American AMAZED By HUGE Oversize Loads - Trucking in Australia
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The machine at 5:40 is a Letourneau L2350 Front end Loader and is the largest loader in the world.
Look it up Ian. Cheers mate. 👍
The high rise snorkels are to help reduce the amount of dust through the filters very common out here in Australia
I'm an old man now, but was born, bred and then spent a further 30 years as an adult in the out back. A nostalgic memory from back then driving the highways in my HX Sandman was coming up behind a triple or quad semi, position the car so the truckie could see you in his mirrors. The truckie would see you, you'd then see the train get a bit of a wobble up as he drifted right over the side of the road (semis tended to sit in the middle of the road when no one's coming from the opposite direction) then like a miracle you see the train become very stable, then two blinks on the right hand binker, which told you they were ready, and being as high as they were also let you know no one was coming from the other direction. At that point it was pedal to the metal and leave it there. By the time you went past the cab after 50 meters or more of truck, the speedo would be over 160 and the inlet air would be making a whistling sound as it went past the Rochester butterflies.
The outback may look amazing during the day time but it is simply stunning at night with all the stars to look at. I never get sick of that.
Could not agree more, Steve P. You've really got to get as far away from the bright lights of the city to see the stars. And as Ian was saying, many Australians never get to see the stars from the vantage point of the outback as they all live in big cities on the coast.
You can look up and watch every satellite passing over.
I go camping in the outback every year just to get away from everything.The stars at night are amazing.
A swag, a chair, and a campfire.... all you need out there.
Once you roll into your swag, and the campfire burns down to nothing, the sky just literally EXPLODES with stars.
I used to love driving off the road a half kilometer or so, pull out my swag and just lie under the stars. Around 2 am or so it would be a little colder and the stars were pregnant, hanging down so low that you could touch them. It was moments like these that I felt an awesome wonder for the universe and my insignificance within it. Almost spiritual.
Don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this in these comments…. but I think that you might have missed the fact that all of those Prime Movers you seen on those massive low loader trailers are actually ALL solidly linked together with push/pull bars!
Two Rigs at the front are pulling, and a third Rig at the rear as a “pusher”.
The triple drive axles are also something rarely seen elsewhere in the world as a common setup for road use.
Truly awesome big boys stuff in the harshest environment imaginable 😳
The dump truck work unmanned
You can’t beat our outback trucks 🥰🥰 gotta love Australia 🇦🇺
Shot as an American trucker I would love to come to Australia and run loads like that just for the sake of saying I did it and the experience you Australians deserve much respect for driving those road trains, and heavy hauls..
When you live or travel in any mining area in Australia you'll meet mine equipment being moved this way on a regular basis. You see the Pilot coming toward you then it's time to move over and stop if needed. You come up behind a Pilot and you know its gonna be a slow trip. I love watching these behemoths being carefully and skillfully transported by some of the world's best truckies. They deserve our respect, patience and courtesy for the amazing job they do. I'll never forget the widest load I've ever seen. We all had to pull off the road and stop as this thing passed over the top of us. It was the full width of the two lanes and a bit more. They had to prune trees and drop powerlines in some areas.
Yep, I'm in WA in coal mining town and have these massive loads on the highway all the time. Its always exciting to see what they bring up each time in mining equipment as its always massive!! They can take up to 3 lanes wide!!! Its always an awesome sight to sit on the side of the road and watch these beauties, well not if you're stuck behind one!! LOL. And they do an awesome job a tree pruning too and have seen them take out a few road signs as well. Our massive trucks have to travel up large hills, its basically a 9km constant incline drive up hills from the bottom to start with then small hills to content with on the long drive, that;s one heck of trip to get the loads going both up and down to get them to our 3 mines.
You will notice that in some of these videos there is another truck at the back of the load.
It is a push truck!
They use a solid bar to join the trucks together.
It's called a push pull set up.
Cheers from Sydney Australia MATE
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I spent 7 days on an Australian Army driving course through parts of the Western Australian outback in 20 plus Tonne 6 wheel drive Mac trucks. And the best part of the outback up until the Northern Territory are the sunsets and sunrises, they we're absolutely beautiful to see.
This brought back memories for me as I spent 7 years in Newman W.A. working on the mine fixing CAT gear, best part was after fixing a downed machine on the hill we had to test them out so the operators would jump in our ute and then we would play around on the dozers, loaders, graders. Driven some pretty big machines whilst there and drove the first D10 dozer in the world. Good times.
