Three Massive Road Trains pulling out onto Stuart Highway Australia.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- On a road trip towards Alice Springs from Adelaide on the famous Stuart Highway, we were lucky enough to just pull into a road house for lunch at the exact time these three giants were ready to pull out. Sounded like rolling thunder. Amazing sight to see.
I love these BIG road trains. Alice Springs is beautiful in its remoteness ❤❤
The men that move Australia!!!! 💪
Thats the best way I have heard it said. And they do. 🥰
An absolute beast on the job-this machine truly excels!
The sound of the trucks and the air horns Awesome absolutely Awesome music to my ears
They're probably on their radio's straight after, 'Youse blokes see that weirdo recording us?'
An old timer I made friends with when I lived in The Alice, used to drive those monsters back in the day when the Stuart Highway was a track of bull dust and he pulled five cattle trailers. He showed me pictures he said were of him doing that job. Said they could never stop or the cattle would die - they needed the air always moving by them or they got too hot. Said he put the truck in the lowest gear and got out to stretch and take a leak with the truck following the ruts on down the road. Interesting stories for sure.
Ron Hoffstein I totally believe what that guy was telling you with the truth just knowing some of the stories I know here in the states I'm sure they did crazier shit over there cuz they could get away with it but yeah I don't doubt that driver a bit that's a good story man
Ron Hoffstein. have been on the old Stuart Highway and it was bad in many sections.
They used to do the same when on station land with the gates. Stop, open the gate , put the truck in low and wait till the truck 'drove' thru and shut the gate again, then walk a bit beside it having a smoke. Aussie ingenuity.
In the 70's Baldock's had couple of yellow square cabin trucks (not shaped like today's trucks) back loading to Alice Springs overloaded with bagged copper concentrate from Peko Mine. Noel the camel guy was one of the driver's. Top speed 30km/hrs down hill... to check the tyres on two trailers would tie steering wheel to maintain straight line, going up an incline jump out and tap the tyres for flats. Their story how true was quietly acknowledged yes.
@@colinl9018 sounds a bit like the beginning of the crazy8s incident. But sure sounds fun though I would always fear my expensive truck leaving the road damaging itself in the process
I drove for 45 years I would love to drive one of these
I am from the states... and we like to say "Texas does things bigger"
HA!!
Australia takes things Texas does and SUPER SIZES them!!
Now those are some proper rigs!!
Loved the Video THX for taking the time to post.
Other World Explorers TEXAS boy hear and i couldn't agree with you more, don't see any in America ,or in Texas like this.
When I lived in the US in the 1980s I liked telling Texans that our largest state was 6 times larger than Texas and only had a population of 2 million. Always fun :)
Michael Heins what is the population like there now in comparison?
Matthew Burns - about 25 million in total.
Michael Heins oh ok how many out of the 25 million are illegal Mexican's?
So cool! I never knew these existed. Thank you for sharing 😊
They exist and they carry everything from cattle to ice cream. Current configuration is 4 Trailers, but modified to stay within the 53.5 metre length rule. But 4 trailer max weight is 130 tonnes.
And here's the daddy of all trains ua-cam.com/video/XbmY59nLD0g/v-deo.html
I have to admire these MEN, I just don't know how they do it!😊
There are ladies too who drive these road trains here in Australia. A couple of girls feature in the legendary TV show "Outback Truckers". There are even some husband and wife teams too.
Australia such blessed country love you guys
In the 60's and early 70's it was nothing to see road trains with 5 plus trailers. And the highway from Darwin to Alice Springs was a 1.2 bitumen lane "road". Made by the AMERICANS and Aussies during the WW2 era ..... it took ONLY 6 months....close to 1000 miles long. It was very hard and dangerous to pass said road trains. Many airstrip place along side of it !
Cadney Homestead, Stuart Highway, Northern South Australia, I used to work there.
Wow! Love it when they honk! 👍
Yeah, when it comes to the Worlds biggest road Trucks, It's Australia first, daylight second.
Looked like the trailers were empty, judging by the way the first and second rigs accelerated once on the road. But big respect to these guys, I drove articulated trucks in the UK many years ago, a mere one 40ft trailer running at 38 tonnes gross. I bet those three trailer rigs and the dollies weight more than that empty.
Imagine cycling and then you see one of these behind you. I'd be scared as fuck
You don't cycle in the Outback. You'd be dead of dehydration within an hour.
