Wtf. They’ve got 5 trailers now 😳

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StaffordMagnus@reddit

Saw something similar-ish about a month back, just north of Menzies.

Was five trailers, short like these, but the front two were set up like a B-double.

Very strange.

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They’ve got some like that in the Pilbara. When they went to full size quads instead of a B-Double + 2, they had 2 unused B-Doubles which they coupled together + a normal trailer, making it a 5 trailer quin. The roadtrain in the pic is 5 normal trailers.

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StaffordMagnus@reddit

Yeah I remember seeing pictures of those old quins, this one wasn't that. They were short trailers with arched drawbars like in the picture. I'll try to grab a pic if I see it again.

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RPB_9661@reddit

We Called it a B-Quin combination. It’s pretty stupid and questionable for its actual effectiveness because we have ultra quad which only have 4 trailers and can carry more payload than this B-Quin.

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Ozdriver@reddit (OP)

This has got 5 trailers with 4 dollies, not the quin you are talking about. I know the ones you mean. All the trailers here are the same size.

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T3ly541@reddit

Paid by the load

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wazzzzuuupppppp@reddit

In trucking school our class room teacher showed us a video of Australian fuel haulers. It was nuts

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iHasPinny@reddit

Was the the video with TOLL trucks or Linfox ? I think I've seen the same one while I was doing my licence

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wazzzzuuupppppp@reddit

I don't remember I do remember we counted all the tires, 150 tires

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Mr_Majesty@reddit

I would be sleeping.

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Slayer7_62@reddit

Is it bad I would love to drive one of those? After years with automatic cascadias and light trailers I’d love to actually pull something heavy.

Notably I said I’d love to drive it, not that I’d love to pre trip it or try stopping it with no brakes.

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iHasPinny@reddit

I run quad side tippers every day now, before I was in a single milk tanker, I can't explain enough how crazy it is to feel the monster chug and lift, throwing you around as you get going from a stop, you feel the weight and its awesome, there's a reason Australia is THE best at trucking. (Canadians are fuckn crazy too)

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Kodiak01@reddit

before I was in a single milk tanker

Here in New England, some of us call those Sloshers due to the lack of baffles. We've lost count of the number of rear right z-springs one fleet has snapped as they're pulling them over the mountains.

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iHasPinny@reddit

Yeah same over here, idk why they don't put any in them, the fuel, and water tankers all have baffles here

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Kodiak01@reddit

They can't put baffles in because it would impede the ability to sanitize the interiors.

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iHasPinny@reddit

Im not sure about we're you at but here in Australia out tanker have pressure ball sprayers that we put caustic assid through, so I couldn't see how they wouldn't get the muck off the baffles, but you could be right

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Kodiak01@reddit

Been working for the past 20 years primarily at a Mack/Volvo dealership, no shortage of odd shit I've seen!

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iHasPinny@reddit

Oh man I can just wonder so.e of the goofy shit you've seen doing that over the years aye

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Kodiak01@reddit

Note to wheel holders everywhere: The color of the cap does NOT mean that is what you pour in the tank. A few months ago we had yet another tow-in because someone thought, "blue cap, blue juice," poured several gallons of washer fluid into the DEF tank than ran it 'til it ran no more.

The craziest contamination episode though was an inadvertent one. A Volvo VNL gets towed in with a no-start. It had an Arctic Fox fuel heater system installed; this system works by circulating coolant and fuel through mating chambers to keep the fuel from gelling up. Unfortunately, they also apparently designed it with actual gaskets/seals between the chambers.

We take apart the RH side of the MP8 to find that every single gasket had dissolved into tiny pieces. We were pulling chunks of the rectangular seal that goes between the coolant pump and oil cooler housings out of not only the fins of the oil cooler, but using tweezers to get the bits out of the coolant passages. The fuel leaking into the coolant broke down anything rubber into almost nothing. Why they would design it like that? Who knows.

The funniest one, though, was on an old RD688S. It came in with a low fuel pressure issue. Digging into the system, we found that the chain had broken off from the inside of the fuel cap and got sucked into the low pressure feed line. Pulled the timing cover and fuel supply pump off only to witness two links of the chain hanging out of the feed hole like Kilroy!

