I’ve been a truck driver for the last 35 years in the States and this is on my bucket list of things to do. I would drive for free for a few weeks over there if someone would let me. The life experience would be pay enough.

Growing up in Darwin, you would see these every day although the quads are relatively recent addition. Traditionally 3 x 40ft trailers + space between + pulling truck ~ 160ft. On a bicycle it was possible to slipstream at 70 or 80kmh - not always the safest thing to do! Before the tank farm was moved from central Darwin the road tankers would pull out in the morning along McMinn St and turn right on to the Daly St bridge - of course the lights were never long enough as it was an uphill climb and turn. And of course BVR applied to all other traffic (Big Vehicle Rule 🤣) I got my car licence at 16 through student driver education and started my apprenticeship with the local Cat dealer just before I was 17. Later that year the company got us to do our truck licence test - 1 day try on a 5t rigid Bedford (6 cylinder, 4 or 5 speed gearbox) and then the test a week later on the same truck. Drive from MVR (which was 100 metres from the workshop) into town, past Woolies and back to MVR. The the tester asked how old I was, I was 17 but had had my licence for more than 12 months. He said you have to be 18 to get a truck licence. Then he said it's only a few months and you're off P-plates. So there I was, 17 years old and legally I could drive a road train. In 1980 a truck licence meant ANY truck! In fact I've only driven a semi a couple of times, the main reason for the licence was to drive graders, loaders, and scrapers on the road.

ill never forget seeing my first road train. i was 18 and on a bus going through berrimah in darwin. a shell train came round the corner at the lights and it just kept on coming, i could not believe it, it was great.

全世界最好的司機都在澳洲吧！ 非常棒,祝福你們.

When approaching many suburban road junctions in Australia you'll find two identically synchronized sets of traffic lights, one a few hundred meters before the other at the junction. The first is for the benefit of road train drivers to allow them stopping distance when necessary.

曾經在讀者文摘其中一期文章上，有介紹過澳洲公路列車印像深刻，文章上提到列車司機最怕遇到既是什麼情況，就是行錯路線，在沒有地方可以調頭情況下，為有將拖車頭後的一截截拖架拆除，再將每截拖卡拉到正確的路線上，重新連接才可再上路非常耗時，也非常佩服公路列車司機們的駕駛技術，本人在香港也駕駛掛接拖車的，但相比他們，真是小巫見大巫自愧不如，祝福他們路上平安，來自香港的問好。

I admire Australia! Thanks a lot for your video, Mr Varg

Road trains are so unique. We do not have those here in the US. It's common to see 2 trailers. Wow, in your county, road trains can have 4 trailers, that long. Thanks for the video. Greeting from the US.

I've been driving 40 years in the states and I would love to do that. Definitely on my bucket list

les camions australiens sont spectaculaires et ca doit etre un plaisir de piloter un tel convois sur de très très grandes distances et la beauté le l'australie, faune flore, les paysages, magnifiques

L’Ausralie est immense et magnifique. Les ensembles articulés sont à son image. Supers chauffeurs qui m’épatent surtout lors de l’accrochage de semi-remorques. Bravo à vous.

I drive my road train for Fuel Trans, I’m in one of the shots, I love it, love my job, love my wage, love all the attention also. Keep trucken

I passed about 4 road trains today when out for a drive. Greetings from Adelaide, South Australia

That’s why we need Australian Truck Simulator

THERE ARE SOME STATES THAT ALOW TRIPLES.I HAVE PULLED TRAILERS STRECHED 10 FT HAULING A OVERHEAD CRANE .I RETIRED WITH 55 YEARS CDL THANKS MR..VARG

Какая красота😍😍😍😍 На таких красавцев можно вечно смотреть❤❤❤ Спасибо за классное видео😋

Да, респект водителям Австралии. У нас другая специфика, горы, зимой гололед ни в верх подняться ни в низ спустится. Но, как говорят каждому свое. Молодцы ребята.

I can watch 5 hours of this. A bit of everything, quad tankers to six decks cattle road trains. Love it.

Big respect for all truck driver 👌👍✨👏💖 salutations from France 🇫🇷 😉☮️

Cool video! those big rigs are awesome!😎👍

Kierowcy pociągów drogowych to największa klasa i największa szkoła jazdy ❤❤❤

Meine Frau und ich hatten schon das Vergnügen diese riesigen LKW Züge im Original zu sehen. Beeindruckend.

Fun fact - The longest Road Train ever driven in the world was in Australia. 1.5kms or 1mile long. Prime Mover + 112 Trailers!

Aussies are true truckers...or train drivers!!! Crazy long wild fun!

Caminhões incríveis! Parabéns aos motoristas!

Жесть какая! Вот это длина!

Beautiful Country

I really liked this road train video, I would have watched it longer.

Wow! Fantastic, congratulations! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

Красавцы. В детстве мечтал водить такой паровоз. Сейчас думаю, как они цепляют столько прицепов?

ROAD TRAINS THE AUTHENTICS KINGS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ROADS

Вот это реально автопоезд!😮

Lindo vídeo. No Brasil a topografia é bem diferente, quase não temos planícies, somente no sul do país, assim, nossos caminhões são muito fortes para aguentar subidas, as estradas carecem de manutenção e modernização, temos muitas curvas, o que impede caminhões com carrocerias extensas, meu falecido irmão foi motorista, dirigia uma carreta SCÂNIA, com capacidade de carga de 30 toneladas. Sinto saudades das viagens e da comida de estrada. Forte abraço a todos do Canal, nos enviem mais vídeos legais. Show!

I love to watch this kind of videos, the trucks in australia are so different from here in brazil😅 Beautiful country, maybe some day i will visit it👊🏻

Keep in mind all these Kenworths and Mack’s are manufactured here in Australia to Australian specifications and Kenworth Australia for instance builds them uniquely for Conditions in Australia with a lot of Aussie content and are much stronger and durable than their cousins built in the US which anybody looking at this video the reasons are obvious, there is no where else in the world where you will find road going trucks like there is in Australia and this country is the leader in heavy transport and all its associated designs with trailers and infrastructure, it’s taken many decades from early motoring to get to this advanced stage and innovations will keep happening and as you can see Electric vehicles won’t be replacing transport like this anytime soon if at all! Australia is a country nearly the size of the USA and the majority of its poulation is in capital cities mostly on the Eastern seaboard and One on the Westen seaboard, Perth, and Bugger all really in between so Rail transport is a big thing between eastern Australia and Western Australia but that is thousands of kilometres of one line and this is shy it is uneconomic for rail to be everywhere as it’s just not an option and this is why we have these professionally operated road trains in our vast land

Have a look at some of the 5 trailer Road Trains in Australia

Absolutely fascinating technology

In these yards the one who parks driving backwards gets ALL the respect!!

👍👍👍👍sehr gute Aufnahmen.

I would LOVE to have one of those trucks !..

Cool road trains

Мощь. Сказка. Супер.

My god, the pre-trip inspection on these units would take weeks, lol.

Incrível esses caminhões. Grande abraço Brasil

uii wau mein traum ..truckers in australien...i love it.

NICE VIDEO

The shell hook up in alice springs hasnt changed haha

Эти ребята волшебники.

You inspired me .. I love yas

Good Video 👍👍👍

Представляю как они паркуются задним ходом )) Ну то есть никак

your video is very good thank you for sharing this video

Vidio yg luar biasa.. saya sangat menyukainya...

Powerfull rigs!

You Aussie beauty’s.. crikey me dingoes 🦘!!! Some serious driving there fellas 🙏🏻 the muppets here in Canada thinking they doing a skilled job driving a single trailer in ice need to wake up 😂 this is real skilled driving 👍🏻

Austrália tem caminhões❤❤❤

My friend work in Australia become a road train driver he is from Indonesia same like me, I hope I can be truck driver in Australia to Just like my friend.

