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It amazes me the amount of trailers these trucks carry, or the size of the load that they pull. The infrastructure in the USA could not handle this AT ALL! If you have anymore road train videos or other big loads (trucks lol) you want us to check out, throw them in the comments below!
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Kenworth do have their own factory in Australia, and their R&D has proven valuable for operations both in Australia and the US. There are times when US customers want something heavy duty, they source it from their Australian operations. It's reasoned that if it can survive her, it can survive anywhere
I drive road trains in Australia Actually it only has 2 engines not six and the kenworths you see in Australia are designed and built hear in Australia
Yeah mate I said the same here and gave them the Kenworth Australia website to look at too
Mate we use side tippers heaps where I am for roadworks. Mostly a b triples or doubles but a few triples. Looking at about 25 ton a bin. And that’s running on public roads.
Anyone else just randomly come across and now addicted to watching? Yep me too 🤣
- fellow Aussie here
Same here.
Yes 🤣🇦🇺
Thanks Emma!!! -Miles
In my case, I live in Western Australia. Even around Perth, my home city, full double road trains are common on arterial roads. Three hours drive out of Perth is where they hook up triple trailers. Even further north, you start seeing quad trailers. Crazier still, because of how much mining is going on, you see the overgrown "Tonka Toys" aka the loaders and dump trucks going to and from mines. Some of these over size loads can be 8 metres, or almost 28 feet wide.
Things have changed a bit since this video came out. Currently I'm in north Western Australia and driving a 60m, 700hp quad roadtrain carrying 140 ton of ore 400kms on the highway to the port for export.
Regarding power trailers, the third trailer is fitted with an auxiliary engine transmission power pack. This is pushing the trailer and trailers whilst the prime mover is towing the trailers.
Kenworths sold in Australia are made in Australia. So a few models exist here that aren't in North America. Kenworth and Peterbilt are both subsidaries of the PACCAR corporation but Peterbilts are neither built or imported to Australia. Freightliner and Western Star are sold in Australia but manufactured in the US.
There's a few peterbuilts over here. Maybe imported privately by enthusiasts ? Don't see a lot of them but there's a few down under.
The most amazing thing to see is 3 prime movers being used to pull and push a mining size doser up a steep area 2 pulling and 1 pushing in tandom. Great skill and communication between pilot cars and drivers but being stuck for weeks due to floods must suck especially if you don’t have a TV and a good DVD collection in your sleeper and a fridge full of food and beer lol. Stay safe guys.
hey guys yes kenwoth is an an American brand but kenworth was brought to Australia pn the 1960's/ 1970's to become one of the most prolific brands in Australia now. these trucks like a lot of other kenworth trucks are built in kenworths Bayswater factory in Victoria Australia
5:35 ... you need to look at the back of the 3rd trailer, where you'll see ANOTHER ENGINE driving the wheels of that bogie to enable it to tow the remaining two trailers. The prime mover by itself only has the torque to tow TWO of those trailers, since each trailer in this video is carrying about 135,000 pounds of ore (The trucks and trailers are bigger now, and these days the trucks are carrying almost 500 metric tonnes [1.1 MILLION pounds, or 220,000 pounds/trailer ... almost 3 times the maximum allowed trailer capacity in the USA])
Love the content guys keep it up ! I actually work for Cummins here in the mines on the east coast of Qld.. I’ve worked on plenty C510, C540 and power trailers some even have the 19L in the power trailer ! Not all the trailers are powered if you pay close attention to the chassis of the trailers you can tell which trailer has the power pack in it be close to the middle of the whole set up 👍🏼
I used to work in the gold mines in Western Australia and the mine I was at had these as well
I think you would find that all mountains are "made out of rock"
The rock candy ones are just in fanatasies
wow mountains made of rock, you learn somthing new every day.
Yeah, who would have thought😊😁😁
The dual powered road trains have changed a bit since this video was made, its from back in the 90's I believe. I drive one of these C510's featured in this video but its hauling Nickel now. The GCM is now 500 ton and a lot of the dual powered trucks are actually automatics.
There’s not 6 engines, the prime mover has the Cummins with road ranger and there is 1 more Cummins coupled to an Allison auto half way down the trailer between 3 & 4 so 2 engines in total not 6
I’ve seen 3 trailer road trains in Toowoomba and I had fun watching the trucks going around round a bouts but the biggest I’ve seen is a 6 trailer
I am not from Australia so I can only speak on observations I have made on these road trains. The first video and second have one trailer that provides extra power, and not all the trailers like you guys said in the first video. Another thing that some of these trucks will have is an extra fuel tank behind the cab and forward of the first trailer, the space made available by either a stretched frame or smaller cab. A different way to combat range I've seen is to have a dedicated fuel truck to accompany the train so they don't have to navigate gas stations.
