Here Comes The Leather

[cem]

A supplier at work sent us some pics of the beef making it's way down from the Northern Territory and I thought some of you might get a kick out of it.

[Denise]

No wonder they call them road trains. They look just like train cars! I'm surprised there isn't more room between the trucks in the pictures where they look like they are driving just in case someone has to stop for wildlife - or wild cows as the case may be! I have heard that when they get rolling, those trucks move at a pretty fast clip. Is that true?

[dirtclod]

Now that's intresting ! When i first looked the first picture i though it was train and i guess it is in it's own way. I never have seen triple trailers being pulled here in the states. A few doubles but they generally are two smaller trailers. It sure would take a bunch of cattle to fill all of those trailers. Thanks for sharing that.

[cem]

No wonder they call them road trains. They look just like train cars! I'm surprised there isn't more room between the trucks in the pictures where they look like they are driving just in case someone has to stop for wildlife - or wild cows as the case may be! I have heard that when they get rolling, those trucks move at a pretty fast clip. Is that true?

They don't travel as close when they get to the main roads most of these stations are in the middle of nowhere ie a few hundred km's of dirt before they get to any bitumen roads. Yep they do move pretty fast though and you do get knocked around a bit when they pass if your going the other way.

Now that's intresting ! When i first looked the first picture i though it was train and i guess it is in it's own way. I never have seen triple trailers being pulled here in the states. A few doubles but they generally are two smaller trailers. It sure would take a bunch of cattle to fill all of those trailers. Thanks for sharing that.

I think Australia is only one of the few countries that has triples you only get them in the north of the country though, I think there is about 2500 cattle on these trucks. That last trailer really makes it interesting for other drivers though as they can swing a metre from side to side. When we came across one driving up north a few years ago it scared the crap out of us of how much it swung needless to say we won't try to overtake it if we were to come across another one.