Almost half the truck drivers who enter Queensland lack border passes
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Freight drivers will be required to be tested for COVID-19 every seven days after almost half of heavy vehicles stopped at the Queensland border were caught without a pass or documentation to enter the state.
Queensland police stopped 226 heavy vehicles at Coomera, Wallangarra and Goondiwindi at the weekend.
Of those, 83 drivers were fined or cautioned and 29 had come from a hotspot without appropriate passes.
One driver who falsified records had come from the Chinderah truck stop hotspot and was unco-operative with police was forced into quarantine, police said.
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