QLD:Transport industry grinds to halt

AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-2011
QLD:Transport industry grinds to halt

By Evan Schwarten

CAIRNS, Jan 12 AAP - Queensland's transport industry has ground to a halt as devastating
floods in the state's south leave hundreds of trucks stranded.

Transport industry consultant Hughie Williams, the former Transport Workers Union Queensland
secretary, said many drivers would go broke as a result of the floods crisis.

"The whole transport industry has come to a complete standstill ... it will cost the
industry millions of dollars," Mr Williams told AAP.

"A lot of these people are …