Two public toilets in Dubbo have reopened following feedback from the trucking community.
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Most facilities, with the exception of the Church Street public toilets, were closed by Dubbo Regional Council due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, the Ollie Robbins toilets and the Elston Park toilets will be available between 7am and 6pm every day.
They will be cleaned every three hours to ensure public safety.
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Australian Trucking Association chief executive officer Ben Maguire thanked council and mayor Ben Shields for listening.
"Trucking provides a critical role in keeping local communities supplied and enabling economic activity. For transport and logistics workers, access to toilets is a fundamental human right," Mr Maguire said.
"Dubbo and the surrounding region are an important intersection of key freight routes, accessed by truck drivers as they deliver essential goods to communities across the country."
Cr Shields said truck drivers played an extremely important role in helping us get through the pandemic.
"Council has been extremely proactive in our role to minimise the risk of contamination including by closing public toilets but I feel with increased cleaning of these amenities in central locations, we can provide transport workers and others who travel with a place to safely use bathroom facilities."
