My respects to this driver here!! I'm a driver(North America)and i haul doubles 53ft's, with A type dollys and those can be a pain to back up, especially on gravel or dirt lots, this guy does it FREQUENTLY!!😂.
Yes. All respect to this driver and yes, he did it often 😊You are a truck driver? Like the job? Thanks for your comment, i appreciate it. Have a nice day 😊
@@TomasVarg yeah I mainly drive to and from Mexico into America and vice versa. In America I haul a single 53ft and double trailers( in Mexico known as full), diesel and the open road is all I know and love!
@@erickarangwa949 big negative there driver!!! I drive a peterbilt with a 18 speed transmission. There in Australia It is full of automatic gear boxes. Seen many pov of Aussie truckies and noticed it there here in the west there is but real old school guys have manual.
Notice how it wasn’t just positioned for a straight backup, he had to maneuver it into place. The pin didn’t even touch the sides of the plate to help it center itself, he was dead nuts centered on it! Professional! Beautiful truck bud 👍
@minnesotatomcat....without taking away any of your compliments to the BAA-combo driver's maneuvering capabilities.....here is a small tip: if you align the (in this example) the rearmost right corner of the lead pup to the frontmost right corner of the trailing-pup, the kingpin of the latter will always be centered on the 5th wheel plate. (now, that example can be used in North America or Europe too, but the description would be "align the rearmost-left corner of the lead-pup to the frontmost left corner of the trailing pup). Y ou can also avoid pin-centering slides when hooking up a simple tractor to a semi, by aligning the outer left rear-drive tire-shoulder to the front-left corner of the semi-trailer you want to hook up to....it will have the same effect....the kingpin will be centered!
Funny how life turns around ! I did 40 years in trucks all over Australia 🇦🇺 ! And caravans the Bain of a truckies world , Now I am retired the wife and I hook up the wobbly every chance we can ! But I do my best to give The big fellas priority and keep them safe !
I believe the title to this video to be wrong. It should read "BAA', NOT "AAB". Ps: I am a retired Aussie truckie who has pulled multiple trailers more than once...but I still give this driver credit for his multiple reversing skills. That dolly appeared to hit the king-pin spot without touching the sides !!
Over the years I learned how to back up super b and did a job that sometimes required parallel parking the unit to get of to the side to allow enough space to offload with a moffett forklift. This guy is very good. When other drivers that were not to confident in their skills, I would suggest practice and practice some more and never be afraid to get out and look where your at for clearance. If they appeared uneasy I would tell them about my first time backing up a super b. My buddy after we finished fueling the truck said : Just run it over to the left side and back it into a large open area. I said I didn't know how. He said he had to talk to the fuel station manager and to give it a go. I circled around to the right and went back around and was on the left side of the pumps and into the open area that I needed to go to back in and park. I knew i had to get the unit straight and then slowly back up. Problem was I didn't know which way to steer the tractor to then steer the front trailer that steered the rear trailer. I would get crooked and have to pull forward to get straight. Back up 40 feet, pull up 60 feet to get straight. Back up 35 feet, pull up 50 feet to get straight. Instead of backing up I was gradually making my way to the front edge of the property. I looked over and my buddy and the fuel station manager were bent over laughing at my actions. Eventually I got better. There was a guy on the internet comment about a truck driver only needing a grade 4 education. I'd like to see a grade 4 do what some truck drivers do for skill level. Well done Australia. Some of the world's best drivers.
I found that one of the most important things to remember when reversing multiple trailers is to NOT turn your steering wheel very much at all. If you do, the first thing that happens is you get the prime mover and dollies crossed up, and you cannot retrieve them without pulling forward...which was possibly one of the first things you also experienced when you started. When it comes to the steering wheel, "less is more" !!! Cheers...Trev.
@@trevorkerr9536 The thinking process to move backwards is a single trailer you steer the prime mover which we call tractor is to steer the opposite direction to where you want the trailer to point, on a B train with 5th wheel in middle you steer the same way as you want the rear trailer to go and I suppose with the A frame dolly behind that you would then steer the opposite way again. But the game of catching up becomes impossible with more pivot points and so as you stated correctly straight with small corrections is best. On a B train or Super B which just has one more axle on the bridge the 2 trailers can be steered around a 90 degree corner or more backwards as long as you have enough room up front for the tractor and front trailer to manuvere. I would tell guys that were learning to think of the angles like a game of pool. The greater the angle required the greater the angle input required and learning when to start to catch up.I have parrallel parked B trains but am a novice compared to what you guys do. Cheers from Canada.
