Join Scott Taylor as he hauls his Carrera Cup Porsche and other vehicles 3500km from STM HQ on the Gold Coast to Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin. stmotorsport.com.au/
After seeing your video this put the motorsport world into a whole new perspective. Having fun on the way, and your attention to keeping the trucks clean, is epic. Thanks , Stay safe.
Might be the biggest road train you can drive in queensland, but they run 56.5m fuel trucks between Darwin and Alice, and WA has 60m super quads in the pilbara.
They call the Pilbara quad country. You soon learn to respect them and the drivers when you navigate around them all day and night. The bloody cattle and camels are free range up there, adding more fun to the trips.
Scott Taylor and all the crew I just like to say well done on a valiant effort. If it wasn't for you guys doing what you do to put a smile on all the mums and dads and the kids faces. From all of us here we like to say thank you. DOZA BIKERS SUPPORTING COUNTRYSIDE TOWNS PITTWORTH QLD.
Hi guys Mark here .google keeps an eye on all my trips, your vid is so refreshing I'm inspired to do another 10yrs, the vid was really informative at the level you kept , obivously cion doesn't have limit in these excursions I evy you all, please make more keep it true ,you'll he'll make trucking Australia safe and appreciated again . Cheers Mark. Ps tel Dan B .... to get involved with next vid hos always an awesome assest again cheers
Thank you for this cool Video… I was at Hidden valley and I live on Phillip island and I had fun travelling to the NT. But you guys, that’s what I call fun. Thank you again
Used to drive all round mt isa, curry up to Normanton and the southern part, nothing beats driving a 53m road train up there, cheers for the memories fellas looks like an awesome trip
Beautiful trucks. I remember stopping at the Blue heeler hotel back in 99 on a trip from Brisbane to Mt Isa and writing my name on one of the beams across the front entrance. My dad also had a blue K6 honda four and lived not far from Emerald where they filmed Solo One and was in the background on one of the episodes
1985 my brother and I went on au Outback bus tour from Melbourne to Alice Springs and back. I believe that one of the road trains we passed was 4 trailers. I’m surprised that they don’t have a RR line connection between the Queensland east coast to the line that goes north through Alice Springs to Darwin.
Bloody awesome video Scotty the whole episode has been amazing well done I’d love to check out your shop I live at Canungra moved here in 2003 from Southport born and bread there so I’m a true Southport lad cheers Bruce
My days in eighties ran out Toowoomba to Alice,Darwin, Broome,hook up triple at condamine,my Prime mover was short nose western Star,cat 3406,20 spicer,general freight north,most cattle hides home to Toowoomba, Record 3 trailers hides 120 ton split up to 6 trailers get through Gail's weigh bridge get into Brisbane,biggest fun dogging the scales in QLD back blocks. Back loads give good profit.
Good welll edited video. Lucky you didn't have to drive from Townsville to Mt Isa on the Flinders Hwy like we all have to. There is something about going over narrow bridges in a road train with another coming the other way and you only have about an inch to spare. Also we hit at least 3-4 roos everynight in winter so lucky you guys didn't drive at night.
If you saw how our regulators and cops treat truckers and the real conditions for lots of drivers you’ll see why trucking is not getting much new blood here. Real cowboys and Indians now haha!
"It's the biggest roadtrain you can drive in Australia, it's 53 m long" Small correction, it's the longest roadtrain you can drive on most public roads. There are longer roadtrains you can drive from mines to port in the Pilbura, but they are on specific private routes. 5 even 6 tipper trailers.
You didn't show me & my mate's signature (Middo & Sasquatch, Unsupervised) on the top of the pool room at the Blue Heeler in Kynuna. Bloody great night, there.
How come you didn’t leave the b double enclosed trailers together, and the two open trailers together when you hooked it up as the full size road train? Cheers.
I told everyone at school when I was 10 or 11 back in the 80s that I wanted to drive a long range Kenny around Australia as my dream job, unfortunately I ended in the building industry but seeing content like this makes me wish I can turn the clock back. What a great bunch of blokes at STM 🥇👍
Which is ironic, because the vast majority of long distance trucking could be replaced by rail - but beerbellied trucker lovers aren't ready for that talk lmao
@@dynamo1796 - not in Australia (major cities excepted - with duplicated freight tracks), unless there were a huge expenditure on rail - separate to general road routes which must also be maintained for local ands "retail" travellers.
If use are running 2 trucks what is the point of bobtailing 1 and running all of the trailers on the 1? Do use leave the other 1 somewhere or is it just for looks?
(triples ("A-triple" roadtrains, with 2x dolly converters)) and the various Quad (ABB,BAB) configurations can only run on certain routes - in the eastern and southern areas of Australia, for those regions B-Double (or B-Triple for some routes) is the biggest truck that can be run, hence running a BAB-Quad means it can just be split into 2x B-Doubles (plus an empty dolly) and a contractor can pull the second B-Double rig (If an outfit wants their own prime-mover pulling both, it may just be better to either bobtail the second prime-mover or don't bother hooking up the BAB-Quad.) )
Just curious why would you switch trailers around and then drive an empty tractor in the convoy? Why wouldn’t you just continue with the shorter loads and distribute the trailers and load more evenly just like you had been doing earlier in the trip? I know nothing about road trains, but only thing I can think is that maybe it saves fuel?
for a bunch of pro's you sure seem to lack knowledge about the latest tie downs for vehicles, not that there is anything wrong with how its all tied down, just you have spent so much effort to make the trucks/trlrs look good, why not get the latest tyre straps and vehicle securing equipment ? seeing the truck with a harley tied down, old school with chains ...
Kinda don't know much about trucking, but why use only one truck to pull all those trailers when there's two trucks? Why not split the trailers between them? Is it simply because it looker cooler for the video? Because it certainly does!
