Major delays after truck caught fire on a busy motorway, sending smoke across lanes of traffic 

A truck has burst into flames and blocked traffic on a major motorway.

The truck was travelling southbound on the Gateway Motorway before the cab caught alight near the south Brisbane suburb of Belmont at around 9:30am on Saturday.

Footage from fellow motorists show the truck engulfed in flames in a breakdown lane as thick smoke billowed across lanes.  

A truck southbound on the Gateway Motorway in Brisbane has burst into flames and blocked traffic at around 9:30am on Saturday (pictured)

Emergency services arrived at the scene and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services quickly extinguished the flames.

Police arrived soon after and blocked off southbound lanes while fire crews extinguished the flames, causing traffic delays along the motorway.

Police are not treating the flames as suspicious.

The Gateway Motorway provides passage through Brisbane, stretching from the northern suburb of Murrumba Downs and ending in the southern suburb of Drewvale.

Around 123,000 vehicles use the motorway daily. 

Emergency services arrived soon after and put out the fire in around eight minutes, blocking southbound lanes as heavy smoke billowed across the motorway

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