Road Train going flat-out over a river crossing - Western Australia
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2010
- Australian Road Train crossing the Fitzroy River (at Fitzroy Crossing) in outback Western Australia with a load of livestock.
Also to those of you making ignorant comments about what is and what isn't a road train, look here before commenting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_tra... - Авто та транспорт
From a distance, it actually looks like a real railroad train that's coming towards you. This was pretty cool actually!
Perhaps because it was a real road train.
@@NullaNulla late, and i also was confused at first, but they said real *railroad train*. understood it's a truck- we both read it wrong lol
No wonder they're called "road trains".
i didnt even notice it was fake at first
@@rrrohan2288 I's not fake - that's genuinely what they call those multitrailer trucks in Aus
Probably routine for the driver, but for me that's amazing footage.
There is so little depth and so much weight in the truck that there is absolutely no chance of the truck being pushed aside. The water is no more than 6 inches deep.
@@johnszymanski9982 i think people's thoughts would be hydroplane, not getting pushed by the water bro
@@MajesticSkywhale Not at that speed. I have crossed that place many times
@@MajesticSkywhale lol, a 30+ ton vehicle hydroplane at 15-20mph? are people unaware of basic physics? there is even a basic equation to give a rough approximation of when hydroplaning will occur, don't be an idiot and spend that time reading on it, you might learn something.
@@shroomiestshroom3655 a million things of enlightenment on earth, and you think most people utilize that on hydroplane mechanics ... 😂
This is my movie. Taken standing beside the Fitzroy River Western Australia. The truck is called a triple roadtrain. It is loaded with cattle and must travel across the river at speed to climb out the other side which is steep, wet and slippery!! My husband and I drove these trucks for this company in WA. We had just completed this crossing minutes before!
Interesting, I never would’ve guessed the speed was for climbing up the other side
I remember this day I was actually one of the fish in the river, I don’t think you or your husband noticed me, but I was there.
@@randbarrett8706 lmao
@@randbarrett8706 lmao you must be queer 😊
That co is RTA. Always lookin good. ❤
Just a belly wash. Now if they had scoops on the bottom of the trailers, they could have watered the cattle on the fly!
The cattle still seemed to be enjoying themselves though.
@@KandiKlover Yes, they were visibly enjoying themselves with whoops of joy.
@@bananamontana3956 Lmfaoo
...and hosed them down simultaneously.
Ain' t a bad idea!
road train : a big semi truck with several trailers that travels thousands of miles across Australia outback. read the description.
aussies cant build train tracks pass it on
1. I allready did before i saw your comment.
2. Why are you saying this?
3. The definition is incorrect (only correct in Australia).
@@Aresftfun I think that they could, it would just cost too much to maintain.
@@PouLS He was replying to someone. UA-cam's reply system has changed a shit load over the years so old replies look indifferent from regular comments
@@Aresftfun I know your comment was sarcasm. Just in case it wasn't though... The country is far too expansive for rail to be the only source of bulk haulage. Especially trucks like this one (Livestock haulers), they have to go into extremely remote cattle stations, which are mostly located in northern parts of the country. These areas are prone to cyclones and other extreme weather events that cripple railways and take far too many resources to build and maintain. Trucks are the most effective form of bulk haulage in Australia, The saying goes... "Without trucks, Australia stops..." That gets proven every year when the roads flood, no supplies are brought in to regional areas other than by air. ✌
I remember a silly college girl reporter asking a Road Train driver if it was hard to stop when somebody pulled out in front of him. STOP???? The look on his face was priceless.
So not really a reporter but a journalism class wannabe.
@@kishascape or maybe just someone in journalism class who wants to be a real reporter that's learning how to be a real reporter
STOP 😂😂😂 ain’t no stopping sweetheart, just carnage in the rear view mirror
@connextro I believe it’s a joke. It’s not that they don’t want to stop it’s that they can’t stop. If it takes 30 seconds to go from 60 to 0, and someone pulls out 5 seconds ahead of the road train. What do you think will happen?
