Why Australia Is The ONLY Place With Road-Trains?

Why Australia Is The ONLY Place With Road-Trains

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From their exceptional length and weight to their vital role in remote regions, we explore why Australia stands alone in embracing these massive vehicles.

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The First Road-trian
01:45 The First Reason
03:30 The Second Reason
05:06 The Main Reasons
06:03 The Future Of Road-Trains

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[dominicrobertson]

To be fair the rail network in Australia used to be significantly more expansive than it is now. But each state more or less ran on their own guage which makes interstate ttansport a bit of a pain

[jammiedodger]

Because other countries actually have Trains.

[icarorodrigues]

under this definition, Brazil also has road-trains, we call it bi-trem, rodotrem or bitrenzão, but they are limited to two trailers or semi-trailers. excepted for only rural areas, Brazil had a giant sugar cane production, and we had no limits to "caminhões canavieiros" (sugar cane's trucks). I remember trucks with up to six semi trailers crossing in front my house when was a kid, twenty yers ago

[RyanGreenYoHeyHeyHeyItsRyan]

A big reason why you see both bonneted and cab over trucks in Australia is length restrictions. A shorter truck can make it possible to add an extra trailer or to travel into certain areas without having to leave a trailer behind. This can go in depth some more but thats the simple explanation.

[dannygayler]

Electric Prime movers will never ever replace diesel powered trucks in the bush, maybe in the Capital cites where short haul is the norm, but never in the bush or long distance haulage !

[bmw]

They exist in Western Canada. Most Canadian provinces allow 2 full 53' trailers, but in Saskatchewan they have triple 53' trailers too.

[SmooothShifter]

I've always been fascinated by these. I pull (2) 48' bulk tankers here in the US and they are called Thruway Tandems in New York, primarily restricted to toll road operation with build/break lots. The vehicle is 121' long assembled. They're little baby trains by Austrailian standards, and I would love to experience driving one down under someday.

[velcroman]

I was riding in the west of Queensland, BMW 75/7. I came up to several of these trains. The last trailer whips across the road. Air turbulence is incredible. To pass these monsters is a real challenge and a scary action. Fortunately, road out there are relatively straight and flat, so, if careful you can pass them. You need about 2km to pass them safely.

[GarlicAvenger]

I drive these. The 2 trailers configuration you see @ 2:12 with the RCHERS TRANSPORT livery is NOT A ROAD TRAIN. It's what's known as a B-Double configuration. It's a bridge configuration between Singles and Road Trains, and while still managed on what roads/routes it may use, it may use MANY MORE roads/routes than a ROAD TRAIN as it's length tops out at 28m (91.86ft) and gross mass 63.5t (139993.54lbs). It's NOT a Road Train, because it has that specially made shorter "A-Trailer" with a direct connected turntable that slides under the full sized "B-Trailer", a true Road Train with only 2 trailers is anything OVER 28m in length.. or having more than 2 articulations - like having 2 "A-Trailers" connected before the "B-Trailer", and/or 2 trailers connected together by an independent, small, dual-axle or tri-axle "Bogey".

[Onthemove]

In 2018, while on a touring holiday in Australia from UK where I am a HGV driver, I visited Gilbert's Transport depot in Darwin. A three-trailer road train was being loaded and assembled for the regular run to Adelaide some 3000ks south. It was explained to me that the trip would commence at 6pm, would be operated by two drivers who would each drive for 750ks while the other slept and they would then change over every 750ks before arriving in Adelaide at 6pm the following day; they would have to stop at the road train assemble point north of Adelaude as only two trailer vehicles were allowed in the city. At Adelaide they would take a twenty-four hour break before returning north and complete two round trips brfore a forty-eight hour break. The depot manager said that 'Australian road train drivers are a special breed; two-up teams are an extra special breed'
How could battery powered vehicles ever be used on trips like that? In Australia it will never catch on.

[peytonbrown]

We technically have "road trains" here in the U.S. but we call them doubles and triples, they're limited to smaller trailers, and only Old Dominion and I believe XPO are the ones who do it. The reason we run doubles and triples here is for better time management. Instead of waiting hours at a loading dock for workers to load or unload your trailer, if you're running a triple you can drop a trailer off then immediately run a double to your next location. The tradeoff being less cargo space in the smaller trailers, which is why not everyone does it.

[Ucf]

Im an engineer for a major diesel engine company and what I hear come up from other engineers is a hybrid system. A diesel power generator that generates electricity for your high torque electric motors. Having such a system will allow the engine to operate at continuous rpms and reliability of the engine would increase by tenfold. Having control and power at each wheel of the truck because of the electric motors sounds ideal for quick acceleration and great maneuverability

[Zolrender]

I lived in Alice Springs for 40 years. I grew up driving and riding around triple's. You have to give those trucks a lot of room and respect.

[ananaithnid]

It's important to note that the railway network pictured is mostly the passenger network. Think it might actually be outdated, too. The freight network is extensive, with major lines to all the capital cities and major ports, in addition to secondary freight lines heading out to our many, many mine sites, towns or depots. The amount of iron and coal we transport simply isn't feasible via road transport.

[Noisycowonline]

My Dad was partially responsible for the advent of triple tractor trailers in the US in the 1970s. He sat across from Jimmy Hoffa a few times and was mentioned in his autobiography. Ironically, I was almost killed by one on St Helens road outside of Portland on my motorcycle many years later.

[Bigfoot-pxgj]

Even in countries with massive rail networks, they still have to have trucks. Trains can only go where there are tracks, and the tracks don't cover all the areas that highways do.

[samcash]

In areas of Western Australia 60 metre road trains are now operating. I'm told they actually handle better on the roads than the 53 metre setup.

[vkfbab]

The other thing is that road trains travel heaps of the unsealed roads into small communities. Driving through holes, bulldust and mud to get freight into tiny places with less than 100 people.

[motorJoel]

Another benefit to using a cab-over instead of a long-nose truck is that the cab-over can pull larger loads before it is classified as a road train, allowing it to drive on more roads

[cjod]

Travelling a back road between Glenn Hellen and Papunya years ago (Tanimi dessert about Two hundred km nw of Alice Springs)and was run off the road by one of these road trains. The thing was that the road was so rough and narrow that you would never think that a road train would be there.😂 Bloody tough rigs those trains. You definitely give way no matter if you have right of way.