What wasn't mentioned is that Australia, many years ago chose NOT to build a system of railroads, and instead invest in roads, which is why they have road trains to begin with.
Why, the country was ideal for railroads. Ore is too low value to waste on truck transport. Barges are only for calm waters not the sea. Trains are the real solution, what moron brain trust made that decision?
Railways need sufficient population density to justify the Infrastructure cost of building and maintaining . Trucks are way more efficient in sparsely populated regions .
@@johncunningham4820 : Yes, but i would substitute "practical" for "efficient" for moving X tons of cargo Y miles rails are more efficient. I believe there may be a few dedicated rail lines in Australia for the mining industry.
@@johndavidwolf4239 . Efficient/Practical ? Semantics . Those Mining operations built the Railways themselves , to move Hundreds of Millions of tonnes of Ore per year . No general Freight or Passenger service runs on those lines . And yet other Mines use Trucks like the Centipedes instead . Specially Licenced 6 trailer Road-Trains . Economies of Scale .
Just a few corrections, a) driving hours only apply when going outside 100km radius of depot and in that scenario required breaks are 5.5hr/15min, 8hr/30min, 11hr/60min and allowed 12 driving hours in any 24hr period with some exceptions. No one works full time for under $400/wk the minimum wage alone is $800/wk with the average wage being closer to $1000/wk and apart from specialised equipment a standard trailer is 45ft
@@nathantarr7308 even if he was talking USD and allowing for the exchange rate, he's still $300+/wk out. Speaking for myself as a metro truck driver, I clear $950/wk without OT
As a car driver, when driving on outback roads, if a roadtrain is approaching I pulled off the road completely and stopped the car until the roadtrain had passed. Some outback roads are a little more than one lane wide so experienced car drivers let the roadtrain keep the whole road. If it's a dirt road one can't see anything until the dust disperses so it's best to stop anyway. I always used to stop at trickies stops for a meal because they knew all the best places. I learnt to have a lot of respect for truckies when I was in the oil industry and they were interesting to talk to: lots of stories. Once I had a truckie ask me if I had seen an axle and wheels because he lost an axle and couldn't see the axle and wheels going off into the bush because of all the bull dust (very fine dust, behaves like a liquid).
Adding to Brad's comment, most drivers are on Basic Fatigue management allowing 14 hour work days. In Western Australia it's a 17 work day. I just do East Coast BFM in bdoubles, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, rinse and repeat. 50 to 60 hour weeks, two days off a week. Average aud 2300 to 2800 a week. Harder weeks aud 3000 to 3300, before tax. With allowances and superannuation and some salary sacrifice to super, usual take home about aud 2000 to 2500. Too many cameras around and in truck tracking to lie effectively on the logbook. And the fines for getting caught at it are draconian: aud 2-3000 or more. One of the few jobs around where age is actuallly a virtue in employers eyes. I'm 68 and still going strong (ish). I'd stay home if pay was only aud 900 ( usd 600 ). I may go West soon just to get away from the cameras and traffic. Quad Road Trains and red dust here I come. 😀
Definitely don't miss the Brisbane/ Mackay overnighters. 3 times a week never getting a day off.. Or pulling sugar out of Bundy to Melbourne or Sydney and getting stuck down there for months cause nothing comes back up here unless it's coke...🤣🤣🤣 Round town clown now. Same coin easier money and no fucking scalies or taskforce.
@@Ravello1111111111111111111 Cob if you seen the size of the roos out there you wouldn't be cocky saying that!!!! I've had em standing as high as the bonnet and bending a FUPS bar in half ....
Hats off to all the under appreciated drivers out there working hard to keep the shelves stocked and building materials there on time and everything else that comes on a truck which is pretty much everything. I know from experience what it's like on the road. We're always in the way, we're a nucence, we're hogging up the road. Poor Mike wants to get home and have a beer on the couch watching t.v. while we are STILL driving into the night. We are such a pain in the ass, but ya notice that everyone is always happy when they get what they needed at the store.. Remember people.. everything in your house came on a truck. EVERYTHING! Relax and let the drivers do their job PLEASE
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My dad is 60 years old and still driving up and down the highway. I’ve been going with him in the truck since I saw a little kid. Thanks to him I want to get into it.