I'm impressed! This from a 45 year log truck driver who has spent the last 20 years pulling a "super train" which consists of a long logger and a short logger. A better man than I.
@@paulsiebert4863 Depends on the roads. Black top you're Ok. If you're accessing via a dirt road then you'll get road condition reports via the grapevine radio.
So often I see people who can't reverse their cars this guy is reversing something with 4 pivot points just amazing really. Aussie truckers really are the best in the business. I'm visiting Adelaide next February for my brothers wedding can't wait to see Roadtrains in the flesh.
There is six pivot points in a quad set-up like that if he has bull race that makes 10, 2 dolly and 4 turntables but also you have to include the pivot points on the ring feeder as well
@@andrewmcintyre8774 ...how do you figure? The combo has 21 axles, the first (steer) has 2 wheels, the remaining 20 axles each have 4 wheels. So, from where I went to grade-school (Switzerland) and did my 2.5 mio Kms of trucking (accident & claims-free) is Canada & USA, 20 x 4 = 80, plus 2 = 82 wheels....where did you find the remaining 60 wheels on his BAA combo?
@@andrep8287 The extra 60 are all the spares carried to compensate for the crap corrugated dirt roads of Central Australia. Jokes aside, the skill and courage shown to take a couple hundred tons into those remote parts of Australia is incredible.
I've driven B-train propane trailers here in Canada, and sometimes hooking up and backing up these trailers in uneven surfaces is difficult. Hooking up 4 trailers, that's skill, that's amazing.
Some people these days woun't notice a locomotive cutting their legs off. The problem is: gouvernment thruout the world not just likes them, it *prefers* them, because they work without questions, pay with confidence and take sh** with joy. That's why we have all the bleepers, crossing fences and light-reflecting stuff everrywhere - so the cattle stay entertained and healthy. Of course, they forget that it doesn't help the worthy part of a farm to stay in worthy conditions (cause we need too much fun and freedom), but i guess they don't mind to have their milk sour and meat rotten.
Dude is a legend. Ive backed up 3 hay wagons behind a tractor a couple of times in my younger years, so i know how tough this is. This guy is a master.
Incredibil asa ceva este prima data cind vad un șofer cu foarte multa experienta în Europa nu exista asa ceva pt ca nu sint nici ansambluri ca în videoul de aici. Felicitări cu 10 pt sofer
incroyable la tactique pour l' accrochage des remorques !!! d' une dextérité de pro : formidable aussi la vidéo pour nous Européen c'est du domaine de l'impossible pour nos routes . vivement le prochain reportage ?
I drove a super B for awhile. Thought I was shit hot. Hats off and respect and may the road always be smooth for y’all. Keep the bears off yer ass and the bugs off yer glass, bro...I mean, mate.
@@TomasVarg Hi Tomas, I love Sweden! Visited decades ago under Prime Minister's Olof Palme reign in mid 70ties. He was a Super Man to me, great leader. During his second reign I met him again years later in the US. What a Gentleman he was! So sad he was eliminated by the evil elements.
Olof Palme was simply the best for Sweden and after he died, Sweden went cold. I was so sad when i heard about the shoting on the news 😢 Thanks for sharing your story 😊💙
You can tell its Aus the background been burn by a resent bushfire,or a local burnoff,well done to the driver, Love watching outback driver's here on NZ TV,and admiring the skills,the guy's and girl's have over there on the Highway, Cheers from across the ditch
Very nice skill set on display. I pull a set of b double hopper bottoms and they can be a handful. Add a dolly back there and proceed very patiently I suppose. Much respect to this professional driver
It's funny cause if you've ever driven a road train this is pretty common. Otherwise it takes you a 6 pack and a cut lunch to hook up. And trust me you learn pretty quick
Just trying to see what you’re doing in your mirrors that far back behind you would be a nightmare! This guy has done this a time or two, I hope you are well paid for your skills sir 👍
I can back a trailer with the best of them. I’m a Texas rancher and backing trailers is fundamental. However, this is a different matter entirely! What a smooth job! So many pivot points to manage! 🤯
For a skilled driver 2 trailers is relatively easy but add a short framed dolly and it goes to another altogether level. Notice that he never let the entire unit get too bent out of shape because you can't catch up to the dolly. I would guess world wide he is in the top 1 % of all truck drivers for backing up skills. Australian drivers some of the best. From a Canadian driver. Cheers.
