Thanks DIG. I did watch a youtube video which showed a couple of overtakings. Most of the time it was agreed via CB radio before starting to say if the road was clear and then when to return back in after overtaking. I think the young fella is under estimating the challenge…
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Yes John it very much depended on the driver to be overtaken,the advent of the CB radio was a huge plus prior to that it was the old right hand flash or something similar but also a lot of the main hwys were still gravel when I started and you could be plodding along minding your own and suddenly a road train appears out of your dust coming by, could be a heart stopper at times and in those days long sections of the main Northern Territory Hwys were single lane sealed bitumen and I found that daunting as the NT trucks coming toward you held the bitumen until almost on your bullbar then would drop off the edge to pass,they weren’t being smart or aggressive by doing that it stopped the gravel from splattering yours and their cabs/windscreens with rocks thrown up by the drive tyres, you put a lot of faith in one another.
Photos from the last couple of trips. The red trucks with the blades are from Jordan’s; they only started the wind-turbine work recently. Before that they just had flat-decks and hauled mostly steel. The culvert on the trombone looks like it could easily bottom-out on a bumpy road.
Photos from the last couple of trips. The red trucks with the blades are from Jordan’s; they only started the wind-turbine work recently. Before that they just had flat-decks and hauled mostly steel. The culvert on the trombone looks like it could easily bottom-out on a bumpy road.
Thanks Chris. Getting a tad chilly over there as well.
Johnny
Cheers Dean, must have been hard work, driving a Rotinoff…
No doubt a certain Herr S will join us shortly and tell us he’s driven one of those beasts back in the day… and did continental work with it… he’s got the t-shirt to prove it
Photos from the last couple of trips. The red trucks with the blades are from Jordan’s; they only started the wind-turbine work recently. Before that they just had flat-decks and hauled mostly steel. The culvert on the trombone looks like it could easily bottom-out on a bumpy road.
Cheers Chris! Quite a difference from doing “normal” work on one hand and wind turbine related stuff on the other…
Cheers Dean, must have been hard work, driving a Rotinoff…
No doubt a certain Herr S will join us shortly and tell us he’s driven one of those beasts back in the day… and did continental work with it… he’s got the t-shirt to prove it
If only. What a privilege that would have been!!
Johnny
Johnny,Dig,Oily i feel that we are spoiling the “boy” with all these Scammell pics !! Maybe
we should stop posting them for a while,to wean him off slowly !
Thanks Dean that Curtis tri drive unit looks the real deal with a decent sized radiator and 500hp under the bonnet would make it a top unit.
The F model Mack driver was spot on about the ride in those trucks,I had a bonneted R model and it wasn’t much better.
Thanks Patrick Johnny and Oily on the ball as usual.
This is the best I could do in the train line Hammersly Iron ore train on route from Mt Tom Price mine to the Dampier port not as big as the Newman trains but there is another loco in the middle somewhere probably 10000 tons on the move
Dig
DIG:
Thanks Dean that Curtis tri drive unit looks the real deal with a decent sized radiator and 500hp under the bonnet would make it a top unit.
The F model Mack driver was spot on about the ride in those trucks,I had a bonneted R model and it wasn’t much better.
Thanks Patrick Johnny and Oily on the ball as usual.
This is the best I could do in the train line Hammersly Iron ore train on route from Mt Tom Price mine to the Dampier port not as big as the Newman trains but there is another loco in the middle somewhere probably 10000 tons on the move
Dig
