At the turn of the 21st Century, the mining boom was exploding in northern Australia. Butt Haulage was a company based in the Queensland outback town of Cloncurry that caught the first wave of the resources boom.
I just discovered your channel, Bruce. I didn’t even know you had one. You’d make a better narrator on Outback Truckers, better than the present guy lol. I did a run from Perth to Century Zinc when the mine first got going, I went over the Gregory River when the road was wet and only just made it up. Then a guy from Cloncurry with a loaded triple came through and just made it, I reckon he had balls of steel to cross that wooden bridge at speed and I wish I had a movie camera at the time to record it. Now there’s apparently a high level bridge, so I’m pretty happy to see you recorded it.
