Well this is novel (to me anyway) (via Ray Dyson on flickr):
The ERF at the top is an MV-cabbed model from the '60s.
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@parkroyal2100 I used to drive an 8x2 Scammell like that for Maynes. It had an SCG box and two speed arse end that was a pain in the freckle. Someone had wired it arse about, so up was low and down for high. 
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That looks like an early Scammell , they stopped putting the trees on top on the newer models
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White 4000 (Detroit 671) doing some work:
Thereās even a bit of gear-jamming early in the video.
Always will have a soft spot for White, The Greatest Name in Trucks.
@spardo following up to the recent conversation about you having to push a bus, look like this?
Itād be ironic should it be, a Watt bodied Royal Tiger Cub, from the Old Dart.
No, way too smart. If I hadnāt left my camera in Delhi Iād have taken a picture. 
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A 1970 Phase lll could leave a V12 Jaguar in its dust. The stillborn Phase lV would have been awesome.
One for Moaster.
Gotta love the safety gear, maybe the odd hay bale. 
Ten years later cars were disappearing down cliffs, on the same track.
Drum brakes and 1960s tech tyres. But ahhh, the Castrol R. 
More,
a bit closer to your era.
More then than now.
This is halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, on our busiest freight corridor in the country.
My nephew has recommended a YT-er to me, Ronny Dahl. Only seen this one so far.
Looking a bit further now at the Gunbarrel Highway and Len Baedell. Interesting stuff.
Len wrote a series of books on his exploits, building roads. Thay were a wonderful mix of fact and factual humour. He snatched some poor young woman from the land of Yorkshire tea and tidy rose gardens, married the poor girl and immediately dragged her to the wild, roadless desert.
There is a copy of a speach Len made in Shepparton, for sale. I can highly recommend it, as I can looking up electronic versions of his books.
Going to look at those 2 (the 1st and 3rd) later, but I wonder if you have heard of Ivan Stzepa (sp?) known as The Outback Killer. Just finished a book about him, he specialised in torturing, ra ping and killing hitch hiking back packers around about the time I was hitching from Sydney to Townsville. 
He was finally caught and sentenced to life without parole for an unknown number of murders, but could have been up in the 30s, or even more. He died of cancer in 2019, still in prison at the age of 74.
The son of immigrants he hated immigrants, they arenāt all locked up you know. 
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Ivan Milat? He came from Dural, in the back blocks of Sydney. Lowlife barsteward, he came from a family of crooks.
Are you making notes, Franglais?
Milat, yes thatās the bloke. I mixed up his family name with his Dadās given name, the father had a free pass to Australia as a Croatian who had served in the British Army in the first world warā¦
Thatās the swine. If franglais is taking notes, Belanglo SF is handy to the Hume Hwy if the macabre is your sort of thing.