A great variety of Aussie trucks and road trains filmed at Bindoon Hill on the Great Northern Highway in Western Australia. You’ll see Kenworth, Mack, Western Star, Freightliner, Volvo, Scania and Mercedes trucks.
Greetings from Singapore, truly amazing stuff. I'm always fascinated by trucks/roadtrains from Australia with 3x B-Trains to chromed up heavy grills, you guys have all kinds of built and those rare american cabovers are such a treat these days.
I like the friendly horn honks, the truckies enjoys your presence. As always the trucks are magnificent. I have a soft spot for the International Eagle 9900is and we see two beautiful ones in this video. I also love the blue Mack at 6:21, that's a serious bulldog. Great action footage again Phil, thanks a lot for the entertainment. I'd like to wish you and your loved ones a merry Christmas and a very happy new year. Please keep up the fine job in 2023 too. 👍
Thanks for great feedback. It’s always good to capture some older rigs, they make the videos more interesting. Happy New year and thanks for watching!!
We in oz talk tons not pounds, 129,00 lbs is only 58 tons, thats single trailer stuff here. Our trucks with 2 x 44 ft trailers are halling about 90 tons and 3 trailers up to 130 tons and quads up to 180 tons. Thats upto 396,000 lbs
Yeah. It always makes me laugh when I look at trucking in Aus versus most of the US, especially when some reporter dramatises the trucks hauling a 25 ton payload. These Aussie rigs, some NZ- and Scandinavian rigs too often pull more payload than the weight of an entire 80000 pounder US truck. (10 & 11 axle trucks exempt of course, where they are allowed to weigh in at a proper 164000 lbs. But thats only 4 states I believe)
Dont be a dingbat...there are plenty of american trucks that can haul massive loads...when i was in texas i saw and got videos of a 40 axle truck and trailer with a pusher truck behind it....your just ignorant....weight was 350 tons...just need the permits
As I watch this I remember when the first triaxle dolly was featured in the 'wheels' section of the Sunday Times and the quote from licencing dept "no more" lol
im a retired american trucker. ive pulled triples in the mountains of the west coast for 30 years. ive went everrywhere they asked me to go. ive had the living shit scared out of me so many times i cant remember most. ive had my sets spin around 360 degrees so many times in the middle of the highway it seems ridiculous. Ive ALWAYS wanted to run the Austrailian road trains. i grew up 5 blocks from Kenworth. id give ANYTHING to run a big train acrossed the outback. id pay all my own travel and do it for free. i met an italian gentleman one time that had actually done it. he said it was a 3 man team. the passenger seat was always filled with a man with a shotgun ready to shoot "roos" . i guess they end up in the radiator and shut the trucks down in the middle of nowhere. wow. I wanna do that. If you know anyone who may give me a drive test let me know. im serious! i know many american truckers who want the sa,me thing. im a good mechanic. the us army says im an 'expert' rifleman. how fun would that be!!!!! omg! get with me if you need a free driver. ill do a few runs if necessary.
Hi mate a recommended spot about 25 minutes is chittering hill in bullsbrooke WA on chittering road just past bullsbrooke collage, love you videos keep up the good effort 👍👍👍
This section of Highway is restricted to 36.5 metres, probably because of the hills and windy sections. At Wubin, about 190 kms north, the max allowable length changes to 53.5 metres. There will be a new Highway built eventually which will bypass Bindoon Hill, I have heard that 53.5 metres will be allowed from Muchea onwards when that is in place. If that’s so it will be a game changer.
@@australiantruckspotting8883 Olá amigo, boa noite. Geralmente os australianos utilizam os caminhões estadunidenses. Mas me surpreendi com esses veículos europeus. Belo vídeo.
kkkkkkkk 5:49 kkkkkkk aqui no Brasil chamamos este mosquito de borrachudo pq quando eles picam as pernas ficam inchadas como se fossem borrachas kkkk, sucesso p vc.
Why does Australia have so many huge trucks on the road , yet they have a population of about 26 million people only . I'm kind of puzzled because you would expect such massive trucks to be in densely populated countries only, due to high demand of goods and produce
I’m going to make a video on this very topic one day. There are several reasons: Europe and the USA have extensive rail networks that carry a lot of the freight. They also have large cities everywhere so that supplies are never far away for smaller towns and mining operations. Western Australia as a state is larger than most countries and only has one major city that supplies the entire state. There is a LOT of mining activity in WA that is all supported from the one large capital city which is Perth. Successive state Governments have canned state owned shipping and rail networks in favour of road transport.
I barely know anything about trucking but I'm curious why some trucks are going down the hill way faster than others. Are some drivers concerned of their brakes failing while others are not?
@@australiantruckspotting8883 Yeah that's what I assumed. Even though your trailer is loaded with cargo you don't get any more braking power. Perhaps the trucks going fast were all empty.
We do that here in the United States 129,000 lb 105 ft long over 550 to 600 horse cat and Cummins engines over the top of one of the steepest mountains parley's summit and the sisters in Wyoming day in and day out nothing new
