German reacts to "Australian Trucks Make More Sense"

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[@kevo6190]

This is an island! Not Europe or the Americas. We use anything that will survive this country down here!🇦🇺

[@4kays160]

They dont care if it breaks down in the outback 😂, they have a bed a fridge,radios,tv, aircon, generator's, they even have a bbq and camping gear like tents and chairs haha, plus they are broken down getting passed allday by other truck drivers, they are safe and supplied and free to radio a passing truck for a lift to town, but they will stay and guard the freight till a mobile mechanic comes with his mobile truck workshop and come fix there truck so they can continue the journey, and sometimes they just wait for a new truck to come swap trailers and take there load the rest of the way, while they stay with a mechanic or get towed back to a town.. they dont care if they break down, its not a problem ever, even if it were extreme special circumstances your truck company would send a helicopter to give you food fuel water spare parts to fix the truck or a lift to a hotel nearby while a mechanic takes over..

[@shaun469]

Or stuck at a flooded river.

[@MacktheTruckie]

Yep

[@jenniferharrison8915]

All the imported trucks are first adapted in Australia to comply with Australian conditions and our safety requirements, and often fitted or rebuilt locally! We are very resourceful, the mining companies use far different trucks to the everyday outback transport companies, for instance! Definitely check out Outback Truckers, and the unique and evolving WA Mining Transport and work vehicles! 👍

[@kennethmcdonald93]

We have many varieties of trucks , As mentioned in the video Mainly Cab overs are city and local work ! Cummins, Detroit diesel, Mack/Volvo Scania all produce Engines ranging From 400 to 700+ hp For many heavy truck Applications ! Also in most cases if a road train breaks down in the outback ! Driver just gets In the tool box and usually Creates a miracle with some cable ties and latex gloves ! And if they can't get it running THEN AND ONLY THEN will they radio And ask for a mobile mechanic ! If there lucky a local cattle station or land holder will be close to help Out !

[@AussiePom]

As for communication a mobile phone is useless in the outback as there's no coverage or no mobile phone towers. So people use the satellite phone but it's much more expensive with only one phone carrier providing them namely Telstra the government phone company. If people have a medical emergency quite literally in the middle of nowhere where there are no doctors or hospitals then they call The Royal Flying Doctor Service which has a fleet of small planes but the inside is a hospital Intensive Car Unit or ICU and it's covered under Australia's universal healthcare. Also check out the School of the Air.

[@C509NorthernTerritory]

Most remote communities have Telstra these days.

[@CityThatCannotBeCaptured]

What about satellite phones and truckies radio.

[@ianhopkins754]

The long road trains are mainly used in the outback area’s of Australia and country area’s going from one state to the other or across the centre to Perth. We do use B- doubles in and around the cities and suburbs as well as single trailer configurations. The reason there are different truck types is to have a choice of truck to suit the transport companies needs because of the different types of engines. The road trains are not permitted to be used in cities only larger country roads.

[@gregorturner4753]

yeah perth is a good example. just outside of perth on most highways is a roadsign prohibiting road trains any further. what they do is stop, decouple one or two trailers then haul the rest into town with another truck coming along for the other trailers, same going out. the longest road train is the caterpillar which is used on a mine to refinary run (two trucks) that have something like 7 or so trailers.

[@violetscreaming]

Do you realise that they run road trains in and out of Sydney and Brisbane, they just don’t call them that because it freaks people out. They’ve still got 3 pivot points and are bigger than a B Double.

[@Outback_Recluse]

A greater variety of trucks in the marketplace forces the price of truck's down courtesy of competition for a sale between manufacturers. That's why Australia has a large variety. The cab over engine style is more suited to tighter, urbanised areas and the engine forward of the cab is more suited to open road, long haul trucks as it caters for a larger, more comfortable sleeping /living areas, many have creature comforts such as fridge, freezer, microwave ovens etc. Drivers legally have to rest for a certain amount of time before continuing driving. They have log books and electronic monitoring, safety cameras etc on the highways, weigh stations, inspection stations etc.

[@chrisgeorge4288]

Watch the show Outback Truckers

[@user-ou5et3fo3z]

Ford manufacturing in Melbourne had road trains up to 3 trailers moving parts from one site to another along a designated permitted route.