+MrWolfSnack Yes but let's say you bring 10 liters of water and you stop at places to get more water
oreosaysb00
lol how old are you? Go look at Australia. There are no places.
+MrWolfSnack I've never been to Australia. I'm just saying, you could go for a quick ride in the outbacks and then go back to the city
Plenty of morons cycle through the outback. See one nearly every week out there.
Going up to Darwin in a fully loaded semi, 65 mph, 11.30 at night, and one of these things flew past like we were standing still, last trailer whipping around like a dogs tail, frightened the shit out of us.
11WoodDuck 100 kph, or 60 mph
110 klm in northern territory
I call bullshit. I drove Adelaide - Darwin for many years and in several trucks that did 130 or better, never had a trailer whip problem , unless I was overtaking some dumb fuck first timer on the track that couldn't hold it straight!!!!
Peter Gunner drove the first kwickasair bodytruck Darwin to Alice springs in under 13hrs.
And true blue Aussie truck drivers to. Love our country.
I'm a driver myself and I'll stick to one trailer.
Swift drivers will have a heart attack by the time they are in the cabin😂
Not a single head of cattle to be seen looking out from those crates. Obviously these guys were going to load up at some isolated cattle station.
Loaded each trailer goes around 40-45 tonnes (volume loading) -- now THAT is impressive to see ------------ a FULLY LOADED LIFT-OFF of about 130-140 tonnes !!!
That's when the awesome power of these engines and the skill of the drivers becomes VERY APPARENT.
slimchancetoo it's not that hard relax
I dont see how each trailer can go to 45 tonnes, with that axle configuration, its about 36 tonnes.
There are some 4 trailer outfits getting around which would get you close.
But yes impressive indeed.
On what planet can you volume load a bogie-tri trailer to 45 tonnes??
Use a tri dolly you might get volume loading mass management for 44 tonnes, but how many tyres do you want to change with 45 tonne on a bogie-tri setup?
those are real truckers
Gavin Kendig 2
Very true
You only usually see em from your car but they are absolutely massive up close
Only longer, not bigger
That's what she said. Lol
Dang look at those fuel tanks i've not noticed those before they got 6 each rig
Nice Video.
And we Americans think we drive trucks???? The Aussie's got us beat for sure....
I've seen a lot of peterbilt videos over in the US you've got some nice looking peterbilts sucks they are rare in Australia
Reckon you could squeeze another fuel tank in there.
Yeah, plenty of room under the trailers.
USA guy here. Now, I've heard of a deer guard on the front of a truck. Even a moose guard. But by God, are these fucking kangaroo guards??
Not many Roos up there as it is too hot...lots of cattle, donkeys and camels.....roads are not fenced. In closer we have roo bars
@@bg588 what's the legal limit for gross weight of these thing
Australia, Love
Good Video Mate
I do agree with betty.beef is healty product to eat.
Some people have all the fun.
You's have to be high to be able to back that one up;
Awesome!
KW & Bulldog Power ... great Road Trains !
I'm pulling 2 12 metres trailers in Brazil from the seaport of Itapoa in the south al the way to Sao Paulo and back with a tandem dolly and a Navistar truck. Is not like the ausie, but I feel like a road train driver.
That's a road train, well except for the Navistar piece of shit, that's a boat anchor
Unbelievable, safe travels
Great I like this truck
How many heads of cattle can one of those trains transport? Is there anyone out there who knows?
i have an idea, Create Aussie Truck Simulator as a game
I have head that road trains are in one of the truck sims but I've not seen it.
I play train, flight & shipping/sailing sims & the vehicle dynamics, wile not perfect, are fairly accurate.a vintage 20 ton diesel railcar drives 200% differntly from a 400t high speed electric train which can draw enough power to attain 200 MPH to a 30,000t ore train in Australia ( about a week to get moving & a week to stop)
I'd grab a road train sim anyday ( into the computer where you belong)
John Sergei
18 wheels of steel extreme trucker
@@HuongPham-sd5bd .
Aca en argentina hay un mercedes benz 1114 32 mts de largo y 30 ruedas es el mas largo que existe en argentina
Them be some long, long,long,long,long trains did i mention them be some long long trains
Now thats what I call trucking
Gracias por el video :) :) :)
186 wheels total.
George ..
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1000hp range and up huh? that's impressive.
Côme Thiburs try 620hp
no hills to beat i guess, okay.
