American Reacts to How to Unbog a Road Train in the Australian Outback
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I drive a triple roadtrain based in Townsville north Queensland and I drive to Darwin Northern Territory. I deliver to remote cattle stations and general freight to outback towns. I've been bogged many times, sometimes to the point of splitting up and pulling the trailers out 1 by 1. Love the videos mate, keep up the great work
You just described how I thought they were going to pull it out. I love Townsville! When you get used to the humidity, it's an awesome place to be. 👍
That’s awesome man!!! Y’all are legends in my book 💪😎
@@IWrocker Did you know Opal Fuel is used for the outback!
@@Scott-The-Great yeah kinda sad hey.
Lazy axle trucks are not really suitable for those roads
American: "I drive an 18 wheeler!"
Australian: "Does your wife know you have her truck?"
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Literally
Here in Australia we actually have laws against using chains with no weights. A young guy had a chain snap and it flew through the windscreen and killed him. After that, as usually happens here, the laws were changed. Chains have to have weighted bags put over them and people are supposed to stand well clear of the chain reach. I agree with you, I absolutely would not have been near those chains. I've seen them snap and it's not pretty when it hits a car let alone a human.
In previous life, I was a train driver. Our locos carried special chains that were hardened. These chains were used when couplers failed and the train parted. The worst part using these things, was carrying them from the loco to where the train had parted, they were not lite, bloody hard work, but I've never seen one of these chains break either.
Pretty much anyone in Australia who works with chains or winches under tension would have been on a course and know the danger. I’d say that old guy was suffering from a bout of “I’ll be right”. He must have been the boss because it’s unlikely any one else in charge would let any of their subordinates put themselves at risk like that. Then again I’ve never worked in the outback.
Pmsl no there is not never has been any law its common sence not a fucking law 😒
Yes, the same happened with shopping trolley guys and the ocky straps, with one whipping back, crushing his windpipe and suffocating him after the hook released from a cart at high tension. Sadly it takes a tragedy sometimes to implement change.
No law. At all. Ever
I live in rural Australia and own a couple of tractors and sometimes have to pull trucks or tractors out of bogs ,a trick that I use is put an old truck tyre in the middle of 2 chains . This allows the tractor to get a slight run up and use the momentum to increase the pulling force ,also stops the savage jarring that will damage the truck and tractor . Has not failed yet,I have pulled a 90hp 2wd tractor up to its axles and weighing about 5t with my small 50 hp tractor weighing just under 2t
thats a good idea with the tyre in the link.
Have an old photo of my mate who did the tyre trick hauling up to Karumba back when the road was nothing but two wheel ruts. He drove an old 1418 single drive merc and was lead truck. That old truck was always dragging out the rest of the convoy.
Thanks for the info
If you can find it, the TV show 'Outback Truckers' is worth a watch.
I was going to suggest that too, my favourite show. It's the only thing that I go out of my way to watch on commercial television.
@@DarkMatter1992 Yep, that's some hard yakka...
That’s a good show.
I had some 'interesting' experiences as a driver in Central Queensland in the late 80s. When the rains hit the dirt roads were, let's just say, not a place for young players.
Ian, the part of the video where the ute was pulling on chain was was them trying to pull the pin to detatch the trailer from the turntable or fifth wheel as you call it, so they could pull each trailer out individually. Judging by their reaction however, they broke it and were unable to release the trailer. If you want to see more stuff like this then you should watch a TV show called Outback Truckers.
Ahhh okay thank you for the correction 👍 outback truckers sounds like a good watch
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outback trucker is a good show + 1 the watch
Im being padantic but Aussies majority of Aussies say Truckies, no offence but to many Aussies copy the American terminology, no disrespect to you or Americans in general, I refuse to watch Outback Truckers for that reason.
Just subscribed love your channle
@@Dennis-zr3fb yup it's a pet peeve of mine too mate! I'm forever correcting my children that if they are going to use slang can it at least be our Aussie slang? ( Like when did Maths become math? )
I would love to see a reaction video to Bush Mechanics! My dad is Aboriginal and showed it to me when I was younger and I loved it. There’s only a couple of episodes but they’re so good.