[@C509NorthernTerritory]

They were B triples

[@AussiePom]

When Ford proposed the building of the Broadmedows plant, head office in the US wanted to know how far it was between Geelong and Broadmedows and a letter was posted stating 4.5 miles. To this day no one knows if it was a typing error or a well aimed fly poo spot because in those days there was no air conditioning in factory offices so in summer all the windows were open. When the Geelong plant first opened Ford ask Victorian Railways for a spur line off the Melbourne Geelong line into the Ford factory and VR said it would take five years to build. Ford Australia couldn't wait that long so they built and it was up and running within three months. Nothing changes. Source: Ford Australia The Cars and People Who Built Them Book.

[@CityThatCannotBeCaptured]

TOWARDS THE END IT SAYS THEY HAVE MASSIVE ENGINES TO BE ABLE TO HAUL THE LOADS.

[@Ur_About2HaveNoTime]

I'm survived the Australian I-4 Diesil Engine

[@neilhoganwa]

When passing a full 5 trailer rig, you need to plan your overtake. Tripples are very common.

[@julesmarwell8023]

have you checked out THE CENTIPEDE A FIVE trailer monster carrying 250 tons 186 wheeler.

[@ozboomer_au]

A few notes... Remember our history.. for as long as Europeans have been in the country, we've often referred to ourselves as 'riding on the sheep's back', as a lot of our exports were based around sheep and cattle. In the early days (and now, as well), there would be single properties out in the real scrub, each of which might be a million acres in size... and it would be nothing to have a herd of 50,000 beasts that 'drovers' (on horseback) would drive from the 'stations' (farmer's properties) to the saleyards in the bigger towns.. and they could easily take months to transport the 'mob' a few thousand miles... so Aussies who move these large herds are kindof used to the perils of travelling in isolated regions. P'raps look up the poets A 'Banjo' Patterson ('Clancy of the Overflow') or Henry Lawson ('The Ballad of the Drover') to get some idea of how reliant we've been on the folks who work stock in the outback. Road Trains have been around for decades, although I don't know too much about them. 'B-Doubles' and 'B-Triples' are relatively common vehicles that haul freight between the major cities... and can be a curse when they have to travel through the suburbs in the cities owing to the non-existence of complete 'ring roads'. As for the big loads... I was maybe 8 years old (1960s) when Dad and I would each be on the end of a rope, walking around a corner at full length, seeing what the tray cut-in on over-dimensional vehicles would be when they were making their turns... and he'd work out the best routes for them to travel.. but sometimes power lines would need to be manually raised for the loads.. or even fences moved and reinstated. An example from Dad's time: ...when we're talking about specially manufactured trailers that were built at the wharves, loaded onto blocks.. and a 350+ tonne generator would be placed on the blocks from the ship. Then the trailer was built around the load, and 20+ axle bogies would be rolled in, one at each end of the trailer and everything would be brought to bear on the bogies. There'd be 2 prime movers placed at the head and another 2 at the tail of the trailer... and the whole thing would then travel down the route Dad had worked out for maybe 200km or more over a couple of days to be delivered to a power station in Loy Yang, say, in Gippsland. Many bridges would need to be strengthened to take the big loads. In some cases where the bridges couldn't be strengthened, freeways were locally widened so the loads could go down an on-ramp.. perform a U-turn across the carriageways... and then go up an off-ramp to actually cross the freeway. Dad did most of his work with granting permits for these loads in the period 1947-1981... and nowadays, people get out with their picnic tables (at 2am) to watch the progress of some of these 'superloads'. A 'recent', 'smallish' example of the big loads that are increasingly commonplace nowadays... kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4OQlnuZi7lprZo

[@davidmonro3270]

In AUSTRALIA "Vee haf ow vays. I was in a migrant camp[ I am Australian] and stuck with the Germans for safety reasons. When I asked them how they were going to do something that's what I got, " Vee haf ow vays"

[@davidmonro3270]

I know the Germans very well because when i was seventeen I lived in a labour camp for over three years and always stuck with them. I also know them well enough not to tell them they can't do something. When Ted Pritchard was building the steam car he designed and made everything. Except one item. The fan on the radiator for the exhaust steam. In earlier days he worked at the GOVT. AIRCRAFT FACTORY[now CSIRO]. He did wind tunnel research and knew all about it. The fan he designed would have cost too much to have made so the nearest was a Porsche. He wrote to the man who designed the fan and asked him a few details only somebody with his experience would know. There was no reply. One day there is a knock at the workshop door. In all the years I went there I cannot remember a knock at that little old workshop door. There is a little old man with glasses [German] standing there. "What are you doing with my fan?" He designed this fan for Porsche. When Ted showed him what he was doing this man could not believe it. To do what he was doing in Germany they would have an office bigger than a golf course. To have his fan on it was just so overwhelming for this fan engineer. He knew something was on because of the questions he asked and came half way round the world to find out about it. You reckon it gave Ted a lift. I'll say. After what the government did to Ted I tell young people to get out of this country if they have ambition. We are just too stupid.