Plenty of hills to climb but 620hp will get them over the hills. The new Mack is 685hp and the Volvos are about 720hp.
Got plenty of hills just that most of them are a little longer :-)
aussiefirie Volvo 770hp
Massive power💪
Nope, none of those trucks are over 525hp, it's all in the diff ratio
Wow...how many miles to the gallon fully loaded?
Looks like a couple triples (Regulation G).
bpaβο AUSTRALIA TRANSPORTER , pozdravi iz Γρcke !
Wow.
Tiny wheels and tires for such a large truck - still pretty frickin' cool nonetheless
Yeah, but there's 62 of them.
Don't think 10.00 tyres are tiny, especially when you have half a dozen to puncture repair by hand in 38/42deg heat. Some run 11.00 to carry the gross weight.
is the 3rd air snorkel for the trans?
Yes
ok...how bout front flaps
How many gallon of gas do they hold and what is the cost per gallon down there. Has to be the cost of a new car to fill up.
Gregg, diesel is about $1:40 a litre in the cities but these isolated roadhouses in the middle of nowhere it can go up to $2 a litre. If you notice on the 3rd truck, mounted under the trailers are cylinders. They're extra fuel tanks that can be pumped back to the prime mover so he can go extra distance on cheaper fuel.
gregg smith, they probably use 'litres' not gallons ? ? ?
@@olivia-jtrans5693 Ok, simply 1 US gallon is 3.76 litres. The Road train I drove had 2600 litres fuel capacity. I drove from Adelaide to Darwin every week, a bit over 3000km each way. I used to have to add about 1000 litres half way to make sure I got to Darwein, or Adelaide. Aerage fuel consumption for 3 trailer train at 118 tonnes is around 1.8 lkm per litre
Looks like the Aussies like Kenworth.
patrick young lol right, good ol KW
We design and build them in Australia
Not EVERYONE loves KW, give me a MACK SL2 anyday or even better, a REAL Western Star that still has White parts.
g v How powerful are these engines?
@@Runciedany Anywhere from 535 t0 610hp, depending on spec, the big numbers are the torque figures. Personally, the last train I drove was a C501 Kenworth, C15 Cat (NOT ACERT), 550hp and 2250ftlb torque. That thing could climb hills. Plus generally Road Train diff ratios are generally a little shorter than single and B-Double higway trucks, around 4.5:1, where lighter trucks run 4.11 or 4.33. And before the masses howl me down, Yes, I know there are some trains with 4.33's out there. In most states and territories now, Road Trains are limited by law to 90km/h.
Is this a livestock carrying vehicle? . Do you want a pig? . I watched this video with interest. Thank you from Japan.
Yeah, for cattle
great job truck driver
What is the payload of these rigs? Do sheep/cattle really weigh so much that 5 double wheeled axles are required per trailer - 62 wheels in total!!!!
Simon Taylor a b double has a total weighg is 65t plus the extra tri axle if its bfm hes allowed another 21t so it would be 81t load limit
The trailers shown would have cattle loaded on two decks, (sheep trailers typically have 4 decks), so yes they do weigh a lot.
Not good on hills or mountains?
Why do those massive things go so fast?
Nerflover10097 so they get there on time.
Probably also because the drivers are high on speed.
They're not that fast, trains much heavier than these trucks are doing 200 Km/h ( 125 MPH) right now, the fastest do over 300 km/h ( 200 MPH)I like trains but these trucks are also awesome.
John Sergei, nice , but the U S is not smart enough to understand the Metric System . . . good job 'mate'
@@Nerflover10097 watch your fuckin mouth dickhead, I've NEVER used drugs. When I'm tired, I go to bed. Obviously a keyboard warrior with no fuckin idea or experience
Is that up in the northern territrees?
Why do all the Australian trucks use the spoke wheels? In the U.S. almost all the trucks have the disc type wheels
because alloy won't last on the roads here mate
yeah, nice, but, if you saw 3 massive FULL TRUCKS, as it was said (slimchancetoo), then it'd be something to see, REALLY!!
Peter LaSmith where's it say full trucks?