Hearing about dreamtime stories would be another interesting video.
Freakin loved the bush mechanics...lol great vids from way back
Yes the Bush Mechanics are a must see 👍👍👍
Yep, absolutely brilliant series. Pity it was so short lived. The ingenuity of Aboriginals is on full display. My favourite is when they remove fuel pump, hook up hoses and use a ring spanner to pump it while sitting in the car. Absolute Perla!!
Bush mechanics was the series! I knew some of the blokes and they had fun making the series, wish they could do more shows like that!
A few beginner mistakes right there, first one, you never pullover to the edge, 2 no diff locks or cross locks were on, 3 the tankers were empty so no weight on the drives, I always drop the air bags on my drives to lower the weight over the drives, this looks like a very familiar spot on the great central Hwy, dirt road from WA into NT. Believe me I’ve done years of this, thank god I no longer do triple general freight running mining supplies to outback remote areas all over Australia. Doing roadtrain bulk tankers for the past couple of years, much better on the body lol. The black fellas out in these remote places are bloody great fellas, they will just keep going to get you out. By the video I’d guess this driver had done a carrier change as it’s often the case with the lack of rd train drivers we have now as most to almost all the old guys I knew have retired.
Do you reckon that’s near Docker River? For some reason it reminds me of the Pinnacle/Giles kinda way.
Surprised no cross locks !!!
I noticed the Same about the Diffs . Surely it HAD cross locks , one would hope .
If they are empty do they still need the combustible sign on the back or should that have been closed.
@@ianmontgomery7534 yes because of the residual, you can only remove the dg signs if its been certified cleaned, no residual or fumes
pulling backwards means the tyres go back over the compacted earth and not over fresh sand
For Aussie truckers, an 18wheeler is cute, like a hatchback or small car. count the tyres, this is a 54wheeler. And on dirt, not all bitumen highways here.
😬😬😬😵54 oomg lol
Try again. closer to 65 wheels on the ground
Bush mechanics was an awesome show. Part serious, part tongue in cheek. Well worth a look.
Yes I got stuck at a creek crossing on the way from Innamincka to a drill rig. Didn’t go through fast enough and had to get towed out by another roadtrain. We used what is known as a stiff bar that all outback truckers carry on our trucks, it’s a solid bar, much better and safer than a chain.
Didn't expect to see you here! Amazing videos with that Kenny of yours! Big fan!
back in the 90's I drove truck and dogs for a freight company in central Qld. Mainly for the mines. I would have to drive a road called The Beef Road. This road was a 200km single lane road. I think it had 4 bends in it. and one single room school about a third of the way up the road. It is a public road. And as the name suggest, a lot of road trains running cattle used this road. It was pretty flat country so you could see them coming from a good distance. There were a couple of unwritten rules for this road.
1 Biggest vehicle has right of way. If there is a road train coming towards you. Drop off the tar sealed road onto the dirt so the road train can keep its pass up. and not pelt your vehicle with rocks.
2 If a road train is coming towards you and there is a ship load of dust billowing off the side of him. This meant he was being over taken. The road train drivers would drop onto the dirt but always leave one side of the truck on the bitchamun. the road train drive would drop onto the dirt on the side that would allow any wind to blow the dust away from the road. Giving the overtaking vehicle a clearer line of site when overtaking.
3 Now the top third of Australia doesn't have four seasons it has two. A wet and a dry season. And the wet season is bloody wet. Will rain for three weeks straight in the tropics. and still be bloody hot and humid. Or it could be sunny and hot and all of a sudden a cloud will come by and drop two inches of rain on you in an hour. Then be sunny, bloody hot and more humid. Anyway, so if its wet. The heaviest vehicle stays on the road. the lightest drops onto the dirt/mud completely. heavy vehicle goes past slowly then stops. Waits to make sure the light vehicle gets back up onto the road. and then continue on. or the heaver vehicle pulls you back onto the road.
