Claim: Known as the Razorback Blockade (for a blockage of the Hume Highway - Australia's major inter-city national highways at the top of Razorback 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: Known as the Razorback Blockade (for a blockage of the Hume Highway at the top of Razorback Mountain, near Picton, New South Wales) truck drivers involved claimed higher charges made them financially worse off. 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. Their efforts were not in vain and ton-mile tax was abolished shortly after the protests.