Road Trains And Their Complex Rules - Truck Driving In Australia | American School Bus Driver Reacts

[@brianahern5239]

Open your ears boys. They don't stop every half hour. They stop every 4 hours for a half hour break. They don't turn off the engine. If you are on the road that long with little or no traffic it gets boring and easy to get tired and fall asleep. Therefore a break every 4 hours is for safety of everyone.

[@gregorturner4753]

unless they are running duel drivers then they pull over, check tyres then swap, one drives the other sleeps. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIC6eoBsi7GpjbM

[@lenardconroy565]

every 4 hours you get a break? LMFAO you must be in SA lol in WA we get a break every 6 hrs

[@brianahern5239]

@@lenardconroy565 NSW, but you've only got 3 H'ways in WA. LOL.

[@matthewcullen1298]

​@@lenardconroy565i admire your ability to stay awake mate. I start falling asleep after a few hours. Im a carpenter and i can go all day but put me behind the wheel especially in the sunshine,i start getting drowsy. I'd need to be skullin coffee all day.

[@ronniexx9743]

You should watch "Outback Truckers". shows what driving in the outback is hard work on the drivers & the trucks.

[@dutchroll]

30 minute break every 4 hours is what the narrator said. So an 8 hour drive from origin to destination needs only a single 30 minute break in the middle. That’s perfectly reasonable and sensible.

[@NETFREIGHTSERVICESQUEENSLAND]

I dont how he gets his wage totals from way above that , I drive Road Train and clear $2500 a week

[@myopinion69420]

yea, the 'blue collar' figure, even if you take it as USD, work out to under minimum wage even if you take tax out. minimum wage for full time is like ~$800aud AFTER tax. sure, that has gone up a lot in the last ~5 years, but still, the figures are way off.

[@Whatiwantedwastaken]

I thin he’s quoting day pays as weeks…. $37.50/hr for a 10hr day sounds more like a blue collar job

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

This was made a while ago. We now have a 7 on our million population figure.

[@myopinion69420]

@@kathleenmayhorne3183 the population reached 24mil is about 2016. wages were not that much lower then. minimum wage was around $17.80 an hour, so that works out to $676.40aud before tax and thats minimum wage, so even places like coles and maccas paid more. (assuming your not junior, there is a reason places like that hire teenagers, they have a lower minimum wage)

[@launchsquid]

I wouldn't even get out of bed for $600 a week. $300 a week is literally poverty, if you earned $300 a week you're also on centerlink getting a top up because you're basically unemployed.

[@kevo6190]

Yeah boys. There are farms down here bigger than a lot of American states. Thank God for our Truckies 🤘

[@ricklorimer9984]

Anna Downs is bigger than Israel.

[@avenger007007]

aren't they called stations?

[@ricklorimer9984]

@@avenger007007 yeah. But most yanks wouldn't know that.

[@kevo6190]

@@avenger007007 Properties, stations, farms. I'm trying to make it easy for the 90% of the country that never ever visited any of the above!👍

[@garthwaters5756]

Most truckies I know make over a hundred grand in Australia don’t know where this guy got his info from

[@steveheywood9428]

An American is narrating this mis-leading video, which is bordering on BS at times. 😮

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

Well the US do add a bit of gst or mayo on everything.

[@adamthreapleton9149]

Hardly a fact in it.

[@bentleigh4951]

Absolute crap

[@nan9712]

Agree 100%.

[@gregoryparnell2775]

No Hills In Australia ! Ha .

[@MelodyMan69]

You hit 4 Kangaroos, but you MISS 400 Kangaroos. Good driving, that.!

[@brianahern5239]

The wages are way off. No one works for $600 per week and no way $300. More like $3000 per week is closer to the mark. The minimum wage for unskilled work in Australia is $23.23 per hour. Skilled workers are paid a lot more .

[@downunderandoverit]

I am looking at a Kangaroo right now.. 90kgs MY ASS! This one is closing in at 200kg, he's a big boy and honestly out of about 20 I can see at least 6 of those clock 100-120kg+

[@NETFREIGHTSERVICESQUEENSLAND]

f we look at the Road train driver salary statistics in Australia as of 3 January 2024, the represented employee makes $109,386; to be more precise pay rate is $9,115 per month, $2,104 per week, or $57.57 per hour.

