This guy

was travelling at over 100km/hour (that's over 60 mph).

The ground rumbled a bit as he sped by.

He is carrying petrol (gas).

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That's a great shot!

Nice shot and nice rig.

Jon.

Thanks.

He was only a couple of thousand k north of you, Sandi.

I had AI Servo selected and multi-shoot - and held the shutter down as he approached.

It looks good in a slide show

(Mikes frame script makes the picture - not my PS ability!)

great shot, looks like hes standing still though,

for the next one, try panning , some motion blur would be awesome!

yeah, the motion blur would have helped. I was panning - but I was letting the 'auto' shutter take continous pics. The pic was taken at 1/800sec so I guess I should have lowered the speed.

I remember in Darwin asking the local if this was the hwy that goes south -
"Yeah", he says, "It goes south for about 5 days, then you're in Adelaide.."

Nice and colourful shot.

lol - yup, Carzee, they have a way with words!

Thanks Balliolman.

Unusual way of deal with dust, 10 ft high intakes! Also the bar across the windshield...weird. I always thought road trains were awesome.

Thats a nice shot. I've not manage a road train yet even though they come to work every day.

Not so weird - I have heavily cropped and over sharpened the pic - you can see the mesh below the bar - it is a bugcatcher:

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Its a stone guard, and thats one chrome bulldog thats seeing a lot of central aussie.

Should note for readers o/s that road trains have limits as to which highways/regions they can travel. In queensland they can't go further south than Toowoomba. I think its similar in South Australia - Port is alright but not Adelaide I'd guess.

They're considered dangerous in the suburbs because of blowouts and punctures. Cars and stuff get caught under them and cut the tyres and its unsafe to tow with a lot of flats. Stuffs the ABS braking for a start..

SA has tripples like this th Pt Augusta the only double to Adelaide. They are scarey at times to pass on the highway when they are doing 110 plus. So much for speed limiting

Getting caught behind them is no good for your cars paint work. I dont know why he'd have astone guar up so high. Not a lot of stones will get up there but the front of my car has a lot of chips from the stones they flick up.

pssst, Carzee, go west a bit further. This guy is doing just about everything north of Perth - we caught him North-east of Broome on the Derby road - and he wasn't wasting any time

Yeah - stone guard - sorry.