Now during the dry season it would take 5 1/2 to 6 hours each way. the longest it took me in the wet season was 14 hours up and two days back, Oh to be young again.
You talking Dingo to Nebo?
My guess is the road train was empty because otherwise they would need a whole heap more than that backhoe to even attempt to get him out. Actually, the fact that he was empty probably got him bogged in the first place because he didn’t have any weight on his drive.
I used to work in the NT, as far as road train length goes, it depends on what they're hauling. Ore trucks can have up to 4 trailers, livestock 3 from memory, and general goods can have 6 trailers, those bastards are long. But then you should see the length of the ore trains throughout the Pilbara, nothing worse than getting stuck at a level crossing on a 46°C day when one of those mongrels roll through.
Doesn't matter the combination of trailers. You are not allowed to exceed 53.5 meters.
I live in The Pilbara and have been stuck waiting for an iron ore train. It's not as if you can turn around and find another road. There is only one way so you just have to be patient. They are really long.
Incorrect. 6 trailers is wrong
@@johnjohny295 Incorrect. I drive a 60 metre ultra quad in The Pilbara.
@@iDrive123 yeah you are correct. They are very restricted to where they can go. But yeah. Since posting that message I came across a Quinn. Pretty impressive stuff. Thumbs up on your name :)
Chains, wire ropes, straps make me nervous with towing. Many moons ago I worked at Sydney airport and if we had to tow a broken down push back tractor (50+ ton) always a solid steel bar. Obviously on very solid ground, not in the sand trap like these guys.
Always road crews who will lend you a hand. 20 years ago when I was in Transport we had a bloke stuck 3 days in a bog & the local farmer took care of the driver. He refused any money so I sent a huge Xmas gift package to him & his family for their help.
In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, it's very common to see quad trailers on the highway. Usually three 40 foot trailers and a single 20 foot hauling iron ore. Triple 40 foot road trains are the standard way of getting just about anything between Wubin (about 180 miles north of Perth) to anywhere north of that point. Then it gets even crazier because of the literal hundreds of mines out there. If you know how big a CAT 793 dump truck is, you know that transporting one takes up both sides of the road.
Quads…And or Superquads, are 60m long mate
In Australia🇦🇺, when an Outback Trucker gets stuck and the rescuer comes to help, as you’ve know seen, they don’t give up.
Bush Mechanics was an awesome show. You won't believe the fixes they come up with to keep their car going.
Between Noccundra and Warry Warry gate years ago, we came across (from memory) three rolled caravans over the roadside and about twenty ruined truck tires - red dirt, corrugations, stones and rocks like in the vid. I first saw patches of fair dinkum bulldust in central Queensland as a kid. It's like talcum powder, but creamy/red/brown colour. Cheers
I put a few years into working with these guys. Used to work at a truck stop (Australia).
When it got really hot one of my regulars told me he could have died before. His truck broke down in the middle of nowhere. He had a couple of bottles of 1.5L water from us. He was stuck there for hours. He told me he had to sit under his trailer for shade for hours while he waited for a repair/tow.
These guys are great, the far majority were absolute legends (worked with regular public car drivers for years and truck drivers are way better to serve). I have lots more trucking stories too, the guys love to chat lol!
Those salvage guys are amazing at what they do....and the terrain is similar whether you're in outback West Aust, South Aust or Nthn territory, because it's all desert type aridness. 👍
Original video says it’s in the Northern Territory.
IOR do a great job of fuel deliveries in the outback, very reliable and professional they refuel oil and gas drilling rigs in the cooper and Eromanga basins
When a chain snaps it jumps a bit and goes limp because it is not springy and not a problem. When a wire rope (or any rope) snaps, it goes twang, because it is elastic and stores energy and will rip you in half if you get in the way.
Len Biddel who built the "bomb" roads tells a story of a truck bogged up to its axels on an outback road. His road crew came upon it pulled it out, fixed the road, and went on their way. Len says he always wonders what the trucking co owners thought when they came to retrieve the bogged truck the driver had walked away from.