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NS-Born@reddit

I'm Canadian and run an average of 50,000 in the trailer lol, sometimes we have over 70,000 while I know another company that regularly hauls with 100,000 in their trailers.

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iHasPinny@reddit

Yeah and you guys deal with the crazy ice too, fark that man hahaha

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Slayer7_62@reddit

On the account I worked for we generally only had 15-25k pounds in the trailer so our gross was more in the 50-60k range. The only time the truck ever really struggled was over a couple mountain passes we took for certain routes or if we had a (quite rare) 80k gross load. My first company hauled a lot of paper rolls and bottled water so there a had way more experience with the truck struggling with the weight but that doesn’t come close to what you’re pulling.

If I didn’t have a back injury I would be interested in trying to start driving in Australia but I’m not sure how welcoming the industry/country is to foreigners, especially with all that we have happening over here right now in the US.

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iHasPinny@reddit

Honestly we're pretty good over here about foreigners, the only ones we generally have issues with are Indians that grew up and drove in India, they have a lot more accidents, but Indians that grew up here are good, so I don't think anyone else would have an issue.

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AgreeAndSubmit@reddit

Watch a video on how to shift an 18 speed Road Ranger transmission. That's usually what they have in road train rigs. That's....interesting.

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Slayer7_62@reddit

I learned on a 10 speed manual and had very brief experience with a 13. Almost all of my solo experience has been with automatics lmao.

I enjoy actually having to push the truck to keep momentum and plan ahead for gaining it on the downhills. Maybe I’m weird and just like fighting gravity, but there’s no engagement doing it with the automatics. The most enjoyment I get from driving the auto is rolling the window down and listening to the turbo, it’s not the same as having to actually plan shifts and having more input than just flooring a pedal.

I’d love driving trucks for a mine, it seems way more interesting than dry van, especially with multiple trailers like this. At least if stuck with an auto I feel like it would be more interesting overall. The only ones in my area though are small operations that don’t really send out more than the occasional truck and they’re not hiring of course.

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onedarkhorsee@reddit

This is a great vid thanks!

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adamgorehound@reddit

Paid for 5 loads.

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JD4101@reddit

The last two trailers are for the spare tyres

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Gijinbrotha@reddit

We think we know big trucks in the US. We don’t know shit!

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sneakercentury@reddit

Looks like a country with roads wide enough to drive a semi on! Especially a road train

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Tiparuski@reddit

He’s backing up by the way

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LordRaven74@reddit

While standing on his step.

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Superdry_GTR@reddit

Lol

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TripleTrucker@reddit

Blindside too!!!

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_Roba@reddit

Stg I've heard this story at least twice from the older drivers

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SaltyyFries@reddit

Imagine alley docking with that

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JankyMark@reddit

Imagine him at the fuel island lol

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Always_Shifting_4459@reddit

Imagine all the people... crap forgot the rest of the song

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LordRaven74@reddit

Riding on that traaaaainnnnn.

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Totallycomputername@reddit

A proper land train.

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Feeling-Bowl-9533@reddit

As opposed to a water train? Air train? What are the alternatives here?

I know what you meant; just thought this was funny 😂

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humdinger44@reddit

Train train?

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LordRaven74@reddit

Out in the western US I have seen 3 train engines followed by about a half mile of train cars. Then 2 or 3 engines followed by another half mile of train cars. So, technically, that could be called a train train.

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HurriedLlama@reddit

Does a plane pulling a glider count as an air train?

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Totallycomputername@reddit

Hey now, if you have a tug pulling a few barges that would be a proper water train.

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CuriosTiger@reddit

Four or more barges. Five after this photo was taken.

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random_bruce@reddit

A space train

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SilvermistInc@reddit

Road train

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Totallycomputername@reddit

I wouldn't limit this glorious think to roads. If that land is flat, this train will transform into a terrible massage chair and tackle it.

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Complete_Tip_1868@reddit

lol look up the leturneau overland train. I probably spelled that wrong. doubly so if you’re a Canadian. Anyway the guy that built the Bigfoot monster truck used the wheels from that. Crazy experiment/ piece of engineering

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NJNeal17@reddit

Letourneau Inc.

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pixelpioneerhere@reddit

Pavement train

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L0quence@reddit

Highway train

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cyanide_alchemist@reddit

Crazy train

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matt602@reddit

Swayze train

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3PoundsOfFlax@reddit

There's other kinds?

