This guy

You know the Federal Goverment Transport Dept sent a consultative team around every state surveying/counting these road trains.

The project was cancelled after one one state -it only took them 10 working days to do Tasmania, then they were off doing other priority jobs. Admitedly, they did a thorough data job for the future of Tasmania.


[made that up 'cause bureaucrats here are overpaid and under worked]

Nice shot! Looks like 0 to 60 in about 4 minutes to me. Same for 60 to 0!

60 to 0 in 4? Whoa - wouldn't want to jack-knife a trailer - make that at least 10 minutes

PhotosGuy wrote:
Nice shot! Looks like 0 to 60 in about 4 minutes to me. Same for 60 to 0!

Done some trucking myself... 4 Minutes seems a little extreme. Annybody know the loaded weight? My guess is 1.30 minutes for braking and 2.45 minutes to get to 60...Wild guess.

I suspect they were joking.

Guess my post didn't sound...err...read right.

While I understood the joking aspect and commented on it myself, I actually would like to know how long it would take get that thing goin'.

...and how long an emergency stop takes!

Speaking of which, they don't use the brakes unless its a traffic issue; central Aussie has a LOT of feral fauna. Camels, roos, emu, hitch hikers.

Those bull bars work every trip and the sheer tonnage of road kil would be a shock if ever someone totalled it all up - all this is to explain that central Aussie is bush-fly central!

Its probably the same scenario in the Mojave roads etc.

Very cool..which lens did you use?

gorgeous shot, here in melbourne we don't get the road trains, the biggest we see are the B double ford transporters, but they're effing huge!

about twice as high as that shot posted, but 2/3rds the size.

Kit lens.

EF-S 18-55 f/3.5~5.6 @ 41mm
f/5.6
ISO 100
Shutter 1/800
Aperture priority

I was doing the Sydney to Darwin trip via Queensland with my family a few years ago when we meet up with one of these 3 trailer beasts at night. He was doing about 120kmh and my wife decided to overtake (no speed limits in the Northern Territory). As she pulled out I noticed a sign on the rear trailer - 58 metres long (about 63 yards for you yanks). It took forever to pass it as my wife won't do more than 130kmh ever even though we were on the wrong side of the road. It was jam packed with cattle and the next day I had the job of washing the passenger side of the car due to their exhaust.

We also had the misfortune to wittness the strenght of their bullbars and their reluctance to stop for things animal on the road. We had pulled over to photograph some wild cattle wandering over the road near Tennant Creek when along came a road train carrying large pipes (3 trailers). He saw the cattle, sounded the air horns and cleaned up the two cows that did not make it off the road. Did not hit the brakes at all. We know knew why there were so many dead cows, roos, emus and others littering the road and roadside.

They carry all sorts of stuff. This one was just hooking up the back 2 trailers after unloading a huge amount of ice from the front trailer at the roadhouse. The next trailer back has a 20' container, a large water tank and a car on it and the last one is carrying more ice.

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62 tyres on the ground there. Another Mack?

Has KW on the front on one of the other pix

No speed limits & wide open spaces? Sounds like Heaven to me!
I had a job 190 miles away Monday & left at 6:30AM. The expressway traffic started out great! The first 80 miles were at 75-80mph & I only had to touch my brakes once before traffic stopped at Toledo for a burning truck tire at the roadside! I just love it when it's not "Learn to drive day" out there!
Statistics, courtesy of the friendly computer provided by GM:
444 miles.
Total average speed for the day: 57mph.
Gas Mileage, 34.6mpg.
Aching back this morning, YES!