Have seen a lot of oversized loads up here in Sweden recently as well. Aside from the regular articulated haulers you'll find on the trailers of Fluckinger Transport trucks, there have been a couple instances where I've seen trucks hauling wind turbine blades. They're made of fiber glass, if I'm not mistaken, so they're not that heavy, but they're longer than a Boeing 747. Although, I can imagine there is more heavier oversized loades up north where the mines are.
@1:28 Did you notice the third truck pushing as well? He was getting some dust.
I think that was the short straw position on that run😮
@@bok1080 He would have to clean air filters every 2klm
Yeah the new bloke gets the back truck, and has to clean it afterwards 😂
Aircon..windows closed..coolie in hand.
Heavy Haulage is my job here in Australia. Love it!
That’s so cool!! 🎉 good on ya mate, keep on truckin’
Hi
I'm doing oversize loads in South Africa,would love to work in Australia as well,please hook me up
I am a frequent [motorcycle] traveler in the Outback. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the truck drivers that operate in that environment. Skill and stamina by the bucketload! Even when I don't have to pull over to allow an oversize load clear passage, I do stop because I enjoy just standing there watching these behemoths roll past.
I used to work for a Thermo king dealer in Sydney,retired now. we sold and fitted new spectrum SB's to a company that ran road trains. The rear trailers fridges failed and would not turn over. when I pulled the head off one of them I could not believe my eyes, the cylinders were packed solid with a fine red dust. After making repairs we fitted special cyclone air filters and that fixed the dust problem.
You gotta show more videos from that channel, not only do they do videos of oversize loads like these but also classic vintage truck shows and road train action
That channel is a one stop shop for sure
Ian if you look closer to the first trucks in the desert there was a Truck at the rear truck used for breaking. I love watching our Truckies in action. I have seen several in my working life and for some reason I always get a lump in my throat so proud of how amazing we Australias are when it comes to moving big pieces of equipment around our beautiful big country. I love your channel and I hope your beautiful family are doing well with your precious addition Sydney. If you guys are wrestling with a middle name, I think Australia would be a great one. Sydney Australia Wrocker has a great ring to it. Keep on Trucken.
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I live in Western Australia and trucks like this is a regular occurrence on WA roads.
The Husband meets stuff like this a lot while he's delivering fuel to the mines in north Queensland. Many of them are over 8 metres wide (26ft). He's driving a big Kenworth hauling 51,000 litres of fuel in a 25 metre (82ft) B-double format. Finding somewhere to pull over far enough can be tricky on a single-lane highway (one lane each way) where the lanes are 3.5 metres (11ft) wide. Quite often, there isn't enough advance warning. Guess who has to back up? Yeah, not the wide load.... Reversing skills, anyone? Maybe that'd be an interesting subject: great reversals!
Without a doubt I have been in the same situation, try backing 3 trailers…..not much fun at all when you’re trying not to hold the oversized load up for too long.
All well and good driving forwards but sorts out the operators from the drivers when you have to go backwards 🤣🤣👍
@mickcain2203 you're on the money there with that one Cobb🤣
The first over size load had 2 prime movers at the front known as 2 tuggers and a pusher at the back
I love living in WA😊❤️🇦🇺 you see so much of this here. Everyday on the Freeways. A lot of double and triple trailers. You see these behemoths coming and you just pull over and let it pass.
The reason most of this is low loaders is that Drake manufacture them. You missed that the Kenworth early on doing the river crossing was a triple drive. The rear truck on some of them is called a pusher and helps with the braking too. The two cat dozers were pulling 2 road trains hooked together and may have been needing help due to being "dry bogged" where they lose traction on dry roads up slopes due to the weight they are pulling. You would probably love the series "Outback Truckers" as well particularly Steve Grahame. The blokes a legend!!
Once, I was driving a road train up north in Western Australia and I was approaching a single vehicle river crossing. I started slowing down, down-changing gears and using the exhaust brakes which in this particular truck is also the engine stop on the floor when it's in neutral. Well I made a terrible mistake that day and I effed up changing gears and pressed down on the button while in neutral, accidentally stalling the engine, all the while still rolling downhill towards the river crossing.
Now I had no power steering, no engine brakes and the truck was was starting to steer off the road, downhill towards the dry river bed. With all my might I pulled on that steering wheel as hard as I could to keep the truck from rolling off the road and I managed to keep the rig on the road.....just. When I came to a complete stop, It took me about five minutes to realise how close I had come to total disaster and thanked the good lord I was in the middle of the desert of Western Australia and there were no people around for days. As a nineteen year old, my heart just about jumped out of my chest that day, forty years ago.