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Critical_Dollar@reddit

I have mad respect for b train drivers 🫡

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CronoXpono@reddit

This is how I know I just drive trucks and am not a truck driver. Jesus 🤯 😱 😂

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MagnificentArchie@reddit

Curious what engine can handle that environment.

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JDM_MoonShibe@reddit

It would just be a 600hp cummins x15 at 2050 lb ft of torque.

Kenworth Australia had C510 and C540s that 19 litre engines but they don’t produce c510s and c540s anymore or atleast they’re missing from the website

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amazingmaple@reddit

They are running 600 Detroit's and Cummins. They don't have much for hills where they run.

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iHasPinny@reddit

We also have a new 780 volvo at my company, it actually runs the quads like a monster

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amazingmaple@reddit

Yeah I forgot that Australia can get the bigger engines where the USA can't. Lol

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HowlingWolven@reddit

Big cumminses. They don’t accelerate very fast but everything beyond the east coast of Aussie is very much Flat.

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unftp-0@reddit

The twuck centipede

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beno9444@reddit

I thought a road train had max 4 trailers and 3 dollies?

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iHasPinny@reddit

I run quads most of the time but there's been a few times we've had up to 5 or 6 go on a run

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beno9444@reddit

Woah! Is that road legal? I guess things have changed! How exciting

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iHasPinny@reddit

Yeah it's legal but only on set routs, and only under certain conditions, it doesn't happen very often tho, I've only seen it twice

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DonBoy30@reddit

I’d take that into all 5 boroughs.

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crispycritter909@reddit

Do these trucks in Australia run higher PSI for the air brakes??

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CruiserMissile@reddit

100-110psi. Don’t think that’s any higher than anywhere else.

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scottiethegoonie@reddit

How the heck do they set these up? Same way as doubles and triples?

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CruiserMissile@reddit

Depends on the driver, but most set them up from the back forwards, 1 maybe 2 trailers at a time.

Back trailer, then second last and push the dolly under the back, next trailer and dolly, next trailer and dolly, lead trailer and dolly.

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rytram99@reddit

I don't understand why they don't just invest in actual trains at this rate.

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CruiserMissile@reddit

It’s quicker to build a road than rail. A lot of mines here that are predicted to be going for 10yrs plus will get a railway. Since there’s such an abundance of ore in the ground here they chase the high quality stuff and tear it out in about 7-8 years and the mine moves, and on to the next A grade ore. So the road trains run between the mine and the rail head and then the ore is trained to the port.

Thing is we use quad road trains as tippers for road works and general freight too. Fuel and even bulk refrigerated freight too. We use double road trains running things out the road less than 100kms. Use road trains pulling grain around the silos. It’s that easy and versatile that it’s just normal.

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oasuke@reddit

Must be the easiest ride ever. This guy might see 5 cars his entire shift.

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scallywagsworld@reddit

most of these guys drive on private roads anyway. FIFO shuttle back and forth 40km from mine to the port or railway

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iHasPinny@reddit

I run quad side tippers, love it, it's the reason Australia is THE best at trucking.

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gsanchez92@reddit

It call Land train and for my understanding is common in Australia. In USA max trailer is 3 and are really uncommon in the Northern States

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BigBlueDuck130@reddit

Road train, but yes they are common in rural areas.

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BigBlueDuck130@reddit

Makes me feel good when the driver signals that I can pass him but then I do so and proceed to shit myself anyway for the next several minutes.

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confusedbystupidity@reddit

That group trying to get into the club...all at one time...

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Reddit_Is_a_jokee@reddit

Companies do not care about your safety.

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heebro@reddit

Yo, dawg. We heard you like trailers, so we put trailers on your trailers so you can trail while you trailer

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tonythebutcher13@reddit

0 to 60 in 45 minutes!

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crazy-carebear@reddit

And a 4-wheeler will still try and brake check it.

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BouncingSphinx@reddit

I mean, that looks to me like the only truly full-sized trailer is the last. The others look like the dollies are connected to a 5th wheel on the trailer with shorter boxes.

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Ozdriver@reddit (OP)

There are 5 full size trailers with 4 dollies like those that are used with quads. The drawbar hooks up to the rear of a trailer but different to a normal Ringfeder on a triple or double roadtrain.

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