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[@tomparker5000]

You know you're getting old when a new video from John on Friday night is something to look forward to. I'll have a nap after this.

[@AutoExpertJC]

...with a glass of warm milk.

[@tomparker5000]

@@AutoExpertJC you know your audience.

[@gbsailing9436]

@@AutoExpertJC with the obligatory drinking chocolate of course...

[@AutoExpertJC]

It seems like the thing to do.

[@brentonl2631]

Shit I'm there then.

[@PHancock11]

The News and media have a job to do and that is to report the facts and let the viewers make informed opinions. Some media report their point of view and let the viewer decide what is fact and what is fiction, which leads to confusion and cult followings. I'm happy to watch and absorb your presentation of the facts, thank you.

[@100Jeanluc]

You have said that so well, my thoughts exactly.

[@dougschwamb9653]

Thanks John for addressing this topic, one that is grossly misunderstood and not taken seriously in the private sector. I look at it thru the lens of the commercial side which in my opinion adds clarity to the discussion. One sector is under a magnifying glass and the other gets away with murder(sometimes). Hopefully, your classes in the laws of physics are gaining traction in some peoples grey matter. Please continue.

[@doobresick]

Hahaha while watching this on YT, you were interrupted by an ad for Merc demonstrators sale.. “chance of a lifetime”… I almost choked on me dinner.

[@davidbeston4978]

Hi John yesterday on our way to Broken Hill for work we encountered a Suburu liberty towing a car trailer with a Suburu Liberty on it! Go figure. Tank slaps ensured but the peanut behind the wheel kept on trucking!!! On that same road some years ago I attended a vehicle accident as a member of the CFS, whereby a car trailer had tank slapped, the trailer whipped into the path of a on coming vehicle, the impact dislodged the car on the trailer and it went through the windscreen of the on coming vehicle decapitating the innocent driver. I have since that incident, believed that drivers should be licensed to be able to tow any weight over 1 tonne, or a weight 75% or greater than the tow vehicle. Love the channel, keep up the good work. Regards David.

[@anthonysimonhough9691]

Thank you John , your attacks on ignorant people using trailers . It has helped me a lot. I have a trailer about 6x4 and I don’t know it’s 1, tear weight or its loaded weight . But it’s unbreaked and it’s a bit of a bugger if you have it full of fire wood. 2 what is its tear weight. These things I don’t know . However I’ve looked up what the max towing weight for my 2000 Rav 4 . 750 kg Thanks again for your information and I will before I use it again weigh stuff and make my next load legal. More power to you mate

[@oldbloke204]

Google unbraked trailers and I think that you will find your answer...............

[@electricarl7820]

I wait with baited breath and tares in my ayes for JC”s response. May have snorted a bit hard and braken a rib as well.

[@alanhilder1883]

It is tare weight is the unloaded weight. If the unloaded traileras 250 kg then you can drag no more than 500 kg of wood. ( No idea what yours is, go to your local dump, for example and over its weigh bridge, it will cost but cheap for the info.)

[@davidvanderklauw]

Unbrake my heart say you love me forever Uncri these tares I cryd soo menie knights unspel chex mie dox Unbrake mie hart

[@shellez101]

Tare weight of the trailer is on the compliance plate and written on the rego papers .

[@bryanjuni706]

It has been really interesting to hear about your past and your contributions to things such as police pursuits etc. Oh, and some people just don't know that they don't know. Have you had comment from Chasing Cars?

[@johncunningham4820]

Another observation about the Trailer used being meant for a Mini-Excavator . Look at the Hitch height . That's not all Overload on the Tow vehicle . It's meant for Towing by a 4 tonne Tip Truck . Tipper + Excavator . Small domestic dig . And........Asolutely LOVED " Margarite's " question . Funny Girl , that one .

[@merhaba8]

As you talked about not buying a demonstrator KZbin interrupted with a ad from Mercedes to buy one of their demonstrators! Hilarious!!

[@duckmcf]

Hi John, if memory serves a few months ago you reported on a couple that were involved in serious crash due to a very overloaded car and caravan where sadly the woman died. As part of the verdict at the trial, and again from memory, the judge determined that the act of dangerous driving wasn’t the moments just prior to the crash, it was the entire trip, given how overloaded the car and caravan combination was. Now, like you I’m no caravaner, but if I was, a precedent like that would really sharpen my focus as being done for, “Dangerous driving”, is no joke, especially if it comes with an, “occasioning death”, kicker. Given the precedent, do you know if the cops are now dishing out, “Dangerous driving”, summonses at the highway weigh-bridge?