@Pete How are you doing
Hope we get to know each other with time and patience
can i know the name of the rims does the truck has?
round ones
+pete a haha nice 1 Pete
spider rims
They're called daytons
Damn don't haul all of my cows at once
looks like Marla roadhouse or Glendambo?
skycruiser777 Pretty sure it’s Cadney Park Road House, about 80km south of Marla
Thats Cadney alright. Glendambo has 2 roadhouses and Marla has more annoying grey nomads parked up near the trees
Boa tarde , trabalho com rodo trem no Brasil a 18 anos e atualmente estou trabalhando com um rodo caçamba de 25.60mts.tenho um grande sonho q é trabalhar no exterior.
Full is better, they were completely empty.
Still run artillery wheels so you can change your own wheels i suppose,bit far for Brorepairs !
Mack is Massive
“Ah copy in the road train”?”Yeah gotcha go”.”Yeah mate you’ve got a flat tyre mate on the second dolly back left hand inside there go”.”Oh fuck 10-4 thanks there go”.”Copy.I would give you a hand but it is 50 degrees out here over”.”Copy that,she’ll be right mate,she’s only flat on the bottom”.”OVER”.
I guess these would be simple to reverse up a long steep curvy driveway?
So why don't you try?
holy shit, I don't think that's legal in CT lol
From North Alberta : ..... all our roads are muskeg, frozen or vertical or ........
What specs are the power ?.....
So move south, defrost and use more than 1 trailer. Obviously on ice roads, multiple trailers is just suicide. My old train was a CatC15, 550hp @ 2250 ftlbs torque.
Where exactly was this road house you pulled into for lunch?
Look how much fuel they carry, dang!
It varies but around 2500 litres or 660 gallons give or take.
@@AUmarcus some run belly tanks under the trailers as well but i think there starting to disappear as fuel economy gets better and trucks get bigger
How on earth do you guys reverse??
Dhanraj Stutzer you don't.
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3 trailers, you can't. 2 trailers, with difficulty. In general ,as aussiefirie says you don't reverse roadtrains. See oz camper travels to see the size of manuvering area required
kelly trelawney Ahh, yeah, you do reverse them. Agreed not three, but if you can't do a two trailer r/train or a-a-b config, then hop out. If you're wanting an example, anytime you run fert out to a farmer so he can store it in his fert shed, you are almost always backing up the combo to the conveyor belt (stacker). Anything more than 20 to 25 cm offline - do it again...
kelly trelawney we do reverse 3 trailers bro....even 4 just not very often...we usually unhock or use grids
So what kind of braking do the trailers use?
@Robert Green Nope, just find another slow caravan and ride it to stop. Lol
They'ed be Massive if they had the 4th dog on. But big enough alright.
It is really impossible to have those truck trains here in the U.S maybe Texas would be the only state
They use super B's in the northern states, Nothing's impossible, just takes a bit longer
ROAD train
Tem vaga pra motorista ?
Got to speak the language first bro.
where are the 4th trailers???
3=4
And for all the Non Australians they all run spider hubs!
do road traffic laws only apply on paved roads or do they apply out in the bush ie can you get done for having a bald tire and a light out on a dirt road in the bush the same as a paved one
peter james they apply on all government roads.
peter james yes
A road is a road, and all laws apply, and even in what is known as a "road related area", which means any place, even on private property, that the public and their vehicles can have normal access to, like fuel stations, parking areas etc.
Guess the tortoise won
one trailer missing,in WA we are allowed 4 trailers.
Still same length
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Would you be interested in hiring US truckers I would like a change from were im at
Darkpassenger 1 lol any luck yet getting a driving job in Aussie country there mate??? I'm curious to no thanks!!!
Darkpassenger 1 take you at least 2 years of having an Australian licence before anyone would let you even touch a double or triple. And don’t even think about touching an ore set, up to 15 trailers at least 5 years off that
@@Palifiox Linfox hire anyone with a clean license for 5 years. Shit, my wife is from China, she could get a job there. And YES, I am speaking from experience. I only lasted 9 months and left before I got killed in the yard by dickheads that couldn't hook up a train.
