Why Do Aussie Trucks Have Bullbars?

[@AmazinDean]

People need to remember Road Trains in Aus cant really slow down very quickly and that you dont want to be making sharp movements when you have 2-3 truck trailers on.

[@robertchinnock8017]

ive seen road trains with up to 4 trailers..

[@paullangford8179]

If you see one coming the other way on a road out back, move over. Because if he has to swerve from the centre of the road, the "crack the whip" on that last trailer will destroy your car.

[@NullaNulla]

AmazinDean even more so if it's a double deck livestock trailer.

[@Jack_Lange]

Indrid Cold I've never seen any with 6 ever. Although I don't live in not I've driven through there, 4 yes 6 no

[@paullangford8179]

Depends where you are. Western Australia you can have long trains, I think up to about 120 tonnes. Also, on private roads. NSW has a lot of restrictions, depending on where you are in the state.

[@neddyladdy]

Trucks have bullbars so the driver can have a place to dry his towel.

[@westy_ss9425]

And hang his singlet.

[@slimchancetoo]

Also a great place to stretch the missus out while you give her a Right Royal Porking.

[@robertchinnock8017]

i was thinking that my self lol

[@neddyladdy]

ah., yeah, whatever that all means

[@okm88]

Singlet aka the wife basher apparel.

[@bradwilliams3452]

Because every now and then truck drivers are lucky enough to come across politicians giving interviews on the side of the road. 😂

[@Cryptonymicus]

What's a politician? Just another big mouth from the bar that a bunch of drunks all voted for.

[@Heavywall70]

Politicians are like diapers They need to be changed often For exactly the same reason

[@conortobin1537]

Haha. That’s the most funny comment I have come across on KZbin

[@jerrykinnin7941]

Politicians and welfare people are the same. Always needing a handout.

[@Silent1.1]

2:51 😭😭

[@bigbill74scots]

Huge respect to these road train drivers, there is serious skill involved in trucking those beasts throughout the territories.

[@cjeam9199]

I mean it can’t be _that_ hard, as long as you don’t have to reverse much you just gotta pay attention and steer the back of the trailer!

[@kellyboon8458]

@@cjeam9199 .... Trust me if you think it's easy then you've got no idea what soever..... Steering & changing gear's while negotiating our roads is hard enough.... Let alone having 4 trailer's swinging off the back of your prime mover.... Weighing between 160 to 240 tonnes.... I know cause I've driven them... Been driving trucks Australia now for 32 yrs

[@BaghdadSon78]

What a beautiful engine sound!

[@TheBonzomatic]

Whoa! I didn't know that you had camels in Australia!

[@dirtyann]

TheBonzomatic didnt knew either...kinda surprised me! lol!

[@robthelog223]

dirtyann commentateur They were brought over in the 1880s to haul supplies and equipment for the construction of the, 90% desert , Adelaide - Darwin railway. They were turned loose and thrived in the outback and, very quickly, became a feral pest animal. Many professional hunters make a living out of shooting them for the pet food industry.

[@dirtyann]

Oh i see! Thanks

[@happeningwatch516]

+dirtyann commentateur Australia exports camels to Saudi Arabia

[@10babiscar]

+David Hill more camals than aboriginals

[@nickturner9450]

A big roo freaked me out once when it jumped completely over my Ute while I was doing around 120kph on a back road in Queensland I will never forget it

[@Thinker669]

You were driving around 80 MPH and that kangaroo came out of nowhere? Be careful, Mate.

[@Denis-zb5pf]

Your an fool doing 120..first point of blame rests with you

[@Mav_F]

@@Denis-zb5pf Do you know some roads in Australia have no limit and some have 110km. So keep that shit to yourself. lmaooooo

[@-xslurpeee-159]

@@Denis-zb5pf u realise that some roads in Aus have no speed limit and most of the time it’s 110 anyway

[@joecannon1029]

Spoke to a local tour guide in Dubai when i was over there a couple of years ago, He said there are about 8000 racing camels in the emirates and they are all imported.... from Australia! fastest camels on the planet. Get good practice outrunning Roadtrains i suppose.

[@iamlostintime3343]

TIL

[@chrisbinckes2732]

theys (when young) all bottle fed on meth

[@DodderingOldMan]

I think it was on QI where they were saying how Australian camels are so popular for import largely because they're free of some of the diseases that native populations have elsewhere.

[@leonwakefield7285]

👍😂😉

[@bg588]

He was kidding you. Their racing camels are specially bred. Very small and fast....they say our camels only useful to pull carts.

[@IanR1205]

I'm a train driver in America. When I see animals on or near the tracks at night I turn off my headlights and give one short horn blast to alert the animal and then let the bell ring continually so they can hopefully get a fix on my train's speed and location. Too much horn I think can cause them to panic and run down the tracks away from me or maybe makes it harder for them to tell where it's coming from. And turning off the headlight of course helps them see better and become fixated. Then I just sort of hold my breath as we cruise by in darkness hoping not to hear the loud clang. It's worked 100% of the time so far. Too bad a truck doesn't have the option of cruising by in darkness.