[@larrybe2900]

With so many variables in the towing realm of this type it may be prudent to be reactionary because the configuration of the unit can change from the outset to the conclusion. A totally appropriate configuration could be given the stamp of approval only to be overloaded later. All in all it has to be education and a hope for the best that vehicle manufacturer cgvw minimizes negative outcomes.

[@rossatkinson3160]

He killed his wife, step son and seriously injured the step son's partner. Catastrophic calamity all round.

[@Phantomthecat]

They don’t do this for overloaded trucks so I can’t see them doing it anytime soon for cars and caravans. Truck driver (and up through CoR) cops a fine only for overloaded, not dangerous driving.

[@rossatkinson3160]

@Phantomthecat however the outcome of a serious accident will be charges of dangerous driving causing GVBH or even death. Being overweight in itself is not a criminal charge, but have an accident while overloaded causing gvbh or death, and better pack your soap on a rope when you face the judge. Even if you technically did not cause the accident, just being overloaded will make you culpable. Not sure I would want to test this in court any time soon.

[@darrensmowing9773]

Can’t beat a bit of towing talk… 👍👍👍😎

[@davidstevenson9633]

It blows my mind that you can go to Pedders and get a GVM upgrade for your 4x4 by changing your springs and shocks to tow an even heavier shit box around Australia

[@rossatkinson3160]

Another shite ARB/TJM/Pedders Porn job on the uneducated gullible. Gotta buy all those accessories and every upgrade available.

[@JelloTypeR]

A mate of mine used to tow his boat (12000lbs) with his mustang convertible. I drove it once, the rear end was so badly bent and collapsed that it was almost impossible to keep the sodding thing in a straight line when accelerating. I’m amazed he didn’t turn his stang into a submarine when trying to pull the boat trailer out of the water. I guess some people just aren’t very bright.

[@Shanes_Shed]

I'm always impressed at how smoothly you read out people's spelling mistakes. It must take some mental effort to do, if it where me I'd probably fail and read the word correctly.

[@AutoExpertJC]

It's quite hard to do that, yes.

[@hilbert3506]

Sorry Shane's but I've got to correct you. It is "were" not where mate. Lol

[@Shanes_Shed]

@@hilbert3506 yes you are correct, in my defence I blame that damn autocorrelation 😆

[@wt29]

Hi John, something peripheral to this. The other day I was getting my car rego checked (406K VE 3.0 - only needed front tyres) and there was a "full house" HiLux up on the hoist getting a service. You name it, it had it - springs, bars, crash plates, winch, awning, huge wheels, flairs. You know the drill - take an overpriced 4WD and double its price at ARB. I've been using these blokes as mechanics for 20 years and they tolerate me in the workshop - I also like to geek out looking at engines etc. Anyway, I mentioned that all that crap would probably be getting the vehicle up to GVM. The mechanic and I've always trusted him, reckoned you could up the GVM with suitable spring kits. Surely this can't be right - the GVM must be a product of the entire chassis, springs, shocks, bars, pickup points - all the stuff that holds your ass off the tarmac. Can you elucidate on this? Looking forward to getting reamed on using "elucidate" too.

[@kadmow]

- here you go (good idea to do a quick search, the results may astound) Mr Cadogan's opinion. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4S8iKRpftSoY6M

[@rossatkinson3160]

Yet all they do mostly is up the springs and shocks. It is a friggen joke.

[@stevegreen2432]

Draw bar weight can be measured with a set of bathroom scales and a two bits of wood---perhaps a good subject for a future video!

[@dougalpreston3154]

Watching your towing videos and listening to your comments and agreeing with everything you say may be refreshing for you to hear. However, I feel it would be important to cover dynamic loads. By this I mean sheep, cattle, horses etc. I tow a double axle, leaf sprung trailer with sheep using a LR Discovery 3 and would love to hear your opinion and maybe learn something I didn't know. Keep up the good work. Cheers D

[@farken7467]

Superb John. Margarites email to you about dropping a loggy in a portaslum whilst in motion, reminded me of the indignity of what happens days later after dropping said loggy. Depending on the portaslum it'll go into a holding tank to fester which is possibly the better outcome as a lot less contact is required. I've seen what is needed with a composting on board crapper and that is vomit inducing. The various cassette types are the most unpleasant due to the regularity of the decanting. I saw an old bloke recently pulling what appeared to be a suitcase from his portaslum to a council dump point. I was trying to enjoy my lunch in the park whilst he dumped his suitcase full of festering effluent. Once the seal was cracked and the juice was flowing the air was permeated by the smell of 1000 arse holes all farting at once in perfect synchronisation. Just another reason why I'll never own any sort of portaslum. How about a video on the various portaslum toilet systems.

