Emergency services recovered a man’s body from the wreckage of a truck that went over the edge of Barrengarry Mountain, near Kangaroo Valley, and caught fire early on Friday.
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The man has not been formally identified, however police have notified those believed to be his next of kin.
Moss Vale Road was reopened about 5.30pm, after an all-day retrieval operation. It was due to close again at 6am on Saturday to finish the work.
The truck was heading east down the mountain when it went off the road about a kilometre north of Bunkerhill Road.
When two fire crews from Kangaroo Valley arrived, the trees around the truck and the vehicle were on fire.
Kangaroo Valley RFS deputy captain Mark Gorman said the men spent almost an hour hosing down the scene.
They were wearing breathing apparatus because they did not know what the truck was carrying.
The truck was believed to have been carting a load of glass beads for the RMS to use in line marking on roads.
The crash occurred on the same corner where a truck crash through the roadside barrier and went over the edge on February 20.
In the four weeks since that crash, the RMS had not repaired the fence, leaving only plastic tape as a barrier.