I recently completed (October 2022) a circumnavigation of Australia by motorbike (17,000 kms/11,000 miles). This was my second "Lap Of Oz", the first being in 2016 (22,000 kms/14,000 miles). On both trips I encountered many road trains on the roads across the top of Australia ... both triple and quad trailers. I am in awe of these machines and the people who drive them. The skill level of the drivers and the power of the prime movers/tractors are sights to behold. On may occasions I pulled over just to watch a road train being manoeuvred with a degree of precision that is hard to believe unless you witness it personally. In terms of sharing the road I showed them the respect they are entitled to and they treated me similarly: signalling when it was safe to pass when vision beyond the truck was limited; sharing a drink of ice cold water when the temperatures were soaring above 40C+/104F+; sharing a conversation at rest stops ... I take my hat off to all the people who do this work!
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@@ericlarousse1149 there is actually a shortage of long haul truck drivers (you call them truckers, we call them truckies) here in Aus. Good luck getting a working visa though! If you can get an employer to sponsor the visa it's much easier. Beware, though, there are romantic notions of life in the Australian outback. It is a magnificent environment like no other in the world, but it it is harsh and uncompromising and unforgivingh!
Ok, a few quick corrections from someone who's spent 30+ yrs driving roadtrains in Oz. Yes, over policing is a huge issue and why I stopped driving on the east coast. You can legally drive up to 16 hrs/ day with special conditions. Trucks are now more heavily monitored via GPS for driving hours. Quads can now be up to 60m and carry 154 tons with a total on road weight of around 215 tons. Wages are about what you said in the city but long haul and mining pays much more. Wages of $3500+/ week are not uncommon.
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@ 6.56 That's what we call a B Double, where you have a shorter section for freight and the axles extend further back to accommodate the turntable for the rear trailer.
@@alliswell3372 . A , um , Tractor . An Implement for Towing OTHER implements . It's not an incorrect term . Aust.NZ simply use the British nomenclature .
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A lot of cargo between the main cities is moved by trains, it's connecting to the smaller cities that gets a lot of the trucks. Although there is still a huge problem of too many trucks being used when trains could do the job. The Brisbane port is a good example of this, it has a rail connection but I think it's something like more than 90% of the freight gets moved out in trucks.
Trains only benefit the very wealthy hedge funds, but are paid for by everyone. A good road system benefits everyone. The main challenge it is a lot of distance to maintain.
The rail operators stick their noses up in the air at spot loads or single container loads, where trucks will take the load regardless of the size. I work in the rail industry, so I know first hand what rail bosses want on their trains.
@@darthmaul216 I am not a fan of rail in general. A perfect example locally they expanded a regional passenger train system. It cost me so much in taxes that I could have instead taken a limo anywhere I want to go, as well as my children and grandchildren
The trucking industry held me for 4 months. I figured out quick that it's not worth working in an industry in need of such massive reform. "Debt peonage" couldn't be more accurate. "Indentured servitude" would be a good term for it as well. You would not believe how many of these companies try to get brand new drivers to lease trucks just to be indebted to the company. It's a predatory system that robs the workers of their livelihoods. Many of these people have little to no education and don't see it coming until they're underwater and out of options until i was directed by my therapist to make research about governmental grants and hire a licensed professional grant writer who helped me in securing a grant and I could start up a business for myself.
4 or 5. I was driving into a town called Tom Price back in 99.. we hit or were hit (they ran into us, smashed mud guards, dented fuel tanks) 76 large kangaroos. Not only did the damage the sides of the truck but smashed two sets of driving lights, the headlights and truck grill. Cost me a fortune to repair or replace everything. They were that numerous we were driving at 10 kilometres an hour and the bastads were still banging into us. I have never seen them that thick, before or since. But I retired from long haul driving a couple of years after that.
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Australia is a weird mix of UK and USA xD Like in terms of cars, trucks, culture, how the cities look like it really is a crossover of the UK and the US.