Loved that story ! He was a legend xx
@@mariabecroft7996 totally amazing! I've read all his books and the yarns he tells!
G'day Ian, that road could be somewhere between WA and the NT and the worked helpers are from an First nation settlement, trucks get dry bogged when the road surface starts to break up, mainly going up hill or close to the edge of the road, we have roadtrains that transport our cattle and getting bogged is par for the course, and in the outback everyone lends a hand, Satilite phones mean help comes quickly, and the CB radios help, cheers Ian, Neil 🤠.
Those indents that rain causes on the dirt gravel roads we call corduroy. Well, my Mum does, lol.
The guy next to the chain lives by the Australian rule "She will be right mate!"
I'm with you Ian! I wouldn't be anywhere near that chain!!!
Aussies know how to do it. Big Triples and Quads out on the bush. Providing to isolated communities and towns.
You should check out some compilation videos of Australian road trains.
And That's how to legitimately make your log book balance out ! As for the machinery/ help. Quite often there's stations , road work crews or mining operations etc within a cpl of hours drive ,and the old fashioned cb radio is a life saver in these situations 👏
Wow congrats 👏 to John Deer, pulling that huge road train. Seriously I would never have thought that tiny vehicle would have pulled it out. Wow I'm bloody impressed 👏 😎 👌
It's all about gearing. Low gearing means high torque!
@@gooseknack I'm a city gal in Australia so I'm pretty sure I spelt Deer incorrectly but dam I was sheering n clapping 👏 for these guys
@@janinemuller9792
Close, Deere
@@vk3hau thankyou hahaha I was close
Its actually a Cat not a john deere
The roads get really bad in the wet season and there's some cool videos of 79 series Landcruisers pulling out roadtrains
Grew up in a truck, my dad is a truck driver driving singles and b-doubles mostly but some rd trains out of SA. That could have been SA, WA or Western QLD but NT this time. I've spent many a day in the mud just waiting for it to dry so we could get out in the old r model mack and Mercedes 14 18 (as a kid). Loved every minute, except the heat lol
On those outback roads all hell catches up with you if rain hits while you are well away from the sealed main roads. Turns these wide dirt roads into impassable deep mud/clay. Roads can become quite deep water channels, and also periodical intervals cross desert water courses that are dry except hours after rain, but in pkaces csn be many meters deep and fsst flowing.
The deep muddy surface can close those roads to traffic for months.
Driving is more slippery than ice, but worse still often as it is sticky state builds up on tyres, even filling fender wells, plugging exhausts. Needing manual work to remove, exhaust pipe plug gets rock hard, much work to remove. Really stops you even trying to drive. Not that it is even legsl to try.
The grooves left by any vehicle remain, and when dry are like formed in concrete channels weaving along, making driving both difficult and hazardous, to even keeping the road unusable until regraded at huge cost. Hundreds of kilometer of the wide road regrading is very expensive. At times a single day rain can result in months of closed road, while drying out, surface is quick but deeper ground takes time keeping road in boggy state. While gazetted closed drivers breaking the closure can face truely huge fines, and result in many millions costs to repair.
Not so evident here but even in dry these roads can hide some nasty surprises . The ground is quite sandy, but also very ancient and hss a large proportion of very fine dust, which is slick clay like when wet but in dry state, gathers to low places, that when a pot hole forms, as traffic passes, ever larger nasty big pot holes, full of this dust that sits looking quite smooth like the rest of the road appearance. You come along doing significant speed and CRASH as you hit this hole casting a massive cloud of dust up. If you are lucky your vehicle survives and is able to drive on, you may end up with bruises. Worse though your suspension has just suffered fatal damage stranding your vehicle, or worse causes a major rollover crash, with fatal result. A pothole that a road train bumps through, can near swallow smaller vehicles and 4WDs.
Additionally the roads develop quite nasty ripples tuned to suspension resonances of traffic and normal dpeeds travelled. Need careful driving or aldo can cause serious problems.
By the way for Road Train drivers those suspension seats are even more essential than for other long distance haul truckers. Without these drivers would in short time destroy their bodies and internal organs.
