Australia's "Road Trains" are CRAZY | American Reaction

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[@marklivingstone3710]

The scariest thing with road trains is when you’re driving along at 70mph and one passes you on the highway like you’re standing still. First time I went to the Northern Territory, the advice I was given, if you see a road train coming up behind you, pull over and wait for it to pass.

[@bigs1546]

Just make sure it isn't bull-dust on the side or you'll have to dig out axle deep vehicle 😆 Not sure about NT but Western Queensland is notorious for the stuff !

[@andrewsmall6834]

All well and good, but we don't do MPH.

[@marklivingstone3710]

@@andrewsmall6834 yeah, I know, neither does Ryan. I converted the speed for him. Cheers

[@carolynh8866]

And when they go bu the wind tunnel just suck you off the road

[@mehere8038]

@@marklivingstone3710 so what speed are you actually doing?

[@elizabethscott7660]

I'm becoming rather fond of Ryan's stunned mullet expression. 😂😂😂

[@carbine5378]

You’re joking😮

[@juliecook6057]

​@@carbine5378 🙄Ummm yes !! " Stunned mullet " is an expression when somebody looks and is SOOOO VERY SURPRISED...they don't move at all and hence look like a stunned mullet !! It's NOT a put down but a funny interpretation of somebody's befuddled or perplexed etc look !! Hope that clears it up for you mate !! 👍😁🇦🇺

[@tymagwezie9280]

I absolutely love seeing people react to our country. Thanks Ryan

[@ShadowFrosty101]

True dream

[@stormygayle9388]

They just don’t get huge our country works.. they don’t get that Australia is as big as America (minus Alaska) but with 25 Million people .. around the edge and mining and farming in the rest. How do they think we get around., Mental telepathy??

[@cgkennedy]

They have a really large cabin. It's interesting to overtake them.

[@katherineaubrey6721]

me too ( im in Sydney,east coast Australia)

[@juliecook6057]

@5. 30 🤣🤣" That looks like the outlets in the UK...what do YOU plug INTO THAT !!! " bwahahaahahha ! 👍😂🤣Good one Ryan !!

[@AislinnJessop]

8:18 (most British accent ever)… Ryan “sounds Australian” 🤣

[@blookhaven7847]

“Cracking toast, Gromit”

[@hailskatean]

WHY DO AMERICANS DO THIS ALL THE TIME 😂😂😂

[@DocHolliday1851]

@@hailskatean Likely people that aren't accustomed to UK, AUS, or NZ accents. I'm American, but I watch a lot of content from AUS & UK creators. The differences are large to me. I'm unfamiliar with NZ, so AUS vs. NZ is harder.

[@suzanne5807]

​@@DocHolliday1851 even Aussies sometimes have trouble spotting Zew Zealanders unless they have a really strong accent. Comedian and actor Rhys Darby has quite a strong NZ accent.

[@fang7737]

Lol, this is what I do for a living. And its awesome. Ryan, when you come out to Australia, I will take you for a drive in my triple raod train up through the centre of Australia. YOU WILL LOVE IT

[@jenniferharrison8915]

And ONE driver, this is the most important and toughest job in Australia! I saw one trucker who ran into flooding and had to uncouple each unit, pull them each out and then reconnect them again - alone! 😰😢 "Outback truckers"!

[@rebelrob9637]

See them all the time out on the Nullarbor Plains

[@j-1159]

When you see the bulldust cloud on the horizon PULL OVER and wait for the train to go past

[@jessicaalyse7]

"Sounds Australian" I giggled because as an Aussie I thought the guy had a slight British accent 😂

[@Milena066]

Truck trains are getting more common but not in cities. B-double trucks were the most common for long hauls until the fuel price rise. Trucking companies are using the Truck trains to be more fuel efficient. It also helps to keep costs down in everything WE buy in stores.

