Froggy55:
Thanks! That makes roughly the same consumption as three traditional articulated trucks, and the only money saving would be on the cost of the two extra drivers.
I.m afraid I can’t agree with you Froggy,the 8 Atkinsons between them based on each truck doing a trip a week Darwin to Alice is a total of 712000 litres per week [rough figure 4.565 litres per gallon]. It would take 20 trips single trailer to deliver the same amount that is assuming the singles could load the same as the dog trailers legally so you would need a lot more trucks on the job to deliver the same volume of fuel in the same time frame.
The rail link between Darwin and Alice has been restored so its possible the fuel is delivered that way now,I travelled with a fuel truck about 10 years ago and the driver told me they are legal with 150000litres using quad trailers on tri axle suspension units.A round trip taking 5 days.
Cheers Dig
