Mega-Macks in Action !

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Mega-Macks in Action !

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Cab ride in Mack Titan V8.
New and old Superliners, Mack Titans, 3 and 4 trailer road trains.
The clips of Eddy Holland in his new Superliner and Wayne Betts in his Titan were at the Pillara mine near Fitzroy Crossing in W.A.
The Shell double B-double was at Renner Springs N.T.
The blue and white Mack Titan triple was at Mt Magnet and Kewdale W.A.
The white Valueliner at Kanmantoo S.A.

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@Dan23_7 3 жыл бұрын

Who needs a stereo when you have those v8’s to listen to 😍😍

@oldridersteve217 4 жыл бұрын

Can't beat the Australian Mack's. Beautiful tractors. Mack North America has seen better days. Nobody wants to run them anymore.

@JoseAntonio-pb7nd 2 жыл бұрын

Hands down my fav truck! When I started hauling scrap metal hitting the 125k lbs + I never looked back.

@neilcomiso3079 9 жыл бұрын

Love the howling sound of the Mack air-starter.

@bionictrucker1 12 жыл бұрын

Man, it's been a long time since I've heard an "air starter" truck here in the States! That was cool!

@oldstudbuck3583 3 жыл бұрын

First time I heard an air start was the mad max movie

@flydieselair 5 жыл бұрын

I was a mechanic at Cummins Ontario in Toronto in the 70s but I tell you I just love those Mack V-8s.

@josephsloppy6750 7 жыл бұрын

remember mad Max road warrior? it had a nasty bad to the Bone r model mack . mack truck rule

@bro5800 5 жыл бұрын

I love the sound of the start. I remeber every time my father started the truck people around us just jumped up of fear. Thank you for bringing lot of memories back.

@Borismolotov Жыл бұрын

Mighty Mack's engine sound is honey for my ears.

@davidmonro3270 Жыл бұрын

I first saw a Mack after the war. They were N.R. 10's and were used in the timber industry. They were the greatest and carried this country for many years. Most were supplied by L.J.Gleeson of Wingham N.S.W. He used them to excavate the Inner Harbour Port Kembla. Probably the best collection of N.R.'s are at Cleary Bros. Port Kembla. They were the most.

@peterbilt7355 4 жыл бұрын

You guys down under rock. I've been in the trucking world for over 40 years the USA sucks am moving to the real people are

@cslan4 10 жыл бұрын

Thees down under big rigs are freaking bad ass very cool!

@McFearsome2 13 жыл бұрын

@gm16v149 you are probably right about that... i haven't been to my local mack dealer since i changed employers (i had a really nice CH that was serviced by mack, mostly at beresfield but also in bris. until it caught fire and burnt to the rims...). so i dont know all the latest info... the volvo/mack amalgamation sounds like its progressing nicely...

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

Yes, air start. Macks used to be 100% air start in Australia. You can still option air start on heavy-duty Kenworth.

@scootdawg3535 10 жыл бұрын

air start...a wonderful way of scaring the crap out of unsuspecting people...lol

@donvalharris9819 4 жыл бұрын

Saw a guy leap three feet off the ground once when I was driving bauxite haul trucks

@tonnywildweasel8138 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing, and greets from the other side of the globe, the Netherlands.

@salfordladcraigedeane2356 5 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous trucks

@danielkennedy7845 6 жыл бұрын

And the Titan!!! v-8 what a machine!

@Alex462047 14 жыл бұрын

Nice '89 Superliner. Drove same thing ('91) for a while. Can't beat the sound and performance of the old V8.

@gm16v149 12 жыл бұрын

Yes we are busy at the moment, haven't had much time to upload new videos, but I've taken plenty of footage so I will upload soon. Anyone from Europe would be amazed at our triple trailer roadtrains in real life.

@kevinreed7770 6 жыл бұрын

That mack truck starting sounded like the the mack truck on mad max, road warriors movie

@donvalharris9819 4 жыл бұрын

Air starters are nostalgic

@demonherz 10 жыл бұрын

those are real beasts of the road!!

@fadbabar4413 5 жыл бұрын

Im pretty happy and lucky i certainly own a 99 mack trident loving life... 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@seanhester2574 11 жыл бұрын

The white mack in the end of video I have owned for 12 months, bought it of "chops" in adelaide....Been the best truck I have ever owned....Still runs interstate, doing real trucker work!!!!