[@jodiecostello6356]

Yes , different truck size s have different restrictions as to what roads there allowed to travel on. Road trains more in the outback, b double s , city outskirts, in suburban areas you can only drive the prime mover , that's why Many trailor s are parked in industrial areas 👍🇦🇺

[@Harry-vg8pd]

that big road train was pretty much consisted of three b-doubles in a row

[@dougtilley5977]

Wrong.... I was down in Melbourne 6 weeks ago and seen a full size 2 trailer Road Train at the BP , Cooper St Epping, it belonged to Nolans at Gatton Qld

[@Milena066]

@@dougtilley5977 Rouge driver hahahahaha

[@bethdoublekickchick8007]

Road trains out on those main highways are no joke, overtake at your own peril! I once had one spit out a rock into my windscreen when I was passing at over 80Kph, it was one of the scariest experiences as a new mum with her baby in the back! I managed to safely slow down and pull off the highway, with my head out the window to see 🤘😂🤘🦘🇦🇺🦘 Fun fact, My dad is a retired Truck driver, he drove B Doubles mostly 😊

[@bigs1546]

We had a wire windscreen cover on our Holden station wagon EH - only huge ones could bend or break that mesh and you soon got used to the "prison" look out the front window. It even stopped a kamikaze roo from coming through the windscreen once.

[@bethdoublekickchick8007]

@@bigs1546 Fuggyeah mate 💪

[@mehere8038]

@@bigs1546 We had one of those on our family car when i was a kid. Was only put on when we went on holidays but yeh, fairly effective for a lot of stones. We did get a tiny one get through or around it & break the windscreen at least once, but it certainly stopped the big stuff & most of the small ones I think too

[@troyamandajames1416]

Being an Australian trucker of over 27 years I can say with confidence we do haul biggest loads and longest, it’s funny watching peoples view on how we do it because to us it just the norm. I guess when you do something so long you just take things for granted really 😂

[@grandmothergoose]

There seems to be a bit of confusion with regards to the second part of the video. Yes, Mommoet is not an Australian company, but they do indeed operate in Australia, have been here since 1996, with a few branches in WA and NT. And yes, Australia does use those lego trucks as I call them, but the majority of Aussies have no idea about them because they're not seen driving down city freeways. They're almost exclusively used for moving massive mining equipment across the outback from one mining site to another, so unless you live in the outback near a mine, you're not likely to ever see one. Smaller configurations are used in more populated areas to move large things, but it's rare to see. The largest road trains you'll normally see on a regular public road are 2 to 4 full size trailers long, but they can and do pull more in the remote outback areas. The closer you get to higher populated areas the shorter the trucks get. The longest road train ever was put together for the sake of a world record, 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) in length, pulled 113 trailers. It only moved about 150m but the point was to prove it could be done. Outback toad train drivers made of different stuff to the rest of the human population. They not only have to specialise in driving such monster vehicles, they also have to know how to get themselves out of trouble if they find themselves in it, be it getting bogged, losing tyres, breaking down... because if they get stuck in some parts of the outback, they might be stuck there for weeks or even months before anyone can get out there to help them. They often go where no one else dares, and they come up with some amazing ways to solve problems and get their loads where they need to go, like in this video where multiple road trains hooked up to each other to create a push-pull system to get across a creek that would have bogged any one of them alone: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ7QZmScdt2JhrM

[@bjc7637]

Gould transport in Kalgoorlie had that record. In the early 2000's, not sure if it's been broken. And a chic had the record for a city tipper truck. She reversed and tipped something like 52 trailers. Awesome!

[@AnnaMno1]

There a sort of road etticate when driving out in the county. Trucks have a set max speed limit they can go up to, even when the general speed limit is higher than that. As such, most truckies tend to indicate when they're on a good strech of road, with no cars coming from the other direction, so that cars that are behind them can know when to over take them.

[@andrewsmall6834]

I live in the Northern Territory and I see these literally every day, don't be fooled though, they never get bigger than 4 trailers unless it's for a record attempt.

[@jessbellis9510]

They do if it's for the mines here in WA.

[@rais1953]

Not on the highway. At the mines they're longer but those a different machines.

[@artistjoh]

In Queensland I have seen bigger, but the mines will often build a private road to transport coal to the nearest rail head. On a private road they can be as big as the company decides is most profitable to use.

[@jessbellis9510]

@@artistjoh Same with WA mining.

[@annieamiguet7356]

The outback is huge and very sparsely populated. The stations (ranches) have no rail heads (although in early days a few did - and other station owners had to transport their freight by truck to these rail heads). Trucks are the best way to carry all sorts of freight to and from isolated stations. The trucks are great, they carry Australia :D We need them! The huge cylinder was moved in Indonesia - by and Aussie truck and driver. Thanks for the great videos you put out. Come on down!!