[@eggsaladsandwhiches]

Props to the driver. Clearly paying attention.

[@waitwhat69247]

they have to a camel can do mad damage

[@eggsaladsandwhiches]

kwini bogan if anything would wreck a radiator... I imagine a camel would

[@wce05308]

You gotta pay attention champ or you could die or be hurt.

[@lalajdhfbdj]

Cows go moo, ducks go quack, kangaroos go splakkkkkk

[@paullangford8179]

A friend of mine was doing the "Motorbike around Australia" thing, and hadn't had a good meal for a while; then he saw a truck hit a kangaroo. Fresh meat! Stopped his bike and was taking a few good cuts off it, and a car went by, honking its horn, and everyone waving to him...

[@NullaNulla]

Paul Langford surprised they didn't pull up all wanting their share lol. Roadside roo is great for the cats and dogs too.

[@lowercherty]

Paul Langford Road kill du jour. We have them here in the States too, same reason, different animals. A deer, moose, or elk can really ruin your day.

[@ROTAXD]

B Laquisha problem is here 'Stateside that so many companies are putting junk bullbars on their fleets. You know...the ones made out of thinwalled/formed sheetmetal ? They actually wind up doing more damage once you hit something after the bullbar has seen a couple winters' worth of road salt and has some rot started. Popped a coyote with one a couple of years ago and the rusted crossbar broke and ate the radiator.

[@EerieBetrayal]

and leave a nasty skid mark on the road lol

[@danewilliam2907]

I suppose you'd need a crow bar to stop crows...oh wait.

[@ihavetopoopbutiwantedtosay1683]

Warren552011 this black chick threw herself at me once. good thing i had my chocolate bar..........................................cuz i was starving after she left!

[@jeaninelloyd783]

someone threw an axe at me once, good shot.....got me fair in the C#!T

[@jeaninelloyd783]

Warren552011 True story, I got a wound to prove it.

[@jeaninelloyd783]

Warren552011 All good mate, thanks anyways. It's healed up pretty good, still bleeds on average once,a month but ....

[@letsbehonest4221]

Warren552011 did you just use the words -good and muslim in the same sentence .... what a strange concept, i never herd of such a thing... 😅😅

[@snapperjessen]

its so bulls have somewhere to get a drink and hangout? :))

[@rsoul7282]

bah dum tish

[@user-pq1ni4wz6h]

Blahblah Bluhbluh stfu

[@snapperjessen]

sorry Josh, i dont do requests

[@FLAMESFAN211]

Blahblah Bluhbluh Hahaha best dad joke ever

[@billray1785]

Blahblah, I thought it was funny.

[@EasternExplorer]

We use the same bumpers in the Canadian back 40 but we usually just to refer to them as moose bumpers. A moose will take the front end off a truck engine and all.

[@dimmacommunication]

Eastern Explorer damn a moose is huge

[@GY9944]

Eastern Explorer holy shit are you serious ? Like, serious serious ? No exaggaration at all ??

[@GY9944]

I mean i know mooses are gigantic but...

[@bremCZ]

A red roo would destroy the front of a truck without the bars too.

[@Bailey_54R]

Nathan J. Bell yeah, moose and large elk if hit at highway speeds can cause enough damage to trucks to completley disable them

[@DucatiQueen]

We have a lot of Camels, Cows and wild ASS here in the states, but they're the two legged version .....with phones ( even more hazardous ) !

[@GeorgHaeder]

Sorry for the late reply but: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYmtp4KAg7qfedU

[@Andre-hi9xn]

Yes, Yanks everywhere, fortunately there are few here!

[@dantemadden1533]

Yeah but you don’t have kangaroos that jump right in front of your cars and trucks

[@DucatiQueen]

@@dantemadden1533 well dear, we have Deer , Moose , Elk and Bears that will…….and they weigh a hellofalot more that your kangaroo ! Try driving through Texas on the interstate while going 80 dodging deers, then we can talk 😂

[@brucehenderson4424]

In some places here in the states you have deal with wild hogs. If you hit a hog something is tore up.

[@Debonair.Aristocrat]

Yeah, I wish my motorbike had a bullbar on it. A Roo to the face disrupts my equilibrium.

[@boovaher]

Try riding over a day old kill. Don't stop anywhere but in a stiff breeze or the stench will get you. Getting the stinky roo bits off the bike was a bitch.

[@cliffbooth7075]

Take a roo to the face & eat solids the same week, and you can call yourself a legitimate tough guy.