[@rossatkinson3160]

Not an issue with a composting toilet. The new one in my old shit box mobile house on wheels, does not smell like the horrible old wet septic cassettes. Only empty every 80 odd bogs. vs every 3 days, just have to tip out the piss bottle every 2-3 days.

[@JakeScully2054]

That video was worth watching for the gyro piece at the end 😂 Good work!

[@stevegreen2432]

That was a far better explanation--absolutely accurate. Perhaps the term breaker bar was the reason for my comments. Thanks for the reply, and thanks for actually reading our comments---many do not.

[@macgibbon]

I don't know if they have it in Australia, but Hyundai have ads about their 'Pinnacle' scholarships. In one of them a woman says almost exactly what you said at the end there: "I believe if you don't know what you're capable of, you're capable of anything"

[@CRUSTY-nm7vu]

Hi John, I couldn’t agree more about “don’t buy not buying a demonstrator vehicle “ comment. I used to work in motorsport rescue and regularly used media fleet vehicles for events. The only nice things we did for those vehicles was fuel, vacuum and wash them before returning them. I’m sure the Needle at the of the tachometer was for my benefit .

[@philbaker3549]

Love the insightful videos. Ps, how many scrunched up A4's actually land in the bin? % wise? Can you show the bin/target. Cheers.

[@AutoExpertJC]

Like in The Matrix, there is no bin. Alternatively, the bin is everywhere...

[@marclagalle1486]

@@AutoExpertJC Schrodinger's bin?

[@johnh2309]

Hey John, thanks for your insights. Also thank you for giving me a shitwa phobia. Every time I see one on the road I get the fuck away from it!😮 I now add the car trailer to the 'to be observed' vehicle list. If nothing else I have thought harder about my trailer towing, to make things safer.

[@rossatkinson3160]

there are plenty of Cockwombles driving cars and trucks who should also be avoided. I just wish I could avoid people full stop.

[@roberthunter6927]

Hi John, I would like to see you do a piece on self-build campervans? While some hobby builders are responsible, there seems to be quite a few that are not. While it does save money to "roll your own" as far as this type of mobile fun home goes, a lot of them are overweight, and not balanced properly. This not only can make them unsafe, but also strain the drive train, and suspension. In addition [again due to personal economics], they may invest heavily in 3-way fridges, expensive composting toilets, hot water showers and water storage: [fresh, grey and blackwater], stoves, beds, cupboards and the like, and put it all in a clapped-out long wheelbase, high roof van that is as old as Methuselah and whose odometer has the equivalent of a couple of trips to the moon and back! 🙂 A reality check on current costs of home ownership [both renting and owning a home has gone through the roof], some people are turning to some sort of permanent mobile home set-up, mostly done on the cheap. Anyway, it is just a thought......

[@18_rabbit]

yep we see this here in the U.S., though a lot of good builds for sale it seems lately, albeit we dn't use diesels for most part, so it's typically the Ford w/ v6 gasoline/petrol which is quite the hog to say the least, with a fully built out american style set-up. Ford kindly provides a diesel here but no one buys it. Mercedes is the spendy and preferred by some or many perhaps ,ie those who can spend double, and that's usually a 4 cyl diesel, which seems like a not long term durability-minded engine choice or this type rig, though if mechanics here ever gain diesel skills maybe they will be rebuilt, in theory, though i'm guessing that's not feasible with such engines anyway. As for weight distribution and design, there are laws but only enforced if there's an accident, for most part.

[@DEVILTAZ35]

Sorry for the full stops after the question marks too. I had already pressed the button accidentally whilst editing.

[@dougstubbs9637]

Trailers around now have the axels set rearward so it makes backing them easier. It really does help reversing, very good for inexperienced trailer reversers, if that is even a noun. The best way to reverse a trailer is to place your dominant hand on the six o’clock position, then just turn the wheel where you want the trailer to go, watching in RV mirrors. Even goofy ten thumbs passion fingers peoples can manage it ! But yes, the rearset axles make bulk difference. The little Hyundai could have gone on backwards, exactly like you pointed out, AutoExpert John.

[@Swaggerlot]

A wonderfully irrelevant comment. Did you watch the original video???

[@Ted...youtubee]

Learnt this when I was 18.(almost 50 years ago). Bought a Demo Holden Gemini. What a frigging lemon. Rear axle wheel bearings leaking. Warranty. Bahahaha... Mate, you've been racing this car. Measured... Rear axle out of alignment. Ended up getting axle replacement from wreckers.

