Posted on 03/03/2021 9:15:17 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
40+ years ago a couple of buddies and I shared a campsite with a couple of guys from Australia who were spending he summer touring the western US. We asked them what their favorite thing about America was they they both replied, “The roads. You’ve got paved four lane highways crossing deserts and barren lands for thousands of miles”.
i said it merely because i thought it prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving
and it must be a hell of a clutch, or are they some kind of hydraulic clutch?
ever see Auto-Chains?
Insta Chain | Automatic Snow Chains for Trucks - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgM2LfuBW68
i was amazed
Only on the rearmost axles for braking purposes.
That is wicked kewl! Something new for my “Me Want” list.
Bookmarking
right??? must be god awful expensive but beats chaining
I would have thought that trucks that long would have gone diesel-electric like on a real railroad with real trains. Far fewer moving parts too, although I don’t know what kind of cooling requirements would be there for traction motors.
The Monster truck! Yeah! Best sound effects ever!
Or they only hook them up going down a long hill.😆
—” i thought it prolly takes a real driver not to smoke a clutch getting that train moving”
A friend’s father was a train engineer, he explained how you do not simply drive off with a loaded train, takes some experience.
Using the slack in many couplings and feeling the rhythm.
Power to the first few cars, then off the power, as the front cars lurch forward, power...
Using the momentum of the cars and the slack of the couplings.
Guessing there is not much slack in a fifth wheel?
Does anyone know the weight of this rolling monster?
“ A Freight Train for the highway.
They be some pretty desolate roadways out there in Oz”
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Exactly in both counts. The Sidney to Perth route is almost deserted. Keep in mind that over 90% of Aussies live within 100 miles of their east coast. Y
never thought of that, wonder what kind of amps that requires?
yup, trains have to reverse sometimes before going forward to manage the coupling slack
i had to ask that question
OkyDoky 8^)
My 21 year old son and s a trucker. He has a brand new tractor. Manual.
The Mammoth car was one of the sillier episodes. A “race car” that was more like a train filled with big guys and gold bricks they were smuggling that was competitive with exotic race cars.
Four trailers? It’s more accurately a train than a truck at this point.
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