@@austinhunt8050 30 seconds to 60 is for a normal truck, this thing probably takes 120 seconds.
anyone else get this recommended 10 years later?
Yep
no 11 years later 😂😂
No 11 years later
Actually, I got it recommended 11 years later
Whats weirder is that I watched it
Cows in the back
"Yewwww!"
Hey, all me gauges just went out - KROIKY!!!
@K W lol yewww
they are probably more like scared to death but stay in your cozy world of lies bro
@@w4stedrawshack475 it’s a joke bro. Get over it
@@jaredevans7669 a bloody Joke making fun of disrespected and humiliated beeings that are tortured and killed just for taste. racist and sexist jokes are just jokes too I guess at least for them who dont get demeaned by them.
TRUCKING LIKE A BOSS!
There you go buddy! One like after 9 years.
Make it 2
you better bloody believe it
Fucking oath what’s up Nolesy how’s lez and sassy
@@clarence_claymore. yeah yeah nar them sick cunce are doing well fella cheers
That was pretty quick. You could even say he was mooooooving fast
😂😂😂
🐮
Like the truck was shot out of a cattlepult
@@seanoreilly1832 really, only two likes?.. people must have lost their basic sense of humour..
I'd say! The driver obviously had a lot at steak.....😉😉
See you all in another 10 years when the algorithm brings us together again.
...but that bloke kept the speed well, to make it up the other side.
He switched into a lower gear halfway across and kept it pumping.
hahaha yep your spot on with that
Ah, where will the world be in another 10 years hey? Will man/woman have landed on Mars? Will all motor vehicles be fully driverless? What new invention would they have created, new thing discovered or a significant scientific or medical development?
@@raychel945 The momentum is what really kept him going.
This is Hamptons Transport
Don’t think they’re around anymore ,
I met a few of their drivers in my time and they’re were all
“ loose canons “
In the extreme outback of Australia, consisting of Western Queensland through to Central Western Australia, there is technically no limit to how long a road train can be. if the authorities granted permit for a truck to be a 1000 trailers long, its legal.
Great fact, from 10 years ago. Thanks 😊
No true only quadruple is the limit
Me: wtf is a road train?
22 seconds later: oh
There really isn't enough education of our culture. Its strange foreigners don't know us.
@@Malc664 No!, it's f***ing good the kunce don't know us. *uck em!
Hey, all me gauges just went out - KROIKY!!!
I'm from Brazil and I was born and live in a place that looks like Austrália (search for Sertão of Agreste nordestino) I like your culture, animals, the heat and vegetation
@@SamSeoMaC wow nice. Just looked it up and it does look similar to the Australian desert
Any video 10 years ago within 30 seconds is lit 🔥
That is on the Fitzroy River but actually Moredah Crossing near Derby. That RTA rig is still running
Who else got this recommended 11 yrs later?
It takes a special kind of crazy to drive a road train - at least you never have to worry about backing up...
TheKnowerseeker
Not really.
Yes you do! What do you mean? Of course you have to back up a road train! How do you think i add or remove trailers? Geez...
Years ago there were a lot of one lane wooden bridges in the outback where there was a weight limit of only one trailer , so the road train would have to be disassembled by the driver and one trailer taken across at a time, then reassembled. A lot of backing up happening there. Even now you sometimes see them changing trailers at a roadside stop with another road train that is going to a different part of the country.
John Wheat - I really can't imagine how you control that last trailer on a three trailer rig? Especially if you weren't just backing straight back, over a short distance. I'm thinking the back trailer would just be going wherever it wanted, regardless of which way the tractor was going.
+HotCuppaCoffee you hold the pedal to the metal, it straightens the trailers out. They also track round corners better when being pulled under full load.