@@chriswillmott462 I will second that stay away from Linfox
Im serious I want to get out of the US and I have a CDL and a a driver instructor licence
Darkpassenger 1.Im with ya Driver let's go.. I'm up for a new challenge. this looks like fun. My hats off to these Drivers...IDK about driving and Jammin Gears on the Left? But these boys like there chicken lights, chrome and Large cars for sure. I'd fit right
the road train licence has existed for decades. It's known as the MC, short of Multi Combination. HC is Heavy Combination, which is for only one truck and trailer. Step 1 is to get an international driver's licence. Then you would have to study Australian road laws. Once you have that, then you can get the learner's permit for MC, then take the test. There are some mine sites in Australia that don't use regular Cat or Komatsu heavy dump trucks. They use 250 tonne quad road trains instead
Mechknight73 sorry
Immigration is.impossible
Plus american have to sit a.test even for a.car
Others countries that drive on left do not
I swapped my truck traler livence from NZ
but they would.not give me a an mc
Plus the cops are brutel
Actually the best drivers are.in europe
Towns are narrow roaded
Here you dont have to back a rosf train you just drive
stuarth43 OK thanks are you Australian outback Native, any advice there mate, would greatly be appreciated, thanks, & greetings from Texas by the way!!!
Bruh, you are full of it. Immigration IS possible, just ask the thousands of Kiwis working here in Aus. As for licensing, an International Drivers License, covers most small vehicles, and with a US CDL, you could test for a MC or HC real easy.
Australia has trucks??
Really ? What makes you think that , Einstein?
No, not trucks roadtrains!
It's mini train
The old Beef Bus
20m trailers?
No, stock trailers are 12.5m. Stock is loaded by volume , not weight, there are strict limits on crate size to prevent overloading.
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I live in the NT and see hundreds of road trains, so what? Must have been some foreigner awe struck by our big stuff in Australia.
Well, you're fortunate to live in NT where they're right on your doorstep. I've campervanned widely in Australia and my greatest experiences of road trains was on the Great Northern from Perth and the Stuart from Darwin down to Adelaide. I also visited the depots of Gilbert's and Shaws in Darwin and was allowed to take many photos of their vehicles.
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did those trucks come from deniliquin nsw
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Doubt it some how as fun buster RTA or roads and marine still dont allow 3 trailers in nsw 50 years later .
David Bell allowed 3 from North Bourke.
A bunch of livestock are fixing to have a really bad day !!,
Why?
@@chriswillmott462 They're headed to the slaughter house!
@@johncorley7252 Mostly, but not always. Some stock movement in Australia is to follow the feed, as often the big cattle stations are in marginal country. It was said of Sidney Kidman that he could go from the tip of Cape York to within a few hundred miles of Adelaide and never leave property he either owned or had an interest in. He owned so much to drought proof as much as possible, and moved stock constantly (back in the droving days, not by road transport, but the principle is the same).
Not enough trucks.. Or Not enough drivers.. Or Greedy Truck owners. Not sure what to think of this.
Neither
@@buticks In America, WE are full of foreigners who get to do things American's aren't allowed to do. For example: We cannot drive one of these Trucks without the proper license. But if you're from the Middles east you can come over and drive one without a CDL Or a license from the US for that matter.. I've seen 4 people from over there personally without one driving here legally. And one of them asked me to back his damn truck in because he couldn't. So I knew he didn't have one. Are you telling me nobody wants to drive these trucks in Australia? BULL SHIT... YOU can call it what YOU want to. BUT I will call it greed. 10-4...
@@snowman374th you obviously think you know it all, it takes years to get a license to drive one and many can't handle the long hours, driving regulations and being away from family. As the wife of a roadtrain driver I think I would know so shove your bullshit up your smartarse!!
Nope, nope, and nope. Its simply efficient in the same way that rail trains are efficient (would you say that a long freight train is a sign of not enough locomotives, drivers or of greed?).
Most people don't understand the size of Australia and the size of the cattle and sheep stations, Although most of the big ones have been broken up now, but Victoria River Downs (VRD) in the Northern Territory, called The Big Run, the largest in the world in its heyday, was around 10 million acres, it was bigger than some of the countries in Europe. It's nowhere near that now, and is not even the biggest in Australia, that is Anna Creek Station in South Australia, around 5.8 million acres, but that is 5 million acres bigger than the lauded King Ranch in Texas (which rather amusingly on its website calls itself one of the largest ranches in the world, technically correct, as Australia doesn't have ranches, it has stations. But the list of the largest stations in Australia on Wikipedia lists 73 stations, all of which are bigger than King Ranch).
With big stations comes big distances and empty roads, so there is less need to limit the size of the trucks for traffic safety purposes. Road trains with more than two trailers are generally not allowed in the state capitals (Darwin is the exception I believe). Victoria and Tasmania basically don't have them at all and its very limited for three trailer sets in New South Wales, so they are seen mostly in Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, and South Australia.
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