[@SATANSWHORE666]

I'm on 150k net a year i work 2 weeks on 2 weeks off and get 6 weeks holidays a year

[@kristybaddins3251]

Yeah, I am Australian and thought the salary bit sounded wrong. I work in retail, which is one of the lowest paid incomes in aus, and I make between $500-700 per week. Pretty sure truckies are on more than that haha

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

highly under paid in my opinion.

[@davidbarry994]

Nobody in Australia gets paid as low as $375 a week as a full time employee. That's around $10 per hour. The legislated minimum wage is currently $23.23 per hour and it's stringently enforced. PS the population of Australia is 27 million.

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

@@davidbarry994 I think what is missing is the year the video was made.

[@BeatWittwer-x8p]

The SE corner of Australia ( Adelaide/Melbourne/;Sydney/Brisbane) HAD an extensive rail network from the 1880's to the 1950's. We then allowed it to decay, closed literally 100's of spur lines and pretty well moved everything to the roads. The road lobby has dominated politics since the 1960's and the results are there for all to see.

[@joesky011]

Yes there is an extensive train network in Australia. In fact one railway, the Indian Pacific which runs 4,352kms from Sydney to Perth, encompasses the longest straight stretch of track in the world. It runs around 470 kilometres (297 miles) absolutely straight. No curve. You should check out the Indian Pacific and The Ghan. Very high level tourist passenger trains that cover huge swaths of the country.

[@bronclaire]

There's a reality TV show called Outback Truckers - the 10th season is apparently about to come out. Watch some of that to get a feel for what its like and what kind of country/ environments they drive different kinds of trucks in.

[@vaudevillian7]

Was about to suggest the same thing

[@SATANSWHORE666]

A show full of steering wheel attendants working on a kilometre rate ive never seen so much bullshit in my life

[@cottawalla]

There were a spate of gruesome road fatalities decades ago now where trucks were rear ending lines of other vehicles queued up at road works. Drivers zoning out to the extent that they're on autopilot is a problem, hence the rules on breaks. Your standard semi in Australia has been 22 wheels since i was a kid in the 60's. Road trains are several times that number of course. They would be carrying more than 18 as spares. My cousin drove his own truck in Queensland where flooding over roads can extend for many miles, and the risk he took driving through that was having the grease washed out of his wheel bearings. And if you're driving a car, the best place to be on long trips is behind a large truck. In many parts there are no fences to keep livestock from roaming and it's called a bull-bar for that reason.

[@missrocks]

The 4 hour on 30 minutes off, along with everyone being held accountable came about because of truck accidents due to driver fatigue due to the distances involved.

[@kenpassfield11]

it is generally a 4 hour drive then a half hour break, in general on the East Coast there will be about 2 hours minimum between servo's (gas stations) that can cater to a Road Train or just a Truck in general. The Drivers will tend to do more hours due to the time constraints that are put on them by the company needing the products moved. For me if I was doing a long trip I actually liked to be behind a Truck particularly at night as they are better able to see what's in front than I am in my car. Also Trucks in Australia are also speed limited to 100km (62 miles) per hour

[@timothybarkley8609]

I drove B doubles. Brisbane to Emerald 11 hours driving one way $950 per trip no loading or unloading. With BFM I could drive for 14 hours with breaks of course. In 35years of driving I have only hit about 4 Kangaroos and now days most drivers stick to the limits of their log books not the other way around. Basic BFM, in 6 1/4 hours you have to have a 15 minute continuous break. In 9 hours, 8 and a half hours work time, in 12 hours , 11 hours work time, and in 24 hours 14 hours work time 7 hours continuous rest.

[@ramiromaia592]

Because of the 4 or more trailers is why the name the Road Train came about

[@vaudevillian7]

It was a really interesting insight into American perspectives that you thought of the 4-hourly break as beneficial to the *truck* before the human.. (just realised you thought it was every 30 minutes too)

[@lynndally9160]

We're now at population of 27 million - yaay go us lol. If you think 4 trailers are alot, You need to check out a truck in our mining industry called The Centipede. You don’t take a break every half hour, it's a half hour break every 4 hours. Also this must be a very old video. Those wages were way off. The average wage in Australia is around $900 - $1000. Our minimum wage is $23.23/ hr but a lot of employers pay over minimum. For instance, i work in a servo (gas station) and I'm on $38/hr.