[@LSturboguy]

OZ is a huge country and the outback towns rely on truckies for everything, when we had the big droubt the truckies all pulled to gether to get feed to the cattle who were starving and dying like flys and they did it for free but that's how Aussies are

[@Notric]

That big gas tank that was transported was definitely NOT full. It was being transported empty to be put in place then it would be piped in to a building and then filled by normal gas transports.

[@southaussie5108]

Hey, Mate. Bring your family to Australia. This place is full of fun and we LOVE our Country and what we can do..

[@baarni]

3-4 trailers are the national road legal limit… The centipede would be an on-site unit not allowed on public roads… if I’m not mistaken…

[@Revenkin]

My pop used to drive those xD train tracks would warp too often in the heat so it would need constant repairs. Easier to change tires than a track

[@ladymanners618]

Ryan the real problem with road trains is overtaking them.

[@Flame---]

Love this content, so funny seeing a American learn about my home!

[@SATANSWHORE666]

I used to drive that centipede for udo it's out at a mine called McArthur River it Runs to a port which is a couple of hundred km away no turns another company came in and took over. we done the same weight with 4 trailers and quad axels it doesn't show in the video how many cows pigs and kangaroos we used to hit every day and night

[@nigelmcconnell1909]

It's not on KZbin (you will have to Google it) but there is a 10 minute video about "Big Lizzie" a large tractor/truck built in 1915 . It's BIG

[@Smileyson58]

One thing I don’t think people get about oz is just how big it is. We mostly live on the coast and from east to west it’s 5 days and nights on a train. We simply don’t have the infrastructure to have more than the one railway through the centre

[@LeeLeeHere]

Grew up in the NT driving between NT to QLD or NT to WA or NT to SA. The truckies are usually good letting you know when to pass them, narrow road and oncoming road train you get off the road for them.

[@ChannelReuploads9451]

Just started watching, but at 1:15, we have train tracks. Perth has North and South train tracks, as well as the One line out to the Eastern States, which hauls the majority of cargo in to Perth. There is the North / South from Adelaide to Darwin, as well as the rail infrastructure in the Eastern States. But the problem is, a lot of pastural land is the size of many small countries, and the owners wouldt pay out to install, and MAINTAIN rail, so they use road trains.

[@mehere8038]

yup, especially when they're only moving the cattle out for sale once, maybe twice a year & are flying in & out for basically everything else, so road's only really needed that once or twice a year. Plus of course there's the wet season & the heat & how that would impact on the tracks if they tried to build raillines

[@shaun469]

Maybe if cbh got their shit together there woould be more lines

[@jennybowd2962]

If you want to see more from the drivers position check out "Outback Truckers" Also check out guiness world record road train

[@nigelaubrey7743]

I've spent a lot of time in the outback. Earlier this year I came around a long sweeping bend on the Stuart highway, somewhere where it's 1 lane each direction. What do I see - a road train overtaking a road train and both coming at me. I had to jump on the brakes and get off the highway into the gravel shoulder. I gave him plenty over the UHF for that dumb move. Not the only dumb thing I've seen a road train do over the years either

[@jodiecostello6356]

Ohh hahaha was thinking as I read this get off the road🤣 the trucks will mow U down in Australia if you don't get out of there way. Not saying it's a good thing but definitely a true thing 🤠🤣

[@mehere8038]

I'm curious what their response back on the CB was, did they say sorry or just laugh at you or what?

[@mehere8038]

@@jodiecostello6356 yeh, when I was a kid, we used to drive on holidays, parents driving during the night, while us kids slept in the back (my parents even installed lying down seatbelts for us in the back of the van) & later in life they told me they had a couple of really scary moments when trucks were right up their arse & they thought the truck might ram into the back of them (on purpose) - right where their kids were sleeping!

[@nigelaubrey7743]

@Me Here the radio was fairly silent. Certainly no sorry, but I wasn't told where to go either

[@Damned_afterall]

My dad drives a 4 trailer train on WAY for Rivet. They are actually really cool trailers, they load and tip off from the side and have a lead that seals them closed even off the truck rolls

[@jwnomad]

Ok, but Mammoet is headquartered in the Netherlands. Only the road trains in the first half are owned by companies with headquarters in Australia.

