Road trains

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Seen this the other day about Denby’s proposed B double.
youtu.be/mM8KRz__DAc

Can’t really see a reason why a Aussie style road train couldn’t run in the U.K. under certain conditions. Say from 23:00 until 05:00 on motorways just with the big operators having hubs off the side of the motorways at each end?. Possibly with an ■■■■■■ vehicle like wide loads have to get it out into the middle lane passing junctions so Joe Public trying to join the Mway up a slip road in their clio billabong doesn’t have a heart attack finding themselves at the end of a slip road alongside a lorry with six trailers and not knowing what to do.

If you need an ■■■■■■ vehicle it automatically negates the major cost-saving factors of the double; a second driver’s wage and another wagon, albeit a small van rather than a unit.

In that instance I was really thinking of more than two trailers pulled by the unit.

There’s already a dedicated transport sector for that, and it’s completely safe from motorists because it runs seperately from the motorway system.

They’re called railways. :grimacing: