Jelliot:
Good stuff there Oily I don’t fancy that Atki with the twin trailers, I think it would work well on the Wouldn’t pull the skin of a rice pudding thread.Jeff…
Bit unkind Jeff you could buy those with factory fitted 350 and 400 Big Cam ■■■■■■■ and and they trot along ok.
Cheers Dave.
Fair point Dave but 68 ton with only a 350 and box of clever cogs wouldn’t be much of a flyer.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
Fair point Dave but 68 ton with only a 350 and box of clever cogs wouldn’t be much of a flyer.Jeff…
Jeff what I have a problem with in this discussion is that the biggest we could get by the end of the 80s was 450hp and the road system in the the north of Australia where road trains operated still had a fair amount of unsealed or single lane sealed roads in a lot of areas, so it wasn’t like todays road transport industry where everything appears to revolve around speed and time slot loads. In those days it was more about “get there when you can but with the load intact”
In the Northern Territory where the Atkinson was probably operating the speed limit for a road train rated truck was 80kmh so although we all tried to cheat the system on that one to get caught doing more than 80km meant a hefty fine ,on the spot withdrawal of road train rating and unhook your trailers and then because you are contravening the R/T permit your second and third trailers could be dealt with as an over load and continue your journey as a single.Could be expensive with a 1000kms to go
Might not be a" Flyer" but wasn’t meant to be just reliable not my type of truck but plenty of guys did a good job with them.
Cheers Dave
Yes Dave many guys did get a very good service from their Atkinson’s and many still do, there are plenty of old prime movers doing relief work as 10 yard tippers round the metropolitan areas. I recently did another driver safety training day ( jumping through hoops ) and noticed that the new regulation for speeding over 100 kph is now 20 points for a first offense and 40 for a second, which is instant loss of license as you only have 12 points any way.
I have a 555 Detriot in the truck I drive which is usually 62 tons each way, and that dies on its ■■■ at the slightest sign of any kind of up grade, if it had been 20 years ago I would have charged the bottom of the hills, but you just can’t risk it any more.
Jeff…
oiltreader:
A few more, this time thanks to deviatea.
Oily
Class pictures them whites are beautiful keep up the good work lad
Thanks lads for a great selection of photos some really nice stuff there. Jeff the old Mack would be a heavy hauler in her day. 10 out of 10 for the paint jobs. Eddie.
Good photos there Irish Lorries but I think the wind turbine sections is more likely to be a contribution by Photoshop.
Eddie the old Mack had 6 pot petrol engine in it and wasn’t geared much more than a tractor. As it was sitting in the last photo with the trailer and dozer on it’s back it was 46 tons and they drove it to and from their depot, about 60k’s each way.
Jeff…
Some more from my Truck Craft days …
Dave Batty Owner of the Horse Kenworth
Some old Mack restorations.
And another one
Young Darren Preston one of the apprentices
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Jeff…
Jelliot:
Good photos there Irish Lorries but I think the wind turbine sections is more likely to be a contribution by Photoshop.Eddie the old Mack had 6 pot petrol engine in it and wasn’t geared much more than a tractor. As it was sitting in the last photo with the trailer and dozer on it’s back it was 46 tons and they drove it to and from their depot, about 60k’s each way.
Jeff…
Thank you lad and yes I think it was edited on Photoshop
If ever I venture out to your neck of the woods, just give me this to drive and I’ll be happy! Robert 
I remember Hookers getting about they mainly had short Western Stars and Kenworth SAR’s. I used to see them at Sydney West fruit market near Silverwater just of the old Parramatta road. I’m surprised it’s got ERF badges on it, most or them were sold under license by Western Star, and were badged as such.
Jeff…
Distinct lack of hills in the background Blackshadow, you must have been quite far out west, nowhere near Sydney 
Jeff…
Jelliot:
Distinct lack of hills in the background Blackshadow, you must have been quite far out west, nowhere near SydneyJeff…
Parked on the Hay Plain, about 1/2 hour west of Hay
Jelliot:
I remember Hookers getting about they mainly had short Western Stars and Kenworth SAR’s. I used to see them at Sydney West fruit market near Silverwater just of the old Parramatta road. I’m surprised it’s got ERF badges on it, most or them were sold under license by Western Star, and were badged as such.Jeff…
This is a New Zealand truck, quite a lot of B,C and E series were sold there. Like you say Jelliot, only seen them in Western Star guise in Oz. cheers, Colin.
There was a Hookers doing fridges out of St Mary’s in Western Sydney in the late 90’s. As with most fridge firms they had white trucks as well, mainly KW SAR’s and short nose Western Stars.
Jeff…
How do you get along with them old Trilex’s, Jell?
Once they showed me how to work them I got one pretty well, a lot less bother than 10 stud buds. I still don’t like changing them.
One of the things that I found unusual here was the low weights they run on axles.
6 ton on a single wheel set up ( steer )
9 ton on duel axle.
16.5 on a twin boggie .
20 to on a tri axle boggie.
Super singles aren’t popular, very rarely seen on trailers and only sometimes on steer. You don’t get extra weight for them still only 6 ton on a streer
Jeff…
