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  • I know I need experience there but just a little about me I am curently a driver here and have been for 27 years I guess my question should have been was will anyone there hire me to drive with the experience I have and let me learn what I need to from there? also do you know of a company that mite hire me?

  • I would like to know what I need to do to come over there to drive I am curently a driver here and have been for years can any 1 tell me what I need to do I know I need a passport and work visa but what I need to know is if there is anything else after that

  • @traveler5813 You will need experience driving in the Outback.

  • 1/4 mile to the gallon

  • that is a v8 vaule liner pulling off the sturt highway on to tivindale rd it belongs to ostajis transport wich is a faimly owned transport and civil earthworks buisness in darwin austraila and for the record that is one of the older trucks on the fleet of about seventy truck consiting of road train trippils and super quads

  • fkin wiked ai my dads a truckie drive a 8 wheeler caboveer kenworth with a 565 cummins motor and 18 speed road ranger

  • Looks like a Mack V-Liner tractor. Compare it to the size of the little white Daihatsu Delta speeding by in the beginning!

  • Do truck drivers in Australia have CB radios? Breaker 19 good buddy?

  • yep - every truck uses a 40 channel UHF radio - Channel 40 is the official truckie channel of Australia...

  • Yep - i don't think there is a truck in Australia without a 40 channel UHF radio installed...

    Channel 40 is the 'official' truckie channel

  • UHF? WOW in USA its 26.965 - 27.405 Mhz thats VHF Low band. and its AM Is the UHF AM or FM? Its wired the other countries use different frequiencies. Like a radio stations in USA use like 88.1 88.3 88.5 in AU they are 88.0 88.2 88.4 ETC.

  • we use uhf radio mainly but a lot of guys have both.

  • jesus... i already get a bit nervous driving next to a truck... imagine that...

  • gez!! what kind of licence is required for these big rigs?

  • multi combination (mc) licence.one up from semi trailer (hc)

  • cool dont have these in ireland this interests me as i work for a haulage company.

  • MACK SHITTTT

  • Nice quad roady.

  • Roma is as far south on the A2 (road from Darwin to bris) south that you can tow 3 trailers and toowoomba is as far south you can tow 2 trailers in a road train config.

  • Nah... I was in Denilaquin today, and I must've seen 50 dual carriage road trains. You see them in Dubbo all the time, too. Maybe it's just an issue in QLD, because the road trains are all over VIC and NSW, as long as the roads can accept them.

  • I was refering to QLD. Warwick to Gundy and Toowoomba to Gundy are road train routes. From Gundy down Im not 100% on the rules of time and roads for road trains.

  • I used to live a Dulacca, 100k's from Roma. Used to see a lot of nice Road Trains up and down the Warrego. Toomoomba is as far a they're allowed to go, isn't it? They drivers used to tell me that they'd have to unhook in Toowoomba and drive to Brisbane with one trailer at a time. I guess the Toowoomba Raange is a bit Dangerous for RoadTrains. lol

  • id say these big roadtrains are not for all parts of the country??

  • No, in Australia there not allowed anywhere well populated areas, to many cars around, Ive been on the Toomoomba range and i'm surprised trucks even go up there. I've even heard police stop road trains in Mt Garnet because they destroy the road.

  • The only way then to move nickel from Leinster to the rail head at Leonora was via road train. White Road Boss movers, pulling three trailers each, all on 62 wheels. Top speed empty 40 mph; loaded, 20. I got to ride a few times (I was 10) and was allowed to steer once in a while. One occasion we had 3 flats. The trailers had their own hydraulic jacks built in, to lift one side of the trailer for the tire change. These are memories forever etched.

  • oh and they do more then that i can asore you 19 liter k seris cummins, 130 kph plus

  • sweet memorys!!

  • how long is a road train in feet?

  • about 173 feet or 53 meters maximum length.

  • 55.5 with permit, and mass mangaement, matiance management

  • A good old mack V-liner , I tihnk.

  • OMG! They must be at least 50m long. You could drive those on hilly roads.

  • Road trains are only allowed past certan points. Like longreach is the furtherest east they can go in queensland (i think. But i think the smaller ones can go to emerald. Anywho's they wouldn't get anywhere hilly so its a non-issue.

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