The Gibb River Road (all gravel) runs 471 miles from Kunanurra to Broome in Western Australia. There are potentially more dramatic examples of river crossings (fords) than this one. Try the crossing of the Pentacost River. I crossed the Pentacost in June 1999 in a RAV-4 just after Main Roads open the road for the season. Quite scary.
Now youtube Recommend me after 10 years
He managed his speed well to make it up the other side.
50 tons of cows help keep momentum, I guess.
He switched into a lower gear when the water started really digging in.
Imagine having to back up multiple trailers over that narrow causeway to try it again lmao
Trucker on the CB to his boss: "Not sure if I'll make it"
Boss: "Just send it!"
Hey, all me gauges just went out - KROIKY!!!
i wish this place was closer to the US i really like the aussies
You are welcome here anytime mate. Americans are our brothers and sisters
@@terrythetuffkunt9215 Never forget the battle of the Coral Sea - America saved us!
@@jimjones7821 i googled you guys and it over 10.514 miles to sydney ....and if i take the fast way on united 22h 35min 1 stop round trip is 12.380 dollars....THATS INSANE!!!
nah were fucked mate
@@terrythetuffkunt9215 I miss listening to ABC Radio Australia. The antenna was pointed right at the USA and had a good shortwave signal from east to west coast. I would tune in to Saturday Night Country all the time.
Well... It's too bad for the crocs that he didn't topple cos they would've been eating REALLY good ;)
The vibrations would have sent the crocs running for cover.
I’ve done a lot of off road trucking. Sometimes flat out is the only way to avoid wasting your day waiting for a tow truck. It’s fun sometimes too!
I think the main reason overseas posters are saying this is a truck & not a train is because the term "road train", as far as I know, is only used in Australia for this type of vehicle.
I'm from UK. We don't have them here 'cos the roads aren't suitable, but I do know the term and it makes perfect sense. The reason they are saying it's a truck, not a train is because they are idiots.
"Overseas" or American?
Its a truck without the train
@@morfadave1947 look mate, I get your point but you’re a dumbass to say they’re idiots. yes, it’s a ROAD train, but it isn’t actually a train. it is a tractor unit pulling trailers, which is factually a truck, not a train. trains are railway carriages that run on railroads.
@@haribtheharib5946 So, a bride can't have a train to her wedding dress unless it runs on rails and is pulled by a locomotive? The thing in front is a truck, it has a train of trailers behind it, therefore the whole thing is a train.
got to! Slow down and you don't get up the other side. not enough traction to pull up the slippery slope so you have to keep the momentum up.
I know this crossing well over more than 30 years, it is in the Kimberley of Western Australia where we call trucks with several trailers, roadtrains. These trucks make that crossing regularly. The hill the other side is not large and does not need a run up or speed to get over it. The driver has done this many times and knows what he is doing although the only problem is if there is a vehicle coming the other way.
Came from recommends lol. Great video if you’re still alive and brilliant speed from the road train. That’s fast for a big truck and trailers like those!
I've just stopped caring about the video and went into the comments to see how many idiots are saying it's a truck, not a train. XD
wow that's *exactly* what i did _LOL_
+Procrastinator Dan It is a truck. Really is.
+aubreyaub Your trolling skills are weak, young one.
Apollo 4114 🚑🚲🛴
Apollo 4114 it a truck not a ?
I could literally imagine AC/DC or Airbourne blaring from inside the cab
Airbourne running wild, channeling Lemmy driving a truck vibes
nope it's slim dusty
BAAAHAHAHAHA some of the comments though ?!?!
Looks like he’s got about 4 inches leeway on either side. Nicely done!
Awesome clip. Thanks!
closest thing those cows will ever get to experiencing what we humans call 'fun'
Sadly :(
I've never seen anything like this in the U.S. and I work on semi's almost every day (windshield replacement) I talk to a lot of drivers and the legal limit in the U.S. is somewhere around 60 feet, but usually you never see a trailer longer than 53', unless you are talking about the short-distance trucks that haul 2 or 3 very small trailers.