[@SATANSWHORE666]

I drove the centipede for udo back in the day we went to quads they were just as long as the centipede and didn't swing the dog as much and we could get more tonnes on

[@leniere309]

Kangaroos can jump so high that they can actually come through your trucks window, I have had them jump straight over the top of my car and I mean the passenger section. Cheers from Adelaide South Australia, ex local tray top truck driver, mini bus and taxis too.

[@Reneesillycar74]

There’s still plenty of respect out there for truckies. But the few “cowboys” on the road can ruin it a bit, like in any profession. There are huge, empty distances between cities & towns in Australia. Freight train lines are too expensive to lay down, especially in remote areas with small populations.✌🏼

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

And then the heat messes up the rails, or you get flooded out.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@@kathleenmayhorne3183 when I studied I worked the railway in QLD. Hot days and it buckles, rain washes the tracks out daily. Especially out west, spent a lot of time in Cloncurry and Julia Creek constantly rebuilding the tracks.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Everyone was worried about the Cowboys until the Indians arrived.

[@nan9712]

Don't know where he got the idea that truckies don't have respect. BS. And the rubbish about imported workers being the cause of accidents. Just nonsense

[@nigelmcconnell1909]

You should look up images of "Big Lizzie", an all terrain tractor/truck built here in Australia in 1915. It still exists and is on display

[@MrBrenos]

There’s a road train pulling competition that use to happen at Mungindi, boarder of nsw and Queensland. There is a picture on the wall in the pub with a road train pulling (only just) a 1.5 mile long trailer load. I can’t remember how many trailers, there’s a shot from a helicopter. Aussie road train drivers are the top truckies in Oz. And no the roads aren’t always wide and perfect 😂 I travel for work all over nsw and a bit of Victoria. No driving after that sun dips over the horizon, the Roos literally come out and and line the roads in some parts, especially the outback. The truckies have to keep on trucking though. So the mornings on my way to work, you see the remnants of a few unlucky Roos

[@adamcameron8972]

Not sure when this was made. Doesn't look that old but I work 4 days a week pulling a single fuel tanker doing metro in Perth and I clear $1800 a week after tax . Oh and some drivers in Western Australia can do up to 17hrs a day

[@seasonedpotato8214]

A good tv show to look for is outback truckers

[@PiersDJackson]

A couple of things about long haul trucking.... this video has gone for a simplest explanation, rather than complexity of reality, so team driving is common... meaning Bill drives the first three and a half hours, Ben drives the next three and half, Bill for three and a half, Ben for three and half, then stop.

[@jeffkeeley4594]

Australia is a much bigger country than the rest of Europe was his statement!!!! Europe is about thirteen thousand kilometers from Oz!!!! Might need to look at a world map.

[@Julie50s]

The longest road train in Australia is the centipede. Its a mining truck.

[@whatchinu2]

Average truckie wage is around 65k, experienced truckies can get up around 85k per year. There is a big surge in husband and wife teams living and working their own truck so they can tag team and do excessive hours. I have seen some couples running their own truck pulling 300k per year on long haul routes. Most of this video was accurate but now that you opened this can of worms here is some lingo for you to investigate. truck configs come in variations of: (and you thought aussie slang was hard) 3-axle semi, single drive, single axle 4-axle semi, single drive, tandem axle 5-axle semi, single drive, triaxle 5-axle semi, tandem drive, tandem axle 6-axle semi, tandem drive, triaxle 7-axle semi, tandem drive, quad-axle 7-axle semi, tri-drive, tri-axle B-Doubles (Prime mover coupled to 2 semi-trailers, connected via a B coupling) B-double, tandem drive, tandem-tri axle B-double, tandem drive, tritandem axle B-double, tandem drive, triaxle B-double, tandem drive, quadtri-axle B-double, tandem drive, quadaxle B-Triples (Prime mover coupled to 3 semi-trailers, connected via a B coupling) The trailers are 2 A or lead trailers with a following B or semi-trailer) Coding B-triple, tandem drive, 3 tandem axle groups B-triple, tandem drive, tri-tritandem axle B-triple, tandem drive, tri-axle Road trains AB-triple, tandem drive, tri axle, tandem dolly AB-triple, tandem drive, tri axle, tri-axle dolly AB-triple, tandem drive, tri quad-tri, tri-axle dolly AB-triple, tri-drive, tri-axle,tandem dolly AB-triple, tri-drive, tri-quad-tri,tri-axle dolly BAB-quad, tandem drive, tri axle, tandem dolly BAB-quad, tandem drive, tri axle, tri-dolly BAB-quad, tandem drive, quad-tri, tri-dolly BAB-quad, tri-drive, tri-axle, tandem-dolly (heaviest road train at 143 tons GVM) Hey you asked for it. enjoy those worms

[@Rastusmishka12]

You guys need to check out the centipede. His pay figures are also way off!

