I lived in Kansas City in the early 2000's and my wife's Dad worked at the Kenworth facility there (dealer, lots of drivers and companies that drive KW's brought them there for repairman upgrades.) I met a couple of Aussie and New Zelanders that were sent there to learn to work on them and drive them. They had 4 trucks that were built down under. Man those trucks had some serious power under the hood plus you could tell those KW's were built for serious hauling!

Seems like the 9 axle configuration on the double trailers is the usual over there. Tankers, logging trailers, flatbed, dryvans, even lowboys ! Lol ! Cool !

I wish we ran dual steer cab overs here in the US....

KW you can't beat them

Great work on this video! I've been into videos about big rigs that look American for many years. That area of New Zealand looks very nice. I look forward to seeing more videos like this!

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Great seeing trucking at its best in provincial New Zealand 🇳🇿 In the past, watched Railfanning around the world some 30 channels. I have been a forklift operator off & on in Auckland & Waikato for 31 years and relish 🤩 local content. My late dad was a heavy tranport importer back in the 70's when the late Muldoon government was involved with think big projects. This was at time when british trucks fell out of favour due servicing being less frequent in American trucks. Still have some involvement with british transport online. Booths & Hickmans are very familiar with me, good to see some territories still drive on the left in this ever changing world, and grateful 🙏 to have a job in the Covid enviroment we don't think outside of anymore. Keep the videos coming. 🍺🍻

That's cool you saw the phat cab twin steer. Not many of them around

Spent a week in Picton when a tropical typhoon had put a thick fog in the areas I intended to photograph on the South Island. The Eggs Benedict with NZ smoked salmon at the Seabreeze is "to die for." Kenworth has penetrated the Australian and NZ markets better than Peterbilt. I see a few Scanias here in Thailand.

This is a great video. Thanks for sharing it.

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Nine minutes in before we saw a Mack. And then there was JDH! A lot of Waimea's KW loggers seem similar paint scheme to RFH? Thank you for presenting - decent effort.

Most all ya'lls truck over that way are tandem steer axles, huh???. Nice video! Thanks for sharing

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Wow the truck content is awesome and I'm gonna watch and subscribe,from the usa.

Cool video

Autobots, Transform And Roll Out! niceeeee!

The NZ B-Train (hauler + two semi-trailers) now includes, the 'Super-B' (the Aussie B-Train equivalent known as the B-Double), with a longer secondary semi-trailer. So, alongside 'Truck & Trailers' and Semi-Trailers (Artics), NZ has some of the most diverse truck wheel and trailer arrangements in the world. The US '18-Wheeler' (semi), is nothing compared to the commonly seen 34 or 36-wheel B-Trains or even 32-wheeled Truck and Trailers at their maximum wheel count. Most NZ semi-trailers, are 3-axel (12-wheel) plus the hauler unit, which are almost always, twin rear axels (8 wheels) with 2 or 4 (tandem) steer wheels. But the 'semi's' also include, 4-axel (16-wheels), with the rear-most axel being steerable. The wheel number count for all truck, trailer and semi trailer arrangements, reduces if non-duel 'Super Single' tyres are employed. In the past, the 'A-Train' which was a 'semi' primary trailer, hooked up to a 'full' secondary trailer, was more commonly used by milk tankers. Today, its rare to see this type on NZ roads. Reversing an A-Train, was a bit more tricky than other types. Compared to other parts of the world, trucking in NZ is generally over windy roads with tight bends, with plenty of hill climbs, hauling heavy loads. Road surfaces can vary from sealed to unsealed or fording water. Australia (where the multi-trailer 'Road Train' rules the outback), is mostly straight roads minus the hill climbs. NZ offers, the best truck training environment in the world.

And the cab over Kenworths are only going to get better in June with the release of the new K220 few pictures starting to appear

Nice!

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Awsome bud. Got plenty of rigs i have filmed before and a few i see havent seen before. 7:08 always love thos i thought 319 was the only 1 left. The truck i went on when i was 4 when it was brand new. But yeah looking forwards to more vids mate.

Good one

What are those windscreen protectors the cabovers are running? Never seen that in the States here. Is it for rocks, bugs, dust? All of the above?

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Nothing American except for the name.. Aussie trucks designed and built 🇦🇺💪

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your videos are great, what kind of radios use cb, or VHF, to communicate? I see that they all have phased antennas (one on each side) TNX

Cool

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Nice with the duel steer, for our tight roads/corners.

A cool first video, I enjoyed watcing it - my only comment would be to maybe stay on the trucks a little bit longer after they go past instead of cutting away quickly.

Any Leyland Mommoth footage?

Whats with the added axle that's right behind the cab on most of these trucks??????

No logro entender el porquè los camiones Peterbilt y el Kamaz no sean tan populares en New Zealand ya que en ese paìs circulan todas las marcas en el mundo....

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hi from the uk can you please tell me what the weight limit is on the 13 axle outfits

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These trucks American or Australian made?

The double front steer axle thing kinda throws me off, we only see them on certain dump trucks and cement mixers here in Canada. More commonly you'll see Tridems on log trucks, too.

Why 2 steer axles

I want to become a trucker in NZ, how many hours per day usually? Here in Europe is usual about 13 hrs a day 9 of driving (10 depending on the day) and about 4-5hrs of other work

How much weight are they allowed to carry over there And what's the deal with the two steer axel's in the front of the tractors?

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Nice vid. No Macks?

Bugger me, would hate to live anywhere near that intersection! Noooiisy….

5:52 What truck is that?

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Nearly every time I see Booth's trucks they are in pairs 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Что там за отщепенец с одним передним мостом ?

Kiwis & Ausies rock American trucks better than Americans

Kenworth, Freightliner and Western Star are the only American style trucks down under???? No Peterbilt????

KW, MACK and WS are more Aussies than from US lol

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Gotta lot of ugly an cheaper, I mean CHEAPA, european trucks in n.z. an auz. Heaps in the outback now.

Why drive in NZ when you make twice as much driving in Aus.. Australia will take you boys in heart beat.. Better roads, better trucks and better remuneration package.. 140 k plus.. Get that in NZ..yeah nah!