Became at this point it becomes more efficient to use railroads hauling multiple of these truckloads. Easier on the roads, too.
They operate in remote areas, not in the cities!
Compared to inland USA, inland Australia is empty! Most people live on the coast!
When it comes to things moving, road trains are the coolest.
I'm pretty sure that was the coolest thing I have ever watched
Nothing like weight and speed to plow through!
Definitely a road train. (And yes I'm from USA, but I'm smart enough to know what "road train" means.)
myneymo77 stfu
>Usa
>Smart
Choose one:
@@foreignfoamer3592 Aw yeah, wreck em yankee gaijins.
@@foreignfoamer3592 did you notice the PowerHouse of that road train that's a usa-made Kenworth.
@@jasonnorthcutt4008 actually that’s not correct we make our own kenworths here in Australia and a lot are designed specifically for our conditions with more than 60% of Australian materials used to make them so kenworth is a USA company but the trucks off our production line aren’t all the same especially the ones for our road trains
AWESOME videos people, please keep up the awesome work people, you're welcome people!
Truck went literally balls deep. Impressive.
*bulls deep
yeahnahsweetas, dang how’d I miss that 😂
"Destination Trucked" -- OzzyMan
They need momentum as the truck won't pull the last two trailers up the enbankment if it's already wet. Grader had been thru before us and wet the other side and we weren't moving quick enough. Grader had too tow us out
nice and clean,the truck is happy!!
I think what we learnt from this video is not what happens when they enter water, but what a road train even is
Doesn't that crossing look a bit narrow for a truck that size? I suspect the driver knew exactly what he was doing. Cool video. Makes me want to visit!
See that bull bar on the front? That's no joke. Most of the outback is free range. Anything and everything can run across the road. Australia has perfected the art of heavy trucking.
i think when i retire maybe ill do this for a living. it looks like an absolute blast for real.
This vid made me home sick and blew me away. You see I can tell you this is Coolcalalaya Station crossing on the Murchison river up stream on the way to Fitzroy Crossing. I grew up there as jackeroo and left when I was 15 years old. Thanks for posting and the memories, Cheers
MYROODAH CROSSING ON THE FITZROY RIVER. (my video)
Well, you're not alone, probably 90% of Australians have never seen a roadtrain in real life.
I'm not sure if you know much about Australia then.
Wanna bet?
Looks like a great place for a swim , esp after a long haul in the heat. Hopfully the cattle got to share in the cool clear water coming in over the comb rail like a tsunamis .
I am turning 20 years old, and in all my life I have never heard of a road train..... I like it :)
This is my dad driving this truck :)
+Kendyl Richmond yeah, but have you actually met him??
Really?how cool....
As a West Australian I approve this video.took 10 years to get to me but hey we're not known as WA ..'wait awhile' for nothing ya know ..see ya in 10 yrs!
P.s impressed by the speed and how many 'dogs' were attached whilst sending it ..
Wow, its amazing that it didn't get derailed.
Why are these old videos are so interesting to watch
did anyone notice the 5 crocs just casually sitting there
are you talking about those shapes in the foreground on the right hand side of the bridge ? they are ROCKS .
Lots o freshies there
People Don't know about road trains cos they haven't lived or visited Australia. That is a Australian road train.
Aussie Bloke I
Ken Oath.
Leveringa?I worked there in 91 with the APB. Best 6 months of my life living out of a swag cooking on open fires.Brings back memories
Oh damn. Thats close to how life should actually be lived... Out in the wild with minimal tools and teck. fighting against natural 1 v 1 for survival. Thats what we're meant to do or experience on a regular basis. Lets all get out in the wild, you can't be depressed /lonely if you're constantly struggling just to stay alive.
Its a truck wash / brake cooling area & livestock watering hole all in one. There instaling them all over the country.
The name "ROAD TRAIN" says it all people....
meanwhile at australia ...
Bro those trucks are incredibly cool!!
This was actually beautiful to watch!