[@seanlander9321]

The first commercial operator of road trains was TNT, who made the rules.

[@AndrewRoberts11]

You'd have thought after 90 of road trains the Kangaroos would have worked it out, then again a Brightline train can hit 4 Floridians in a trip, and we've had passenger trains for 200 years. 😮

[@dougsinclair3596]

In Australia, the classic truck driver road etiquette also died about 25 years ago due to an influx of young people who have aggressive attitudes and no respect for other drivers and their safety.

[@darrenmurdoch7561]

You should check out an Australian series called outback truckers. It will show where a lot of these road trains have to go. Not just on bitumen roads

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Used to work the railways before going into aviation. The problem is all states in Australia basically run different gauge so the states aren't really connected completely by rail. Also it isn't cost effective for regional areas. There is a major project about to kick off connecting the ports of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne by rail.

[@JohnGallen-bh1xx]

It must be a very old video dudes, the dole pays more than $350, I think. I clear ( after tax) $2450 a fortnight (2 weeks) just as a Gosford hospital toilet cleaner extraordinar. I do arvo shifts and Sundays though. But I do get a extra weeks holiday (5 weeks total) for working more than 36 Sundays a year

[@peterg219]

Rail freight has been captured by the road transport system. I recall as a kid in the 1960's our grandmother would send boxes of seasonal fruits using the rail parcel van system we used to have. She would drop it at the station in central west N.S.W., 300kms distant, to arrive in a Sydney suburban railway station very affordably. Today's generations have forgotten how practical this system was. And please open your ears!!! Road trains are drive a minimum of 4 hours before they have 20-30minute breaks. Trucking companies are huge in Australia. The transport giant "Toll" for example, now owned by the Japanese (I believe) was one of the largest transport operations in the world. There's also "Fox" and "TNT", etc.

[@richardcrowell284]

My neighbor used to run Sydney -Melbourne return three times a week. He was under an extended hours driving permit. His trip each way is 433 miles plus, he could drive for seven hour with a one hour break. But at the end of a one way trip he had to take a ten hour break. After so many days they have to be away from the truck. He got a huge fine ($700 au) because he bought a new logbook during a one hour break. He was telling me about some foreign drivers running three up rotating seats to bunk. But they would pay a forklift driver to back the semi into the loading dock as none of them could do it. Just another fact is that in the outback on dirt roads you can see the dust or they will call up on the cb. What you do is get off the ride by a good hundred feet if possible and wait for the dust and rocks to settle. The middle of Australia is sparsely populated and rail freight is mainly between capital cities. In New South Wales road trains are not permitted over the mountains and are restricted to the country.

[@adamkitterhing8732]

Should watch a episode of Outback Trucker and see what you think.

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

This dude is not listing. The guy said every 4 hours.

[@jennymark7403]

Watch Australia's outback truckers show , it's a huge TV show

[@andrefischer5025]

18 wheelers vs 80 wheelers :)

[@diongrainger3944]

There is a good reason the Australian transport industry is highly regulated: in 2022 deaths involving heavy transport in the USA was 5,100 & Oz was 163. That’s 148 more deaths in USA per million people. 7:23

[@Aussiegregory1979]

In Australia with basic fatigue management training we can drive 14hrs but with advanced fatigue management you can drive 16hrs but you need to have 2 consecutive nights rest in a week. With the fatigue management training you can drive 6hrs before your first break. If these rules are broken there are huge fines and can be in the thousands of dollars for a single breach, and we lose points aswell. You only get about 12 to 13 points on your license as a professional driver, with the loss of points lasting 40months. If you run out of points you ll lose your license for 3 to 24months depending on the last offence. The lowest payed in the industry for drivers carrying single trailer after tax is about $1800 a week. Its a good gig.

