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VIDEO: 72-wheel semi truck seems to go on forever
CDL Life ^ | 2 March 2021 | Wimberly Patton

Posted on 03/03/2021 9:15:17 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

“You need a lot of room to pass a 72 wheeler when you’ve got 42 wheels yourself…” wrote the video poster.

In the clip, the somewhat desolate outback stretches before them as the filming driver comes up on the road train and seizes an opportunity to pass it, which takes a considerable amount of time and space thanks to its 72 wheels.

...“When strapping down the load takes you two days,”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Travel
KEYWORDS: australia; long; roadtrain; trucks; usebetterkeywords
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To: Macoozie

40+ years ago a couple of buddies and I shared a campsite with a couple of guys from Australia who were spending he summer touring the western US. We asked them what their favorite thing about America was they they both replied, “The roads. You’ve got paved four lane highways crossing deserts and barren lands for thousands of miles”.


21 posted on 03/03/2021 11:31:48 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Olog-hai

i said it merely because i thought it prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving

and it must be a hell of a clutch, or are they some kind of hydraulic clutch?


22 posted on 03/03/2021 11:34:41 AM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: Yo-Yo

ever see Auto-Chains?

Insta Chain | Automatic Snow Chains for Trucks - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgM2LfuBW68

i was amazed


23 posted on 03/03/2021 11:38:20 AM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Only on the rearmost axles for braking purposes.


24 posted on 03/03/2021 11:40:58 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Chode

That is wicked kewl! Something new for my “Me Want” list.


25 posted on 03/03/2021 11:45:03 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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Bookmarking


26 posted on 03/03/2021 11:46:18 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: Don W

right??? must be god awful expensive but beats chaining


27 posted on 03/03/2021 11:47:48 AM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The Mammoth Car!!


28 posted on 03/03/2021 11:56:33 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Chode

I would have thought that trucks that long would have gone diesel-electric like on a real railroad with real trains. Far fewer moving parts too, although I don’t know what kind of cooling requirements would be there for traction motors.


29 posted on 03/03/2021 12:13:02 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: central_va
That was its name in the original Mach Go Go Go too. Although this is the first time I saw the giant flag-waving girl.
30 posted on 03/03/2021 12:15:12 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

The Monster truck! Yeah! Best sound effects ever!


31 posted on 03/03/2021 1:14:01 PM PST by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: Chode
… prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving…

Or they only hook them up going down a long hill.😆

32 posted on 03/03/2021 1:27:51 PM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: Chode

—” i thought it prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving”

A friend’s father was a train engineer, he explained how you do not simply drive off with a loaded train, takes some experience.
Using the slack in many couplings and feeling the rhythm.
Power to the first few cars, then off the power, as the front cars lurch forward, power...
Using the momentum of the cars and the slack of the couplings.

Guessing there is not much slack in a fifth wheel?
Does anyone know the weight of this rolling monster?


33 posted on 03/03/2021 1:34:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Macoozie

“ A Freight Train for the highway.
They be some pretty desolate roadways out there in Oz”
**************

Exactly in both counts. The Sidney to Perth route is almost deserted. Keep in mind that over 90% of Aussies live within 100 miles of their east coast. Y


34 posted on 03/03/2021 2:12:10 PM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: Olog-hai

never thought of that, wonder what kind of amps that requires?


35 posted on 03/03/2021 2:38:52 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

yup, trains have to reverse sometimes before going forward to manage the coupling slack

i had to ask that question


36 posted on 03/03/2021 2:41:45 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: immadashell

OkyDoky 8^)


37 posted on 03/03/2021 4:25:42 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: Olog-hai

My 21 year old son and s a trucker. He has a brand new tractor. Manual.


38 posted on 03/03/2021 4:50:09 PM PST by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Mammoth car was one of the sillier episodes. A “race car” that was more like a train filled with big guys and gold bricks they were smuggling that was competitive with exotic race cars.


39 posted on 03/04/2021 7:29:37 AM PST by Flying Circus (God help us )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Four trailers? It’s more accurately a train than a truck at this point.


40 posted on 03/04/2021 11:14:22 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. --Craig Ferguson)
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