That varies from state to state, but these days prior to a checking station, there is usually an under road weighing device, so they know a truck’s axle and gross weight. Checking stations can also check mechanical condition, driving hours and licence.
Transport officers can also plug into the compulsory telemetry that has to be legally stored in the truck’s computers.
Talking of under road weighing devices i was watching something on tv a few days ago and the Italians have put electric wires under a test track and modified an electric car with whatever it was underneath and the car could be charged whilst driving.The presenter said once installed the wires will never need maintenance(yeah whatever it’s Italian) but would be very expensive to install. Could be the shape of things to come but i very much doubt it.Anyway totally off topic so i will shut up🙂
Didn’t Scaletrix use a similar system? 
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They certainly did
Looks about right, at the end it said 1970, didn’t recognise anyone though but they didn’t show much about road trains.
As regards tachos, not sure they were invented back then but nobody I knew cared much about speeding. It wasn’t 'till we crossed the WA border that we started keeping an eye out for police, and in Kunnanurra we dutifully parked on the bypass at the end of town and walked what seemed like a mile to the pub and a BBQd chook.
The film did remind me about the horrible jolly music they seemed to love on docs like that. British Transport Films must have exported a few Poms to the Commonwealth Film Unit. 
A very rare AEC Sabre down under.The few that were made were fitted with the AEC V8.When the expected happened it was fitted with a GM engine.There’s one over here that survives with the V8 still in it.
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I used to drive a similarly bodied coach, built on an Albion Clydesdale chassis.
Inter 3070 (it’s in NZ but it counts)
Quilpie 1962
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@parkroyal2100 Is that Spardo, in the middle, suffering from the heat?
Might be, is it DiG driving?
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@star_down_under Donkeys years ago, I got on a Greyhound coach from Perth to Adelaide (all 40hours of it 
). I remember it was a dusky orange colour with a Volvo-style grille and a bullbar and it was badged “VOLGREN”. I could look the name up on the interwebs but I thought I’d ask you first.
Volgren was a Volvo owned bus body builder as far as I know. They didn’t build exclusively for Volvo.
Now owned by Marcopolo.
The front of the bus looks like a F86 grille
Ya shoulda gone to Specsavers, Ramone. 
Who said that?
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I used to drive an Albion built on a bus chassis, there was so much rear overhang that if I had too much weight after the rear axle I could barely steer it. I wondered if bus drivers had the same problem with too many fat ladies all on the rear seat. 
If it was me I’d be conserving water not getting rid of it. 
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Oh bu gger, it’s the wheeltappers
Warrego Hwy somewhere near Ipswich - XD Falcon and I’m guessing a G89(?)
Any idea what the old MAN would be?
(Somewhere out in the scrub near Hughenden QLD)