[@stephenhodgson3506]

Although Australia is very flat there are still some quite steep hills. I hired a car in Queensland and drove on roads where there were signs to watch out for Road Trains. When I was hiring the car I was asked where I would be driving as if I was planning to drive in some areas I would need a radio so I could contact a driver of a road train if I wanted to overtake him. He would then tell me when it was safe to overtake as it would take some time to get past him, I wasn't going that far into the outback so I didn't need one. The other thing I did experience was that some roads were only one lane wide with the white line down the middle. If you met an oncoming vehicle you were expected to drive half on the road and half on the dirt track to the side. It did concern me that I had seen the warning for road trains on the same road.

[@Harldin]

Road Trains with 2 trailers are now operating from about halfway between Brisbane and Toowoomba heading west.

[@stephenhodgson3506]

@@Harldin We saw the signs when we were near Undara but we never saw any of the road trains themselves.

[@treadingtheboards2875]

I did a tour of Far North Queensland back in the late 1970's, back in the days of CB radio, it was a huge benefit with all the semi's and road trains I came across, even joining in a "convoy" a few times. (I was in a small Datsun station wagon.) Another thing, I felt safer with truckies than with regular car drivers.

[@jayweb51]

The primemovers in Australia are designed and selected for specific uses. Overcabs are a lot easier to manoeuvre through metropolitan streets and areas; the longnose are generally used for long haul where there is less turning on open roads.

[@terrysmith4341]

Overcabs ?..lol

[@Rassskle]

Something i forgot earlier..... This video was about our road trains. This is a special license and be sure it is a very DIFFERENT pay rate and structure. And.... the mining industry pays much more than other employers . A woman driving heavy machinery for a mining company can have a 6 month paid holiday every year and still be paid more than our Prime Minister ( English for President ).

[@dramoth64]

My late stepdad was a road train driver. He would make around 3-5000 AUD/week. Mind you, he would do around 10k km/week. The trucks these days have 2 drivers in a truck and they can change on the move. If they have to stop, they will change over. As for the kangaroos, cleaning up 4-5 a trip is a joke. If a mob of roos is feeding on both sides of the road, there is a good chance that you will clean up 5-8 roos driving down a section of the road. One day, heading into Dubbo at dawn, there was a massive mob of a couple of hundred roos feeding beside the road, I tried to avoid as many as possible, but I still managed to clean up about 15 roos in about 1km. The thunk sound they make as they hit the roobar is loud.

[@thedutchhuman]

Europe: Maximum total driving time Rules apply for the maximum driving time. This is the time when you drive the truck or bus. As a driver you may: driving a maximum of 10 hours per day twice a week (and a maximum of 9 hours per day on other working days in the same week); a maximum of 56 hours of driving per week (if you meet the condition below); a maximum of 90 hours of driving per 2 weeks. This applies to weeks 1 and 2. But also to weeks 2 and 3, and so on. The transport operator must organize the work in such a way that the driver can return to his place of residence at least once every 4 weeks. Or to the company branch where the driver is normally stationed. Maximum continuous driving time A maximum applies not only to the total driving time, but also to the uninterrupted driving time. Uninterrupted driving time is the total accumulated driving time between 2 interruptions (breaks). Or between a rest period and a break. These rules apply to the maximum continuous driving time: The maximum continuous driving time may not exceed 4.5 hours. After 4.5 hours of driving time you must take a break of 45 minutes. This 4.5 hour driving time may also be divided into two parts. The first break will then last at least 15 minutes. In addition, a break of at least 30 minutes must be taken within the 4.5 hours of driving time. A double-manned truck or bus does not have to stand still for 45 minutes after every 4.5 hours. A stop is then only required to change drivers (and driver card or registration sheet). The condition is that the driver taking a break does not assist the driver driving the vehicle. For example with navigation. Not only driving is work, but also other activities, such as loading and unloading. If you work more than 6 hours in a row (continuously), you should also take a break: Do you work continuously between 6 and 9 hours a day? Then you must take a break of at least 30 minutes. Do you work continuously for more than 9 hours? Then you must take a break of at least 45 minutes. You may also take these breaks in 15-minute chunks.