[@Heavywall70]

Here in the states I had a deer jump in front of my so close I didn’t have time to flinch. I’m talking within a meter of my bike I just thought “Well that could’ve been it for me” and kept riding

[@albertbrennaman5605]

I know of someone in Sweden who rode drunk into a moose ... on a bicycle

[@brucemibus9523]

Have hit 5 alive roos and 2 dead ones while motorcycling around Australia. Has caused lots of damage to my bikes but being of lucky persuasion have yet to fall off. Got 2 in one night going from Coober Pedy to Augusta in the dark. Often the buggers run into the side of you causing surprise. Now retirement means no night riding, hooray! Yes this is Australia where everything is out to kill you.

[@dangerousdingo8846]

GIANT JUMPIN' RATS.

[@reecemartin453]

but you can eat em

[@michaeledwards8058]

Dangerous Dingo father , a giant mouth

[@corby9591]

Kangaroo mouse its a real thing look it up they live in fields there also very cute for a mouse

[@Eskay1206]

Australia boasts some of the greatest wildlife in the world.... and out here on the road,, you run across quite a bit of it :)

[@nhouston6179]

and runover

[@LadyofDragonstone]

@@nhouston6179 i was about to say that

[@lejohnd2430]

Yes

[@krump743]

Camels are pests in australia. They are not part of the "greatest wild life in the world".....

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Time to hit the road!

[@2KXMKR]

Why do Aussie trucks have bullbars? BMW's ... I mean Kangaroos!

[@ianmontgomery7534]

I don't suppose it is case they hit a bull?

[@2KXMKR]

@@ianmontgomery7534 You mean Audi's?

[@TheLightningStalker]

In the wild is where they bull long.

[@Deafening_Silence_333]

@@ianmontgomery7534 you win the internet's most innocent yet moronic comment for today 🤣

[@ianmontgomery7534]

​@@Deafening_Silence_333 can't see what is moronic about stating the obvious.

[@flufflepuffle6229]

2:49 oh god that crunch...

[@rhino2960]

why do aussie trucks have bullbars? cuz shit tends to jump out in front of their rigs.

[@zacharydalziell2168]

crimsonwolf911 yeah i was making a run from exmouth down to rolly stobe and i hit like 700 of the c&ntd (roo's)

[@HarryL2020]

Zachary Dalziell holy shit that's alot

[@mman454]

Indrid Cold Energy has to go somewhere! Now it will just go straight into the frame of your vehicle.

[@ashchaya7676]

Thanks for figuring that out for all of us, crimsonwolf911.

[@slimchancetoo]

Can you still steer it ????????????

[@Z4Zander]

Young Johnny at school."Teacher! Teacher! My dad hit hit a kangaroo up the arse with his truck,.Teacher: "Rectum Johnny" Johnny: "Wrecked 'im alright.Friggin annihilated 'im." Could'nt resist it sorry.

[@Z4Zander]

+Bite My Krank Keep disparaging Aussie truck drivers if you like.I'm a Kiwi.

[@bitemykrank1970]

Z4Zander We all have our cross to bear.....

[@Z4Zander]

+Bite My Krank Nah.Left mine with the flies,dust and crap when I came home.

[@letsbehonest4221]

Z4Zander 😅😅

[@Jesse-B]

Z4Zander Did you turn out the light?

[@76Schoeneberg30]

I didnt know there were camels in Australia.

[@user300daad00dwa]

Largest wild population of Camels in the world is found in Australia lol, we export them to Saudi Arabia.

[@rustymotor]

Camels were originally used by Afghans to move freight across desert regions to remote settlements, when Railroads and Trucks took over, the Afghans lost their work and let the Camels loose. The Camels thrived in the open country and with no natural predators to feed on them their numbers are out of control.

[@rustymotor]

Thankyou for the correction, I didn't learns much at School. Don't see many of thems Starlings or Foxers, only a few Cats and millions of Camels. They come to us Mobs camps and break down outside Taps in search of water during droughts so they give us poor Blackfellers a hard time. Thanks again and I will tries to remembers about the railroads.

[@Lewythefly]

Ships of the desert

[@slimchancetoo]

Yep !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For meat and believe it or not RACING. They are the best racing camels in the world. An isolated 'herd'-- last count I read was in excess of 300.000 -- they are FREE of diseases and other problems that afflict the Mid East herd.

[@microbusss]

Australia was 1st to install those Bull Bars on their semi trucks & North America soon followed later plus they are so cool looking!

[@FLAME4564]

Quite right. Aussie Road trains were the first semis to adopt bull-bars in front of their bumpers before semis in North America and other parts of the continental United States began adopting the Bull Bars on their trucks.

[@John5209]

We have them in South Africa as well. Kudu have a nasty habit of jumping in the middle of the road at night. Many car drivers are killed by the animals coming through the windscreen.