[@stumawson7516]

Your comments about a weightless caravan brought back memories of trying to steer a kit set hovercraft around our block as a teenager… mission impossible.. camber is a bitch and a suburban street is not the place to first try to operate one…

[@nealmyname1833]

I worked for the VW Service Department and I can say strange things happen to Press Cars like cracked Windscreens one came back on a Tow truck and that was never been able to be used again, bent rims and other things just get fixed the rim not the rest that got bent in the process of the bending of the rim, like you find out the car was in Car rental in my view run the other way not walk if you find that out.

[@MrWilliam.Stewart]

John, are you sure you haven't warmed to the idea of a caravan? Painting the picture of a bloke cooking a snag on the stove while exposing his bratwurst midway through snapping out a chocolate scroll on the throne. Even without the aromatic sauce of such an event, you are making it sound quite appealing.

[@scarter9447]

I was waiting fro Agro to pop up with a clever comment on your right. That would be awesome! :-)

[@AutoExpertJC]

I'm not sure the VFX budget runs to that.

[@alanhilder1883]

Dicky Knee more like...

[@confuzsays7196]

Really enjoyed that one. Good onya Jack.

[@AutoExpertJC]

Thanks, Con.

[@strangeknockers89]

I thought I was in for a Christopher Hitchens video, but my disappointment was short lived. JC be praised 🙏

[@AutoExpertJC]

Quite. Hitch was/is a legend. But the title is a play on words, clearly.

[@alanhilder1883]

What does our lord and savour, John Cleese, have to do with it?

[@iangosling28]

​@@alanhilder1883 like Hitch, JC speaks truth to idiocy.

[@shannonharris2816]

Excellent vid. John, keep up the good work.

[@brittenmusic6923]

thanks John, excellent as always. Cheers - Mark

[@stevenhobbs709]

A friend of mine was killed by NSW police in a collision in the 90s, one journalist who mentioned it in a magazine had to relocate interstate due to the harassment.

[@18_rabbit]

disgusting, so sorry for your loss!

[@JorsMalan]

It is time you set up a camera on the waste basket in the corner to let us share in the satisfaction when one goes in.💪

[@sebastianramadan7863]

Hey, that gyroscope thing is a great idea! Imagine a car without wheels floating just because ... gyroscopes! Must be a salesman thing.

[@simonrook5743]

I bought a car and found out it was the ex Subaru UK press car, ran it for 80,000 miles from 75,000 to 155,000 with power increased from 168 to 240bhp and it was utterly reliable.

[@seanc2069]

John, you might want to chase up the military load limits; from memory they had both on-road limits and off-road limits that the same vehicle configurations were safely allowed to carry/tow.

[@dawayneduffy3509]

Great work mate. I love your iron man shirt dude.

[@justinfargas2367]

Very entertaining Friday video. Thanks

[@Michael.Chapman]

I can't understand many of JC's critics... JC is a rare species of Stralian journalist honed by time, vast experience, engineering and science fact--he is evidence-based and provides us the appropriate factual references regardless of the consequences to himself... while being genuinely helpful and entertaining too.

[@JelloTypeR]

It’s called the Dunning Kruger effect.

[@karipaturketo5438]

Haven't seen u for awhile john. Algorithms totally forgotten u. But good to see u again in shitsville .

[@tighematthew]

You are the first person I've seen to have a drop saw on the wall. And four different gloves just hanging there. Maybe you're going for the next Saw movie 🎬

[@letsseeif]

Regarding 'MASS and WEIGHT'. The NASA Boeing 707 (KC135) used for 'zero 'G' manouvres' to simulated zero gravity, is called 'the 'Vomit Comet'.

[@jeffreystorer4966]

Thanks again John,any chance you could help educate people about how foolish it is ,to tow a boat without having the transom securely strapped down to the trailer,it frightening how many people think having two tonnes of boat on a rollered trailer ,by a little shackle attached to unrated old through hull U Bolt is good enough , cheers

[@rossevans1774]

It doesn't matter how carefully Cadogan explains automotive 'things' in a simple step by step manner, there will always be comments from those that are unable follow these simple steps till the end.

[@alexgrant1979]

I know nothing about caravans or towing in general as i don't do any of that stuff, my question and it may be stupid to people in the know but will adjusting the height of the towball affect the load on it? I mean if the towball is higher than say another car and you use the same van then it would lower the rear end of the caravan and so less load on the towball and vice-versa like with a seesaw?

[@dgs0011]

I fucking love this content. There be truth in them thar hills. 👍

[@AutoExpertJC]

Yeah - I love it to, but I am full of myself.

[@richardlove4287]

@@AutoExpertJC…too…not to. Lol.