[@DavidPola1961]

Chain of responsibility laws were pushed and got in by the TWU , Transport Workers Union of Australia , they would be called Teamsters in America , not sure how old this is but these guys earn over 2 grand a week these days

[@richardmiller3839]

I drove from Perth to Darwin. About 2500 miles. The best road trip of my life.

[@michaelboyce7079]

I've often heard that the average age of Aussie truckies is rising and of the lack of experienced drivers, but despite that, I've almost completely given up on working in any capacity in the local transport industry. Despite having an MC licence and a forklift ticket and years of experience, I don't even get a call back. I would have thought that having a forkie who can load and unload trailers, move trucks and trailers, make up roadtrains and move them around would be an asset, but apparently not.

[@stigandrmyrardalur5208]

The regulations on brakes in Europe is that a truck doing 80 km/h has to stop on maximum 56 meters. These road-trains are heavier, but has more axles, and more brakes, so they'll stop at the same distance

[@SATANSWHORE666]

It takes me 1 kilometre to slow down properly and I'm in a quad roatriain at 230ton gross

[@35manning]

Slow down properly ≠ emergency breaking

[@SATANSWHORE666]

@@35manning which brakes would you use

[@35manning]

@@SATANSWHORE666 for maintaining speed down a grade, for slowing down for town or for emergency braking so I don't smash the idiot caravan driver who overtook me and then slammed on his brakes? Which brakes I use and how hard I use them depends on the situation. But if you were a truck driver, you'd know that already.

[@SATANSWHORE666]

@35manning I could see you pulling on your maxis at full speed😄

[@cjjoe2385]

Australian transport industry is heavily regulated. Drivers can drive / work 12 hrs a day under standard hours. 14 hours a day under Fatigue Management accreditation and 15.5 hours under Advance Fatigue Management. There is a lot more detail in breaks that vary across the different accreditations, but under Basic Fatigue Management as an example, you can work up to 6 hours before taking your first 15 minute break. Breaching also is not common within the industry now, but there are still some. Don’t place too much faith in what this chap says in the video as he is way off with a lot of it.

[@cjjoe2385]

The Chain of Responsibility laws are very real and show how serious Australia takes safety within the industry. Wages are low as far as hourly rate goes. To make a reasonable dollar, you need the overtime. Sadly, there is a lack of respect for truckies in Australia. Most people have no idea of the skill set required. Re accidents, the biggest killer in the industry is fatigue. The majority of fatalities also, a car is at fault, not the truck. Car drivers fatigue is also a big issue as they can drive unregulated hours.

[@Cairns74]

It’s hitting cattle, horses, camels and donkeys which is the scariest and deadliest results

[@jayweb51]

Australia has both rail and road freight; but due to direct rail links between capital cities, there's a greater need for road to cover the large gaps. Mining in Australia has probably some of the biggest road trains.

[@gregorturner4753]

to answer about rail, no up and down the east coast there is a decent rail system. but between perth and Adeliade, about half the country wide there is one railway line. so most of the outback towns are serviced by trucks, hence the road trains. For example West Australia, Perth is its capital city and the largest city in the state. we have a lot of towns up north like karratha and derby as well as inland that service the mines. with no rail network everything has to be trucked between locations. so the road train was born able to haul massive amounts of goods to and from the remote location.

[@janmeyer3129]

The stopping is for the sake of other road users (and, occasionally, those in kindergartens etc on the sides of the roads)

[@stuarthancock571]

Actually braking isn’t as difficult as you think. All those extra axles are giving extra brakes. The only thing is that that rearmost axle brakes may take an extra couple of seconds to activate just with the time it takes for the air pressure to go all the way back.

[@SATANSWHORE666]

Tell me how you would pull up in a emergency doing 90km downhill pulling over 200tonif it's so easy

[@35manning]

More weight means more momentum, BUT it also means more weight pushing the rubber tires into the road surface which increases the grip and allows you to apply the brakes harder and sometimes you can actually stop FASTER when loaded. I used to run a heavy rigid tilt tray, hauling shipping containers, tractors, construction equipment etc. Empty it took me 3-4 times as long to stop because if I tried to brake hard the rear wheels would lock up. Put a load on the back and I could pull up almost as good as your average car. Trains that run on rails are DIFFERENT because they use steel wheels on steel rails specifically to reduce rolling resistance, which also reduces braking resistance available. A rail train takes longer to stop the heavier it is, a road train doesn't. A road train does, normally, only have a single engine and set of drive wheels, so accelerating will take longer with more trailers and weight, but stopping is shared across the entire road train.

