My father inlaw, has spent about the last 5 years dragging 3 Centurian trailers up north. He is 75 and stopped the road trains, but is now driving a grader on mine site somewhere.
Nice Australian looks of these trucks. Do you have some more MACK and SCANIA configuratians / old and new. The heavy V-8 SCANIA in Western Australia. Greetings frpm the Netherlands. 😊❤
Well done. Great to see viewers from overseas appreciate your work as well. I am familiar with a lot of that gear and really enjoyed the presentation. That is some pretty good footage! Impressive how you mostly get the full Quads in the shot. A comprehensive cross section of heavy transport in the Outback. Nice footage of the floats and platform setups doing the Heavy Haulage of mining machinery. 5 trailer roadtrain was a bit of a bonus catch too !!!
The mega quads are really extraordinary. They are gigantic, even in this region. It's good to see more companies operates them, it's obvious the concept is successful. The variety is excellent again, lots of cool trucks and trailers. The friendly wave at 5:12 is cute. Of course the oversize loads are amazing too. Is that Kumarina Roadhouse at 7:13? I know the last place is Auski Roadhouse with the new paved parking lot. Fantastic video again Phil, you're lucky you can regularly catch these wonderful monsters for us.
@@australiantruckspotting8883 Haha this is funny. I've never been in Australia so far. But I've seen a lot of photos of these remote roadhouses up in the Pilbara region. I can identify most of them, because usually the surroundings are very unique.
@@Zsolti0NYM Well you’re right about the Auski Roadhouse, it used to be a dustbowl but the truck refuelling and parking area has been paved to a certain extent. Well picked on the Kumarina Roadhouse as well.
@@Zsolti0NYM I must say, the drive between Newman and the Auski is absolutely sensational, the scenery is breaktaking. You can see it in the backdrop of some of my clips. I would recommend it to anyone that comes to Western Australia.
Yeah, that was a bit of a surprise, the double Bdouble behind the lead trailer. Went back a couple of times to make sure there wasn't a problem with my ability to count. 👍
That's right! BAB quad being pulled behind a single lead trailer. I kept squinting at it to check if I can still count too! 😂👍 First quin roadtrain I've seen on what looks like a public road. Biggest in my town is AB triples.
It is very interesting to see how the trend in Australia is changing for the better, the new trucks that are seen are European, the Australians are renewing their trucks for European ones that are much better, in Mexico something similar is happening, we have the American truck very deeply rooted, but they are much worse than the Americans
Great vid and really interesting to see. Nice mix on bonnetted trucks and cab overs, would i be right in saying Volvo are the most popular European brand owing to Volvo making Aussie FHs and FH16s in Wacol? (literally just found out the FM and FMX are Aussie made too which is cool 😄)
Thanks, glad you liked it. Yes I’d say Volvo are the most popular Euro brand in Australia. The Aussie built ones are made to suit the local conditions.
Awesome, yeah makes sense, be cool if Volvo (and Scania) made bonnetted trucks just for Australia (I know Iveco did sell one designed specifically for Australia for a time)
Its amazing how in America there is a shortage of drivers, but did the 'experts' ever consider adding capacity to the trucks. We are limited to 1 53 foot trailer. Imagine if we could haul 2...or 3. In Canada, under some circumstances you can haul 2 53 foot trailers. Best we can do in the US (only in some states) is triples, 3 28 foot trailers.
For short trips, roadtrains are likely too complex. And for long trips, regular trains are more efficient, if there is enough being shipped. I imagine that's why they are used in down under, to get goods to places efficiently, where there is not enough demand to run a train track. Compared to the outback, the US has a relatively high population density.
@@titaniummechanism3214 100%. Much of what is shown in this video is due to mining activity in remote areas. The side tippers are mainly hauling from smaller mines to shipping or processing facilities. Some larger mines do have rail infrastructure and this video shows one of those trains hauling iron ore in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. There is also a lot of general freight and fuel being hauled to remote townsites and mines.
This is insane seeing from an American perspective. Those trucks pulling those GIANT vehicles. Nobody would dare do that here especially here in NC with the roads being as narrow as they are here. The closest you’d get is a truck pulling a large crane but that’s about it
I used to think i was "King of the Road" pulling a 40' Flat/Tipper Trailers in the UK but after watching 2, 3, 4 & 5 Trailers roll by on my screen it's the Girls & Boys who drive the "Road Trains" who are the real Kings & Queens of the Roads. Good Video thanks for sharing 👍
Видимо есть участки пути ровные максимально по поворотам и горизонту.На таких участках и таскают такие сцепки. В сложных местах буксируют по одному контейнеру.😊
La verdad es que cuando aceptan o aceptamos llevar dobles remolque o como ahí los Kangaroos son los number1 para eso.y no le quito merito a los Troqueros o amigos de la 57 como dicen mis compadres en Mexico que ahi justamente las carreteras no son rectas inacabables y en llano. Estos ases de la 5a rueda tienen dlnde elegir smericanos,o Europeos pero todos con su toque australiano en todos ellos como saben los entendidos y enamorados del camion.desde Kenworth a Volvos siempre con esas cabezas reforzadas y no tan bajas como Los gringos.🇮🇪🇪🇸no sé si e puesto la de México u la de Italia.disculpas.
0:35 Wow! I've never seen that combination before. Looks like pig traliers between the A trailers to give a total of 5 trailers. Edit: Nope, upped the resolution and they look like B trailers. ABAB quin road train!? Thats fantastic!
Wow not even in the US would you find tractor trailers this big and this long. Very impressive! Australia has got to have the longest and biggest ones by far!
Australian trucks weigh more empty than American trucks weigh loaded. A quad road train is roughly 66t-70t empty & 170t loaded with some new combinations going to 190t and those are just the road legal ones on many mine sites the weights can range from 250t - 600t
I find it cool Australia has trucks from America and from the uk and tbh I think us Americans need to take a stand bc these new cab overs from the uk look amazing imo
