Our Guide to Driving in Western Australia
Travelling across Western Australia by road is one of the best ways to see everything our state has to offer. Due to our state’s size, a road trip can include long stretches of open road and hours of driving.
With this in mind, we analysed and compiled customer feedback from our Travel Information and Customer Perception Survey to learn more about the information customers would like to have easily available when they hit the road.
Four months later we successfully produced a ‘one-stop guide’ with information, hints and tips for road users, to help make their journey easier, safer and more enjoyable.
The 80-page ‘Driving in Western Australia’ booklet was released in January 2021. It provides road users with information on topics including:
- how to safely plan for trips
- basic road rules and safe overtaking
- oversize and overmass loads or straying cattle – what to do when you encounter them
- safe loads – how to tow and secure your load
- cyclones, floods and fires
- fatigue and fatigue management
- unsealed roads and how to drive on them
- responsible rubbish disposal.
A key element of the new guide is the development of 21 maps showing safe stopping places for key road trip routes across Western Australia. Maps pinpoint some of the stopping places available on a particular stretch of road, giving travellers the chance to plan ahead and arrive safely. The guide also supports Tourism WA’s recent ‘Wander Out Yonder’ campaign by providing road users with an overview on what to see and do.
The guide has proven to be a handy addition to gloveboxes all around, with positive feedback received from caravan clubs and tourist information centres requesting copies for customers. Feedback on the guide includes:
“A friend gave me a copy of the above booklet. Thank you for producing a wonderful and informative magazine”
“They have been very popular”
“I have had a lot of visitors to Walpole asking for your free rest/camping brochure”
“Thank you for providing the Shire of Leonora’s Information Centre with your booklet A Guide to Main Roads rest areas and roadside amenities. It is a great little booklet and the tourists are most impressed with it. It has made my job a little bit easier. Congratulations to all the teams involved on a job well done.”
More than 35,000 copies of the Guide have made their way across Western Australia so far, helping road users to better plan for, and manage, their next adventure.