@tkx86 5 жыл бұрын

them air fead starter motors. What a fine signature for a mack.Love it! God the E9's are sexy.

@trainmasterfm2 13 жыл бұрын

Man that Silver Titan Sounded Tough ,a true Mack!

@parzivalx7313 3 жыл бұрын

max: i found a vehicle that can hold that tanker like if you anderstand the reference

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

Cheers, yeah, most trucks on long haul in the top end hold 1500 - 2500 liters plus sometimes a trailer belly tank of another 1000. Mainly because fuel is so expensive once you leave the city and with 3 trailers @ 120 tonnes gross you will only get about 1 km/liter which is 2.3 miles per US gallon.

@stefankassbohrer2765 4 жыл бұрын

4:25 .. .sounds like an impact wrench :-) Great dogs ... V8 rules ! Greetings from south Germany

@mikewhipkey6863 6 жыл бұрын

I like the road train set up a lot of skilled drivers there! Over here in the US it's a fuckin miracle if the glorified steering wheel holders here can manage 1 trailer!

@982berti 2 жыл бұрын

It’s because in Australia there’s no driver shortage. Companies can hire the most skilled drivers or they can train the rookies very well.

@mikewhipkey6863 2 жыл бұрын

@@982berti there is no driver shortage here it's just anyone with experience and a brain owns there own trucks.. if there is a shortage it's with the big companies because they don't want to pay anything

@toothpik206 13 жыл бұрын

Can I get a temperary license so I can come over and play a bit..HAHAHA..Great vid,keep um coming

@navinbabji 3 жыл бұрын

Man seeing all these awesome Road-Trains, i wanna become a driver in Australia...👍👍👍👍

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

There are more cubes in a V8 than a six, and as they say there is no substitute for cubic inches.

@ChrisTian-lf2oh 10 жыл бұрын

Gotta love V8s!

@dieselinside69 13 жыл бұрын

the last mack got some mad max style hahah

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

Most of the road trains use a German-made 50mm Ringfeder coupling between the dollies and trailers, and a 2" or 3.5" Jost or Holland turntable on the truck/dolly.

@yvindmathisen3812 4 жыл бұрын

@cobra3289 5 жыл бұрын

They look so much bad ass than the Macks in USA,, how they arrange the fuel tanks wild bars looks so much cooler

@Wildcat0032 14 жыл бұрын

air start sounds perfect

@user-xn1dx3gn5s 10 ай бұрын

RIP to Eddie Holland

@eiclan 10 жыл бұрын

Nice shot in the titan v8 on Abernathy rd going past CBH,best sound of the v8 macks

@Madzor 8 жыл бұрын

Great job there! Oh and a great day to all of you reading this! :)

@thermidorlevrai65 6 жыл бұрын

thanks

@tomgaribay4173 5 жыл бұрын

k' lpu ko

@welderboy14 11 жыл бұрын

Now those are some real trucks.

@irrifarra 14 жыл бұрын

they must be glad to have a great job like that

@rad3766 12 жыл бұрын

Some real bad-ass lookin rigs you guys run down under.

@dwaynefox5121 4 жыл бұрын

BEAST MODE

@bastarddoggy 11 жыл бұрын

These trucks look and sound awesome. If I ever visit Australia I would skip the Sydney Opera House for a ride in the prime mover of a road train! (Still want to climb the harbor bridge, mind you!)

@whearstanley8288 7 жыл бұрын

It's crazy to see such convoy

@PavelJanda1 14 жыл бұрын

Beautiful - " Macks Road Train ". Great video.

@GuessThisPrice 11 жыл бұрын

No doubt! Makes the American trucks look like child's play!

@bdubblemalone 11 жыл бұрын

0:27 looks so awesome!

@Dailydieseldose315 13 жыл бұрын

Now this is trucking! Awesome video.

@catdieselpower193 8 жыл бұрын

Sweet vids pard!

@moelll 12 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the sound of a turbo diesel v8

@kobiefahey266 12 жыл бұрын

that red superliner was awesome

@Mechknight73 11 жыл бұрын

Some road trains in Australia push the gross mass to 150, sometimes more tonnes. The longest ones are in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, where up to four trailers are allowed on public highways. Three of those trailers are usually full length, with a fourth half length

@LeMagnum440 14 жыл бұрын

Chris you are the man. This vid is the bulldogs dangalies. Keep them turbos whistleing.