What a wonderful, great, awesome and special video. Wow, in my next life I want to be born in Australia and I will become a Road Train Truckie, I swear 😁
@@TomasVargyeah thats cool, I am from Austria. I want to visit Australia, now I am retired, I have time to make a long trip to Australia. One time in my life I want to see these giant road trains with my own eyes 😀Are you truck driver in Sweden? I was truck driver in Austria, this was my dream job, I love so much to drive a truck 😆
The backing whit the dolly after a b-train was impressing. He said the grossweight was 160 ton on the full combination but he must have been unloaded here, the way he took of.
I agree: for 160 tons he took off too easily and the tanks sounded hollow and empty driving over the bumps. Also: 160 tons with 600hp must be a nightmare going up hill! I remember 75 tons with 600hp which wasn't a walk in the park when climbing. Anyways, nice video but some more 'camera on the action' would've been better.
The driver told me that if he miss a gear in a up hill he must stop. If he try to start from zero in a up hill he ruin the drive shaft Thank you for your comment, i appreciate it. Have a nice day friend 😊
@@baeruuttehei1393 A long continuous grade of 10% at 75 tons would make 600 hp snort. I doubt that with 160 ton the truck would climb an extended grade over 5 to 6 %.
Wow. Very cool. I can reverse some things but I'd have to wait for Continental Drift to bring those two together. Had to look up the load and wikipedia says UN1270 is "(UN No. no longer in use) petroleum fuel, generally used in Australia where mixed refined petroleum products are carried in the same tanker i.e.: petrol/diesel/kerosene/toluene etc. (UN No. no longer in use)". Clearly it is in use! Thanks for sharing.
Great job, take nothing away from driver But.. always..always give it a test tug, just to make sure jaws are locked! Its amazing how far they can go before trailer comes off!
@user-th5mh5zz7z....i quite agree with you observation, and must say that most of the professional-driver vlogs out on YT don't do the tug-test anymore either. And I always teach my drivers to perform the tug-test twice....because if the jaw-lock is not properly adjusted, doing the tug-test only once may give you a false sense of security, while the king-pin has in fact slid-back about 2 inches (i.e. the tractor moved about 2 inches forward, but the trailer stayed put). If the jaw-lock is secure on the first test, it will still be secure on the subsequent tug.....but if the jaw-lock wasn't secure on the first tug, the trailer will slide off the 5th wheel bottom plate and the king-pin flange will get hung up on the frame's rear-most cross-member, which will be a heck of a job to get the trailer cranked up with the landing gear, because the pin-flange getting hung-up on the cross-member's c-channel. (and, it makes a hell of a racked when the trailer slides off.... so better make the racket in the yard, then when pulling out onto the street, and your bosses get woken up from their beauty-sleep in the exec-offices hollering ...."WTF !?!?!"
An interesting thread, lots of things I took for that granted every professional operator knew, seem not so common now. A mate went for his heavy artic licence and was told to leave truck in gear and foot on clutch at traffic lights! so ready when they change. I told him that is wrong , clutch thrust bearing and crank thrusts under load, the reason he would have been told this would be faulty clutch brake. Didn't know what clutch brake was, no training on air system, tractor protection valve, park brake system. Seen people who think diff lock is a lower gear. Just me getting old I guess. @@andrep8287
I see that is a nice smooth lot . Try that in a lot full of pot holes. LOL. One time I backed a set of triples about 40 feet in Las Vegas to get my set of doubles out because I was too lazy to move three other trucks that had mine blocked in . 40 feet was all I needed and I wasn't about to go for more.
I remember reading on pulling multiples and said you can back up with tandems… Triples, don’t even try!! So, this guy is a fanatic!! Hope he’s paid accordingly; know some guys who haul doubles and they don’t get any more that someone pulling a 53’…
There’s an acute driver shortage here in Australia, so these guys in the Northern Territory are paid pretty well if they’re any good as they have to compete with mining companies throwing money around to get good people. Typically drivers here get paid by the number of kilometres they drive and given this combo and the fact that it’s fuel, he’ll be on a decent amount. It’s not unusual to find drivers earning $3k+ per week most weeks.
@@TomasVarg You bet ! Your video brings back a lot of memories for me. In the past I transported jet fuel for a living in the US. You have a nice day as well !