Amazing stuff. This should be named "Road Train Switching At Tha Road Train Yard" or something. Cause that's what it is. Coincidentally, it's also both something I always wondered about how they'd do that, and also there's no content named like that. If you make a new cut, upload them again or something, use those terms, and make the 'switching' as tumb, nice teaser, you'll accumulate traffic for sure. If you do that, fat chance you'll be suggested to a lot of trainfolk cause of the keywords. And they'll watch it. There's tons of rail related footage to be found, about the switching and all of that, but a minescule fraction of it's equivalent. Actually just one, this one... (Not unlikely there's at least some of it, but not in name) Thanx for riding with my train-of-thoughts. We'll hope you'll have a pleasant continuation of your journey

Всем привет вопрос, они могут ехать только в перед назад не могут ? И сколько лошадей под капотом ?❤

Wow 3:45 !! This video of yours is very good, I am a content maker about machinery and I also love it

SUPER NICE💪💯

9:35 Kalari bulk ships everything from cement to uranium.

Very good video

0:00 А у нас в Ульяновске тоже есть заправка Шел

Wow that's very incredible to you guys and congratulations to you guys about the road train trucks Australia longest trailers from ntuthuko Ngubane

The quads are killer

Impressionante

You wont see these in Canada, its too dangerous to have that much weight in winter behind a single truck, and also there being mountains and large hills. Australia is a perfect place for these road trains, flat land and its dry warm weather all year around.

Tolle Aufnahmen 👍😎 Aber mit ein paar Erklärungen dazu wären sie perfekt

Хотел бы я посмотреть на этих дальнобойщиков как бы они проездили на просторах матушки России на своих автопоездах.

je n'imagine même pas ces convois en France☹

05 регион увеличил бы длину как минимум в пополам

Truck in australia is amazing

❤❤❤

Nach höchsten 100 Kilometern im outback ist Endstation hahahahah

Wish we had them bad boys here in Canada and the states

The nice version of Mad Max.

Imagine reversing one of them trucks

LosTrailerEstanBienBonitosYUnSaludo

Are these roadtrains diesel-electric, are some wheels of every trailer also driven? Or is there only a single tractor and the others are just pulled by the tractor and move passively along?

Вот это они технику строят. Дороги чтобы выдержать такой груз.У нас 40 тонник проедет и капец дороге.

woooo, great

انا من العراق احب شاحنات الكينوورث 🇮🇶

Фантастика !

Never seen anything like that before. I'm guessing every trip is pre-planned to avoid having to do a reverse and or do tight turns.

Heading to Sydney

'ya, let me get 20 gallons of diesel and can you check my tires? 😎

I would love to see a video devoted to backing up these road trains if in fact you can back them up.

Интересно, какой расход топлива у них?)))

How do you brake these things without catching fire on the brakes ??

Road Trans So Good My Bos❤

Aí tem pressão

I like it

How do you back it into a compact spot at the shopping center?

How do you adjust your brakes?

Hallo Leute,mich würden einige Fragen interessieren.Wieviel PS haben diese Trucks?mit wieviel Tonnen Gesamtgewicht wird gefahren? können diese "Straßenzüge"mit dem normalen Lkw -Führerschein gefahren werden?wird Luft und Strom ausschließlich vom Motorwagen erzeugt?ich würde mich über eine Antwort sehr freuen.Danke.

Главное на таком не заехать в тупиковый проезд. Сколько по времени он утром воздух качает?

Did you know that some *road trains* weight more that the Sydney trains? They weigh up to 99 metric tonnes, where as mentioned road train can weigh up 200 metric tonnes or more! An they have air pressure system to release (disengage) the brakes! Who do people think that trains use air pressure to release the brakes? Even a truck can weigh between 6 metric tonnes to 20 metric tonnes!

we should have these in canada. the rail companies crash trains like there's no tomorrow.

Who are the manufacturers of these huge trucks. What a sight these beasts pulling such loads.