I hope ya kept that a secret from your mates, I can just imagine the ragging you would of got if you didn't.
@@stevep2430 Only you know my friend..........and perhaps now the internet haha.
In all seriousness its was 40 years ago and it served me well since, never made that mistake ever again👍
6:00 that's a wheel loader / front loader, with a few parts missing like the bucket, driver cab and wheels.
Sure is.
Did you notice the push truck in the dust behind the trailer first scene? Not sure you realize these set ups are trains. My favorite was the grader (added for this last steep climb up to the mine site probably) pulling the first tractor trailer pulling the second tractor trailer being pushed but the back pusher tractor. That's four drivers coordinating throttles and gear changes via headsets! Don't miss a gear change! Check out the deadweight on the push rigs.
I loved the outback, every year for 6 years I travelled to Darwin via outback qld for winter . You’ve never seen stars until you’ve camped in the outback away from all city and town lights
Cannot understand how anyone can love here and not go outback. There is such a solemn sacred Beauty out there it really is breathtaking. ❤
Can tell you that loads of these sizes, and even bigger are a very common sight on Western Australian roads. Sometimes there are some long delays for other traffic until these big boys get the job done.
Best job I ever had , I’m old now but still miss it.
Ian, to explain - yes they're air intake snorkels, the height is not for water so much, but clear air, away from dust and rubbish. Depending on the engine there's an air intake on one side and the exhaust stack is behind the cab on the other, sometimes they both on both sides. With a cab-over look for the bunny ears behind the cab of the air intakes.
Both the bowers videos were in the NSW Hunter Valley right next to Newcastle.
All of bowers gear are second to none, always clean, always professional drivers💪
The first video was in a place called Mount Thorley and they were hauling a wheel loader.
Second video i think it looks like one of the Mount Arthur mines near muswellbrook, not too sure on what theyre hauling but looks like a trailer of sorts to haul big gear on site.
I've done this type of work on and off for almost 35 years, and love it. It takes a certain type of truck operators to operate these heavy weights, in the remote locations we travel too.
One needs to be able to like being on their own, it does put pressures on relationships and marriages too as you and be away from home for months, especially during the dry season.
I rather be out here in the outback driving than in the city any day of the week, and you get respected more from the locals, than motorists in the cities too.
Driven single trailers and Bdoubles up down the east coast of Australia for 40 years soon to retire but have never done road trains or heavy haulage but have the greatest respect for those guys who tackle the outback. If you want to see what those guys and some ladies doing the job as well have to go through watch an Australian show called outback truckers l thought the highway was high pressure what they have to go through getting those trucks and trailers to the destination is mindblowing they can have it but man so much respect for doing it and getting the job done KEEP ON TRUCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD.👁👀👍
I worked for a plant hire company in Whyalla. Where I live now, back in the late 80’s early 90’s, and had a travel tower job at the Leigh Creek coal mine, so I took a 75 footer up there, a couple of hour drive, for a 20 minute job, and as I pulled into the workshop there I was coming in to park next to a 250 tonne dump truck, and from my cabin position I was eyeball to eyeball with the centre hub of the front wheel!
This thing was huge!
I took a photo of them parked next to each other and my travel tower looked like a toy next to it.
Job over I drove home, it was too late to take the truck back to the depot, so I parked it out the front of my place to return in the morning, and I noted how big the travel tower was in my street. Imagining how big the dump truck was next to it would’ve dwarfed my house!
This was a grate video Ian, my younger brother dives one of them giant dump trucks at an open cut mine here in Australia, He has told me some stories of him driving down into the pit after the water truck had just wet down the roads and it was a wild ride, The way he described it to me its like driving a house.
Pretty much.
I was driving one of those big dump trucks fully loaded down a hill once and the steering went funny so I slowed right down and gently went to the bottom luckily I had got past most of the major windy bits on the haul road so it was nearly a straight run to the bottom , they said I should have stopped but I still had partial steering so I kept going very slowly and when I had parked the truck we found one of the steering arms had broken of on one side . If i had lost complete steering then I would have parked it up but as it was I still had steering so I thought if I could get it to flat ground and it would be safer to work on and easier to fix . Would I do it again yes depending on the conditions and how many bends ahead of me and if I thought I was going to be killed I would have stopped immediatly .
Not houses. Apartment Blocks.
I work in the Pilbarra area of Western Australia (where most of Aussies iron ore mining is done) and you see this type of thing everyday
They take the wheels off the dump truck to reduce the overall width, which then makes a difference with escorts, permits, times they can travel, etc.
I worked for bowers for 5yrs.
Those trucks were Kenworth T909 K200 and a western star 6900 on the letourneau L1850 front end loader. And a C509 on the second load which was a Mine site Towhaul float.
Truckies keep our whole country going. ✌👋
Edit- yes 2 trucks pulling
I've lived in NSW, SA, VIC, NT, and have come back to Vic.. but haven't finished yet. But have had holidays in all states, many times.. we have an amazing country. Come, bring the fam bam, and explore what you keep looking at, on a screen.. ✌💕
My oath they do. Good on you.
2 pulling 1 pushing, dusty work.
That was really exciting, obviously most was mining machines and equipment! Like in Texas bigger is better! I have a lot of respect for truckers, they work hard and have huge responsibility! I don't like being behind them on busy roads, but most are careful drivers, friendly people and they are essential to the Australian economy! 🤗👍
Better than jumping in front of them like so many suicidal drivers do Jen.
Ian, you should have a look at the Super Pit in Kalgoorlie. They use these giant machines and dump trucks there.
Yeah, my son lives in Kal. He’s currently at the sunrise dam site. These giant loaders and boggers etc look tiny down the bottom. Hehe
He’s constantly having to pull over for these.
Aussies have a simple saying, comes on stickers too "Without trucks Australia stops." and it is damn right too.
Great video. For our American friends, Australia is only slightly smaller than USA. Come over and see for yourself. It's an amazing country.
In the Netherlands we have a TV program. On Discover. That's Called "Outback Truckers"
You showed up in my recommended, and I instantly thought "THE QUARTERING!?" but instead it's someone else mirin' our trucking in the outback.
I went to Australia a few years ago, it's just jaw dropping when a road train goes past. This is just as spectacular, 2 pull trucks and some poor sod in a push truck (getting obliterated by dust)......... seemingly, the way to drive a push truck is not to touch the steering wheel, as the front pull truck does all the steering............... don't know how I'd feel, not steering - - - - a bit weird
Hope you and your family are doing well mate!
The jigger with no wheels was a loader without cab or bucket.
Tire pressure is generally 110psi.
That’s Aussie trucking At it’s finest 😎🤤👍🇦🇺
Their kinda snorkels.. the cylinder at the bottom houses the air filter and the cylinder is basically a dust box that is easy to clean.. the intakes are up high to avoid pulling dust, and to try and collect some moving air that isn’t baked from the road.
Most of the trucks were Kenworth nine oh’s. The cab overs were also Kenworths called aerodynes here in Aus. The big Hitachi is definitely mine based. I drive a Kenworth 409 SAR delivering to mine sites. The cylinders (rams) for the excavators range from 2 tonne to 11.5 tonne. The motors for the dump trucks ( the ones I’ve carted) range from 8.6 to 10.2 tonnes.
And we leave the put puts in the DAF n MAN😂
@@chrisjanezic6827and the Volvo's and scanias🤣
They still call them aerodynes even with the k200? I though that was just the k104 with the big roof on the bastard
If you want to see some really large trucks you've got to see these huge mining dump trucks that are multiple stories high. It's like watching a Skyscraper on Wheels. The large dump trucks you see in this video of tiny by comparison. These trucks are so large they have their own staircases just to reach the cab.
Oh. This reminds me of getting to ride up in one of those Mine Dump Trucks.
Take a 3 storey heigh BLOCK OF APARTMENTS and jack it up half a floor. Fit 10 or 12 HUGE WHEELS and your are in a VERY LARGE APARTMENT BLOCK ON WHEELS.
Absolutley mind blowing.
The two things up the side of the windscreen are snorkels to keep fresh air going through the engine. Many times I have been told to get over while an oversize load comes toward you! Don't argue, just get off the road!
Centurion Transport are one of the biggest trucking companies in Western Australia. There's almost nowhere in this state where you don't see one of their trucks. Anything from the mining equipment to some the 300+ mines across the state, to supermarkets, to the parts and accessories needed for the mines and their support contractors.
The second truck was hauling a HItachi loader. They're used to fill the beds of the oversized Tonka toys on mines. Strangely, many of the dump trucks are automated.
When you see an over sized load pilot vehicle with ditch lights on (white lights that alternate left and right like a level crossing) it means that the load is over 5 metres (19 feet, roughly) They come with a pilot at the front, a pilot at the rear, and a government assigned pilot with red and blue lights. Some of the loads are 8 metres wide, at which point, truck or not, you get out of its way.
If you really wanted to see road trains in action, take a flight to Perth, and drive north on Great Northern Highway. Buy a handheld UHF two way radio to listen in, the channel for road operations is 40
All of these Kenworth trucks come from the Kenworth factory in Melbourne Australia.
Ian, here is another video you might be interested in. These are a specially produced C510. A heavy duty truck made by Kenworth Australia for mining applications.
This particular truck shown here is for off highway use (within the mine site only). They are coupled to specially made power trailers and carry a 300 tonne weight of coal with a gross combination weight of up to 450 tonnes.
These trucks work around the clock and only stop for driver changes, fuel, repairs and servicing. czcams.com/video/47JWL6TnXW0/video.html
Total of 98 tyres on each truck.
I watched a bloke in Western Australia who had two fully loaded trailors parked on a bend in the road and he had a fully loaded trailor hooked up to the primemover with a dolly hooked up to that trailor which is also articulated and backed the trailor and the dolly around that bend and then hooked up the other two fully loaded trailors to the dolly , its hard enough backing a truck and trailor + a dolly in a straight line let alone around a bend and then connect to the other two trailors , quite amazing to watch and these truckies the good ones do this all the time . The not so experiance would back the dolly under the last two trailors then hook upto the first trailor then back the first trailor on to the dolly which is hooked to the last two trailors and that is in a straight line not on a bend like the first bloke I watched at a gold mine where I was working at over in the west . There is quite a few triaxle primemovers over there and in the Northern Territory as well pulling up to four trailors , the longest one I saw in the west at a roadhouse one night had five trailor , I didnt think it would ever end driveing through the parking area past me but they were not the usual genral freight trailors they were smaller flat top trailors probably three quaters the length of a normal trailors but still impressive to watch live .
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02:36 We also call them periscopes, they are usually mounted on tractors and harvesters to avoid dust clouds. Sometimes they are even 2 meters high

Yeah, it's pretty common here in Western Australia for these wide, heavy oversize loads to be traveling through the cities/outbacks.
I remember my husband built a bottle washer machine a huge thing for Cascade brewery down in Tasmania I think it was in the 1980s anyway he had our two children as well as myself stand on the footpath about four o’clock in the morning in the cold to watch this machine going down to the docks. It also had a large truck hauling it. ahh for the good old days
Love your video, from a very proud Australian....... 😀
The dual snorkels on the trucks are more for getting clean air into the engine, mounted up high to avoid most of the dust being kicked up. That HITACHI digger is only a baby 2500, i operate HITACHI 5500’s that are twice the size, used to load them big haul trucks on mine sites
1:11 Hey whoa & NO it is "not" two trucks pulling that thing (the load) it's actually THREE in a pull/push set-up.
Two trucks up front and a pusher at the back, all connected with solid bars.
In reality THREE trucks all powering forwards to move the load.
I miss truck driving, I used to move drill rigs from site to site near whyalla.
So amazing to watch
i've been in the outback in the jeep and on the drz400E and you can go all day through a landscape like that without seeing anyone but if you do see someone it's probably a road train. imagine driving or riding for half a day through a landscape that barely changes to get to a servo with a few houses near it. it's a different world.
You'll notice the air intake snorkles draw through large filters in the cylindrical base, we clean these filters out at least once a day with an air wand with 10 or 12 high pressure outlets blowing from the center of the filter, many big trucks also have high air snorkles behind the cab to cool the transmission.
Many of our trucks, Kenworths, Macks, Scania V8's , Western Stars while familiar to many Americans are highly modified versions built here in Australian assembly plants for our conditions and generally greater weights and trailer combinations.
Some, especially Kenworth models are unique to Australian production, ie the Kenworth SAR's and Kenworth K200 bigcab 'cab-over' models are still made here but not available to the US market, that no longer make cab over models, of course the rigs are all right hand drive also.
Many Australian prime movers also have larger fuel capacity and will be fitted with 6 fuel tanks with a capacity of 2700 liters or 600 Imperial gallons due to the greater distances between roadhouses for refuelling.
Our trailers are also often have unique features developed to suit Australian conditions.
Can feel that rumble through my sub!
Cool video. I'm a road train driver in Western Australia. Pitty I can't post any photos for you. Currently I'm driving the longest road train in Australia with 4 trailers, 60 meters in length and a gross weight of around 220 tons. 👍👍👍
From memory we would put in 100 - 110 psi into the big Semi and Rigid Trucks.