My eldest son worked in WA at a iron ore mine doing tyre work on big dumpers with 6 tyres, each tyre & rim is 6 tonnes
Just close your eyes and listen to the sound of those engines. Music to the ears!
All kenworths in Australia are made and design in Victoria, Australia for Australian roads not one Kenwoth is from the USA
The trucks here are giant torque monsters. The dump trucks are at least 2 stories high and the mines prefer to have women driving them because they don’t drive like cowboys so the machines aren’t spending down time costing money every hour their down I worked on the tyres of them and they are huge. We worked out the bucket size one day and you could fit 5 of our trucks in the bucket. I love seeing 1 heavy
At the rear of the 3rd trailer you'll see a motor. It would be driving the axles at the rear of the same trailer.
G,day fellas, you,s sound a bit crook!
Hope you get better soon! Plenty of big on road trucks in Aus . We have triples come through the town near where I live, no trouble getting around the corner's. Its all geometry, if one trailer goes round the others follow the same track, that's with matching trailers and dolly,s.
Good show !! Bluey.
not all trailer have a motror 1 in the set of trailers
Thats Australia for you, we do things really big aswell.
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Texan lands at Sydney airport and jumps in a taxi. They drive past Centre Point Tower.
Texan "That's a mighty fine tower ya got there, how long did it take, and how much did it cost to build?"
Cabby " 5 years and 50 million dollars"
Texan "We got one just like that, twice the size, built in 2.5 years for 25 million dollars"
They drive past the Opera House
Texan: "That's a mighty fine Opera House. How long, and what did that cost to build?
Cabby: "10 years and 100 million"
Texan: "We got one just like that back home. Twice the size, took 5 years to build and cost 50 million"
They start driving across the harbour bridge
Texan: "That's a might fine bridge you got there, how long did it take to build and what did it cost?"
Cabby "Dunno, wasn't here yesterday"
@@VifferDude whilst the West Aussie just giggles😆
Those mining trucks are 500 ton but they are so expensive they only load 350 ton to take more care of them. My sister drove one until ahe was diagnosed with cancer. Tyres $100k each. 12ft diametre wheel rim
The drivers/operators of these machines are incredible 👏👏. I loooove the show Outback Truckers, and the Canadian show Iceroad Truckers.🤗
Please don't think the Outback Truckers show has any part in reality.
Yes. Things do get hard, however small issues are made to look like huge problems or it'd be pretty boring. 🤣
@@Dags470 yes, I get that of course. Anything for drama, but I still love watching it 🤗👍
There’s A LOT of Women driving huge mining trucks here in Western Australia 😊❤️🇦🇺
Fun fact Australia has the world's longest trucks and the world's longest trains
The middle trailer has drive wheels too. The chrome lever in the cab is for the drive motor on the back of the middle trailer.
Diesel himself, yes diesel engines were invented by a man named Rudolf Diesel, was a really interesting guy he invented the engine to help common people and refused to sell his engines to the military and on top of all that he died under mysterious circumstances.
more specifically, he refused to sell an exclusive licence for the technology to the German Heer. And yes, the death was a bit mysterious.
@@erratic100 The other thing I love is his calculations for jets to atomise the fuel done with penicil paper and raw brain power are barely improved upon by the use of computers
@@alankohn6709 i raised an eyebrow at this claim, so looked into it and yes, it's true. small, Incremental improvements at best, with more being achieved elsewhere outside the actual combustion cycle.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing that. It sent me down an interesting research rabbit hole.
We drive Kenworth T909 tri axle prime movers towing 4 trailers on public roads. 200 + tonne and 60 metres long. 26 axles. You have to be on it, narrow twisty roads with road trains coming the other way. Narrow bridges and plenty of cows around. Speed Limited to 90 klms. Certainly an adventure. The danger is real.
We have there Kenworths the k200 t908 and the c500 and we haul road train kits on them with three trailers
well done fellas trucking in Australia is very hard with floods and accidents can stop delivering a load by time frame sum times you may be stuck for 3or 4 weeks
Not all the road trains in Australia have motors on trailers alot are just pulled by the power of the truck
They have individual trailers powered besides the prime mover
these are pretty custom road trains, and special permit rigs. but we do have what we call B-Doubles. which is 2 fullsize trailers and a smaller one on the tractor. very common to see in the more rural areas. usually not allowed in big towns n citys, so there will be marshalling yards on the outskirts of town to assemble the trains.