[@SATANSWHORE666]

@35manning so after that essay you forgot to explain the braking system of what brakes to use and when lol

[@35manning]

@@SATANSWHORE666 ok dip shit. Firstly I wouldn't be doing 90kph downhill pulling over 200t in the first place given that maximum limits are around 140t without getting a permit and such a permit will likely include speed restrictions far less than 90kph. But a "real" truck driver like you already knows this, right?

[@gregorturner4753]

also two up draving where two drivers share the trip so one drives whilst the other sleeps. there is a youtube vlog of one guy who does this between adeliade and darwin.

[@dougsinclair3596]

Driving distances in Australia can typically be more than 12 hours an average and often much much more.

[@alankohn6709]

The rail network does link the major cities but there just isn't enough population to justify the cost of having trains running to smaller towns. The driving limits are because of the distances driven between anything with places in Australia where it can be over a hundred miles between any human habitation. So drivers spend long periods of driving on long flat straight roads and there have been some tragic accidents between trucks and other vehicles most of which have been traced to driver fatigue this lead to strict driving regulations. There is even campaigns during the holiday periods when it is common for people to drive long distances encouraging drivers to 'Stop and revive' with government and charities setting up food vans offering tea and coffee at pull in on major highways

[@thomaschivers7883]

In the outback there are no fences and large landholders and the biggest number of camels in the world thats why the robars are also called bullbars there are also a large number of buffalo

[@skywatcher8045]

You misunderstood guys; half hour break every four hours. Not every half hour.

[@EnigmaStar153]

Getting a licence etc to drive a lorry is so expensive here in UK

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

The rest of Europe!? This is an completely different continent, in the opposite hemisphere to Europe.

[@ElizabethVassilios]

You need to watch Outback truckers these guys are doing the hard work supplying communities in the outback

[@heatherpagan4840]

Outback Truckers is an interesting series. About the truckers and the dramas they go through just to get the goods from one place to another,

[@c.u.c7938]

The Australian population now has reached 27 million

[@caveman4598]

I worked for a major transport company in Australia we have a good freight railway system we would load what we call rail trailers and the semi driver would take it to a rail yard to load on a freight train and we would load B doubles 2 trailers with quad tanks 4 to all over Australia without re fueling drivers would always have a back load a lot of these 4 and 5 trailers have little motors on them to help push the trailers and the truck must be rated for that purpose

[@Mav_F]

The wages are in USD, not AUD. Plus some earn a lot more than that. They can earn up to and over $75,000 AUD about $50,000 plus USD a year. As a Bus Driver for the State Government, I was earning $60,000 AUD and over in a year back in 2012. I am guessing other states of Australia it's higher.

[@MarkJessop-hq2uo]

world's biggest truck is made by a mining company here in Australia its nickname is the centipede

[@phillipsmith4501]

I drove only once a road train in the 90s and it takes a special driver to do that job your gotta be a diesal mechanic , a continual tyre changer in 100' heat , then thiers the dust ,snakes and yowies cheers .

[@UmpireStrikesBack]

You heard incorrectly. They stop every 4 hours not every 1/2 hour. It is a fatigue regulation.

[@baldydbt1443]

Also in certain states like Northern Territory there's literally no fences at all so the road you drive on goes straight through cattle stations so there's cows kangaroos even camels n buffaloes up there besides all other wildlife plus sheep n goats forgot those and deere in other states usually along the east coast

[@vadersfather1248]

Drove triples in wa for about five years was probably the best driving experience I ever had hard work it’s twelve hour shifts six weeks on two weeks off but the cash was epic but in the end the heat drove me nuts 45 degree days

[@DianeFrey-e7f]

You guys need to check out mining road trains, it will really blow your mind.

[@Bohemiahotrodandcustom]

Kangaroos are not the only hazards, you watch out for buffalo, cattle, wild pigs and cars.

