[Video transcript of an interview with livestock transporter, Russell Borchard.]

[The video opens with a view of the empty saleyards at dawn. A truck with two livestock crates rolls into the Ouyen truck wash station. The Sweet Glimpse soundtrack plays throughout the video.

Russell Borchard stands in front of the crate of a truck throughout the interview. He wears a white and blue check button up shirt.]

G’day, I’m Russell Borchard President of the Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of Victoria.  I’m third generation in the transport industry, I’ve had 28 years’ experience on the ground myself.

[On screen a loaded B-double truck rolls past two parked trucks. Dust billows around the tyres and from the rear of the vehicle. Russell is inside his truck cabin, at the wheel of the truck, driving. We then see Russell in his blue overalls outside in the saleyards with livestock, a dog musters the sheep into the truck. The sheep load onto the truck crate. We then see Russell talking to a female colleague as they walk together beside the truck. Russell checks the trailer where it joins with the second crate of the semi-trailer.]

Biosecurity’s important to me because it's what makes our businesses. If we haven't got good biosecurity and an industry gets shut down over night, we’ve all got no income.

It’s definitely important to prepare your livestock for transport. Best animal welfare practices need to be used to stop the risk of effluent being spilled on our roads, in Australia, in Victoria. To stop the risk of biosecurity issues further down the track passed on to other farmers or into the city areas.

[On screen is an overhead view of goats loaded onto the crate. There is a close up of the wash sign on the gate of the truck wash station.]

The main pests and diseases we’re concerned about is foot and mouth disease and lumpy skin. There are a number of other diseases around but the foot and mouth and lumpy skin are the most serious ones that will shut the industry down overnight. And it will shut the trade down overseas as well.

[On screen a female truck driver pulls on gumboots, zips up the jacket which is part of the PPE for washing down a truck and we see her press the buttons of the wash station to activate the water flow into the hoses. We see the inside of the dirty crate. Water then flows across the empty but dirty crate.]

With that in mind the precautions we take, it is important to wash your vehicles out after you do a load of livestock off farm or before you go onto another farm.

Cleanliness is key to keep disease out.

[On screen the female truck driver is washing down the inside of the truck with a high-powered watering hose. A hose fills a large green water container. A man in a button up khaki shirt puts on white overalls, and then puts on a face mask as part of the PPE for the disinfection process. We see him with goggles, mask and the hood of his overalls on as he pours chemicals into the large green water container which is hitched to the back of a trailer. The man in full PPE sprays the inside of the crate with disinfectant.]

The need for the biosecurity washes, they’re so important.

If it happened the way we had an FMD outbreak in Australia, a lumpy skin disease as well as washing crates out, then we would have to use a disinfectant to put inside the crates as well to disinfect inside the trailers before we went onto our next job.

[We see a side view of sheep loading onto the crate. Dirty water pours from a valve under the truck trailer.]

Or if we're carting quarantined animals, that is what we've got to do in the industry is disinfect our trailers once they have been washed out.

[Sheep run past the saleyard gate as Russell in his blue PPE counts the number of sheep and closes the gate. The sheep walk up the race into the truck. The female truck driver prepares the crate for washing by fixing the flooring in place. We then see her washing down the inside of the crate and then outside the truck, with a close up of her wearing gumboots, and then the gushing water from the hose as it sprays the mud flaps of the truck.]

I definitely have a biosecurity plan for my business. All my drivers are taught and instructed on how to wash out stock crates properly. How to wash their PPE gear down. Their cleanliness, their cleanliness inside the cabins, outside their trucks, boot, clothes, all of it above, taught the whole lot of it, how to operate properly to keep everybody safe from the risk of spreading disease onto their next customer.

[The final scenes of the video show Russell inside the truck cabin driving out of the wash station with text on the screen that shows the Agriculture Victoria logo and then is followed by a URL that reads agriculture.vic.gov.au/make-a-difference.

This is followed by an acknowledgement of Country in white text on a black screen that reads: Agriculture Victoria acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Victoria and their ongoing connection to the land and water.

The Victorian Government authorisation tag appears on screen, on the black background it reads:

Victoria State Government (logo)

Authorised by Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne]