Outback sewage truckers — an essential service, but not for the faint-hearted

It’s exhilarating, as a passenger on a 36-metre pink road train, watching the world whiz by from up high in the cab of this gigantic truck.

Only, I’m trying not to think about how this will all end.

In roughly 1,260 kilometres we’ll be surrounded by sewage, as far as the eye can see.

I’ve jumped aboard for an outback journey with a difference.

We’ll be traversing what’s believed to be the world’s longest sewage run, across the Pilbara in Western Australia’s remote north-west, with possibly the world’s biggest germophobe.

Truck driver Heather Jones and her colleagues make the round trip from Karratha to…