@jazzsoul6067 10 жыл бұрын

I wish Revell would do a 1/24th scale kit of a Mack Titan with both left and right hand steer option.

@Mechknight73 9 жыл бұрын

+Jazzsoul 60 Nearest I've seen of an Australian road train so far is by Italieri. It was a Kenworth short hood, but had all the detais of a truck that pulls road trains, bar the trailers themselves

@jazzsoul6067 9 жыл бұрын

American conventional truck by Italeri.

@Mechknight73 9 жыл бұрын

Correction: A RIGHT HAND DRIVE truck with all the equipment you'd find on an Australian road train truck; bull bar, ROAD TRAIN signs, local numberplate, and the tail light setup of a local truck.

@Mechknight73 11 жыл бұрын

It used to be Kenworths you saw the most of in Australia, but that's changing. Freightliners and Western Stars are growing in numbers. There are some Macks around, but they're not the commonest make. Even euro trucks such as Volvos are getting a bigger toehold on the market here

@MrKenwortht908 14 жыл бұрын

Great video very nice trucks like see some more videos like that.

@gm16v149 12 жыл бұрын

They helps stop stone chips in the windshield. Road trains going the other way kick up plenty if they drop off the edge, some of them have got 4 trailers with 86 wheels.

@raptormzm5436 6 жыл бұрын

The MACK truck is best in the World...

@Mechknight73 11 жыл бұрын

Horsepower 101; the more air you can suck into an engine, the more power it can put out. The twin air intakes on top of the twin air filters isn't just for show. Air higher up has less dust, and is cooler. Cooler air also makes a difference in power, or turbo engines wouldn't have intercoolers.

@Ghostrider2999 11 жыл бұрын

those air starters sound awesome, they don't do so well in the cold, but i would definitely bring one of these trucks to the USA.

@baldymp3 13 жыл бұрын

@kennjohnsen we dont generally run big sleepers over here due to length restrictions. the lengths are as follows - single trailer 19 m (62.3 ft), 2 trailer 36.5 m (120 ft) and 3 trailer 53.5 m (176 ft). These are all maximum allowable lengths. If we ran large U.S. style sleepers we would need to use shorter trailers to meet the requirements.

@thomaskuzyk9802 8 жыл бұрын

These are big rigs. Bob Reimer loved his Mack trucks. He drove and wrote THE B MODEL MACK SONG by THE COUNTRY TIGERS CANADA. Please check it out Tks much

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

I use 2" double-row Jost ball-race turntables. They generally use 3.5" on triples and quads. The Ringfeder couplings on the dollys are all 50 mm though.

@dieselinside69 13 жыл бұрын

i would like to drive one of these titans !! grat trucks i love macks

@sergiowestlopez 4 жыл бұрын

Excelente machine. Ya

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

Highway trucks these days usually have 10 stud alloys, but roadtrain trucks and trailers still often use spider type wheels because it is easier for changing tyres. Probably overall 50/50 spider/10stud in new trucks/trailers.

@fixitdude74 14 жыл бұрын

Eddie liner!! you legend!

@gm16v149 14 жыл бұрын

@CreRay Yes that's my truck at 0.45. The 4 trailer, 22 axle (86 wheels) road trains are the most common roadtrain for Shell & BP fuel in the N.T. They are a B-train + 2 trailers and 2 dollies. The one in the vid is 2 B-trains joined with 1 dolly, so it's smaller than normal. The trucks are tri-drive (3 diffs).

@fixitdude74 11 жыл бұрын

Nothin sounds like E9/EM9, they are at there best pulling heavy, nice video :)

@Workmule4ever2day 10 жыл бұрын

As a equipment owner and operator I am endlessly confused at why WE Americans don't adopt the air start systems. They would save long term cost and down time. Plus they are just Mad Max cool, every time I hear one I think of that movie

@gm16v149 10 жыл бұрын

The air starters are actually made in the US. Macks over here used to have them as standard, and some heavy duty Kenworths here have them as an (expensive) option.

@frankcsomor4105 10 жыл бұрын

I've seen them on older trucks,made by Ingersol.

@Workmule4ever2day 10 жыл бұрын

As in Ingersol - Rand the air equipment company. I would buy old equipment just to rebuild and install. That actually sounds fun and easy. In-fact if you have any of those parts for a Mack 262 I would by them.