[@dougobrien2840]

Where i live there are caravan roll overs every week western Qld Roma. John is right $100.000 spent on vehicles and can,t spent $110 for ball weight check. i live opposite a servo and 3 /4 times a day caravans pulling up with wheels locked up brake controllers set too high and very overloaded. I even saw a bus towing a caravan and a small car towed by the van .How they haven't be pulled up i don't know .

[@18_rabbit]

sickening to see in Oz, i assume Qld is queensland, which to me would be paradise btw, regardless of how hot

[@chrisbraid2907]

That Pursuit thing was a real and by the police unrecognised problem and danger to the innocent. So many of the stupid accidents resulting from bad and careless pursuit of offenders was as much a problem of bad calls and a lack of faith in their communications and Aerial surveillance capabilities … bad news risking vehicles all paid for by tax and fine payers …

[@7ismersenne]

Your comment on the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case is apposite. Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie have done what journalists should do all the time. All praise to them for their commitment to the truth. What they have done stands as a compelling example of the importance of journalists in civil society. Also, John, you don't do a bad job either. Regards

[@dougstubbs9637]

🎶”Breaker one nine, He said from under the Ming Moles skirt, Come back and talk to AutoExpert…..🎶”

[@whya2ndaccount]

@Auto Expert John Cadogan touché. The name comes from KZbin's / Google's insane requirement that I create a 2nd account. FYI: An earlier incarnation of HMAS Sydney was an aircraft carrier too (along with HMAS Melbourne).

[@bbobkins]

Dear john, nice shirt BTW, thought provoking as always. I’’’m not sure you quite understand your audience, the VB connoisseur down by the creek camping out in our acoustically transparent abode. We don’’’t know anything about whatever that movie you mentioned is, but we have seen Anchorman many times, and yeah!! Who thought us connoisseur’’’s could be thought provoking as well!

[@brentonmeadowsvk3cm]

Did chasing cars remove the subaru tow video?

[@richardlove4287]

Hey John, you ask "what is it with this journalism and trust thing" well have a read at this. John Swinton - New York Press Club in 1880... Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Sun, made this candid confession [it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]: "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." TIMES HAVE NOT CHANGED.

[@philmiller681]

"Was there ever a time when journalists were trusted?" Well, if this quote is accurate: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." - Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807

[@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars]

"Pre-abused". That's gold.

[@AutoExpertJC]

Accurate gold.

[@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars]

@@AutoExpertJC Someone's already done the hard yards for me. Where do I sign?

[@georgekaplan6451]

I was lucky with my demonstrator - it was in the showroom and had 13km on it.

[@Cotterpin_Doozer]

7km in a cerato here before i took it for the test drive around the block and snapping it up, have been wondering if the kia dealership rolled the speedo back or not?

[@hamishprice]

I know you need to have ads to pay for your videos, John, but I thought you’d be tickled that shortly after your counsel to never buy a demonstrator, an ad popped up for the three-prong demonstrator sale!

[@shellez101]

Just fit a weight distribution hitch , that’s the miracle fix for every shit combination since the 60s .

[@darrennorth7987]

Hey a Polestar ad just played. Well done Polestar. They obviously don't watch the channel.

[@AutoExpertJC]

It's down to you, and what you browse, you Polestar pervert.

[@Drmcclung]

I'm so glad proper towing practice is important in Australia, coz it's very important to me personally, but fuck all unenforced in most US states (even though mandates, regulations & laws are clearly marked out); in 2019 one of my best friends was killed by a recklessly overloaded trailer detaching from a mini truck flying 75mph down interstate 10 through Houston. The detached trailer (a loaded car dolly) rolled across all 4 lanes taking out multiple vehicles, and she's impaled against her car door by oncoming traffic piling up one by one while trying to exit a burning vehicle in the middle of the highway, where traffic had 0 chance of stopping in time. I think 11 vehicles in total were involved. It was gruesome. Yet to this day I continue to see this bullshit all over the south.. Double decker car haulers and huge flat beds you usually see pulled by 18-wheelers being pulled by consumer Ram 3500 pickups, old mini trucks pulling 12ft trailers full of mulch and other assorted nonsense. Shit flying everywhere in the process. Makes me shake with anger.

[@clintonbutton712]

It should be important, but frig all of the offenders take notice. We have overloaded vehicles driving at 70kmh on the highway, and when you get to a good bit or overtake lanes they punch it to 120kmh because God forbid anyone gets past them.

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

Funny you should mention that because quite often I see videos in the US of exactly that, some nut bag loads an excavator or small bulldozer onto a trailer and tows it with their RAM. Add to that the chassis on some of those rust belt cars and they’re a disaster looking for somewhere to happen. Over here (Australia) it would be on a tilt tray or low loader. Sorry to hear about your best friend, it’s devastating enough but when you find out why it must be so hard to fathom.