Double and triple checking all Split Rims are solidly home on trucks before filling the tyres was imperative. I have seen a number of them let go in their cage while filling with air. And one time despite me being so pedantic about checking, I had one let go in the cage with a split that I knew was nice and solid in its place.
When seeing the big trucks at a servo checking their tyres, if you need the air as well then its best to just go to the next servo because they are there for quite some time. at 90 psi and above, the air is so hard to fill so it takes a long time to creep up to 110 psi.
IWrocker, The Hitachi excavator used in mines outback Australia
Biggest pushpull I have seen was 3 up front and 2 at the back coming up the toowoomba range a long time ago
3:23 I would be able to park my car inside this bucket !!! 🤣
Ian they are called Euclid Dump trucks used in the open cut mines in northern West Australia.
5:45 that is a Mining Wheel Loader, at 8:50 the excavator is a Volvo EC 480D. Ace-"something" is the name of the company ;)
Have you ever reacted on the Ice Road Trucker in Canada?
Driving over frozen lakes.
Its a good sugestion,he has tons of things to review
9:50 the places where these trucks go are not for the faint hearted. Travelling in the outback is a very dangerous place to be and requires a proper vehicle and very careful preparation. The difficulties and requirements of travelling in this area is why many people have never been in the areas as remote as this it is just too difficult and too dangerous.
Aprox 100 psi , Very heavy rated steel belted tyres .Come to Geraldton for heavy truck operations based from here .Ore truck operators run 4 tippers in a row at 120 tonnes per payload . Empty they weigh out at 89 tonnes .
mining industry is massive towards the Australian economy. I'm looking forward in the later part of 2023 to travel up North of Western Australia and explore some of these mine site
You might also want to look into the Aussie Road Train.
You won't have a hard time truck spotting over here 😂
Those are snorkels on the front, facing forward.
Helps the truck breathe cleaner air without much of the dust that may be about.
Was tied up with house moving in the old days. Introduced to the game on DEMAC's (Demountable Accommodation) school rooms. 24 foot wide / 7.31 metres; 32 feet / 9.75 metres long. Went from there to 8 metres wide / 26 feet 3 inches, 26 metres / 85 feet long and 5.4 metres / 17 feet 5 inches high. Front and rear escorts plus police escorts for all travel. For the DEMAC's, Volvo G88 single drive, or F86 was the go to truck. ON the houses, Scania LKT / LBT / LT 111 were the trucks of choice.
It needs to be noted that there is a Scania 8 X 4 that is doing heavy haulage work. From what has been told, the truck is rated to 200+ tonne. Has a less thirsty motor than the Cummins and GM. Think that truck is based out of Brisbane.
Howdyyawl from the land down under. To have stuff delivered in this country you need big trucks to do the jobs.😊
The bowers rig was towing a front end loader. The truck leaning on that turn, the drive tyres will be inflated to 100PSI minimum. We run 110PSI in our steer tyres and 100 in our drive tyres on the prime movers I drive at work for heavy haulage
It probably isn't a good thing for them, but I'm absolutely fascinated when the trucks get that 'torque tilt' from the sheer load they're pulling
On that first pull you noticed the 2 trucks pulling but there was also a 3rd truck behind pushing
the 2nd one ...yes they are air intakes, kept high to reduce the dust intake
Some loads there..but the smaller end of heavy haulage....the Bowers ones do a lot where I live and work...and they cart some big gear for the mining industry
React to the program on 7 mate channel here in Australia called " out back truckers ". Awesome show.
those were intakes indeed, they are like begause of the dust
Tonka Toys, great to look at, but more fun to drive, nothing like bright glowing terbo's on a dark night
10:33 looks like the Nullarbor before the road was sealed.
Mostly heavy mech Kenworths (long nose mainly and a few cab overs) so much larger engines than usual.. First one was 3 truck powered!!.. And yes, high snorkels to they dont get "bull-dust" in them.. Multi truck rigs are so gutsy
The line up at 6:20 is the two cat graders and both trucks and trailers and a prime mover pushing
You missed the push truck behind the duel pull trucks in the dust at the start 👀
Hi love your videos and your accent and Australia do some biggest over size loads and God Bless You
I did tell U the other day U would be impressed by our mining vehicles 💯🇭🇲👍
Those dump trucks are are normally transported in two pieces, the bucket on its own with the cab and wheels hanging over the sides, almost to the road. Pilots back and front and police escorts. Probably seven metres wide from memory as I used to do all the permits when I was involved in our haulage business.