[@sweetheart.nikkilee430]

we overtook a roadtrain at 150km/hr in the nt when campervanning.... it was absolutely rivetting!!!

[@adrienlevoyant4569]

As an Australian I appreciate our trucks and the truckies who drive them but it can be awkward when you encounter an oversized vehicle coming your way. Normally it's not that bad. You just keep left to the side of the road but once on a road trip through the bush my wife and I encountered one that was so big we had to drive left off the road entirely to let it pass. Fortunately the road edge was flat and solid where we passed this monster. Looked like something for a mining operation. Yeah and we were driving a normal car not a 4wd so going off the road was a bit scary. We stayed put as the wide huge load passed then after breathing a sigh of relief we continued our journey.

[@Makimel74]

Hey Ryan, great video! I’m Australian and didn’t know much about the road trains except that they existed. I’ve seen the news about the crazy snowstorms you guys are having over there. I hope where you are it isn’t too bad. Stay safe 😊

[@Ishlacorrin]

The problem with Rail roads is the distance and temperatures in the outback. Apparently the tracks bend in the constant heat during the day and cold during the night and become unsafe above certain speeds making them all but unusable. Add to that the cost vs return and only limited train tracks remain in this country, basically it's cheaper to maintain a road then a train line.

[@user-rt9rj9eg1x]

Also the cost that a small population has to pay for to build railways across the desert mostly with no people.

[@nickislade5533]

@@user-rt9rj9eg1xthere is a Rail track across the desert, from Adelaide to Darwin and from Sydney to Perth.

[@user-rt9rj9eg1x]

@@nickislade5533 Your right Nick there is a freight train which used to also accommodate passengers but doesn't anymore. There is a lot of towns that the rail track doesn't cover though and this is where the road trains are needed because we cannot have tracks across the country like America due to what I said above

[@nickislade5533]

@@user-rt9rj9eg1x we used to. Just no one state can agree on which gauge to use either. In W.A there are lines lying in disrepair if not rails have been removed. Why would that be. Its literally cheaper to run goods via road train or just plain B doubles Train maintenance facilities have been closed and the trainer are all to old or worse no longer with us. Only have to look at the debacle about the commuter trains recently.

[@kaiberberich1]

In Australia - We transported the entire ACT down to southern NSW a while back... It used to be closer to the coast !!

[@douglasthompson296]

Hi Ryan, near me in Salford 🇬🇧 they constructed an LED advertising gantry to span a 6 lane motorway. It was constructed in sections and assembled in one piece on spare land about 1mile from the site on the motorway and delivered to site on one of those Mammoet? bogies. It took hours to travel the mile, the motorway was closed as giant hoist cranes lifted it in one piece from the Mammoet? transporter onto the roadway foundations. On Google maps it's M602 junction 1 to connect with M62. Expensive advertising space 😎🤣🤣 Cheers DougT

[@margaretgomer8782]

You really need to admire the driving abilities of these drivers

[@Trancegirl1966]

Here in Western Australia, we encounter many road traind out in the open road. One thing, we always do, we pull over to the side and let the road train pass. Makes sense!!! 🤞

[@PilotFlight2Mars]

They thunder past my house, I don’t notice them anymore. But guests can hear them from a distance. I’m certain they’ve gotten quieter over the last several years though.

[@squishmitten9789]

Love ya work mate, top job. Forgot to say on one of ya other ones, awesome looking family, hope all is well.

[@julesmarwell8023]

but wait a minute, EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS

[@rais1953]

Australian grasshoppers are bigger than Texan ones (kangaroos), our chickens are bigger than theirs (emus). Oh, and our third smallest state is bigger than Texas.

[@Bellas1717]

You never fail to give me a smile for the day. Thank you. “Which tyre?” 😂 They built a pedestrian bridge across the road outside our apartment building, and brought it in on a Mammoet. Not much sleep for a weekend just watching the technology as they brought in and attached the bridge. You should Google our mining trucks, they are unbelievably huge.

[@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb]

Watching a truckie reverse a road train is amazing

[@streaming5332]

There is a train the Indian Pacific joining east to west. It takes about 3 days. But trucks are used to transport goods. During the pandemic a lot of goods didn't arrive in the west and many items weren't on supermarket shelves.

