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AUSTRALIAN ROAD TRAINS – KINGS OF THE ROAD IN THE OUTBACK OF AUSTRALIA

Ive always liked them. Put 5 trailers and half a million pounds against a 425 old iron non emissions cat. It'll do it. The problem with those, if they ever came to USA, people will need to learn that they don't stop. Not without advance planning and intent to.

I would tease a little bit and say if you put 5 trailers on me then pay me 5.00 a mile. No sense in hording the 3.00 a mile for each of them that the Carrier is raking in with the trains.
 
Jaloc,
You wouldn't have known this but WE had A Mate Living in New Zealand and was a Truckee, known as Kiwiray. He died in 2014 due to medical complications.
NZ and AUS hate each other, go figure.
Unsure about Tazmania.
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2001-The longest road train ever assembled was 1,018.2 m (3,340 ft) long and consisted of 79 trailers with a combined weight of 1,072.3 tonnes (2.364 million lb). It was pulled a distance of 8 km (4.9 miles) by a Kenworth C501T truck driven by Australia's Steven Matthews, near Kalgoorlie, WA, Australia, on October 19th, 2000 in an event known as 'Doug's Tug', after organiser Doug Gould. As seen in the Guinness book of world records.

Seems that was the LONGEST, now for something a tad shorter:
https://everything2.com/title/Road+train
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Looking for Related Stuff for this post, I cite this site:
https://everything2.com/title/world+record

Longest road train
The record for the longest road train is 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) where a single Mack Titan prime mover, driven by John Atkinson (Australia), towed 113 trailers for a distance of approximately 150 m (490 ft) in an event sponsored by Hogs Breath Café, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia on February18, 2006.
https://web.archive.org/web/2006052...s.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=43494

American Truckers have Problems with ONE 53' TRAILER, except on the NY Thruway with a Day Cab and two 53'ers as seen in the early/mid/latter 2000 decade.

https://outbacktowing.tripod.com/id1.html

CHEERS Mate!!
 
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Cerberus_Kelpie said:
Jaloc,
You wouldn't have known this but WE had A Mate Living in New Zealand and was a Truckee, known as Kiwiray. He died in 2014 due to medical complications.
NZ and AUS hate each other, go figure.
Unsure about Tazmania.
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2001-The longest road train ever assembled was 1,018.2 m (3,340 ft) long and consisted of 79 trailers with a combined weight of 1,072.3 tonnes (2.364 million lb). It was pulled a distance of 8 km (4.9 miles) by a Kenworth C501T truck driven by Australia's Steven Matthews, near Kalgoorlie, WA, Australia, on October 19th, 2000 in an event known as 'Doug's Tug', after organiser Doug Gould. As seen in the Guinness book of world records.

Seems that was the LONGEST, now for something a tad shorter:
https://everything2.com/title/Road+train
- - - - - -
Looking for Related Stuff for this post, I cite this site:
https://everything2.com/title/world+record

Longest road train
The record for the longest road train is 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) where a single Mack Titan prime mover, driven by John Atkinson (Australia), towed 113 trailers for a distance of approximately 150 m (490 ft) in an event sponsored by Hogs Breath Café, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia on February18, 2006.
https://web.archive.org/web/2006052...s.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=43494

American Truckers have Problems with ONE 53' TRAILER, except on the NY Thruway with a Day Cab and two 53'ers as seen in the early/mid/latter 2000 decade.

https://outbacktowing.tripod.com/id1.html

CHEERS Mate!!
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I remember Kiwiray well, he brought a lot to the forum.
 
I think about Kiwi often. We emailed quite a bit. He said a trip to the US to drive Route 66 was on his bucket list. I would have liked to meet him. I sent pics of local car shows to him. One pic was of an immaculate 61 Starliner. I forget what the Aussie version was called but he said it was one of his favorite cars.
His son sent a reply of my last email to him.
 
1984Sideways said:
Ive always liked them. Put 5 trailers and half a million pounds against a 425 old iron non emissions cat. It'll do it. The problem with those, if they ever came to USA, people will need to learn that they don't stop. Not without advance planning and intent to.

I would tease a little bit and say if you put 5 trailers on me then pay me 5.00 a mile. No sense in hording the 3.00 a mile for each of them that the Carrier is raking in with the trains.
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We pulled these in the mountains on the Tamiami Trail with NHE 195 Cummins
Only pulled them at night with no trailer lights so the public never knew they were on the highways.
Payscale was 19.75 pr mile, minus our 15% pay cut, averaged 46 mph when it was not snowing.
I assume we did a good job, no one ever complained.
 
Coop would pull these in the old days from Iowa to Dallas. Those lightbulbs were pretty light (lol). Let me tell you, when the Dream Team were younger, they could pull three of the trailers through low over passes.
After the 10th time doing this, BRG developed his 46mph system so they could stop when only 1 was stuck.....
 
Big Dave said:
Coop would pull these in the old days from Iowa to Dallas. Those lightbulbs were pretty light (lol). Let me tell you, when the Dream Team were younger, they could pull three of the trailers through low over passes.
After the 10th time doing this, BRG developed his 46mph system so they could stop when only 1 was stuck.....
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When pulling three trailers does the 15 mph rule change to 45 mph??
 
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