There may be a few roadworks south of Nowra at the moment, but the delay is nothing compared to the four-day blockade of the Princes Highway in 1979.
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Forty years ago this month angry truck drivers stopped all heavy road transport when they moved to cut off access to the Nowra Bridge.
It divided Nowra in half, literally.
Around 20 trucks were used to to create the blockade.
Battling against road tax and low freight rates, the truckies disrupted the Shoalhaven Council, brought the local building industry to a halt and cut off food and supplies to big chain stores.
Bricklayers ran out of bricks and concrete trucks sat idle as supplues of concrete and steel were blocked off.
Forty years ago this month angry truck drivers stopped all heavy road transport when they moved to cut off access to the Nowra Bridge.
A spokesperson for council told the Shoalhaven and Nowra News at the time, that its program had been disrupted because of the difficulty of getting any supplies from the Works Department at Bomaderry though the blockade.
As the towns supplies of perishable goods dwindled, one big store reported "panic buying" started happening.
Woolworths manager Hans Sidler said nothing, except milk and bread, was getting through the blockade.
"All our stock comes from Sydney or Canberra and it is just not getting though," he said.
Supplies sent by rail to Nowra were also disrupted when the truckies refused to allow the carrier to make his delivery.
The officer in charge of Nowra at the tome, Inspector Beres Siddins, said the truckies did allow supplies for the hospital through the blockade.
Police said the blockade was mostly quiet but there was a few accidents and incidents when "people became hot under the collar".
Eventually, after the truckies disbanded voluntarily.
The drivers felt their clams had been more than met by the government.
"We are more than happy with what we got," a spokesperson said.
"The credit is not ours. Full praise must go to those blokes on Razorback."