G,day Ian
Should have separated the trailers pull them out 1x1 and reassemble the rig. Could have done that on his own. All the best. Bluey
We have a couple good tv shows, outback truckers and mega truckers. Mega truckers is more the heavy haulage aspect. Both good shows 👍🏻
They should bring mega truckers back. Loved that show.
Yeah, love those two trucking tv shows. The guys who drive these trucks and do this for a living are amazing people. They make other truck driving jobs look easy. The guys travel longer distances with longer trucks in tougher conditions than many others world wide. True unsung heroes of Australia.
When a chain breaks it just drops, the energy can no longer travel along it
I honestly thought they were gonna unhitch the lot & pull the trailers out one by one.
Looked like they were trying to pull the safety latch to pull the trailer off the dogs
Where I live in Victoria, we just have the B-doubles (A and B trailers...B trailers are like a regular semi trailer) along with the regular semis. While the Australian trucks look similar to the US trucks, the Australian trucks have thicker frames than their US counterparts for obvious reasons!
When sat side by side, ours have bigger bonnets and grill areas for cooling system and unique Australian suspensions system’s for obvious reasons; triple layer chassis were common place for a lot of the remote trucks i grew up with in the Territory; ran a Super quad into Arnhem Land for a little bit, was an eye opener being in the first of them with some major quirks in driving tri drives and fighting with early air bag systems and rolling trailers
@@danielsaunders7116 Bet you there's no SAR Kenworths in the US! ;)
No disrespect to any Truckers, but Truckies in Canada and Alaska have some huge balls driving in minus 50 degree Celsius weather on roads unlike anything Australia. But Australia has some very challenging conditions as well as with any Truckies driving on dangerous roads and conditions worldwide.
Those drivers are very skilled especially when they give you the signal to overtake. You need power and balls to get around them😀😀
Note to anyone wanting to give this a go, don't hook a D11 onto the front end and "give it your best" ....A mate has old T600 minus a front axle if anyone's interested?
I’m amazed that a road train prime mover working on dirt, didn’t have cross locks. Maybe he just couldn’t find the switch?
That powdery red dirt that builds up on the side of the dirt roads in the Red Dirt Country I was in is usually called Bull Dust - any vehicle can sink to the axles in that stuff - it was an unwritten rule that you NEVER pull off into that stuff.
Definitely check out Bush Machines the early episode's are the best, when I'm fixing car's and things get a little tough in the fix and I need to improvise I say to my children ok time for some Bush Machines 😉
You won't believe what some do down here.. lol. That road train is small, it's only two full trailers and one half trailer in the middle. When you see one coming towards you with four full trailers on a very narrow road, is when it gets freaky! The law regarding road trains states you must give them the road, as they're the bigger vehicle and some roads still only have a surfaced strip wide enough for one vehicle. Others, are barely wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
The worst part with road trains is the trailers can sway, often to the point where the rear trailer is swaying onto the opposite side of the road.. when the road is narrow with no room to move over, due to drainage off the side, it's frightening. I have an aunt and uncle who used to drive a four trailer road train and the swaying of their own trailers freaked them out. They were told by another truckie with similar trailers "you can't do anything about it, so it's best not to look in the mirrors.. the less you know the better it is for your mental health...lol".. my uncle was worried about other road users and was told "it's their responsibility to move over, not yours".
As for our dirt roads, some are in better condition than flood affected tar roads...lol. And lose dirt is the order of the day. And if this road train was truly bogged, it would have been above the rims and up to the step on the prime mover!
As for the bush mechanic? Such a person is someone who uses whatever is at hand to get a vehicle or anything else going again. From.. tie wire/fencing wire to duct tape to mismatched parts/components to pieces of stick to block a split/damaged heater hose or hold a thermostat open. I've seen vehicles with different motors and drive trains in them and even more with seemingly incompatible pieces to get them running. That was the nature of life in remote Australia. If you couldn't fix yourself with what you had, you were and are, stuffed. Even an ill fitting wheel that wobbles is better than dying on the side of the road! Lol
'The law regarding road trains states you must give them the road' - what law is that? Everyone has equal right to the road if their rego is paid.
