EVERY night, Paul McKey lays awake listening to the screech of truck tyres, hoping whoever is behind the wheel hasn't gone off the side of the cliff.

Every day, he sees cars run off the skinny road, swerving to dodge oncoming traffic and ultimately flirting with death.

And every time, Mr McKey knows we're one step closer to a tragic fatality on the danger-field that is Mt Lindesay Rd.

Having lived on the Legume to Woodenbong Rd for 23 years, Mr McKey has seen the surface worsen over the years and said it was only a matter of time before someone was killed.

"We have near misses every day. Trucks nearly take your door handles off - and it's not their fault, they can't help it," Mr McKey said.

"I was taking a truck of horses to Warwick one time when a vehicle towing a caravan came around the corner and drove us into a cement stump and we were lucky not to flip."

Mr McKey lives 4km into the road on the Woodenbong side and said he regularly had people come knocking on his door asking whether it was the right way to Warwick.

"They just can't believe the state of the road and they've only been on it for 4kms!" he said.

"The caravaners chat to each other on their UHFs and the first thing they say is 'don't go that way'."

Mr McKey said his car was in the mechanics almost every six months with steering and suspension problems.

"They need to do something before someone dies," he said.

Warwick race caller Anthony Collins said he travelled the Mt Lindesay Rd three times a week for work and each day feared for his life.

"I can't believe someone hasn't been killed with the amount of traffic on that road," Mr Collins said.

"Trucks have no option but to come onto the other side of the road and on corners, that's scary.

"It's the major link between the Darling Downs and Northern Rivers and it's a goat track."

He said politicians needed to stop wasting time and fix the road.

"They won't pour money into it because they say not enough people use it - but that's the whole point, a lot more people would use it if it wasn't so bad," Mr Collins said.

"Something needs to be done before some poor bastard is killed and I sure hope it's not me."