@gm16v149 9 жыл бұрын

***** Air starts are more reliable as long as you maintain them, and they spin the engine faster. Alternators and batteries last a lot longer and the electrics are simplified. You can get a muffler for them if you want. They use them on oil rigs and trucks in remote areas where reliability is paramount.If you get 15 years out of a electric starter you are doing well. They get nothing like that life in Australia.

@shortthrow50 9 жыл бұрын

your an owner operator? and you think that is some new technology from overseas? Hey buddy, get with the times, that's old technology that we had way back when. Sheesh

@cat977loader 13 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, you guys in Australia move some big loads, would love to see what them D.O.T. guys would say if they saw those on the interstate over here in the states,lol. wonder if they'd pull out those lil portable scales,lol. keep'em coming!

@jamesiec61 12 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for prompt answer. Regards, jamesie.

@allkindsofcrap 12 жыл бұрын

Great video!!

@7784Patrick 14 жыл бұрын

Great work and superb trucks Great video Greetings from Belgium P

@gm16v149 13 жыл бұрын

@phillycent100 Not sure about a car licence but a truck licence you would have to start from scratch.

@sheacole2 8 жыл бұрын

nice E9 on the 2nd clip

@TheRubberDuck1 14 жыл бұрын

@gm16v149 I hope to watch soon from you other excellent videos about roadtrains!!! Greetings from Italy!

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

The old V8 Macks had up to 610 HP but they don't make V8s any more. The new Macks have either a Cummins Signature or a Volvo-derived engine, both of which can be over 600 HP. A 3 trailer road train is 53.5 metres long max and a 2 trailer road train is 36.5 metres max.

@lordtaw 13 жыл бұрын

@gm16v149 From what I heard, strait from an old school Australian truckie, they rarely used the sleepers. They would rater sleep outside as the sleeper would turn into a sauna in the Australian heat. They would use it if the weather permitted or it was raining (rarely). So that is the explanation I heard. Dont know how true it is but like I said that answer is strait from the horses mouth.

@gm16v149 13 жыл бұрын

@atmbcool Macks had them as standard in Australia up to a few years ago, they are more robust than electric but you've got to maintain them.

@BnSRTVguy 13 жыл бұрын

The red Mack at the end is Mr jarrats and it sits in Cambellfield Victoria ...Haven't seen Mr Jarrat for a while now

@kal-luisilva3532 4 жыл бұрын

forte show vídeo Brasil São Paulo :lindo ronco

@gm16v149 14 жыл бұрын

@statusmaximus Thanks for watching

@Mechknight73 11 жыл бұрын

If you can sort through the work visa issues, there's plenty of work in Western Australia, and quite a variety of it. From farms, to mine sites, to long haul work. On long distance runs you usually have a co-driver, and you could travel more than 1000km in a day with some jobs.

@escargot72 14 жыл бұрын

bonjour de la France good video .

@TheRubberDuck1 14 жыл бұрын

Superb video!!!

@caseylimbert266 5 жыл бұрын

I like how he has chicken lites going up the snorkels @ :38

@LONGLINERV8 11 жыл бұрын

thats a nice video i love roadtrains

@zandmannetje390 13 жыл бұрын

@crocjnr ok, awsome truck and sound. I have driven an V8 SCANIA torpedo truck for years with open pipes. Great times

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

Not sure what you mean. We reverse one trailer onto the next one and then reverse two trailers to the third trailer. Later I will make a video to show how we do it.

@hugos31 13 жыл бұрын

Macks inherited the technology VOLVO

@gm16v149 14 жыл бұрын

@CreRay That one would go about 145 tonnes with 6 tri-axle groups but most of the fuel tankers up there run 7 tri-axle groups which gross out at about 170 tonnes. BTW the engine you can hear is the Mack E9 V8 in the blue & white Titan.

@gm16v149 11 жыл бұрын

I would be watching it on a iPad or other tablet because it looks crap at the moment on a PC. I've contacted YT so I hope they fix it. The air start tank is separate from the main air tanks so it doesn't usually run out of air, but if it does we carry an air line which we can hook up to another truck, or hook up to 3 tyres which will give enough pressure to start the truck.

@gm16v149 13 жыл бұрын

@kennjohnsen We generally use 45' trailers but fuel trailers are shorter, as long as max length of road train is 53.5 meter max.