[@Drmcclung]

@@scroungasworkshop4663 Sadly that's just the way it is down here, rather third world.. Shot roads, everything run down, courts pick and choose what laws they want to enforce on any given day, cops will respond immediately to drug calls but not gunshots or traffic violations. Unregistered vehicles are a HUGE problem and drunk drivers are now the norm there's just too many of them. 25 years ago if you were caught pulling loads like that without following laws to the letter you'd lose your vehicle and your license forever in that state (GVR and tie-down was taken very seriously as was commercial licensing, CDL's). Now all you need is a Ram that anyone can buy, and just like that you're now a trucker who can move houses and pull mining & refinery equipment, 6,000lbs worth of dirt with a Ford Ranger etc. It's disgusting.

[@k53847]

@@scroungasworkshop4663 You can legally and safely tow a huge amount with a properly set up 350 or 3500 and 5th wheel trailer. Like GCVW of 15 tons.

[@Drmcclung]

@@k53847 Not exactly. There are very strict limits in all states (some of the law is Federal) to the *weight* you cal pull on a regular joe blow class C driver's license, regardless of your vehicle GVR; Just owning a Ram 3500 pickup that can haul 30 million Americans tons (but not stop it) and giant trailer big enough to stack all your heavy shit onto plus the whole house with the kitchen sink in it doesn't mean you're legally allowed to do that. Over certain weights you're required by law to carry a class A commercial license, which certifies that you're well trained and able to manage such huge loads, the vehicle you're carrying all the shit with is adequate to *stop* it, and that you the driver of said shit know the weight limits of the physical road you're hauling all that heavy on (don't go trying to pull 15 tons down a 2 lane state road not physically rated for the weight - this is why our roads are so shot to shit like something you'd find in Guatemala, law means nothing anymore). SO, tragically, this bullshit is not going away anytime soon. You should see the road death stats attributed to lost/mismanaged loads from amateur "I think I'm a truck driver" assholes, usually from Brodozers.

[@brendanaengenheister5351]

I like the ironman T shirt.

[@scrambles270]

Blowback for journos is no joke, friendly jordies Vs the NSW Gambling lobby

[@AutoExpertJC]

And producer Vs Fixated Person's Unit...

[@dishevellednomad]

I like the Fe Man shirt.

[@sp1nrx]

John, I'd like you to comment on "fifth-wheel" towing. This might be just an American thing (big pick-ups pulling trailers) but I have never seen you make any sort of reference to it. Clearly, towing by a "bumper" hitch is more technical and requires more care.

[@leighdonald3112]

Just for the hell of it JC (no relation I assume) we had (& this goes back many years at Network TeeV) a standard that said "if the News had ANYTHING derogatory about an Airline or Airplane (or DOG forbid a crash) co-ord were immediately to "pull" ANY ad for an Airline. LD

[@AutoExpertJC]

Seems plausible - they're big advertisers... Wouldn't want to tell the truth about them too often.

[@soundman6645]

There would seem to be boundless possibilities, when thinking is unrestrained by the laws of physics.

[@samboelliott1]

That's heavy, John

[@AutoExpertJC]

Sambo.

[@johnhorler8330]

Just for accuracy, Australia has had 3 aircraft carriers and a seaplane carrier...

[@thermitebanana]

I know these people and I can confirm that all of the voices are accurate

[@andrewbrown9267]

I drive a truck every day and think about weight and position on the trailer all day it’s no so hard when you remember if you get this wrong you go to jail 😅

[@gavinhenderson5862]

Last comment was worth repeating. Not that the others weren't too.

[@michaelsprinzeles4022]

Pardon my ignorance. Isn't inertia the state of being inert? I understood "overcoming inertia" as the physical fight to move over the tendency to remain stationary (or inert). The way you speak it sounds like inertia is motion. Please help this befuddled viewer. If a bit of thrashing is part of your answer it will be appreciated.

[@YZJB]

Accelerating a mass requires overcoming its inertia. If something is already travelling at a constant speed, increasing that speed or reducing that speed still requires overcoming its inertia.

[@michaelsprinzeles4022]

@@YZJB I didn't mean to suggest my complete ignorance. I already had an addmitedly flawed understaing of "overcoming inertia". It was Johns use of "inertia" where I think motion would have been correct. I think in your example that even maintaining a constant speed is overcoming inertia, unless in a vacuum. I also suggest that, except in a vacuun, you could slow down by giving in to inertia rather than overcoming it.

