmmm, I'll stop now.

When they are good they are good......and when they are bad they are horrid.

Welcome to the North West of Western Australia. We have always paid high prices, Nanutarra is no exception, was there last week, I never refuel there, use the toilet and leave. Unfortunately because there is a resources boom the attitude here is that everyone earns a large pay packet. Not true.

Cheers

Havent travelled these roads yet but will be wary when I do.
I cant stand arrogance and ripoff's, im in business but I never rip people off.
I wouldnt be able to handle the negative feedback, bad news carries fast.

Another place that comes to mind that the old man told me about, as he has travelled this road a lot, is the nullabour, the same person owns 3 roadhouses together there so gets most of them one way or another, have forgotten which ones but im sure the regulars are aware of them.

Cheers Pesty

Yep was travelling from Newman to Onslow via Karajini and as we have long range tanks just visited said r/house for a wee then onto Onslo where the fuel was 20c per ltr cheaper. Glad we got those big tanks. LOL.

We paid $50 ea for two dongas just out of Tom Price. Now I know why they call em dongas ! Rat traps, hole in wall, tv that picked up nothing, floor split in half. The ones next to me were occupied by a couple of guys who arrived about 1am and left before 5. I wonder if they paid ? I know why they didn't stop LOL

Good luck to them.
Wouldn't catch me living and working there. Especially in the offseason.

And I had the cheek to complain about the "Miserable Bastard" at Balladonia. Welcome to the world of "we need to make a living too" They don't give a rats if you go somewhere else as the roads are awash with full wallet toting tourists.

In 2000 we went to Nanutarra for a cool drink and they had a sign saying you were not allowed to put your jerry cans of fuel in.i.e. you had to buy there bloody rip off fuel.I told the plonker to get stuffed and parked over the road and put 3 jerries in.

Geez you guys like bitching.
As so many of you have said "he's a rip off merchant". I agree!
So why bother to stop there or is it just so that you can complain again.
Most vehicles can carry enough fuel to bypass him but if you are caught short fuel wise, just buy enough to get you to the cheaper places either side of Nanutarra.
Simple ain't it.

Disco