Um b trilpes are allowed into Adelaide I find that weird caus road trains are not and as far as I know Volvo and kenworth both build trucks in Australia for Australia and at least in south Australia Volvo has it in the bag
OK I just red your txt a b double at least in south Australia is one smaller trailor with a full size trailor on the back a b triple is 2 short trailors And a full size on the back a road train of any length Is full size trailors and bogeys so you could have as many as 5 trailors and that's not common unless your talking mining pluss you need a spotless record to get a road train licence in SA if you got pulled over for anything no road train 4 you and what you talked about in your post two full sise and a smaller one on the semi is a road train
G'day The "BIS" footage looked familiar. Then I realised I've worked on that equipment and that mine. I have a photo of one engine that had an "escape attempt" by the crank shaft. When all the machines are big, then big becomes "normal".
The dump trucks that was in the open pit is gold mine in Western Australia and the kenworth truck used to be at a gold mine i used to work at here in Australia
Australian women drive this equipment as well
Oh man, Phezz, they should've linked you a recipe for honey & ginger tea to react to. Try those Eucalyptus Lollies someone sent in one of the unboxing vids, this is exactly what they're for.
Some of the dirt roads in these videos are main highways that connect states and all the good stuff
Take care of your health guys! Have some veggie or chicken soup!
You both sound like you need to stay in bed for a week. 🤒🤧
Hope you are on a free or cheap medical plan like us in Aussie. 😁
Some of these electric/dual vehicles (Probably not road trains) are using solar (or other forms of) power to produce extra aircon (or low water flushing toilets in campervans). It's common for hikers to take foldable solar panels to charge mobiles or other devices (joys of often having sun). I'm told some of our trains use dynamo energy to charge passenger's electronics.
I loved how you guys had absolutely zero reaction to 7:06 when the narrator said the engine’s cooling system was designed to operate in ambient temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius!!!
In other words these trucks can pull up to 450 tons of load on days when the air temperature is ABOVE 122 degrees Fahrenheit, and keep on going!!
I mean ..... say what???? 😳😳😳
And they can't?
Aussie HEAVY METAL ! ... once you've got more than one trailer it's pretty much the same ya just take wider turns to compensate ... going backwards shorts the men out from the boys ! trick is don't go backwards ! ( years Aussie trucker )
Naughty naughty kenworth 604 roadtrain czcams.com/video/UYRADBvUd1Y/video.html ( somewhere western Queensland) hehe
You guys should check out our dragline diggers. The one o went up could lift 100 metric tonne in one bucket and it was small compared to some
It's a engineer to customer design and contract on those trucks. Suits don't get much input. Sales commissions? I don't see how.
It's only the Prime mover and 3rd trailer that are powered.
In Oz a tractor 🚜 is what a farmer uses. These trucks (and cars )turn the road into corrugations , like as bad as what goes on your roof, and saying goodbye is ooroo or hooroo depending on which part of the country you come from. All the o’s are pronounced as in kangaroo.
Only the middle trailer is powered not all trailers
2 engines, qsk19 litre in the truck, isx15 litre in the third trailer
when you say a Tesla has a 1000 hp these one massive difference thats peak power it can only throw it down for a limited amount of time these trucks are made to throw down that sort of power for hours on end.
I recommend Bush Tucker Man or Malcolm Douglas. To say goodbye alot of people just say see ya. I say " bye have fun"
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You should watch aussie truckers
Tell me if I'm wrong. After the war precious metal ore was transported to north west Australian ports for export. Some of the worst conditions prevailed and the vehicles available were no where near satisfactory. Friends of mine in Melbourne were approached to design and build a steamer to haul road trains. Steamers love heat and dust does not come into it because they are are external combustion engines. The problems were solved? All they had to do was to get the finance. That was mission impossible and the govt. didn't want to know about it . Otherwise the diesels of today wouldn't have got a look in. In later years they did build a steamer in a Ford Falcon. It was the lowest emission engine in the world, successfully demonstrated in America to vehicle builders and senators from Washington in CA. Did they want it? No. So thanks to politicians walking around backwards and the vehicle industry we are stuck with diesels that were obsolete 50 years ago.
Gross in U.S. 36.3 metric tons,European 40.0 Mt,Norwegen 50.0Mt,Sweden,Finland 104.0Mt,Canada 60Mt,Australia 125 Mt in highway....question?
The Trailers are powered.
