60s~early 70s is a bit too far back for me, mate.
There was one at Virginia (Q), within the last 20 years. A driver, unfamiliar with the area, logically followed his GPS to deliver a heavy transformer. Within five kilometers from the end of a thousand kilometre journey, his float fouled on the acute ramp over, onto the “level” crossing.
The driver was at the rear of the trailer, hydraulically lifting the trailer, when the train hit the float, tragically killing the driver. We’ll never know why he didn’t bolt, maybe he thought the train had time to stop.
No it was Hixon that was in the '60s, the road train crash was years later after the railway was built and I was back in England, I read about it on an Australian railway forum that I was a member of at the time.
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That would be challenging I suspect 
Never had the pleasure of doing so, although I did sometimes met a knobhead of a driver in the middle of a petite French village, the driver in question ignoring the pilot car. We came to a grinding halt and after the penny dropped, he reversed far enough, so I could get past him. Doesn’t happen a lot, as most French drivers are aware that they can meet wide, long and heavy loads on the RN. Maybe it was a newbie?
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Mont Blanc 1983 nmp
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Leader Challenger, 3406 or 3408 powered, Australian built by Cyril Anderson in Toowoomba.
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The British heavy haulage company - Hallett-Silbermann. https://www.hallettsilbermann.com/ - located in Herts, UK.
German? I thought they were a London firm, later taken over by a Kentish one. 
Spardo, I thought the same that is UK reg on a 16 plate. Gerbil
Surely Halletts are part of the Swains group
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That’s the one couldn’t think of the name, just knew Kent. But they weren’t always, but German? The name might be a clue but I always thought of them as English.
My father worked closely with John Silbermann way back in the 40/50’s