Claim: Known as the Razor Blockade (for a blockage of the Hume Highway - Australia's major inter-city national highways) at the bottom of Razor Mountain, near Picton, New South Wales) truck drivers involved claimed higher charges made them financially worse off and their efforts were not in vain and ton-mile tax was abolished shortly after the protests.
Evidence: The Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for 840 kilometres (520 mi) between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. The route of the Highway, by using four high-level bridges to cross these gorges, avoids the Razorback Range, and has minimal earthworks. Picton is a small town in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire, in south-western Sydney. It remained a stopping point on the Great South Road, later renamed the Hume Highway, until it was bypassed in December 1980. Hume Highway Deviation: Jarvisfield The town is located on the Old Hume Highway. Antill retired from the Army in 1821 and in 1822 was the first to receive a grant of 809 hectares (2,000 acres) in the area now known as Picton (previously known as Stonequarry), over the brow of Razorback mountain. Razorback Mountain is a mountain located within British Columbia, Canada. It is commonly referred to as Razorback Range as it is part range of high steep hills that make up the Macarthur Region. Razorback is a locality and scattered village in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire. Furthermore, like most of the Wollondilly it is part of the hills that are in between the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands regions.