Ive been up the stuart highway before (main highway running from south - north, centre of the country), and you are literally 5+ hours away from ANYTHING (and anything is usually a TINY tiny road house, major towns are 14 hours apart).

If you damage your vehicle out there, youll be spending the night minimum.

Had no idea what Bullbars were, but what really through me was that i didn't know there were camels in Australia.

After watching this video I had to look up information about camels in Australia. Then I had to look up descriptions of eating camel meat.

Now I want to eat a camel.

Oh yeah, there is a large population of feral camels in the outback, creating a bit of a problem. Imported during the 19th century for transport across the deserts.

Meh, you really don't. It's tough and not very tasty. Crocodile OTOH is delicious.

And he's not kidding about driving at night. Years ago, I drove from Sydney to Perth. I was always told not to drive at night, but one day the engine overheated a few hours from the nearest town. Got it going again, but had to drive in the dark for a few hours. Was lucky to miss a large desert red kangaroo, but unfortunately hit a wallaby. Pretty gruesome trying to extract it from the bullbars.

The camper van we rented in Brisbane to drive to Darwin had a bull bar and a downward deflecting heavy screen just along the bottom of the windshield. We wondered why until we got to the other side of Longreach and saw the aftermath of a big red kangaroo going through the windshield of a panel van, still alive and kicking - kicking enough in its panic to kill the driver as it thrashed about trying to get away from it's predicament. The down angled heavy screen is to 'deflect' the road vermin down away from the cab and windshield. Not as much fun as hitting a moose, but fun nontheless.

Bullbars are common not just on these b-double type trucks, but also on our offroaders. Most 4x4 cars have bullbars too.

I didn't know either. I did some looking around and it looks like there are even a lot of options. I've seen pickups with something similar before, but I didn't know they were called bull bars. Looks at the different options there are: [url redacted]