Aussie aussie aussie!!!
This video is started to get recommended to everyone from nov 2020
Truck Video
Yeah obviously, what a dickhead comment
Normal people: river crossing.
Aussie truck driver: free truck wash.
😂
This is the Myroodah Crossing on the Fitzroy river not in full flow. full flow inthe wet season the water will be over the cab. this is the only bit of hard road on this track the rest is bull dust....
Washing the cows off for market.
meanwhile some ppl preffer a Toyota Prius.......
The day the cows went to Dreamworld and had a ride on the corkscrew roller coaster!!!
At first I didn't believe the thumbnail, but when I read "Australia" it became more and more normal
Some funny, silly posts! Of course it's a R.T. !
Oh my goodness. If you go to the Wikipedia article about road trains this very train is the main picture!
It isn't a "train".
@@NoCallerID70457 ???
@@amicloud_yt "This very train" is what you said. I think you were supposed to say "Road Train".
@@NoCallerID70457 No, you're wrong.
Firstly, the English word train has many definitions, Merriam-Webster's definition 2b for train is "an automotive tractor with one or more trailer units".
Secondly, what made you think that trying to correct somebody on a 3-years-old comment was a good idea?
Thirdly, if you are going to try to correct somebody else, you should at least try to make sure you are correct first.
@amicloud_yt Nah, you are. It's called a "Road Train" not a train. There's a reason REAL train locomotives have "Real Trains, not Rosd Trains" written on them, I've seen it before. A train is a railway vehicle, not a truck with multiple trailers.
Crossed that spot in 1988. A very tough crossing if the water was up a bit.
Can just picture clarkson behind the wheel screaming POWERRRRRRRRRRR
Watching this with a Rib Eye steak in front of me!
Its Aussie Truckie ok? Just like its Subi Oval and not Pattersons. And just like its Ayers Rock and not whatever else the political correct police tell you that you must call it. Were people born with rings through their noses or something? Seems that way.
Couldn't agree more, especially about Subi Oval. There are some things you can't buy.
Thanks Dave. I was born in Subiaco and just to be sarcastic towards those who have been sucked in by this political correctness crap and feel we all must call it Pattersons...... Just to be sarkey I tell people I was born in 'Pattersons' and they ask where the hell is that?
Wow!! Absolutely amazing.
I like how he sticks to the right hand side. Good driver
Great video mate
Aussie Video, Aussie Lingo, Aussie Rules.
West Oz is the best place to live and Sandgropers are the best.
P.S. Thanks for the upload Ben !
where the men are men and the sheep run scared
yjb mnbv nnj
Seth C Nah, that's Kiwi Land (New Zealand).
As a crow eater myself it ain't to bad over here in west Aus
Hamptons transport an old school Perth base company. Going Hard.
Never Gonna stop. I think you will find it's one of RTA's not Hamptons. They both have similar colors.
😂😂 I work for this company! He is just one of our guys sending it 🤟🤟
His _water in fuel_ light probably would of gone on. Happened when I drove a Mack hard into a road under floor water, I think water splashed into the air intakes. It even had snorkels the same height as that truck.
It is nice.
Type in youtube "gopro in a 18 wheeler".
Thanks
9 years later, I'll take the advice
That's definitely a semi truck. Not a train. You can call it what you want but they pass my my house all the time. On the road. Like a normal semi truck would.
In Australia they are referred to as road-trains, you can read about them in the link in the description or see for yourself in this picture: www.abc.net.au/reslib/200708/r169728_10086511.JPG
Or stop the video at 0:14 and read the yellow sign plates at the bottom of the bullbar...
you are a fuckwit....that is an Australian Road Train you boxhead !!! I know coz I drive the fucken things...know what your talking about before you flap your gums halfwit..........
samus989 It's one of RTA's triples. It's a fucken road train alright. A semi has only one trailer.