I love your show and loved this video. I grew up in Darwin, Northern Territory, with plenty of cattle and other big road trains coming and going. It’s been a long time since I was last there but, from recollection, the tarmac roads are beautiful, designed for these big trains and trucks. This looks like the Northern Territory or on the way there.
I gotta say aussie guys can get a bad rap for sometimes being too alpha male etc, but I always say if you get a problem like this, or something like a bush fire, they are straight in there sorting it out (even with a beer in one hand!). Cheers.,
Without alpha males you wouldn't have society or any technological advancements. Stop listening to and believing toxic lefties.
"getting stuck on the shoulder -
Trucker talk for "falling asleep"
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The thumbnail of this vid sort of gives away the ending. On an unrelated topic I'm going to try and make Dannie and Pedro's Flautas today, wish me luck😁
You won't regret it, cobber. I've already made them about 4 times since.
My parents saw one of the 3.5 trailer jobs going into NT. The prime mover (tractor as you Americans would call it) was a 700hp Volvo F16 cabover. It was 53.5 metres long. Saw the photo from the back, it was big.
The truck drivers that drive on these out back roads are next level
Remember, an empty triple almost weighs as much as one of your loaded semis, but without the weight on the drive axles.
Empty superquad is 64.5t.
Road trains are typically used in remote areas as they dont receive supplys every other day, or for mining. In areas like sydney where i live, the biggest trucks typically are b doubles. So a semi with 2 trailers.
Hahaha Bush Machanics I used to watch that when I was younger. Great show and very funny.
Love the content man, gotta be one of my fav american youtubers. Keep up the awesome videos. Lots of love to ya
Means a lot, thank ya Kevin. Back at ya buddy 😎👍🇦🇺🇺🇸
Gday Ian . DEfinately react to bush mechanics, you wont believe what these guys do. Cheers mate
Also check out the guy who made Bush Mechanics new work "Black As". czcams.com/video/URfWt9K9G00/video.html Great series that deserves much more attention and funding. 1000 times better than most of the junk on TV these days.
@@woolaboola7381 Yes yes yes! ‘Black As’ is such a great series - I’d love to see Ian react to it too! 😊
And this is s the number one rule of a car driver in the outback, Road train has right of way... easier for your car to get bout of the bog than them..and cheaper. Love your station.
Yes, definitely don't want to be in the way
The outback isnt scary its deadly... If your scared it will just kill you quicker.
Keep your head on your shoulders and run through your survival plan step by step
Good point
I'm in my 50s with disabilities, and I'm comfortable heading out there on my own. I love it. You just have to know the basic rules - carry enough water, never leave your vehicle, and know basic first aid. You also have to respect the land and environment as well as your capabilities, including those of your vehicle. I have my outback survival guide and plan what to do in case of all kinds of emergencies. I don't go off main tracks because that's too risky for me, but if I did I'd take extra backup communication. Then it's just a matter of driving safely and enjoying the scenery. It's indescribably awesome. I'm planning another trip out there this year, covid restrictions permitting.
When my three sister's, myself and our Mum, rented a motorhome and drove across NSW, into SA, Then up to Darwin; every now and then there are signs with road train symbols stating they're 53 metres long! And there are also signs that will state 'overtaking lane in 250kms!' the desert is breathtaking, the sheer energy out there is palpable. Such a huge huge country😊 I love it 🌏🪐🍀🌕🙏🦋🇦🇺🌸👣🏡🌴❤️ thanks, I really like your channel😊⭐🌹
Love the way everyone corrects each others errors. I pass road trains everyday to and from work. Love the sight of them! Should try passing a B-Triple with the back trailer swaying around the place. Challenging!
Years ago my dad and I had to drive 1700km from Perth into the Pilbara for work. We are our fingers crossed the whole way that the tyres wouldn't blow as they were pretty worn. Luckily made it after a final 400km of non graded dirt road. New tyres was the first thing I bought with my first pay there.
