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These pages of Photos are of Australian Road-
Trains most of them I have taken by my self,
plus some text.
The Australian Road-Train has 3 or
more trailers and is 53 metres long(about 3
feet to 1 metre) and hauls 115 tons each.
Look out for the super Road-Train that has 7
trailers and hauls 190 ton.
Above: The white reflectors are high on the
front on the truck so at night the cars heading
towards you can tell that you are a truck and
then they can give you more of the road.
The stone gard over the windsheld is to stop
stones smashing the windsheld, plus if the
truck you are following blows a re-tread tyre
it is like a bomb going off smashing the
windsheld.
The Bull-bar is needed because in the vast
Outback of Australia the cattle station
(Ranches) are so big, hunderds of square
miles each of them and a lot of them do not
have fencing. So it is not unusual to find cattle
or sheep on the main highway.
The cow-catcher on the bottom of the Bull-bar
is to stop the cattle or what ever from going
under your truck and rolling your truck
over...
Above:this Mack three trailer Road-Train is a
beef cattle transporter,they haul cattle from
the cattle station(Ranches) all over the
Outback hundreds of miles to the port of
Darwin for shipment all over the world...
Above: this photo gives you a good look at the
length of our Road-Train over one hundred
ton,they are what is called self tracking each
trailer follows the previous one.
You mite be surprised that you can turn in the
city at a set of traffic lights just a normal
truck,but there hard to stop at speed...
Above: This W-Model Kenworth has a load of
pipes for the new gas pipe line into the city of
Darwin...
Above: The Shell Depot in the city of Darwin
Northern Australia,the old Mack with out the
Bull-bar is the yard truck they are getting it
ready for the next trip...
Above: I am proud to be an Australian and I
do not wont to brag but this is a real truck, it
mite not have lots of shining corm and pretty
colour lights but I think this is a real truck,
three fourty five foot trailers plus two twin
axle turntable dollies...
Above: I took this photo from the banks of the
Adelaide river the Adelaide river is about fifty
miles from the city of Darwin, this is the
tropical north of Australia.
were the rivers are still natural flowing
rivers,the water is half salt and half fresh.
So you have both fresh water Crocodiles and
salt water Crocodiles in the same river,so you
may ask what is the different a fresh water
crocodile will eat your pet dog but the salt
water crocodile will eat you (No joke)...
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