Why Does Australia Use Road Trains Instead Of Trains?

Why Does Australia Use Road Trains Instead Of Trains?
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Ever wondered how Australia conquers vast landscapes in goods transportation?
From humble beginnings in the 1930s to colossal combinations pulling up to 7 trailers, road trains have transformed!
Explore why road trains outshine trains, offering flexibility where rail infrastructure is limited or impractical.
further more we explore the potential of electric road trains amid challenges in technology, infrastructure, and energy storage.
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Why Does Australia Use Road Trains Instead Of Trains?
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[@howardroark7726]

Mad Max likes this video.

[@josviersel]

Ex road-train driver of 10+ years, told me that it was not unusual for a driver to have racked up $10,000 + in fines due to the harsh regulatory environment.

[@Low760]

Harsh? Basic safety for drivers is harsh?

[@ashleyblack1587]

@@Low760yes, harsh. Thousands of dollars in fines for forgetting to write the date on a logbook page, or forgetting to sign it. Just clerical errors, nothing to do with safety. The sort of mistakes everyone makes with paperwork in their jobs, we get hit with absolutely ridiculous fines over It’s only in states covered by the NHVL though. WA and NT aren’t like that, they’re very good

[@josviersel]

@@Low760 , basic, or excessive?

[@redrider7xbilly548]

"Govern me harder daddy"- ​@Low760

[@mattyp3860]

I love these road trains. I would love to go Aussie land drive them. I drive a 10 axle rocky mountain double. 130000 pounds unless i over load. I get 4.3 miles per gallon on average. 605 cummins 2050 torc

[@Low760]

Aussie land? Australia?

[@andreaspetersen9323]

The Road-Trains 🚚 is Good for Australia Because Australia is big Country in World and i like Road-Train From Australia 🚚 ps Good Video on About on Road-Trains in Australia 🚚 ❤👍👌

[@TruckTropia]

Thnaks 👍

[@jackrabbit4383]

Many truckers.from Australia here..they don't stay here very long .can't stand the weather. Traffic..etc. we only allow 2 to 3 pup trailers depending on states mountain passes. These posers can't wait to go back to assy as soon as they have to put chains on 6 axels that's 12 chains...then ride for 23 miles then take them off put them on back on the storage racks..then take them off put them back on 35 miles down the next mountain pass..these people are a dangerous nightmare on our roads

[@patrickhayes7838]

Why do they occasionally use cabovers (non-sleepers at that) for road trains? The conditions necessary for road trains would seem to suggest that the maneuverability concerns that would necessitate cabover aren't present. As they have no truck manufacturing, is that just down to the only trucks with V8 engines that can handle the weight coming out of Europe?

[@josviersel]

Questions: How much fuel are they carrying? How much horsepower?

[@reenaelizabeth7778]

1200-2500 litres.. 550-700+ hp..

[@stephenrodgers5672]

While fuel capacity is important, horsepower is less important but not unimpressive. Horsepower only measures the energy produced by the engine. Torque is what turns the drive tires. Torque transforms the horsepower into propulsion.

[@josviersel]

@@stephenrodgers5672 True, but usually more horsepower also means more torque.

[@stephenrodgers5672]

@@josviersel depends on how the transmission is set up.

[@NootNooot]

@@josvierselnot always. Depends on a lot more

[@SantaFe19484]

Good luck with putting electric charging stations in the outback.

[@MegaLol2xd]

5:37 XD

[@garreysellars5525]

Save the roads put bulk freight BACK ON THE TRAIN fuel. Grain. Cattle From a grazier. Australia

[@anthonyj7989]

Name one cattle or sheep train in the United States of America.

[@AllieThePrettyGator]

Simple there's hardly any railways in the outback, so everything has to be traveled by road

[@Bobspineable]

Well it’s probably quite difficult to build rails in such a remote area.

[@tr4ncy99]

Do kenworth also have manufacture in australia l see those trailers pulled up by kw.