Yes I could tell it was the Tanami out in the NT. Communities or shires (containing an area of communities) will have equipment for road maintenance. This could be one of theirs they are helping with. All too often folks will drive and only partially or not get off the road enough for an oncoming road road train, making the road train slow down and get off the shoulder to avoid the incoming vehicle. Now part of the Tanami has a single strip of bitumen, and it's further being developed..I haven't travelled on it for about a year, but construction has been going on for aaaages. Lots of accidents on this road and it's way out of cell range to call for help. Out here the best practice for when sighting an oncoming road train to get off the road entirely and pretty much come to a stop. Truckee doesn't have to worry about you and can focus on the road and what's ahead.
G'day mate, I really love your channel, you are blessed with a beautiful family. Keep doing what you are doing.
Bush Mechanics... is brilliant and hilarious!!
My first thought was chuck the truck in reverse and hook up to the back. I'm glad it worked lol. I only have 4wd experience too
Those corrugated dirt roads will shake any load loose, truck drivers need to constantly stop to check the straps.
The problem is when it rains. The roads turn to mud and the truck drivers sometimes have to park up and sleep in the truck until the water clears out a bit. Of course many get bogged in the mud. The truck looks like it would be somewhere in the pilbara region in Western Australia.
You really do need to come to the Alice. Apart from the desert landscape you could check out the Road Transport Hall of Fame, which is a trucking museum. The Road Train was invented out here.
And the Finke Desert race!
At first, I had to laugh. At 4:52, you asked if anybody knew where that location is. When you're that far out, it all looks very similar.
Having said that, many features & landmarks become obvious only after you've been around a few times.
Many tourists (backpackers, mostly) have been here over the years & are a little confused with the lack of very obvious features. It's funny to see their reactions, too.
I worked in transport my whole working life and i can tell ya mate, some of these old truckies, especially the road train drivers doing interstate from east to west and vise versa are some of the toughest old bastards you'll ever meet, my dad was a driver he's retired now but still a tough old bloke, funny enough tho hard as nails as they may be they're also some of the first people to offer help too.
OMG you're gonna love bush mechanics... lol
I love it . Those Aussie road trains are a very special kind of truck.
Saw a brief glimpse of the Moore brand on one of the bogie tow bars.. used to work as a welder in that semi trailer factory.. 👍
Yeah this looks like anywhere up north west.
But checking after they have fuel depot's mostly east, and one in darwin
I came across a road train that had slid off a muddy road in outback South Oz, I was having big trouble steering straight it was so slippery. He'd been stuck all night and asked if I could pull him out, then looked at my little car and we both just grinned and he said I had no chance in hell of moving him. I got bogged myself about 10kms up the road. 😄
From Tasmania here! I must say you have the best reviews and reactions.
We pronounce the word Territory ...in our Ozzie lingo= ( tear rit tree )
Yes, Northern Territory on the Kintore road. One of the bad sections of road, always very rough with loose surface.
That chain pulling sideways with the guy leaning over it, wasnt them trying to pull the trailer, they were pulling a release pin to unhitch one trailer at a time, but the angle and the weight did not let the pin release, thats why he said nup, he was telling the driver of the ute its not going to happen and to cancel the attempt of detaching..
I lived in Mt Isa Far north western QLD for quit some years as a young bloke. In my travels in the wet season i seen heaps of road trains that had either pulled of the road because of the rain or need to stop for sleep or what ever but on a soft shoulder of the road they would mostly end up looking like bulldozers with mud push half way up the Bulbar if not higher till they come to a stop pretty crazy to see. In the mine i work in in Mt Isa on the private hall road they tow 7 full size trailers with Mack Titians and electric assisted motors on the 5th trailer to hell with getting it moving from a stand still. A good mate of mine is a road train owner driver out of Darwin NT he's been doing it now for 17 years and loves it.
The worst road I have come across was between Dalhousie Springs and Mt Dare. Best you could do was about 20 to 30km/h because of the washouts and corrugations. Yes its remote, you can travel for 4 to 6 hours before you meet anybody coming the other way. Bush mechanics was a ABC comedy series in the late 80s?