[@burney7418]

I work in an iron ore mine. I just dump the ore on the ROM, the Road train drivers travel 100km to take it to the crusher. They can have 5 trailers carrying nearly 200 tonnes.

[@Bassman5000]

imagine seeing two of these coming at you head on, one of them in your lane, the only lane you have access to. they do that

[@robertmurray8763]

The Western Hyway Victoria Australia. Main road Adelaide SA to Melbourne Vic. I travel on it nearly daily many trucks 9 or 12 axle two or three trailers.

[@lewisgoodridge1308]

Ryan, The first thing that you have to learn about Australia is that there is not anything we can't do with a hammer, a large screwdriver, a pair of fencing pliers, adjustable wrench or pipe wrench and some fencing wire. I have personally have got home from the bush with a partially destroyed tyre, by stuffing the tyre with wet grass. The grass was stuffed in using the screwdriver to hold an opening and using the hammer handle to compress the grass as i filled the tyre. the grass was wetted to reduce fire risk. We have 35000 tonne driverless iron ore trains. We also had the biggest freight train derailment on the BHP Iron ore railway when a 44000 tonne train ran away. This train reached speeds in excess of 100mph and was still doing over 75mph when it was deliberately derailed . Nearly 200 iron ore wagons and two EMD 70ace Locomotives were destroyed. BHP will not disclose the cost, but is estimated by reasonable criteria to be close to $500,000,000 including clean up costs. The fact that the trains run at 80kkh and didn't derail at over 160kph shows the quality of the track and equipment. The basic cause was that a computor controlled emergency brake application timed out after one hour and released the brakes whilst the driver was attending to the cause of the fault and procedures on the train outside of the locomotives. Remember that we have cattle stations (ranches bigger than most USA states. The iron ore mines in Australia were originally built by USA companies such as Utah Mining, Kaiser Steel, Cliffs Robe River. The engineers had the construction program on the wall. However this soon went to the rubbish bin and the projects were broken up into modules, with the proposed completion date on the end. Due to supply issues, the sub-contractors would move from module to module and back again as supplies arrived. So you had the situation where a worksite would be at a standstill, with supplies everywhere and no-one insight. All of a sudden the work site would be like a bee hive. That meant that another worksite was complete or that sight had run out of materials. Around where I live 168 tonne road trains are like buses in the city. For me to travel 40kms can take from 25 minutes to one and a quarter hours dependant on road trans or oversize loads such as 300 tonne dump trucks on low-loaders. Cheers. PS the gas tank was empty being moved from the factory to the ship or barge.

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

We have railway going east to west and north to south but that still leaves the majority of the country with no way to transports goods in and out

[@NarnianRailway]

That was great seeing the specialized Aussie road trains. You might want to check out how some roads were constructed in Australia. New South Wales Roads (NSW Roads channel) posts some old newsreel films constructing new paved roads in the 1920s and 1930s, showing manual labor, horses and early machines to build the modern highways.

[@mehere8038]

And here's a fun bit of info on our roads, a lot of them match with star constellations, cause Aboriginal people used the stars as a way of navigating & so built "roads"/dirt tracks formed along the constellation routes they travelled & whites just improved on those pathways, rather than choosing new routes

[@kidztruthproductions]

Loved the video Ryan! Read trains are an awesome part of our trucking culture. I highly recommend "Why Australian Trucks Make More Sense" which will give you a full vision of what trucks are like over here.

[@kevin_g1164]

Just to the North of us and on the outskirts of the city is a place for road trains to park and unhitch trailers or assemble trailers. No road trains in the city. But they are always a good thing to keep away either keep in front or pull over and wait with the windows up.

[@brettjones2714]

Gday Ryan , these trucks have side fuel tanks and a belly tank under the first trailer so thay can refuel themselves . Thay drink 100 litres or 20 gallons or more per hour when pulling hard.

[@leonaessens4399]

Mammoet is in fact a Dutch company, they are also the world's top specialists for heavy-lift ships and were involved in the recovery of the Russian submarine Kursk.

[@jomiiller6297]

Train tracks tend to buckle under the outback heat of 40 plus degrees Celsius hence road trains do the job. My ex used to drive one 3 double trailers of live stock.