[@ThePlowGuys]

I drive at night all the time. It breaks my heart to have to hit a animal. I really wish there was a sure way gadget that would help eliminate or at the very least drastically reduce such encounters. I don't loose sleep over these impacts but I hate them just the same. Life is Life Thanks for the video mate. -John

[@ZombieKiller789]

fuck that the more roos on side of the road the better their a pest, and plaguing a cattle stations

[@myfeeling4you]

There is a way, I can up with an idea to use a automatic gun with rubber bullets, the gun is mounted on the front of the truck of course, no damage and no dead animals, the only dilemma is pollution from the bullets, the other idea is to use frozen ice balls in an air gun but that has it's issues too, I'm open for suggestions.

[@health-vh8ce]

The Plow Guys pillows on ye bumpers

[@rebeccatanner2740]

health1994 lol 😂

[@MS-rt2jw]

blue reflectors on the road. they have put them like everywherrree in germany now

[@TheAdamAdy]

I know kangaroos are overpopulated in Australia, but it made me sad the little guy got smashed like that

[@gm16v149]

No one likes hitting them, most of the time if you sound the air horns they keep going. But they go for your lights, I've actually had them make it to the other side of the road then turn around and jump straight into the front of the truck.

[@craigcooper8593]

Adam Vulture I once counted over 100 roo, emu, cattle and camel carcasses per kilometre up near Mt Isa, and it we on for literally hundreds of kilometres.

[@Burn377]

It doesn't make you sad when one messes up the front end of your car.

[@Armed2Truck]

I agree with gm16v149, driving only at night 6 shifts per week, i hit many many kangaroos (Often one occasionally two per week, avoiding many more), The amount of times they get out of the way then jump back into the lights, don't know if they the light spooks them or they can't see, but the result is always the same. The same thing happens with birds, emus (Although i've always managed to 'miss' the emu's), wombats, wallabies, echidnas (read: new tyre bump) It comes with the job unfortunatly.

[@slimchancetoo]

Quite simply the light attracts them ---------- if you are driving a car at night NEVER swerve to try to avoid them as you will proly roll you car in the roadside drain. If you have time switch off your headlights or as I sometimes do in large migrations drive on your sidelights (parkers) only going to headlights when traffic approaches. I have watched oncoming cars swerve left right left right only to 'collect them'. Pain in the arse when you stop to see if they, the car passengers, are OK and they want you to put their car back together again.

[@Tomcat3406]

A top effort to pick them so early and be and be able to slow down with 2 trailers swinging off the back. Videos don't show how hard you have to stand on the picks to try and avoid situations that prop up at a seconds notice. Driving in the eastern side of the country we tend to dodge tourists instead of camels. Always a pleasure to watch. Hope you don't sell it. I saw it for sale on the net.

[@gm16v149]

Tomcat3406 It's not my truck for sale, must be someone else. Thnx for the comment.

[@JoeHupp]

Tomcat3406 - the one you saw must have been the green one with KW3408 on the plates

[@letsbehonest4221]

Tomcat3406 the driver more then likely was given a heads up by truck going the other way... 😎😎

[@Parents_of_Twins]

My wife and I spent a couple weeks in Australia over by the Blue Mountains and all around Tasmania and I came close to hitting at least a dozen kangaroos and other animals. Absolutely beautiful country and awesome people really want to go back some day.

[@chriswilkins2643]

Don't tell anyone or they will all want to come here

[@danielstapler4315]

2:46 I don't know if this is a good idea but if you turned your lights off briefly it might help, I believe animals sometimes stop between the two headlight cones of light.

[@unclestone8406]

*"OUTTA THE WAY, DOPEY..."*

[@RyanKlapperich]

TIL there's camels in Australia.

[@Sciencerocksmyworld]

Indeed, we have the worlds largest wild population.

[@Vsfan95]

We have so many camels here that we are the world suppliers of camels to the Middle East

[@craigcooper8593]

Ryan Klapperich were brought by early explorers and released, been breeding ever since

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

without wishing to dismiss the plight of living creatures, 65% of them are not endangered

[@aussiefirie]

ninjakawa1000 was pygmy land before Aboriginals arrived. Mungo Man isn't Aboriginal, yet is the remains of a group of people who inhabited Australia well before Aboriginals arrived.

[@aslanmane]

You see quite a lot of those grilles in western Canada too.

[@TheBudgetGunCollector]

redngolden and America

[@Bandit-Darville]

Just wow, a wild cockatoo. That just blows my mind.

[@kenbennett4691]

We have them everywhere, they're cheeky buggers just beautiful and blessed to have them hanging about our verandahs...

[@mikehzz9848]

Until they start chewing every bit of wood they land on. :-)

[@stivi739]

Wedge tailed eagle..beautiful bird

[@gtb_greedy7208]

Great little target for my air riffle

[@HJBounell]

that bird had a leg band

[@ebl36]

Voice behind camera (addressing cockatoo): ‘off you go’ Cockatoo: *looks up as if to say ‘what, me?*

[@dirtyann]

man i love your videos. As a quebec( canada) trucker, i really admire what you do!

