Crazey Aussies and their trucks

[Pakhan]

This would not fly here, I wonder if these guys change lanes.  How long do you need to signal before hand?

In the link below it's the .pps doc, you shouldn't open the .exe, it's a joke virus.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jakehnm1/

[Monsterlover]

Damn!

29 section train seems like it can't be real.  How do these things negotiate any turn that less than 500' radius (or some large radius?)

[He Man]

Damn!

29 section train seems like it can't be real.  How do these things negotiate any turn that less than 500' radius (or some large radius?)

easy they just go straight. However, i will say thats one hell of a engine to even be able to pull that weight. theres gotta be a "repeater engine" somewhere in that line. hell in one of those pics, it was a bigger truck pulling the truck that has that huge shovel head in it.

[CairnsDuc]

I think the huge road train (29 piece) was a one off for the world record, If I remember correctly it only had to move a mile or 2 to get the record (I only saw a little bit about it so I could be wrong)

Decent size road trains are very common over here, The rail in a lot of areas is just not reliable due the wet season, or the expense of laying track to some areas is beyond a point of making it viable.

1 or 2 of the Mines over here got so sick of waiting for the Government to put in rail transport (even when the companies offered to pay for it) they set up 8 or 9 trailer transport road trains to move coal and ore to the ports.
They have been so successful, that 1 of the companies have bought (I think) about 3 or 4 more now.

1 of them was featured in a Discovery channel doco about the history of trucks a few years back.

[Rev. Millertime]

I'd hate to have to pass one of these fuggers.


In North Dakota they pull double 53' trailers and triple of the smaller trailers.... it's bad enough getting behind one of those on the back roads.

[Super T.I.B]

I think the huge road train (29 piece) was a one off for the world record, If I remember correctly it only had to move a mile or 2 to get the record (I only saw a little bit about it so I could be wrong)

Decent size road trains are very common over here, The rail in a lot of areas is just not reliable due the wet season, or the expense of laying track to some areas is beyond a point of making it viable.

1 or 2 of the Mines over here got so sick of waiting for the Government to put in rail transport (even when the companies offered to pay for it) they set up 8 or 9 trailer transport road trains to move coal and ore to the ports.
They have been so successful, that 1 of the companies have bought (I think) about 3 or 4 more now.

1 of them was featured in a Discovery channel doco about the history of trucks a few years back.

I think I can remember that one, it was owned by Kalari (?) and was used at one of the Rio Tinto Iron Ore mines. 22 trailers long!

[CairnsDuc]

That's one of the Millertime, I think that is the little one in the fleet. There called the centipede by the guys who drive them.
I think they average 9 trailers now, and they have had roads made for them alone in some areas of the outback.
No public access, strictly for the big rigs only.

I was reading Super, the 22 trailer was an experiment, but same thing, it is working so well, they are looking at adding more to the fleet.

I knew I should have gotten a job in the mining industry.