Listen stupid, a semi is a prime mover pulling 1, one, single, solo, solitary, uno, mono trailers, a road train is a prime mover pulling multiple (2 or more) full size trailers , each trailer having it's own steering dolly, in other words, a truck with a "train" of trailers, can ya get ya useless bloody head around that ? It's very simple, but then again you just can't educate idiots!
That my ignorant friend is called a "Bull-Bar". Bull-Bars are an Australian innovation designed as the name suggests is to shunt bulls out of the way. But it's not only meant for livestock, or kangaroos or any other native wildlife, It's also meant to protect the vehicle from minor damage from these sorts of impacts, and costly repairs to said vehicle.
A road train or roadtrain is a trucking concept used in remote areas of Argentina, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada to move freight efficiently.
and the Americans think they're the only ones who do "BIG".......they do, but not as good as the Aussies.
Nevermind the fact that. that was an American built truck
Kevinsstuffful most of the road trains the aussie truckers use are their own hardware. occasions do arise where they have to downgrade to inferior equipment, as you say, American trucks.
You are telling me some trucker built that. I very highly doubt that it looks identical to a western star or kenworth. And if it was built in Australia most likely it has an American built engine and transmission axles and pretty much every important part.
Kevinsstuffful no mate, not some trucker built that but the aussies do make their own trucks like they make their own utes, you know, like the yanks make dodge ram utes and peterbuilt trucks. The aussies do their own shit too..just better than American stuff. It's purpose built. I know it hurts to know that other nations can do stuff better than Americans but sometimes you have to swallow it. The world don't owe America jack shit.
I never said other countries don't do things better than America. I'm simply stating you can't say Aussies built them when I know for a fact that's a western star truck witch is an American company. And I'm also willing to bet it has an American built engine
poor animals on their final journey.
Man if that truck flipped over those crocs would have a feast
I'm an American , and I've seen lots of "road trains" - triples , quads (4 trailers) here in the USA , but they're not usually called "road trains" .
That's a truck not a train
Sorry man that was my cuz
Nolan Mitchell Are you sure?
and that's how not to do a crossing.
would you rather go nice and slow and get bogged?
tzq33tdq
No way you'll bog down with a truck in that little bit of water.
tzq33tdq that's how you hydroplane and wreck.
I'm not sure you understand Australia... There might be only a few feet of water, but there is probably a lot of soft mud underneath.
tzq33tdq you can clearly see a road bed.....it's not soft mud.
That couldn't get closer to the image I have in my mind of Australia. A road train looking as if it's just barrelling out of the woods and driving full speed across a river.
Golden - Full Noise through the Water...
Only one way - Straight through!
Being vegan, the only thing I noticed were the animals off to the slaughter =(
I like to play a game where i help myself to a serving of meat any time i see a vegetarian or vegan inject their beliefs into a topic where they hold no relevance.
Cheers for the steak ^_^
chappy0061 Sounds good, I'll have a steak as well.
David Wild F'n'oath mate, fire up the barbie.
rob the log Could you pick me up a Bundy on the way over?
Be sure and bring some clogged arteries, some colon cancer and a tumor or two for your testicles while you're at it. Just speed up the process. No need in wasting time, doing it slowing with all that fat, cholesterol, antibiotics, and don't forget all that estrogen you're taking in. That's one of the hormones you're taking in by the way, not just growth hormones, that's making girls enter puberty waaay to soon. But hey, gotta have that steak right? Real men eat their steak lol
True fact !!!, back in the early days kenworth were a highway rig only because the rivets use too come lose on the cabs as soon as they got into the corrigation that’s why you only see the b6 Mack’s and such , and the old Leyland hippos wd5 back then windows down 5 mile and hour 110 in the shade those where the rigs that opened up the north but your wasting your time trying to explain because most these idiots would think a joey box is a kangaroos fanny cheers for the footage
Great performance 👍
But not of recent. Many rivers have been impassable due to the flooding. I wonder what song this driver had playing when he/she hit the water...