[@jackjames1543]

To put it in perspective, LA population and the whole of Australia population are not far off

[@paulyu1967]

Swift also in Oz is called- See What I F…… Today as with your USA counterparts hit overhead bridges or cannot reverse the trailers

[@avenger007007]

there was a show on Netflix called Outback Truckers

[@dominicpelle7841]

Nah you take a break every 4 hrs for 30 mins max 12 hrs driving... You got confused

[@zwieseler]

Now 27 million people here, but that means no significant rail network.

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

He is not a person who asked any of us how we say Melbourne or Brisbane, how annoying. Brissy is not the bane of our existence, nor does Melbourne equate with the Bourne identity. You can keep saying your Melbourne that way, we shorten ours like Brisbin and Melbin. No neither of these capital cities are like rubbish bins, they are beautiful places, we just like saying them quicker. When all the long railway lines are around the coast and more recently, one up the centre that cut folks farms in half, there are a heck of a lot of places trains don't reach. Even with huge trucks. Order a kitchen in WA and you have a 6 month wait. We had a truckie sadly with covid during lockdown, unknowingly passing his illness across Melbourne during lockdown, even shut down Maccas. You also have a lot of things to check when you stop, how many wheels on 6 trailers.

[@julesmarwell8023]

bridges in America ,probably all of them needing repairs. NO WAY could you ever have enough money to repair them OLD . THAT IS why your trucks are limited as to how much weight they can carry.

[@julesmarwell8023]

a truck in Australia might be of a foreign name. AND DESIGN however. they are pulled apart, re designed and rebuilt FOR AUSTRALIAN TOUGH CONDITIONS. or they fall apart

[@seanlander9321]

Which is one of the reason Volvo is still making trucks in Australia.

[@darroncharlesworth6980]

Weights are wrong on this. I drive quads in north Western Australia and we're running 215t, 60m quads on the highway from the mine to the port. The Bulk Haul body + 6 trailer combo shown 4:56 only runs on private mine roads and are approx. 500t loaded and 100m long. As for braking quad highway trucks, particularly the Volvos pull-up surprisingly quickly if you really have to but yes, under normal conditions a good few kms is used to pull them up using engine brakes rather than airbrakes.

[@Jeni10]

It’s a 30 minute break every four hours, not every half hour. You misheard that for some reason.

[@bludocc1]

As of 1 July 2023, the MINIMUM wage by law is $23.23 per hour, or $882.80 per 38-hour week. The earnings numbers on your video are very skewed in the wrong direction .

[@ausrobroy1964]

That must have been made quite a while ago. My son drives HR and MC, (Heavy Rigid and Multi-combination). Average weekly wage is ~AU$1000 -1500/week. Local drivers that I know are on AU$750-900/week. Some of the things they note are correct. However I would call this a tourist video, because they say a lot of things that make people say "wow" without necessarily being accurate. By the way, the average truck here is not an 18 wheeler, it's 22 wheels. And in Central Australia they quite often have 6-12 trailers carrying cattle going along dirt road specifically for the road trains

[@davejensen7922]

If you hit a roo they can be on the hop and come straight through the windscreen and really mess you and the car up I’ve seen this aftermath it’s unpleasant

[@davidziebell1693]

You guys should check out some videos of broad acre farming in Australia

[@mikeythehat6693]

You don't see them in the cities, they're not allowed in the cities. The driver of the Prime Mover has to drive to a depot in a country town somewhere and hook up his trailers. You usually see 3 trailer road trains but 4 trailer ones (and more) do exist but mainly for ore from the mines and livestock. The railway system handles a lot of freight between Capital cities on the east coast and along the south coast between Melbourne and Perth but there is little or no railway infrastructure in the more remote places. If you are moving ore from a central Australian mine to a Railhead somewhere and was only using a single trailer, you'd need a convoy every time. Also, I don't know how old this video is but wages have easily doubled from the amount that the narrator specifies.

[@paulholmes9939]

its not a break every half hour its a half hour break every 4 to 5 hours

[@jaminfx]

Australia has three railroad gauges, not wholly interconnected... 3'6" / 4'8&1/2" / 5'3". Road trains are allowed on the Brisbane Gateway motorway... look it up. It is not the outback!

[@gerbentvandeveen]

In the Netherlands we also have heavy transport.

[@johnfranke9655]

You two need to listen, he said drive four hours, rest half hour, up to 12 hours driving time,

[@GarnetDart]

the lights are on but nobody is home. Guys try shutting up and listening. Also try watching things narrated by actual aussies