[@shaun469]

The longer wheel base and ease of acess to engines on a bonneted truck provides a better ride for shitty roads. The visibility from a japanese or European cab over and shorter overall length is better for city roads. Its all about right tool for the job.

[@darrenmanning-oe2xu]

No not modified , Road Trains usually 600-800horse even seen 540s doing it. Kenworth Develop and assemble trucks in Victoria. road trains are on open fairly straight roads not really mountainous or steep.they can pretty much drive up to 130-140 km per hour flat out. You must move off the paved road in a car as you don't want them spraying gravel and rocks and they have stability issues or could get bogged in the thick bull dust.

[@violetscreaming]

But then you’ve got the road trains that aren’t road trains that are allowed in the city areas. By this I mean A Double with 2 trailers (up to 3 shipping containers) but three pivot points. They are both longer and carry far heavier weights than a B Double but aren’t titled such because it would freak people out to hear they are sharing their inner city freeway with a road train.

[@MummyJo1]

This Aussie has never seen a road train as they are not around where I live

[@violetscreaming]

Depends on where you live, but there are road trains that don’t always look like road trains.

[@G.H.O.S.T.254]

Lots of trucks are heavily modified, Faster engines, faster gearbox and splitter ratios and faster diff ratios. We built one truck for a man, and I am really not kidding. He made the trip between Melbourne and Perth in 24 hours. Most here are going to attempt to shoot me down, but yes it was possible. And that suicidal fool wanted his truck to go faster. We told him no chance we would attempt it, after his little feat, let alone we were not sure how to make it any faster anyway.

[@julesmarwell8023]

Aust is the size of Europe remember

[@kellytrelawney8979]

ALL truck makes in Australia MUST be australianised. The manufacturers who ignored that found out the hard way as thier truck disintergrated on the rough australian roads. They weigh heavier than their overseas counter parts. Roadtrain chassis START at "severe heavy duty" simply due to the weight they haul.

[@user-dg3fy6hy8k]

0:59 Ether have most Australians seen that ( Just so you no ) #PMSL ...as most Aussies like on the coast we4re u will not see trucks like that mate. #Simple.

[@mort8143]

Danke schon . 🚛🚛🇦🇺

[@ladybug591]

Imagine the foolish idea that an EV/truck, with explosive and dangerous batteries, could ever replace the power obtained by these vehicles. These vehicles were designed years ago by people with brains who lived in the real world where there is desert heat and the need to have them constantly running. Made for the purpose and doing the required job, imagine what is going to happen when they get pulled off the road by lunatic greenies and replaced with "zero-energy" systems. Gone are the days of science and technology being applied to test things out and see if and how everything works.....anyway.....

[@JosephCompnotta]

What it isn't talking about is most of the time they have escorts w/them as guards and a mechanics

[@philcarr7969]

I don't know where you get that idea. Why would guards be needed, or mechanics. Mostly it is the driver only. Some companies do 2 drivers for a quick trip as they can drive in relays. Sydney to Perth or Adelaide to Darwin are even then multi day trips.

[@WayneCook306]

Yes, this guy has no idea where he gets guards and mechanics from I will never know I have been a truckie for 35 years and I have never had guards or mechanics come with me on a run, most on-road repairs are done by the drivers. @@philcarr7969

[@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb]

​@@philcarr7969you bet me to it , people really need to research the information before saying dumb stuff

[@michaelcauser474]

What do you mean with guards? If anyone tried to get at a trucker, he would have every other driver on the road to argue with. CB type radios are pretty much a standard fitting with all long distance truckers, and they are on the air all the time.

[@JosephCompnotta]

I was told back in the 90's when I was checking into doing it that the convoys are so large they have a security detail and a maintenance detail because of being so isolated@@michaelcauser474

[@rustyvonarx1345]

DH

[@tonytone9508]

That is crazy!! 😳 I've never seen that before. Those trucks are road hazardous if they ever use that here in the States. 🇺🇸

[@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb]

Not hazardous at all road trains are predominantly used in the outback, when they get to the outskirts of a city they drop some of the trailer's off and go into town and come back for the rest, I'm married to a interstate truck driver who has done it for 35years 😊

[@micksmith-vt5yi]

lol yanks are road hazardous.. these are natural part of life in Australia and if did not have them products would be rediculous in price.