[@stormycliffs]

poutine

[@dirtyann]

Hahaha

[@Tonyx.yt.]

sorry eh

[@kelleytm57]

I'd rather hit a kangaroo then a moose.

[@gcm747]

Remember, it’s not the first Kangaroo you have to watch out for, it’s the second one.

[@GMWsho]

0:53 the quality is getting up there... for the 70's

[@bobnicholson9821]

We just drove from Sydney to Perth including Th Nullabor. So many times over the 6 weeks all sorts of animals crossing the road. Emus were a big issue. So many dead animals especially in the mornings from the night kill.

[@Mechknight73]

Emus are a worry. Because most of their head is eyes and beak, they're as dim as a 3 watt bulb. You could see one any time, night or day

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

Same reason you see them on trucks here in the US. I do road service in the Rocky Mountains & about 6 times a year I wrap a chain around an Elk or deer to pull it out of a truck without a bull bar. The small ones go underneath & take out air lines.

[@ranualfhunter1869]

Love the aussies- "get off the fuckin road!", keeping it real :P

[@7784Patrick]

yes....sure that it is better to have one....thanks for sharing Chris

[@gm16v149]

7784Patrick In Australia anyway, maybe not so necessary in Europe Patrick..

[@chooseayouruniquehandle]

ninjakawa1000 lol, calm down mate. Was probably a joke and even if it was just ignore him.

[@KillerSEAL04]

2:46 BYE BYE SKIPPY

[@Silent1.1]

😭😭😖

[@jono_500]

That sounded nasty

[@Whykickamoocow]

😂😂😂

[@Grandslam245]

Wolf creek reference?

[@normturner4849]

The squish at 2:20 & 2:50 was like the sound in a cartoon!🙈💥😂👍🏽

[@donotneed2250]

Was behind a driver one night in Texas on I-20 east of Dallas when he hit a cow that had gotten out. It bent the bumper on his truck and I loaned him my crowbar to straighten it out enough to drive without ripping the steer tire. Running the back roads at night in Kansas you can hit loose cattle or Farmer Brown trying to get them back home.

[@TShirtJunkiee]

Sorry about that Skip

[@jaybomb8371]

Taawwww skiiiip

[@truckertom3323]

As i was watching this i was going down the box with my feet,and braking!!!!! once a Trucker always a Trucker.

[@karhaulr29]

I was aprehesive at first due to the title. Sounded like lots of carnage. Luckily only a few roo's and a bird were harmed in the filmimg of this movie. Awesome footage, and always nice to hear that engine!

[@gm16v149]

jon boy I've hit a couple of cows before now but that was before I bought a dashcam. Looking for a better dashcam at the moment.

[@StoneLegion]

gm16v149 G1W-C Is a good one for its price.

[@erikdevries9208]

We have Ali-Arc bumpers on our trucks in Canada too. We have Moose, an animal the size of a bull, on a horse's legs with the brains of a rooster. I bought an Ali-Arc for my truck after helping a fellow after he hit 3 moose at once, a female and two calves. The bumper was bent to hell, the truck was only mildly damaged.

[@m118lr]

GOOD eye for the Camels!

[@JP_670]

huh, I didn't know camels had Australians lol

[@roblostandlate.6005]

Jerome Lisua. They were introduced in the mid 1800s as desert pack animals, and have since turned feral.

[@donaldbartram6315]

They also tried camels here in the states out west in the desert for the cavalry..

[@mattcullen6109]

@@donaldbartram6315 very interesting. Australia exports live camels to the middle east

[@MrBannnnnny]

Donald Bartram read what he said carefully 😂 “i didn’t know camels had australians”

[@reactking7093]

@@MrBannnnnny lol was i the only one that noticed.😂

[@terrytytula]

It's refreshing to see not only professional driver's, but people who can expect the unexpected and use their peripheral vision. Having recently watched some of the Russian car cam video's, the conclusion I came to is that they must drive with blinders on.

[@johno9507]

I've just had my 26th major stomach/chest operation and spent all of May in intensive care in Concord hospital on a ventilator due to hitting two kangaroos at 110kmh then plowing into a granite rock face back in 2004. The injuries never leave you! Those bouncing bastards are kamikazes and wait for you to get close before jumping in front of you.

[@masada2828]

What were u driving?

[@drServitis]

Moral is, do not panic and lose control of your vehicle when you hit an animal. And do not try to avoid an animal at high speeds either. You might hit a granite rock face if you do. Sounds like you were a young and inexperienced driver. Sorry about your injuries anyway. Better health to you.

[@richardcraniumdicksinn3959]

Sounds like they are about as smart as a deer.

[@paulboon1100]

Personally I think those animals have meetings, the resolution is "wait until they are very close then jump in front of the vehicle and the one that can do the most damage and jump/run/fly away wins!" I'm sure of it, having done many km in this land and dodged and hit numerous of these bloody animals.

