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- NSW, Newstralya
Loaded up and trucking!!
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soon came around to mastering it but the first day was a bit interesting and stressful as we were on bulkers were fully loaded most of the time i did too liked it once i mastered it a mans gear box
soon came around to mastering it but the first day was a bit interesting and stressful as we were on bulkers were fully loaded most of the time i did too liked it once i mastered it a mans gear box
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- NSW, Newstralya
As @Cab-over Pete said before, obviously different specifications for different markets & applications, but I always find it odd that so many of your trucks ( prime movers ) tend to only run a single axle on the drive
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Very few double drives here. You may find them on an occasional low loader application or for pulling max-cube walking floor trailers taking rubbish in to landfill sites, but very seldom for road work.
Most 6 wheel tractor units don’t even have a full sized set of wheels on their mid lift these days, they’re smaller and narrower than the front axle.
Most 6 wheel tractor units don’t even have a full sized set of wheels on their mid lift these days, they’re smaller and narrower than the front axle.
That would of been on 38 ton gross onthat lorry picture of May of been 20years ago now on 44 ton would be double drive axle on unit
Cab over Pete beat me to it
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
The unit would have 3 axles but it's still only be 2wd.
Every public road here is tarmac and fuel is expensive so you do everything you can to avoid needing a double drive and their reduced economy.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
About the only single drives you see here are on furniture trucks & horse floats, which generally don’t carry their full gross weight anyway. Highway trucks that never leave the bitumen all run two drive axles. It’s also about weights, axle capacities, braking / engine braking & requirements to run B - Doubles or Trains etc etc.
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- NSW, Newstralya
it’s about total length - B Doubles are classed as 19 m, 23m or 25 m lengths ( I think ? Something like that anyway ).The rear trailer hooks onto a turntable on the back of the front trailer, so the tub is shorter to fit into that trucks classification / category.
The other B Double pulling out of here is longer & both tubs are a similar length.
there are MANY categories of trucks & combinations here, in regards to weight, length & axles. There are also restrictions on which roads different combinations can travel on. For example, 2 trailer road trains have only just been approved here in the last couple of years, but further north & west they have been running 3 trailer ones for years. As a VERY rough guide, the more remote you go & the lower the population & traffic density, the more trailers you can have.
But then, you also have issues with load limits on bridges etc . . .
By the way, that truck is a B Double, not a Road Train, they are actually quite different.
They are tipping trailers, so on drive over hoppers etc they just drive over them & tip their load. If they were reversing up to an auger to unload, they would have to drop the rear trailer to unload the front, but most places would have some sort of drive over set up if they were using Doubles or Trains regularly
some light reading on al the various combinations of trucks trailers & axles possible nationally in Australia. Just remember, the various combinations aren’t legal on all roads
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- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
This is just NSW
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
35 tonne maximum mass here for that configuration, single rear on truck & tri on trailer, 42.5 t with 2 drive axles
How much
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- North East
Any one else watch the Dakar for the Trucks ? Kamaz have made it a bit boring as they enter so many trucks its a forgone conclusion who will win .
However Classic Dakar has come to my rescue anyone else remember this ? its competing again this year , this twin engine version was I think a couple of years prior to the last one that ended in tragedy , what a beast.
However Classic Dakar has come to my rescue anyone else remember this ? its competing again this year , this twin engine version was I think a couple of years prior to the last one that ended in tragedy , what a beast.
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76masseyman
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- Lincolncestershire
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
This appeared in my FB memories this morning ; may even have got it off this thread originally
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
smcapstick
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- Kirkby Lonsdale
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Christ, we do fanny about in this country, don’t we?
smcapstick
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- Kirkby Lonsdale
He’s making that run count, all right. Good man!