[@PiersDJackson]

Ryan, ignore all that modular heavy transport systems - that's freaky-deaky Dutch technology. Australia has the Iconic Road-Train, which when you talk about the articulated setups you have four components a Tractor (T) or Prime mover, the full length trailer (A), the half length gooseneck trailer (B), and the Dolly (d). In America its common to have a Tractor Trailer (TA), sometimes a Tractor and double trailer (TAdA) - a Dolly is another set of wheels sitting under a trailer's kingpin and connected to the one in front by drawbar... the common sight in populated areas of Australia is a B-double which is a Tractor trailer combination with a B trailer in between (TBA), there is another seen further out - the B-triple (TBBA), before talking about the various lash-ups of combinations - 1 Tractor and either three or four trailer sets, eg. TAdAdA/TAdAdAdA, TBAdBAdBA, TBBAdBBAdA, etc. You also questioned how one Tractor could haul? They are powerful, but generally a Road Train is crossing relatively flat land, once moving its easy.

[@karlenerebecka1766]

I live country in a small town on a main and we get cattle trucks with 2 dogs (trailers) on the back with cows and sheep…the trailers are called dogs

[@MrGeneralScar]

3 trailer road trains are common mostly everywhere except metropolitan areas where i think its possibly limited to 2 trailers. But I have heard of 4 or 5 trailers up north Western Australia. As to why not build train tracks, we have plenty of train tracks, but its not feasible to build a railroad to every cattle station (ranch) or mine, or town in Australia.

[@pambridge3913]

Thanks Ryan, that was cool and I could hear it. You enjoy your arvo.

[@judithbuist164]

Hi Ryan, I'm an Australian and I really enjoy your videos. You've shown me facts about my own country I wasn't aware of. Great researching. Please keep it up. Judy, Nelson Bay, (300kms North of Sydney) Australia

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Nelson Bay jumped out at me as I was reading the comments. I’m in Vic, but know a family who live in Nelson Bay. I’m not giving names away in public lol. Part of my family and another person went there. I was going a while ago, booked a flight, Covid hit, never got there 🥴

[@freecountry3544]

I live in Outback NSW. These are common. There are too many remote places in Australia to service with railways due to the servicing train tracks need. Heat here bends steel under pressure.

[@nilankumarage9589]

you mentioned how youd be pissed if it tried passing you. Whats worse is over taking them, theyre so long you dunno when a car could appear on the olther side of the road

[@privatenexus5764]

8:55 🤣the video editor obviously knows comedy when he see it.

[@helmuthschultes9243]

The MAMMOET, Flat bed structure truck from memory is an English company, contracting transport of unusual loads. The huge gas tank is a EMPTY tank only, no gas contained. There is no explosion hazard only dropping a heavy expensive load at the wrong place. That is an array of linked self mobile units and are controlled by a manual remote control pad, that commands all the modules motions as one big array. By the way Australian road trains are from 3 to 5 trailers long, but are realy restricted to remote areas of central Australia, not into major population areas, especially NSW and VIC. Trailers can be full length or the shorter half length, and from big box, flat bed, tanker or stock transport, the latter even double decker. Two trailer units are just called 'B-double', not 'Road train' and are allowed on some de-restricted major city roads.

[@TheOutbackmojo]

They do have some rsil system s in Australia, there are several issues, the vast distances, the cost of building and maintaining it , the varied "guages", widths and thickness of tracks between states/systems and most importantly, the heat gets so intense, the track are unusable, they buckle stretch and become plyable, oh and floods that would just simply destroy them. You are underestimating the size of Australia. We have the worlds BIGGEST farm/cattle station.

[@wolftiedemann-jh8wg]

If your surprised with the powerful long trucks check out the trains sedan in the Pibara also the longest. The record was 7 kilometres long

[@karenstrong8887]

If one is coming towards you on a dirt road. You pull off the road and make your windows are shut. Those drivers love speed. Watch the wheels under the building.

[@dougtilley5977]

Yes the Road Train at video time 2:01 is correct, they operate from a mine South of Cloncurry , I have seen them many times . he's wrong with the work location, not in NT but they are in Queensland.