[@TruckTropia]

They do👍

[@ontheroadagain4773]

Kenworth also make cabovers in Australia - which they don't do in the US anymore

[@jackrabbit4383]

5years in a cabover as a company driver otr .worst truck design ever.short base beat you up had to jack up cab to do maintenance..if you're in an accident your first on the scene...your not walking away 😢

[@ontheroadagain4773]

@@jackrabbit4383 To almost every modern cabover you can get - if it isn't standard - an electrically powered jack up pump for the cab and the hand pump is there only as a backup. A modern coe is unsafer only if you collide with a truck of the same size or a mountain wall or something similar. You sit high up in the cab and smaller vehicles will hit the cab below you. Extensive crash testes are done with these cabs to make them as safe as possible. Short wheelbase is for good maneuverability, I guess you know that. These cabs have air suspension with shock absorbers which make them comfortable. Comparing a new European coe with an old American coe from the -80's is like comparing day with night. These cabs are quiet inside and the heat from the engine isn't transferred into the cab either. I am not advertising coes, I just wanted to share some facts with you. In fact I own a long nose vintage Scania 110 from 1970 which is a hobby for me. I wouldn't replace it with any coe in the world. 👌

[@jackrabbit4383]

@@ontheroadagain4773 just referred to 1900s. Glad they made minor improvements since then ..still ..first on the crash scene. Hope you wear steel toad sandals ..ha.ha..I made a funny 😄

[@JohnTaylor-yk9hl]

Truck driver vin sust told me he uses 1 lt fuel for 1 k travel eg 1.000 k is $1000 aust

[@viktortoth8211]

Will there be a video about the Volvo Vera? Or about its future possibilities?

[@TruckTropia]

good idea, maybe I'll make a video about it, thanks for the input

[@larry92adventure65]

Just saying if they ever come up with an electric truck it will never be as affective as a diesel powered truck

[@a076c6]

Why are other countries not using it if it is as good as you stated?

[@solarissv777]

Because they have normal trains

[@stephenrodgers5672]

Terrain

[@Low760]

Because Australia is as big as America but has 26 million people in it.

[@ontheroadagain4773]

We are pretty close to that in Finland and Sweden (even if these are relatively small countries) and in some other countries too. Here we have combinations with up to 34.5m (105ft). You can either have a semi truck with 2 trailers (A or B doubles) or a rigid truck with 2 trailers. These are called HCT (High Capacity Transport).

[@josviersel]

Future drive train that is available now is turbine-diesel electric.

[@Low760]

Lol safe trucks used. No they use kenworth's.

[@max.theking]

Don't Sweden and Finland also have Roadtrains?

[@TruckTropia]

Not “real” Road trains 😅 +3 trailers

[@andersnordsvan7968]

34m now allowd in Sw 3:57 eden and Finland

[@dylaneastyop3165]

i still see road trains in america

[@TruckTropia]

with +3 trailers?

[@dylaneastyop3165]

@@TruckTropia 2

[@ontheroadagain4773]

@@dylaneastyop3165 They're called B-doubles, not real road trains

[@ashleyblack1587]

@@ontheroadagain4773close. B doubles have a special type of lead trailer that the rear trailer sits on without the use of a dolly. An A double uses two regular, full sized trailers with a dolly connecting them. An A double is classed as a road train. (Unless it’s a PBS double which is a whole other thing I could go into if you really wanted me to haha)

[@ontheroadagain4773]

@@ashleyblack1587 Thank you for explaining the difference between A and B doubles. I know about both types but I didn't think about what they were called. Some Australians have corrected me when I earlier called a 2 trailer combination road train. They say it must be at least 3 trailers to be a road train. PBS = Performance Based Standards - yes, I know 😊

[@DamianCzech-tp1jz]

Do you know how much it weighs one single truck in China???

[@user-poopee]

U can google :/

[@Kevin09210]

Why just not build real electric cargo trains?

[@thomasgade226]

@2:38

[@jc_da_killa7132]

It’s not viable. Outside of the major citys are 100s of small towns with a couple thousand people at most. A lot have less the 1000 people living there. It’s a lot easier and cheaper to run a couple triples in then build train track everywhere.

[@solarissv777]

​@@jc_da_killa7132and unlike rails, paved roads are free and don't require maintenance. Oh, wait...

[@Low760]

You mean diesel electric?

[@ashleyblack1587]

@@solarissv777most of these places don’t have paved roads. Just the same dirt track all the cars take It’s not worth building a railroad to all these places when a train might only need to come once a year

[@jammiedodger7040]

Hydrogen and Biofuel are the future.