2007 Toyota Nationals

[RobST162]

hey guys, if someone's headed out from Brisvegas way i'd love to pay you to bring a pair of seats down with you...

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how much we talkin?

[NVD-086]

Ok, so i got bored on my day off and decided to put the info i gatherd to good use on my trip to orange from Gympie.. all in the 1 day. bare with me this is a pic intensive post. first, is a suggested root.

ok, second, this is past the border, all the towns u could stop at, also the flags are way points i set on the GPS every hour.. so yeah each flag resembles an hour. the map starts at Goondiwindi. there is a huge 24 hr truck stop 10k's outside of there.. see pic.



i suggest getting fuel there. as the next 24 hr truck stop that i know of is 4hrs away. (Gilgandra) and thats only an hour shy of dubbo. so yeah probs stop in Narrabri. any way, heres the way point map...The final flag is Orange. i didnt go from Brisbane because we took a differant root to you guys. but yeah, here it is..



with each of those flags there is a photo to go with it, i was very bored, spending 24hrs strait driving tends to make u do silly stuff like that. theres lots of nice country inbetween here and there i'd like to add, if you's have time i'd suggest you's stop and have a geezer, i really wish we could of. but as it was, we left at 3am and got home at 3am the next morning.. Why u ask? Because my brother wanted to look at a car.. that turned out to be a heap of shit! woo! but yeah, have a good time, drive safely.

[Gypsy23]

Just wanted to let you guys know that a family room has become available and there are still 2 doubles available. Cheers and see you all at Dubbo

[wilbo666]

Start: TBD
Continue along WARREGO HWY, DINMORE 96.88 km 1 hour 4 mins
Continue along RAMP, HARRISTOWN 96 m < 1 min
Bear left at GORE HWY, HARRISTOWN 202.15 km 2 hours 10 mins
Turn left at LEICHHARDT HWY, GOONDIWINDI 18.82 km 12 mins
Turn right at CUNNINGHAM HWY, GOONDIWINDI 2.07 km < 2 mins
At the ROUNDABOUT - take the 2nd exit onto NEWELL HWY, GOONDIWINDI 120.59 km 1 hour 17 mins
Continue along BOGGABILLA RD, MOREE 640 m < 1 min
Continue along NEWELL HWY, MOREE 2.98 km < 3 mins
Continue along GOSPORT ST, MOREE 1.13 km < 2 mins
Continue along NEWELL HWY, MOREE 97.38 km 1 hour 2 mins
At the ROUNDABOUT - take the 3rd exit onto NEWELL HWY, NARRABRI 3.63 km < 4 mins
At the ROUNDABOUT - take the 2nd exit onto NEWELL HWY, NARRABRI WEST 457 m < 1 min
At the ROUNDABOUT - take the 3rd exit onto NEWELL HWY, NARRABRI 110.97 km 1 hour 10 mins
Turn right at OXLEY HWY, COONABARABRAN 5.17 km < 4 mins
At the ROUNDABOUT - take the 2nd exit onto OXLEY HWY, COONABARABRAN 91.09 km 58 mins
Continue along NEWELL HWY, GILGANDRA 67.61 km 44 mins
Turn left at ERSKINE ST, DUBBO 459 m < 1 min
At the ROUNDABOUT - take the 3rd exit onto FITZROY ST, DUBBO 681 m < 2 mins
At the ROUNDABOUT - take the 1st exit onto WINGEWARRA ST, DUBBO 259 m < 1 min
Turn right at RAWSON ST, DUBBO 61 m < 1 min
Finish: Stop at RAWSON ST, DUBBO
Subtotal: 854.12 km 9 hours 18 mins

Total: 854.12 km 9 hours 18 mins



That is the planned route as I have it!

Still need to decide on a meeting point, open to suggestions

Cheers
Wilbo

[adamaw11]

One year the starting point was at the Gailes road house (shell servo), and that was at 4am or something. Seemed to be a good meetup spot at that time, don't know whether it would be crowed in the arvo or night.

do we have a departure time yet? leaving when still light, or at night time?

[thechuckster]

Adam: i think thursday traffic on Ipswich road will be pretty ordinary... but leaving later than last year it might not be so bad. Wilbo was proposing a 7pm departure.

somewhere that has food and toilets and significant parking and is on the way to Ipswich Road for everyone?

The servo at the Oxley Rd Roundabout - opposite the Pub (and it's the exit off the freeway to ABC Wreckers at Oxley)?