Its all about the gears and the engine
Just a heads up I think only 1 trailer has driven power at the wheels.
Goodbye is goodbye - But our Aussie slang for it is - OooRoo. Trying to think how to pronounce Ooo lol, oooh, nah lol. Oh Ooo as in Shoe without the sh - gawd we do speak funny here 😂
Oooo Roo boys , seeya 👋😂
18 wheeler! truck an first hitch should be something like 22 wheeler, combined total being a 82 wheeler i think. but that just doesn't sound normal
I don't really think there was a sales person. I think the mining company went to the truck company and sai here is what we need ..
Good bye = C'ya pronounced "See Yar" short for "See you later"
Mining monster trucks are all going driverless soon.
do you think that is a good or bad thing?
@@TheCommodity no risk of human injury when a truck goes scooting down a 100ft cliff on its own but many drivers will be working at Maccas.
110wheels and 28 rear axle…
it might surprise you that mines prefer female drivers for their trucks as they are gentler on the engines and tires , so cost effective
i worked at the cosmo gold mine in the NT many years ago and we had a few female operators on the big stuff. i sat in my bobcat 1 day and watched this chick in a big excavator on a large mound of ore. she built the rd as she went, around an around, until she got to the top. i think it was just an exercise but was pretty cool hey.
The truck is the only thing pulling those trailers.👍
No. There is a motor and transmission driving the 2nd trailer. It literally says so in the video
Yeah they be 8/10s but I keep em clean!!🤣
These trucks don't run on public roads , We have quads that run on public roads thats what we call road trains they just have the one drive from the prime mover but can be 200 tonnes all up , video here ........czcams.com/video/vOdhH4_g5oY/video.html
Oh yeah Australia 🇦🇺 does ginormous like Texas GO BIG or go home yeehaw 🤠 !!!
Like Texas? Only two Australian states are smaller than Texas.
On "private roads in the Northern Territory they run up to 11 dogs...
It is a loader not a tractor
Power trailers ?
Phezz U sounds bad man, glad you're better now... Almost made me sad for hitting the backlog
Get that Covid test guy's 😅 haha hope you guys get better soon and appreciate the grind to make videos when you not feeling well 😁👍❤️
We did both came out negative.
The caterpillar road train or whatever it’s called they use it in WA 💩 all over this
Largest road trains are in Australia.
Sooooo, when are you blokes coming to Australia? Love to have a beer with you in Melbourne
2 engines
Also zinc tablets r good for u! One a day
Power trailer, ONE of the trailers has a diesel engine as well, in addition to the truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message ends.
Check out Isaac Butterfield. The Butsmarn, awesome Aussie comedian.
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What they don't tell you is these vehicles are all using premium fuel when steamers can use high flash point fuel, gas. liquids, residuals, or solids and can burn them cleanly. Steamers require less maintenance, no oil changes and are not effected by dust. They are cheaper to build. So simple a monkey could diagnose trouble.This country had the chance to export the best trucks and cars in the world. Because of mug politicians it didn't happen. Most can't run their own lives [as seen on T.V.] but run ours. Whose fault? Our own. Diesels are scrap iron junglest. Vote steam.
There are women driver's in Australia 🇦🇺. Hope you guy's feel better soon
You yanks don’t understand how much torque our trucks have
Phezz, are you going for Papa Smurf look? You need to shave.
Australia also have women driving these road trains it not just men.
Please react to super wog they are soooooo funny and I love your guys vids
Everything saying in Australia has a aye in it somewhere ..aye 😝
Hi please react to Heneral Luna Filipino movie about Philippines and American war maybe you can watch the trailer or the Full movie so you guys can understand the whole story
That's a bad cough you guys have, are u vaccinated or if not get tested
Yeah poor fez got cough awww need more lemon or something cough out damn . I dont laugh at him ... Hope get well soon that all i say... Get tested make him panic as dont want that to know . Pray for him ....
Enjoyed the video guys, hey Must check out the show, Aussie outback truckers 💯👍
No you don’t have to be a man! There are plenty of women truck drivers and other machine operators in Australia. They drive/ operate HUGE trucks and machinery mainly around mines in outback Australia.
The more wheels I got the better I like it I’m the brother of the truck driving mother gigitty gigitty goo 🤠
American truck b/s
Probably a good idea if suffering cold not to clear phlegm from throat and nose when recording of maybe move away from the microphone when doing so 🤔 🤷
That's cool🚛⛟🚜
See ya later.
You all should come on down under for your understanding,an learn a bit of oz language.