"Bush Mechanics" came out in 2001.
It could be anywhere as Queensland and New South Wales also have outbacks. While on the subject of the Outback, you might want to check out the Royal Flying Doctors, what it does and it's history. Qantas also started in the outback and likewise, has a very fascinating history. Both underpin Australia's core value of looking after everyone, particularly those who don't have easy access to services.
I’d love to look into Qantas history, and by the way a couple months ago, I covered a lil bit on the Royal flying Doctors on a video or two
Good suggestions
@@IWrocker Did you mention Dr Flynn who started the first Flying Doctor Service? Qantas is the 3rd oldest airline in the world and I think the RFDS was the first of it's kind in the world, as far as I can see on Google. Alfred Traeger invented the pedal radio so the RFDS could communicate with the people on the ground in 1920. I'll look up your video on the RFDS. Thanks for that.
The red sand on those roads is called “bull dust” and is as fine as talcum powder, and I have actually seen sand bow waves in front of vehicles going through deep, soft bull dust. In winter it turns to a slimy mud and is next to impossible to drive through except for the big rigs, and even they have problems.
It could be anywhere but it looks like the Pilbara in mid north W.A. I've driven trucks up here for a few years and it looks like a typical access road to a mine site due to the width of the track. Most normal dirt roads are much narrower.
Dry bogged, I’m glad I’m a city driver.
you mentioned the wind, it is very windy in Australia not only because of a lot of deserts but the farmers cut down most of the trees meaning there's nothing to stop the wind
chains breaking are much safer than a strap or cable, chains dont hold energy, had more than a few chains break on me and they just fall on the ground
Would suck being a truck driver in australia driving through the outback
Please do a video on the pasha bulker in my home city. a huge coal ship got bogged on my local beach. They spent 2 weeks trying to get it off the beach. The videos are incredible
Seems to be only a shorter Road Train, too - only three trailers. My brother used to drive West Australian road trains with up to six trailers of grain. And it looks as if the tankers were light or empty, so the John Deere had a fair chance! Great job!
No he didnt. Not 6. Not even close
G'day from Perth Western Australia, this video could be anywhere in Australia north of the tropic of Capricorn line.
road train is travelling towards you, the only safe move is to get right over to the left-hand side of the road, slow down and, if necessary, stop. Driving blind in a huge storm of dust with gravel and larger stones flying everywhere does little for the driver's blood pressure and can be just plain dangerous. Turn your lights on (so you can be seen by any other traffic which might be around) and wait for the dust cloud to safely continue your travels.
Meeting a roadtrain head on is childs play.
Overtaking a road train at night on the dirt is hair raising - cant see a fckn thing, we had to be guided buy the light of the side markers. The upside is another vehicle coming head on can be seen with its lights cutting though the dust.
The next bit of fun was overtaking a road train at night out near Boroloola, the RT wont budge of the high single width asphalt centre 'lane'. We had to overtake on the dirt right shoulder, in the dark - good times, not - the RT is doing at least 90kmh, and our 80series twitching all over the place on the side slope.
My least favourite RT overtake is during the day on dirt... as you approach, the wall of dust is so dense you cannot see the rear of the rt have to approach slowly, eg, 80kmh, to avoid running in to the rear of the rt, then over taking ... way more than an adventure, cannot see squat, except for the side of a trailer, and the rear trailer whips side to side a few metres over bumps... the biggest concern is hitting someone head on, as neither vehicle wuold have any warning. Only did that once - never again - too hairy for even a seasoned outback driver like me.
We did 90k kms a year surveying in the outback - all over the NT,
You definitely have to check out Outback Truckers (my favourite tv show) - the cameras travel onboard with the trucks
08:25 tracks what make truck with trailers are smooter + that tractor can pull on wheels until 80 tons / 176,000 lbs
Ian I suggest you check out some episodes of outback truckers on 7plus it gives a bit of insight into some of the big road trains out in the bush