Before dawn they gathered, men and their machines, filling the car park of the old Ford factory at Campbellfield on the northern edge of Melbourne, and the starting point of Crawlin’ the Hume.
Three hundred trucks registered – with another hundred or so expected to join in along the way - and from all over they came, the Victorian ‘locals’ being joined by trucks from around the country.
This is possibly the biggest highway run in the world.
Here is where it all begins …..