Outback Truckers

Sheep, cattle, horses, camels. Any livestock

 

Exactly...It's all about ratings & nothing to do with Credibility ...

Turbo is a Disgrace to the entire transport industry..

Turbo cracks it then ends up in jail

 

Him acting like that does not really surprise me.

 

I always thought he was a dumb@$$

 

Yes they have a transcontinental railroad, I recall reading old books about them. The Outback in those days was a killing land.

We can use some of that road train here in the USA. Put 10 trailers on the 5th wheel B train style and pay me 10.00/mile I'll run it. We will have to build ginormous scales to fit em all. That way one driver can deliver 10 loads.

When we built our railroad system, west of salt lake city there is about 60 to 100 miles of nothing. No water no nothing. But they laid it all.

As far as the rates, if you charge em big enough and they can still mark it up to the end customer with like a 30 dollar per gallon of milk... and still profit, tractor trailers become disposible. Run em into the ground. Buy a replacement. Cheaper than trying to repair em all. It also keeps the truck industry there from getting stagnant.

It also helps to build trucks to spec so they can withstand that duty.

 

All of our trucks have ratings. So they are rated for weight and class. Then under the class it is trailer quantity.

It's not in common for the trucks pulling trains to have 2-3m Kms.

As for the train network. Yes there is goes along east coast north to south. East to West along the southern coast kinda, one through the middle East to West. Another goes from Perth which is south Western part of western Australia to port headland and Broome. Then later one goes straight through the middle north to south. Adelaide to Darwin.

There's a company called SCT they actually own there own train. It's generally about a mile long. Runs from parkes to Perth. When that breaks down. Hit the road with 2-5 trailers per truck. 5-600 trucks but jobs done. They run the supply chain for the grocery stores in western Australia.

Also most of what get delivered is a large variety. It's not like general groceries there maybe 1 trailer of groceries but you may have a delivery to a station that will consist of vehicles, fuel, canned/dry food, clothing and animals feed. But there is no other way of getting that much in there.

 

i watched what's on netflix a few months ago. neat show for sure. very humbling. most of the trucks are awesome.

 

No not most places. Actually heavily restricted. You go on the wrong road in a road train. Your not getting out of that for under 5k. Dolly's are very different.

The triple doubles (one trailer connects to trailer in front) arest as limited as then road trains. Then b doubles have certain routes through city's.

 

We are very restricted on where road trains can go. Strictly no road trains or double tripples inside major city's. B doubles are allowed in the city's but again restricted on which roads. The road MUST BE B double rated. If your in a road train or a double on a road that's not rated for it. You better have a healthy bank account because your not getting out of it for under 5k. Your turnpike doubles are probably the closest you have to our road trains. But our dollies are alot different. Longer draw bars and setup for much heavier weight. Depending on what your truck is rated to they will be either double or triple axle dollies.

Most road tripples trailer road trains will run 3 x 44 or 48 ft trailers. Quads are 3 x 44 footers with the back section being a B train setup (a B double right at the back)
They will weigh 100-200+ tonne depending on permits.