[@guykwalter1693]

I drove 15 years at night through south Western New York and northern Pennsylvania. 460 miles a night in the heart of deer country. Killed 73 deer. Then I found out I was a light weight compared to other drivers in the company!

[@miroslavmarkovic4695]

camels were introduced in to Australia, now their numbers are huge

[@WasephWastar]

"damage to eagle and truck" XD

[@parttimetourist]

Because the cows have milkbars

[@jerrygregor]

Oh well, back to my boring old urban life now

[@Fireguy97]

I've always found it interesting that if animals are confronted by big, noisy, fast moving chunks of metal and glass, that they will normally move towards them to cross the road, instead of away from them.

[@noahater5785]

Yep, there’s a term for that, “deer in the headlights”

[@LetTheWritersWrite]

Funny little fact, in Mexico they call these bars "tumba burros". Which roughly translates to knock down donkeys or donkey tumblers.

[@1lapmagic]

Call me a dumb American, but, there are random herds of camels walking around in Australia?...

[@Goobaaaaaa]

+1lapmagic Ye out in the middle

[@acousticpants7365]

+1lapmagic Not dumb at all mate, there are thousands of wild camel in the outback. We sell them to the middle east. No joke. Also good to eat. I'd describe camel stack as halfway between regular beef and kangaroo.

[@1lapmagic]

AcousticPants I guess it is a rather natural environment for them.

[@masterbard]

+AcousticPants now I want to taste some camel. can't say I've tried Kangaroo meat but sure wouldn't mind tasting it.

[@danielbenson6407]

+Juan Quiceno really good. but there's no fat on it at all, so you can't live off it.

[@Phantomthecat]

What's that Skip? Got a headache? :D

[@gareth6521]

Amine - " uhh,..what are these bullbars for?" friend- " decoration"

[@FLAME4564]

Not just any decoration mate. According to the N.T.S.B Trucks in countries like Australia and sometimes even America which iirc long ago have been known to have had several accidents from certain things such as animals or people jumping out infront of them. In America most of the times it's the result of reckless risks from reckless passenger car drivers cutting truck drivers off and doing that reckless brake checking maneuver. For Aussie truck drivers here in Australia the only accidents they've had has been cuz of kangaroos accidently ending up in front of trucks. Since the introduction of bullbars the percentage of truck bumper damage has been reduced to absolute minimum thanks to truck bullbars.

[@hockeyplayah7912]

Yep did some work in Kalgoorlie WA and sometimes the night trip from Perth would have Emu's and Kangaroos coming out of nowhere onto the roadway. Luckily we only had one hit where an emu died but others where some kangaroos would hit the side of the landcruiser and then run/bounce away. Good thing for bars on the cars as well. When the road goes down to one lane and the Road train truck coming at you has BullBars you move to the side pretty quick, it's one heck of a site.

[@tomthumb5445]

He would not have hit that eagle if he was driving on the correct side of the road. :)

[@davechalmers7175]

The eagle was flying on the wrong side of the road 😂

[@JasonWaterfalls13]

Definitely see why they're a necessity now!

[@gm16v149]

G Man They pay for themselves many times over.

[@RUHappyATM]

How the heck did he know there were camels about to cross in the dark? What a narrow bridge!

[@davidac76]

Aussie outback has many bridges this narrow.

[@DubStepTomatoFarmer]

I was today’s years old when I realized there are camels in Australia

[@JaredJanhsen]

The Aussie-style bullbars have made their way to the US as well. Lots of trucks here have them now.

[@doylemontgomery3944]

I never thought about Australia having so many loose animals. 🤔..I have had deer run into the side of my pickup on the interstate. Good video thanks for sharing. I have got to visit there! 😊Texas

[@bigcol.3147]

We got some loose wimmen to dude!

[@LoLorelando]

3:32 god that bridge looks tiny. Especially to what the truck seems to weigh.

[@jamro217]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@neonlightslife1077]

I'm guessing the truck he was in was a cab-over (maybe Kenworth K100 or above). They normally weigh from between 15'000 - 25'000 lbs (7 - 11 Tons) And Ima take a guess he was running 3 trailers (must likely steel pipes which way around 13'000 - 16'000 lbs (6 - 7 tons) each which in total is 67'000 lbs (30 tons). Those bridges are built to outlast even the oldest Jarra tree.