[@IantheCripple]

and the link to Marg's you tube is?

[@wilson2455]

suggest you watch a couple of YT videos on high speed pursuits in the U.S. Cops weaving in & out of traffic doing 130mph+ whilst chasing the bad guy. Insane, reckless driving..

[@18_rabbit]

yep i can attest as a Yank. It's also related to our lack of professionaist style police force training and /or related quality of force. Been largely true though even for cities of a supposedly 'liberal' nature. Fact is that a fashy vibe has always been around but possibly increasing since the social divide of the late '60's (which itself is considered by socio/anthro's/historians to be the initial cause of the 'culture wars' today. But in any case, an officer who is in that overly eager mode when driving to an incident, is one of our most statistically problematic accident causers. We need to slow it down in urban places and the american culture has been too manic for way way too long.

[@paulsven7923]

16:49 It's a plant trailer and looks to be made for excavator

[@craigmcpherson6972]

Minion you described me as... thanks John... If only you knew how and why that contract came about... oh hang on, that's right, I told you.

[@AutoExpertJC]

Hey Craig, of course I remember you. I thought 'minion' was better than naming you. You were of course a complete gentleman, and I appreciated you (and the AFP) asking if you could use my work. I'm extremely pleased the pursuit policy was changed, but I'm sorry you had to stoop to calling me as part of that job... All the best, and I hope you're doing OK.

[@craigmcpherson6972]

@Auto Expert John Cadogan Minion: noun - a follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one. I'm naturally a humble person John. IMO it is unkind of you to describe me as a minion. I was tasked to conduct a review of pursuits. Thereafter I was tasked with delivering a limited pursuit policy. I held a view, a sentiment of you will that I struggled to express. Your video largely put into words my outlook. When conducting the review, I told you that as a renowned and well regarded journalist that I intended to reference your piece and asked you if you had any objection to my doing so I thought this was an appropriate and respectful courtesy. You in turn asked that I share said reference ahead of publication - we both agreed. This is how it went down. Why you couldn't have used the term 'member of', 'police officer from' or some other descriptor other than minion is for you. A subordinate of the CPO (not the Commissioner as you said it to be) would have also been accurate. Just very unkind when it didn't need to be is all - my opinion of course.

[@233kosta]

Aside from a more or less completely stripped out interior, there's nothing special design-wise about the zero-g training aircraft (they call it the Vomit Comet). Last I heard it was a 737, maybe nowadays it's something else, but the M.O. remains the same - take an airliner, rip out the interior, fly parabolas at higher altitude, and voila - zero g. Well... few seconds of zero g.

[@tigertiger1699]

F you’re so patient with them👍

[@AutoExpertJC]

Patience is my middle name - ask ex-wives 2-5 inclusive.

[@tigertiger1699]

@@AutoExpertJC So… am I still training on the first one…?

[@tigertiger1699]

@@AutoExpertJC F… hopefully just one.. , baby Jesus… I couldn’t survive two them

[@tigertiger1699]

@@AutoExpertJC Still .. half wits write in, give you shot and week after week.. we are really only ever about education.. I just the ignorant suffer enough.. without the head kick

[@adoreslaurel]

John, we all know you hate "The Shitois" but what else can you take to DP creek? {this, from one that hates camping in tents]

[@SideShowBob16]

Anyone know Margherita’s you tube channels name?

[@DieselAddiction]

Ask Stevo if he knows what a Fulcrum point looks like.

[@twinrotors]

Where do you get your t-shirts?

[@AutoExpertJC]

The wardrobe.

[@twinrotors]

@@AutoExpertJC 🤣

[@MrButtonpresser]

Agree, never buy a demo. You just know the apprentice mechanic has been dropping doughnuts every morning while retrieving the coffees.

[@aussiebloke609]

31:18 Motion in motion isn't legal? Bummer. 😁

[@evilkittyofdoom195]

They hate you because you are right...

[@kadmow]

lol, yes when weightless - it can't weigh 1 kgf - it must be Zero.... (easy slip) but its mass is equivalent to a "1kg reference mass... (yes we know... lol.. reaction thrusters to counter "inertial mass" - you know the whole straight line cornering $hato!r thing..)