[@lisaq1970]

My Grandfather used to drive Road Trains back in the 50's/60's. From Sydney, Adelaide, Darwin & Alice Springs, Northern Territory. My Step-Dad and his 5 sibling travelled on the back from Penrith NSW to Alice Springs, with his Mum, Dad & baby siater in the cab.

[@carolynejubber]

HaHa, Ryan. In your scenario of turning left, we would be turning right.

[@elinorshirvanian9546]

You always have to pull over when you see one coming and standing still you entire car rattles because they actually go high speed past you its an ego thing I think they are definitely the KING of the road.

[@helmuthschultes9243]

The program picture super long yellow "Road Train" is a special record attempt setup, not a real transport setup. There have been several record attempts, and one Queensland and one WA trucking group have challenged for record over several years. The truck with up to 100 trailers, probably now the record is even longer, only has to two a set distance on a closed straight level bit of sealed roadway, so even on bitumen, not gravel, for lowest drag. Real working Road Trains mainly travel both sealed highways and a lot of the time gravel roads through out central Australia.

[@markpaweena781]

Scheuerle spmts are amazing. Largest combined load carried by spmt is around 18000ton. The space shuttle was carried through Los Angeles on spmts

[@mehere8038]

where does the fuel connect to them? I couldn't figure that out watching it

[@jessegreen3276]

we dont do train tracks because the country is to split apart for them to be efficient so we use trucks for outback and mostly trains for coal export around the bigger citys that are closer together

[@mcscootie]

The best Road trains are up FNQ on the corrugated roads that spit up red dust for 3 KM

[@goaway2803]

Bloody scary driving between road trains in the NT in particularly with bull dust flying XD

[@andrewhighriser9531]

I am umpteen generation Australian and only left my country for short holidays and I've never seen these road trains. Most dug up exports travel by train to ports.

[@ReHerakhte]

The first part of the video, the section about the Centipede truck, is in Australia The next section discusses Mammoet, which is a Dutch company that operates worldwide. In regards to why we don't use rail transport so much in remote parts of Australia, it is simply not economical. It's too expensive to maintain the railway tracks for the low volume of traffic that would use it. Therefore trucks with multiple trailers are a much more effective means of transporting the low volume of goods to remote towns, remote minesites and so on.

[@Rouge-Angel8]

Seen a road train, they cool if you watch out a bit and give them extra room on the road. The outback truckies are doing amazing work continuously for days to weeks

[@resiefan3258]

Some truckies are awesome dudes....one of my dearest friends was born in America, then moved to Australia with his parents then fought for the American marines in Iraq, then was a truck driver in western Australia then became a truck driver in his grandma's state of north Carolina 🤷‍♂️

[@bevanfletcher6563]

Even little New Zealand has B Trains, which are a truck and 2 trailers.

[@Syltarius]

2:39 Galilea measurements, I like it

[@jodiecostello6356]

One of Australia s best truckie s 55yrs on the road interstate driver, Many great stories the old mate told me. Here s one. Driving over a rise( hill) one afternoon he sees a car crashed on the side of the road, he stops the truck 300 m up an walks back to check for passengers in the car. Now as he was walking another truck see s the car also and Ken's truck parked, slams on the breaks and rolls the truck, then another truck comes over the rise sees the car the rolled truck and Ken's parked truck panic s slams on his break and rolls also, his truck trailor landed on ken walking up the road and ken got wedge between the trailor and the dirt. Emergency services arrived to assess and assist. Then they were all asking themselves hey where is the guy in the other parked truck, they found him under the trailor unharmed. Ken burbige, passed last night, RIP parzie old mate. He also asked me a question once while we traveled up the road in the truck... What's the worst animal you can hit in a truck on the Australian roads ???

[@clazza65]

Bloody wombat.

[@jodiecostello6356]

@@clazza65 yes mate 👌👏👏 jezz I was surprised when he told me, also said sheep , we're like hitting cotton wool , don't even feel them🤣👍🇦🇺

[@clazza65]

@@jodiecostello6356 we certainly have plenty of critters that have de#th wishes, lol.

[@kimc6325]

Love overtaking them such a buzz.

[@barbedwards2755]

My little brother drove road trains in the 70's.

