Hello everyone,
Do any of you guys watch Outback Truckers on Netflix?
It's about truck drivers in Austrailia the guys who haul the big road trains and stuff.
Holy Cow, some of those guys who go off road all they do is blow tires and get there trucks stuck 10feet in the mud. They always talk about how much it all costs the drivers, but what they don't tell you is how much it costs to get something shipped up there. These guys have to know that when your going to ship something to some remote spot far far away and anything can happen, it's going to have to cost a ton a ton. I would like to know what they charge to ship to places like Columbaroo and stuff to run one of those camps up there has to cost a ton to ship no way around it probably $20-30K at least. I mean granted it's a big 3 trailer road train, but still all the over head of driving a truck up there on those dirt roads and through all those corrugations. The equipment takes an absolute beating I mean just beating, beat to death. They would have to charge a considerable amount just to keep up on maintenance costs.
I'm not a huge TV fan, but every now and then and yeah I know it's TV, but that doesn't mean there isn't a little bit to learn. I had no idea how massive Australia was as far as land mass goes. Personally it seems like a nice country I'm not big on the heat or sun and I don't really know what I would do there, so I'm not really planning a trip there anytime soon, but it seems nice.
The only thing weird about Australia is and I guess I get it, they have a lot of outposts that are better served by truck, but I see these road train trucks running huge long miles like Perth to Brisbane is and this is, is kind of an exaggeration, but it's not that much of an exaggeration Perth to Brisbane is like driving from New York City to London, England. The one guy has this Freightliner Columbia and he's an owner op and I would have though a generic fleet truck like that even if your keeping to the paved roads, just with all the miles and heat and sun and weather, would have just fallen to pieces after a while. Even the guys with the big Kenworth and Western Star off road super heavy duty trucks have trouble. Anyhow this fella with the Freightliner his truck and motor had enough miles on them to where he would have gone around the earth 30 times!
I mean god bless them, I hope they charge enough money they earn every penny of it. Out in that heat with those stupid kangaroos crossing the desert at night.
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Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Mike2633, Jun 4, 2017.
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I was just down there in Febuary and March for 23 days on a holiday.
They run B-doubles everywhere, like our super-b trains in Canada. Then on the outback highways I saw lots of triple road trains.
In the Mount Isa region they were running four trailer trains for the copper zinc mine there. I only travelled on the black top.
Here's a triple I got shot of at McKinlay.
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I ran trains across the country, even into some of the region's you've seen on the show, also b doubles all up and down the east coast. Yes we reverse them around corners and into finger docks lol
to run from Perth to collumbaroo would be minimum 30k depending on how long you were going to be in there. But most would average 10k minimum per trailer, then factor in weather. Bad weather means you may get stuck. Which costs extra.
Changing tyres in 130+ @90% humidity is a b!tch but it's what you have to do. There is no call out service.
Yer turbo is an interesting individual. Lol.
Steve is an outback legend. Done a few runs with him. There is not much that man has not done. He is one of the few that I know of that's done a 10 trailer haul. One of the even fewer who can back a 3-5 trailer train.
Here's a few pics. I'll upload some others when I charge my old phone.
I'll see if I can find the shot of the white rig when I had seven trailers on. When that pic was taken I'd dropped 3 out the front as I couldn't fit in the yard lol. But to give you an idea 4 trailers would run 200+ tonne.
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