I remember the track out very well, as we spent a couple of hours doing a bush fix on an old blokes caravan suspension. He had broken a hanger bolt near the gate and was dragging the tyre on the van. We didn't have a bolt long enough to fix it, so we bent up his jockey wheel handle and strapped it all into place. He was an RAC member, so we called them up on the sat phone looking for assistance for him. Unfortunately, the closest truck big enough to load his van on was in Broome, so we applied the bush fix and asked him to limp it into Halls creek.
We were heading the other way onto the CSR, but I was happy when the RAC left a message on my sat phone the next day to tell us he had made it into Halls creek and thanked us for our assistance. The poor old fella had gotten himself into a bit of a dither about the state of the road into a world heritage listed site, he kept repeating to us, that he was going to "ring the department" to complain about it! LOL. This became our catchphrase on the CSR on every severely corrugated section "I'm ringing the department!" Hahahaha!
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