Route works for me!! can i suggest TWO locations for long stops (e.g. sleep or something for 2+ hours):
-Goondiwindi (park on the edge of the truck parking area or if there's a caravan area at the BP after fueling up)
-Narrabri (southern side of town had petrol station?)

Coonabarabran as an alternative if we're all feeling good (tho the petrol station coming into town from the North should be avoided as it was just gross)

[Andrew162]

will be heading down the Pac Hwy towards Kempsey to collect XR Pilot, and then bear west towards Tamworth and head inland. we'll probably be a few hours behind you guys though, so you'll probably be already half-tanked by the time we get there.

[thechuckster]

i just noticed the route going via Toowoomba instead of Warwick (good idea as the Warwick-Inglewood-Goondi road sucks) - good idea.

Maybe we should do a detour past Jamie's place and annoy his neighbors?

seriously: the Toowoomba Range and the Harristown exit from Toowoomba usually has speed cameras in the holiday season. Also the 80Kmh bridge east of the BP/Maccas coming into Gatton also.

[wilbo666]

Departure place has been set!



Place: Ipwitch Road Service Road off Ipswitch Motorway, Blunder Rd exit / Factory Rd exit.
Near Oxley ABC wreckers and McDonalds.

Time: 7:00PM for a 7:30PM leave (05-04-2007 Thrusday)

See you all there!

Cheers
Wilbo

[Norbie]

can i suggest TWO locations for long stops (e.g. sleep or something for 2+ hours):
-Goondiwindi (park on the edge of the truck parking area or if there's a caravan area at the BP after fueling up)
-Narrabri (southern side of town had petrol station?)

I agree with this suggestion, I'm getting too old for all-nighters and the last thing I want to do is fall asleep at the wheel and munt up my shiny black limo.

See you all tomorrow night, don't forget your UHF radios!

[adamaw11]

Has a UHF channel been decided?

How about ch 16?

The shell website has a handy feature to enter a start and destination to show the servos encountered on the way. from oxley to dubo it has these listed, they are all supposed to have V-pooer (98octane)

10.55 km 1841 GOODNA COLES EXPRESS Cnr Cunningham Hwy & Cross St Goodna 4300 QLD
118.31 km 1868 WARWICK COLES EXPRESS Cnr Albion & Percy Streets Warwick 4370 QLD
283.94 km 1782 GOONDIWINDI COLES EXPRESS 10 Mclean Street Goondiwindi 4390 QLD
296.19 km 1819 BOGGABILLA COLES EXPRESS Newell Highway Boggabilla 2409 NSW
372.17 km 1866 COLES EXPRESSMOREE Cnr Balo St & Gwydir St Moree 2400 NSW
418.17 km EDGEROI FUEL SHOP Newell Hwy Edgeroi 2390 NSW
546.95 km 1722 COONABARABRAN COLES EXPRESS 2-6 John St Coonabarabran 2357 NSW
621.95 km 1666 COLES EXPRESS GILGANDRA Tooraweenah Road Gilgandra 2827 NSW
670.32 km 1576 COLES EXPRESSDUBBO Cnr Cobra St & Fitzroy St Dubbo 2830 NSW


Interestingly BP has more-or-less the same facility
Name Address Town Phone Distance(Km)
BP Oxley 945 Oxley Rd Oxley 07 3278 0211 0.4
2 BP Wacol Truck Stop Cnr Boundary Road & Progress Rd Wacol 07 3271 1885 6.0
3 BP Express Goodna 237 Brisbane Rd Goodna 07 3818 0511 9.5
4 BP Aratula 6712 Cunningham Hwy Aratula 07 5463 8233 63.4
5 BP Moree Truckstop Newell Hwy Moree 02 6752 6200 353.9
6 BP Narrabri 65 Cooma Rd Narrabri 02 6792 4427 439.0
7 BP Clydebank Fitzroy & Cobra Sts Dubbo 02 6884 8545 669.1
8 Dubbo Depot 105 Erskine St Dubbo 02 6884 9733 669.6
9 BP West Dubbo 98 Victoria St Dubbo 02 6882 2688 670.9


unfortunately the shortest route these sites have suggested is a little different to the one posted coming from the Whereis site.

here's a more complete list of bp servos for the toowoomba route:
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6418/imagefb6.jpg

[thechuckster]

ok... a quick shower and i'm off to collect Wilbo.

See you folks in Dubbo Friday morning sometime.

[Alchemist]

Looking foward to seeing all you QLD guys, it's been a whole year

[Andrew162]

Toyota Nationals Virgin being deflowered tomorrow ... now time for some sleep, big drive ahead.