[@stusue9733]

Wait until he finds out about "gyroscopic precession". That should lead to some interesting results lol

[@krissteel4074]

I'd advise people looking for information is that there's a number of pitfalls along the way which get tapped into Objectivity- we're schooled literally to trust what we read, all through primary and high school. Its really only when you get into higher education that you learn to take things apart and figure out how an argument is constructed, the meaning behind the written words on a page and other factors which come into play when the piece was written. Its a leaned skill and I encourage anyone to learn it and step outside your interests, viewpoints and pre-set ideas. Narcissism- we all have it to some degree, hopefully not a lot, but the real fruitbat fringes who claim 'secret knowledge' appeal to the narcissism factor that you can be special, you can know something no one else does and feel smug in the fact you're not part of the sheeple. Its a ruse to suck you into that trap, so be careful about how something makes you feel, if it feels way too good then its sort of like intellectual heroin and you'll want that feeling more and more. Algorithms- these things are diabolical in that social media runs on these things and so does their advertising, you can quickly get stuck in a rut with the media choice being only given to you, you'll only end up speaking to people online which share those views and it turns into an echo chamber. This is more risky behaviour because it conditions you to lose objectivity, you get thin skin in arguments and criticism when someone tries to present a different idea. That's your 2023 risk management for using the internet from me, stay safe out there

[@alanhilder1883]

For your first point. That sounds like critical thinking. I hear that there are states in the US that have banned that in schools, it is interfering with the religious indoctrination.

[@18_rabbit]

@@alanhilder1883yeah TX tried to ban it, but the bill failed in their state legislature. We have severely serious and insidious persistent anti-intellecutalism here that has been hell bent on darkening the only country whose had 250 yrs of uninterrupted power transfers. Even i as a now middle aged guy who was already alarmed at the kookiness i was seeing in the 1980's (Ollie North and so on, i.e incompetent & judgement-impaired folks entrusted w/ secret ops) have been surprised at how bad the right-wing has become here.

[@DEVILTAZ35]

You seem to have toned things down somewhat. Didn’t this used to be the nut bag comments section?. I am curious in regard to the last letter writer though. If there was an Anti-Gravity caravan why would there not be a Anti-Gravity Outback or even an Outback at all?. Wouldn’t you just have the caravan self propel with fusion technology and just program your destination via the onboard control module? I am sure by this stage in the future it would not be illegal to travel in such a device as everything else would be controlled in a similar manner with no human interaction. This then leads to the question of why would you even needs roads? Shifting back to reality, I really enjoy these open discussions and I am so glad Chasing Cars took down that potentially dangerous video.

[@Bazilhatz3773]

Well look at Julian Assange John, he was honest and now in prison.

[@AutoExpertJC]

He was VERY honest.

[@LordandGodofYouTube]

Hi John, I purchased some tyres online last week from Bob Jane, they had Bridgestone Potenza Sport 245/35/R20 on a buy 3 get 1 free deal so I paid for 3 at $416 each ($1248 total) and got the receipt emailed to me for my deposit (balance to be paid on fitting) and it shows the 3 tyres I paid for and has the fourth one as free, now Bob Jane are telling me they can't sell the tyre to me for that price and are trying to sell me an inferior product the same price. What are my rights here? Consumer affairs here in Tasmania won't answer my query on the phone and want me to fill in a form and wait 3 weeks, I don't have 3 weeks, I need to get my ute registered and get back to work.

[@AutoExpertJC]

Just ask for a refund in full.

[@jeffreystorer4966]

Could try other Bob Jane store if one nearby,I worked for Ian diffen tyre's,years ago depends who store manager is sometimes, otherwise try contact Bob Jones if he's not dead,met him year's ago n he won't be pleased if you are not getting a fair go

[@davidvanderklauw]

"Bridgestone Potenza Sport 245/35/R20 at $416 each" 245 is a ridiculously wide tyre. 35 is a ridiculously low profile tyre. 20 inches is a ridiculously large wheel. $416 is a ridiculously high price for a tyre. Get yourself a 195/70/14 for about $150 and it will handle the potholes really well.

[@TC-yx2ss]

​@@davidvanderklauw And have zero street cred ;)

[@damodoesall6240]

You should learn to speak 'Nurrian, as in Kununurraian. I have seen the most ridiculous tow rigs up there from the grey nomads enroute on the big lap death tour of Australia.

[@18_rabbit]

indeedy do, cannot picture the extreme dessication after their rig fails and they perish in the dry heat.

[@AJ56]

You shouldn’t have apologised, if they’d have fired you, they’d be doing you a favour 😝 It’s your tax dollars that pay the commissioner and his entire department, they work for the citizens and not the other way around.

[@AutoExpertJC]

Pragmatically, at the time I was considering whether I wanted to keep the gig, and the apology was non-negotiable if I did.

[@gbsailing9436]

Actually your left finger is a FULCRUM. 🤣👍

[@AutoExpertJC]

My left index finger accepts that allegation.

[@gbsailing9436]

@@AutoExpertJC "Excellent!, We are agreed then!"