[@alejandrofallas9734]

The only thing i have to say is that... Australia is a wonderful place best of luck in this World Cup Russia 2018 Greets from the tiny small Costa Rica :)

[@wildcoyote34]

yes very good reason to have a bull bar ,, especially for camels I live in the united states and we call them Moose bars here at least the large bumpers like yours ,,truckers that drive up in the mountains and in the northwest hit moose , elk and large deer regularly ,I personlly have never hit a moose but have hit a white tail deer which at 75MPH can do some serious damage to an unprotected vehicle I was gonna ask what bird that was that your truck hit but you said it was an eagle ,, how bad did it hurt your truck ,,surely the bird was killed here where i live we have wild turkeys in large numbers and they are a serious hazard because they fly across the road at about head height ,, just the perfect height to hit your windshield ,,and a large turkey can exceed 25 pounds ,,even an average one is about 15-18 I know a lot of people who have had turkey strikes and they can do a lot of damage even to a large truck ,, can easily kill a radiator

[@robertchinnock8017]

our eagles are size of a small child.. its good when you drive past them while they are having a feed and they just look at you

[@brandoncaldwell95]

wildcoyote34 you mountain dweller can call them that.. my area we just leave it as bullbars and grillguards.. deer just bounce, but meet a full sized cow... that shits scary as hell

[@wildcoyote34]

either term works actually the term ( Moose bar ) in the USA is generally only applied to one specific type of grille guard used on large trucks since i wrote my first comment saying i never hit a moose , well i have since hit a moose ,, i was in washington state on a 4 lane highway ,, and the reason truckers call it a moose bar is immediately apparent ,, my particular guard is made from heavy steel and protected my truck well even in a 75mph collision with a full grown bull moose

[@brandoncaldwell95]

wildcoyote34 Oh i was talking semis man. Farm use 250mile limit.. worked for a farmer who had one.. also his fucking cow lmao almost a mess.. had to fix that fence.. No CDL required though ;).. Since then cancer took my bone in my leg so im running bionic in a way.. not sure cdl would be able to obtain with a full knee replacment+rod.. also hate the idea of a trainer stuck with me.. i get to show the road of the fuel cards and, companys paperwork ways, and elogs but thats it... I just run ranch hand for my pickup. if i could, id weld a custom bumper which probably too heavy for it.. but id rather have protection and raming power..

[@wildcoyote34]

I have a class A CDL but i don't drive a semi anymore , i did at one time though the truck i was driving is actually a custom built RV toterhome ,which i built myself ,,it needs good protection I have custom built bumpers on all of my pickup trucks as well ,I tend to not stop for animals in the road ,,and that goes for idiots that fail to stop at stopsigns too

[@jimcambron1328]

One of the first things I was told when I began a 3-month driving tour of Australia in 2016 was "DO NOT DRIVE AROUND SUNSET OR SUNRISE." I managed to catch a very small bat in my grill and came within 5 feet of of nailing a 'roo near the London Bridge along the Great Ocean Road near Port Campbell in Victoria just before daybreak.

[@stefanotazio]

That's exactly what I was asking myself as I was.scrolling trough your thumbnails lol

[@valtra210]

well we call then Kangaroo grills in sweden and I love them but not our M.O.T stations so the are illigal here but there are way to get around that hehe Happy driving and bee safe out there

[@robthelog223]

Andreas Wallberg Kangaroo grill, sounds like a bar-b-q ha ha.

[@valtra210]

rob the log haha yaa

[@letsbehonest4221]

Andreas Wallberg why would people in Sweden call them kangeroo grills when Sweden dont have kangeroos ...??..

[@willm687]

probably from seeing aussies use them then implementing them in their own vechiles

[@thevwventoguy637]

Andreas Wallberg because we saw them on Australien cars. and the name just stuck.

[@photon2724]

holy shit. ive been living in australia my whole life and never knew we had camels

[@drServitis]

I've never been to Australia and I knew that you have camels. You need to get out of your house more, mate! LOL

[@ShadowGaming-ft4fh]

@@drServitis Australia's a big place and most people live by the coast far from the camels

[@artistjoh]

That is crazy that you didn’t know that. We have a growing camel export industry, both for live animals and meat. Some of the camels in places like North Africa were born in Australia. They cross the Sahara looking for the way home :)

[@Zippy_x-un9vw]

I remember when I was a kid riding in the truck with my father we hit a kangaroo and the bulbar really helps. is that a Kenworth k100 or something like that?

[@gm16v149]

Its a Kenworth 124CR

[@0Zolrender0]

I live in Alice. I saw this title and ROFLMAO'd. Because they can hit cattle (which are usually stationary on the roand and wont move as seen in first video), or they hit roos that are fast and on the move. Also yes we have camels. So many we ship them to the Middle East. So many they are a feral pest and we cull them occasionaly. BTW... all of these trucks are Road Trains pulling 3 full trailers behind them.... called triples here in Oz. There are now Triples with 1/2 too making a presence. @ 2:20 that was a Wedgie that was too slow to take flight that got hit. Nice free range Cockie at the end though.

[@Thinker669]

We call them Grille Guards. A bull bar here is an upside down letter U with 3 inch tubing in front of the bumper of the truck.

[@Nine7Media]

One day when my overland jeep is done I can take it out to Australia to see what real country is like. (floridian here)

[@lordchickenhawk]

It'd be a good test but we drive on the opposite side of the road so the paper work would be a killer... if you are allowed to do it at all. I think there were a few US army personnel who were able to do it at remote bases back in the day, but I doubt that is still allowed. Red tape has gone feral and breeds faster than camels in this country.