[@S3pra]

Awesome video - You don't tend to see really long road trains in many east coast cities - but in Darwin the triple trailers can get within 1km of the CBD! Edit; Perth too - thanks Greg

[@gregmccallum3124]

Perth too

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

You won't see any triples within the Perth metro area.

[@gregmccallum3124]

@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 I see them on Reid, Tonkin and Roe all the time. 5km Inner city, maybe not.

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

@@gregmccallum3124 no. What you are seeing are known as pocket road trains which are 9 metres shorter.. Full size B triples are not allowed on Perth highways. If you're heading north on the brand hwy it will be allowed after cataby Road house

[@gregmccallum3124]

@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 OK, thanks for the clarification. Does 9 metres really make a difference though?

[@mehere8038]

If you like the size of these, you should look up the size of the mining trucks in Australia, they're HUGE! A lot of them are driven by remote control too, the driver sits in an air conditioned room & watches the screens showing each truck's view & adjusts the little steering wheel in the control room for the truck they need to turn as the one person "drives" 10 or 20 trucks simultaneously up & down the roads along the sides of the open cut mines, just the wheel of each of them being double the height of your car! & no, we can't build raillines there, cause it's too hot, they'd just melt & it also floods for half the year up there. Currently we've had to re-route transport from roads & rail to ships, cause of extended flooding in the outback washing away the roads & raillines further south & they're still underwater, so can't start repairing them till the water drains Also, the camels cause problems with the raillines, cause dew condenses on them during the night & then the camels use that as a water source in the desert & get so pre-occupied with the water, that no amount of blasting a horn or flashing train lights at them will get them to move off the rails & it makes a big mess when the train hits them

[@robertbradley2310]

The world's longest road train journey is in Australia, from Tully in Nth QLD to Perth WA, carrying bananas.

[@rais1953]

Is that right? I'll pay the next bunch of bananas a bit more respect. But a lot of ours are from just up the road in Carnarvon.

[@sebastiandavies-slate5255]

The 160 ft (48.58m) truck at ~2:40 isn't the longest truck in Austarlia. In WA, road trains up to 53.5m long are allowed on a lot of rural roads in the northern part of the state. Not a custom build or anything like that.

[@CarolMarchauthorEMF]

When you take a road trip, as we say here in Australia and you come across one of these buggers, every person in the car groans out loud LOL. To pass, one of them can be dangerous because you need a straight long stretch of road, good nerves, you must know that your car has the guts to go fast, so you can overtake the road train without putting anyone’s life’s in danger. They can go as fast as normal traffic and that makes it precarious in overtaking. It is something every Australian lives with and although there are accidents which incur yes they are not common. Another pain in the backside are the grey nomads and passing them also incurs immeasurable groans lol.

[@clazza65]

You see quite a few moving around Emerald (central Qld) way.

[@gregorchard7881]

We transportrd the "Firecracker" to Mobil, Altona....you should have a look at that one.....

[@juliayenne4584]

But what do they use to get the building ONTO the truck before moving it? Love our road trains. No trip to the outback complete until you can overtake a road train without packing it. Some of the nicest drivers too.

[@michaelmayo9048]

Ryan ..look up ..moving Loy yangs Goliath 650 tonne generator..(6 trucks )4 trucks pulling 2 pushing...(8 minutes into video you will see 6 trucks joined)

[@michaelmayo9048]

I saw 6 primemovers 4 pulling at front of the load and 2 at back pushing..on Australian truck TV show..im not sure of the name ? was something ? Haulage

[@jodiecostello6356]

Law says they can't travel more then three together, there not allowed to convoy. Sometimes you'll see it but not supposed to. Also the truck in front pulls the others along so they take turns rotating front to back of the line, you may also see them do this at times.

[@klowssys_yt7708]

My dad is a truck driver he carts grain and growing up I’ve spent a lot of time in and around trucks doing a lot of work on them, I started to drive road trains at 14

[@blewanthanaveris6901]

Re trains vs road trains: our physical size is about the same size as North America. Our population is 26 million spread mainly around the coastline to about 100 km inland. Why? NO WATER. American has 593 million and lots of water. We just don’t have the population or money to warrant building railroads. Trucks are very cost effective with this taken into account. Most also run on dirt roads and in the dry it is almost impossible to overtake them through the dust

[@mrcocopop2423]

We are crazy in Australia