We see these road trains more and more in Europe, Canada, Middle and Far east, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and so on....In Australia these configurations started with a lot of SCANIA and so on, not to mention solutions, which still consist in Australia. Greetings from the Netherlands.
7:39 Europe already adopted a similar solution, especially in nordic regions such Sweden and Scandinavia. Double trailers road trains are allowed in those regions
Electric road trains will never happen in the outback, we don't have grid power in most of the outback, most of the farms and towns run on diesel generators, plus road trains get paid per tonne of goods, carrying 2 or 3 tonnes of batteries eats into the payload making it less efficient and therefore less viable
😂🤣😂 You lost me as soon as you mentioned Janus Electric trucks and asking if they could be the future. Think you need to go do more research. For starters road trains in this country can do 7000km round trips to REMOTE areas and as Australia is such a massive country EVs in general do it tough as it is especially when it comes to recharging or even just operating thanks to obvious heat and dusty which gets in and can destroy filters and intake systems in no time. As for Janus trucks 2 have spontaneously combusted just this year one at Janus facility at Berkeley Vale NSW and the other owned by Cement Australia on the West Gate bridge in Melbourne. You might want to consider that the weight a diesel road train carries is heavy enough without the several tons of batteries an E truck would require and the fact road trains operate both on bitumen and dirt roads which is fun and games as it is unless monsoon season comes around and you’re travelling of a thick mud packed dirt road.
Whilst high horse units are essential for this type of work, they are quite common even in the UK. Not many years ago, several firms I had worked for ran 620 hp units working at 44 tonnes. These were purported to be more fuel efficient, but were then restricted to top speeds of 53mph, a waste considering the quality of braking systems nowadays. Many years before that I drove a Cat powered Foden which was not speed limited, 440 bhp meant 75mph on our motorways at 38 tons.
As a patriotic American road trains are my number one favorite piece of Australian culture due to my big passion for big rigs
We see these road trains more and more in Europe, Canada, Middle and Far east, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and so on....In Australia these configurations started with a lot of SCANIA and so on, not to mention solutions, which still consist in Australia. Greetings from the Netherlands.
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7:39 Europe already adopted a similar solution, especially in nordic regions such Sweden and Scandinavia. Double trailers road trains are allowed in those regions
Electric road trains will never happen in the outback, we don't have grid power in most of the outback, most of the farms and towns run on diesel generators, plus road trains get paid per tonne of goods, carrying 2 or 3 tonnes of batteries eats into the payload making it less efficient and therefore less viable
There are no steerable axles on any Australian road trains!
😂🤣😂 You lost me as soon as you mentioned Janus Electric trucks and asking if they could be the future. Think you need to go do more research. For starters road trains in this country can do 7000km round trips to REMOTE areas and as Australia is such a massive country EVs in general do it tough as it is especially when it comes to recharging or even just operating thanks to obvious heat and dusty which gets in and can destroy filters and intake systems in no time. As for Janus trucks 2 have spontaneously combusted just this year one at Janus facility at Berkeley Vale NSW and the other owned by Cement Australia on the West Gate bridge in Melbourne. You might want to consider that the weight a diesel road train carries is heavy enough without the several tons of batteries an E truck would require and the fact road trains operate both on bitumen and dirt roads which is fun and games as it is unless monsoon season comes around and you’re travelling of a thick mud packed dirt road.
Whilst high horse units are essential for this type of work, they are quite common even in the UK. Not many years ago, several firms I had worked for ran 620 hp units working at 44 tonnes. These were purported to be more fuel efficient, but were then restricted to top speeds of 53mph, a waste considering the quality of braking systems nowadays. Many years before that I drove a Cat powered Foden which was not speed limited, 440 bhp meant 75mph on our motorways at 38 tons.