[@ron7926]

my dad hit a roo no damage to the truck, it wasnt until two days later he could smell something bad from the back trailer, closer inspection found half a roo carcass stuck between the axle/suspension, other half had been ground away. another time a cow came bolting out of the bush, doing around 80kph too dangerous to hit the breaks hit it full on the bull bar. only time my dads actually seen a cow explode, shit, guts etc all over the bonnet, windscreen. not nice cleaning that mess off.

[@Mechknight73]

+Ron F I had that myself. We were about 15km south of the Capricorn Roadhouse near Newman. I was in the sleeper, and I heard my co-driver shout "FUCK!" then a loud bang, then SPLAT! We hit a calf, and he literally had no time to even brake. I'm still unsure as to how we managed to get cow shit on the roof from the impact

[@brandoncaldwell95]

Ron F would be why in the states i just take my pickup to a local church car wash after a fewgood road kills and guts... let their stomachs turn and question the deer horn hanging on the bumper

[@BluTrollPro]

Ron F Aw yeah Cow's are nasty. I'm in Scotland, I remember a couple of years back some pictures circulated our office from the logging company based along the road. 44ton lorry hit a cow going 80-90kph, no bullbars (they are illegal for road use here, to many idiots in SUVs hitting kids). Half the cow ended up as a paste coating the front of the truck, the other half ended up going through the radiator and coating the inside of the engine bay.

[@orppranator5230]

Australia drives on the left too? I thought it was only the UK

[@lordchickenhawk]

yep! ... also NZ and India. Pohmmy influence from back in the day

[@ThatGuy-in7ue]

Damm dude I feel so fucked up laughing at 2:51 he ran him over like nothing and kept rolling 😂😂

[@colinl9018]

You certainly get around old mate. And doing your bit to keep the roo population down to. Good vid.

[@86angrybees]

ALL THE FACKIN (suicidal) ROOS

[@HerbieTheVolkswagen]

At night time they become somewhat hypotonic with the headlamps.

[@keithgilham9438]

To bounce wildlife off instead of it going through the windows

[@Grandslam245]

Yeah, bit hard to drive when you're wrestling with a roo that just got yeeted into your face

[@egreenie3819]

Glad we have just the camel toes here in the states!😛

[@edwardpate6128]

Wow! No idea there were so many camels in Australia. Amazing footage.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

The British brought them over with their Afghan riders to explore the interior of Australia because horses just died within days. Since then they've bred and are pretty common everywhere. They get exported to the Middle East for camel racing and it's not uncommon in outback roadhouses (servos) to see camel pie for sale.

[@fishgod368]

we call them Moose Catchers in Canada. they work well for elk and deer too.

[@devilishwolfie6975]

Before I watch the vid I'm gonna guess that it's for Kangaroos?

[@wce05308]

And cows and bulls

[@bryce2038]

And vegans

[@colinl9018]

@@bryce2038 Especially vegans, we will mount a footpath to get them bastards!

[@LadyofDragonstone]

@@bryce2038 if your riding a fuckin bike in the middle of the fucking road expect to get fuckin hit

[@rogerrodgersen7702]

@@bryce2038 👍👍👍

[@Catalina._]

Animals could hear slightest fart but not giant loud airhorns...

[@christianvlek]

Bloody wedgies..... they're too staunch for their own good.

[@SuperRoo_22]

They are a bloody big bird & do a lot of damage to a vehicle if hit.

[@krump743]

A wedge tail eagle that has stuffed it self on road carcas aint gonna fly away to well if at all when something comes their way. Fantastic bird one of australias greatest.

[@elestromusicgamesfun1101]

2:17 - "Just one more bite!" Smash.

[@farminglifeaustralia6716]

I think truck drivers should get a bonus for every roo they squash. John

[@paullangford8179]

So the radiator doesn't get damaged. When you're out back, a stopped truck can be death for the driver.

[@tarnsand440]

So I guess camels crossing road at night compares to moose here in Canada. Only the moose have a habit of stopping in middle of the road often with two gangly young ones straggling behind. We stopped once in northern Alberta.. blew the horn and bull moose charged us....bang!! There's also afew deer with no hair on their rumps... that close.

[@krisb3429]

For yhose that didn't we have camels in Australia, we eat them with vegemite all the time. Every kid loves camel and vegemite sandwiches.

[@allenjenkins7947]

In addition, there's water buffalo (NT), feral pigs (all over the East), sambar deer (mainly in Victoria), wild dogs/dingoes, brumbies (feral horses), emus, cassowaries and feral goats. All of which I've personally encountered on the roads and all of which can do serious damage to a truck, 4WD or car. I live in deer & roo country, so my last 4WD had a bullbar, my new SUV doesn't have one - yet!

[@evilone6785]

I’d love to ride along on one of these trips