Hey there everyone,

We are the three guys who won a car from Travellers Auto Barn, the best car ever, The Mitsubishi Lancer! We won the car 3 months ago and we are still on our dream trip with the car. We drove up to cairns and back (8.000 km) and now we are in Sydney again. We went diving in the Whitsunday’s and Fraser Island and lots of cool stuff on the east coast. We camped everywhere with the awesome camp gear that came with the car. We had and are still having the best time in our life’s!! Thanks to Richie and the guys at Travellers Auto Barn!

See ya!

Vincent, Kay and Giel (A.K.A Toilet Man)

“Stop, Revive, Survive” is a public campaign run in Australia urging the thousands of holidaying motorists to take it easy on the roads this Christmas, New year and School Holiday summer season.  Basically it’s recommended that you break up your drive every 2 hours by taking a short break. The campaign runs year round but is especially ramped up at this time of year.

Read more about the Stop, Revive Survive Campaing on the RTA’s website

Below is shocking  reminder of the dangers we all face on the roads. I’m purposely including this confronting article as I think it’s important that nobody has any illusions as to the dangers that exist on our roads.

Northern Advocate Christmas carnage: Two die in SH1 smash Northern Advocate by staff reporters | 23rd December 2009 An horrific head-on crash involving a campervan, a truck and trailer and a ute claimed the lives of two Spanish …

Ineke & Thomas used to work at Travellers Auto Barn where they felt madly in love. Now they are back for their wedding & honeymoon in our campervan!!!

For their wedding they wanted to share again the emotions they had for their first encounter, so they decided to have their honeymoon in one of our campers in a trip around Australia. Congratulations to them! We wish them all the best and a lot of babies who will become Travellers Auto Barn customer in 20 years

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If sore heads around the office are anything to go by last nights Golden Backpacks awards dinner was a night to remember, or not as the case may be. Honestly, I’ve seen more productive dole queues at 9am than this office this morning.

Going into last nights award having won the previous two years was an exciting albeit daunting prospect. We’d been nominated among some massive players in Oz/NZ travel – Virgin Blue, Tiger Airways, Greyhound – These are some seriously heavy hitters in travel circles. It’s an achievement to even be nominated next to names like that.

Big Sam Kekovich was on had to add a bit of true Aussie flavour to proceedings and did a stand up job. These things can turn into a bit of a “Logies” nightmare if you’ve got a dud presenter but Sam pulled out all the stops to get the 450 strong crowd going.

Unfortunately at the end of the day we didn’t get enough votes to make it three in a row but still a second place in a field like that is nothing to be sniffed at. Congratulation go to Greyhound who took home the silverware on the night. Enjoy your win but just wait till next year!!!

Check out our Sydney staff living it up at the Golden Backpacks and trying their hardest to tarnish our good reputation!!

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Travellers Auto Barn have been working in conjuction with Australian Backpacers Netherlands for the past five years. Since 2005 every September TAB have been giving away a vehicle for one lucky winner from the ABNL JUMBO group that comes to Australia.