@@sinoperture no usa culture has alottttt of Mexican/Spanish influence especially after we annexed the Spanish/Mexican states of Florida, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Nuevo México and California. East coast u have British culture but west coast is Mexican and Cali is Mexican and Asian
I wanted to be a truck driver once. But I was so fed up with so many people relying heavily on people with experience as opposed to showing newcomers the ropes that I renounced my professional driving career period
Just on the mining rigs, they’re typically operating on private road’s specifically built to move material from the processing facility at the mine site to train yards or water ports for export. So you won’t see these big 6+ trailer units on the public roads, which is probably reassuring since you’d need to share the road with a vehicle that’s 160m long!
A few decades ago, I used to drive interstate in Australia regularly in my car. I found it beneficial to hook up with for want of a better term, a convoy of trucks, as is was far safer than driving with regular car drivers.
I'm an Aussie. I'm sorry but my dad is a truckie of 50 years and I'm a tradie ( electrician) I just have to say that the wages comment was so wrong even when u take into consideration Australian dollar to American dollar ... think you may need to check your facts mate
Having first driven in Australia in 1990 travelled thousands of kilometres all over Australia, the thing you have to be aware of at all times are police you can be quite literally in the middle of nowhere and there will be a speed trap with a potential heavy fine and if it is a bank holiday. They will double the fine kid you not.🇬🇧🏴🇦🇺
Back about 12 years ago, travelling to Mildura, from Murray Bridge, was stopped at Loxton by the local Senior Inspector from the Transport Inspectorate. As the both of us served on a State committee and we knew each other, my opening comment to the Inspector upon pulling up: "G'day Ted. You up to having a read of some fresh fiction?" While handing over my work diary. Ted is having a good chuckle at that comment... after reading the diary, and signing off on it, he hands it back to me, with the comment: "You missed your mark - that should have been sent to the Adelaide Library, and catalogued in the Fiction Section!" Both of us are having a good laugh at this time! But, he did mention that some of the Inspectors would be battling to understand why my times were so slow. They would not be able to understand the concept of a truck being gearbound to 85 km/h, considering that the current speed limiting requirement is 100 km/h.
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0:33 "This means the majority of Australia's freight runs from Melbourne in the South to Sydney or Brisbane." Shows routes from Adelaide to Sydney and Brisbane...
Well there are regional limitations on how many trailers on public roads in Western Australia. I believe 2 trailers below Geraldton, 3 below Newman, port Hedland, 4 above. Your wage and salary figures are off. $ 800-1200 a week for normal blue collar
No room for these rigs in USA. 53' trailer max. Our docks are set up for it. Also, we are much closer together, so restocking is not a big problem. If we need a bunch of goods to one place, we have a network of trains that run all around the country.
Anyone who does not respect a truck driver- especially an Outback truck driver- clearly doesn’t understand exactly how their own way of life would suffer without the truckers hard work! Thousands of kilometers where it’s only you if there’s a problem, long hours, danger, sacrifice.. I take my hat off to these people.
In INDIA we call prime mover as ENGINE ! And Truckers/Truckies as Lorry drivers and Truck as Lorry and BullBars as BUMPER RODs and Very good skilled driver in India is called unskilled in Australia because ..In India we have small Lorries and U can even see a single Mutli carriage truck in whole day on any highway ..So basically Our Drivers donot gave enough experience with Big movers
Interesting video. Incidentally, the average age of truck drivers and the reason we have a huge shortage here in the UK ourselves are very much the same as in Oz!
The fastest street racer in Sydney is a bloke named Mohammed in a dual semi on the M5. If you want to experience it all drive from Liverpool to the cbd.
Bit understated just how big some of these trucks can be, most outback road trains top out at 53.5m and around 160 tonnes, but some roads have larger rigs transporting ore that are up to 60m long and weigh over 200 tonnes. Some are even longer than that like the one you described but those are not road-legal and are only used on mine sites on privately owned roads.
Back in 2015 or so, there was a show on Netflix that followed a few of the truckies. The things they had to deal with. Good stuff. One suggestion for your videos: please do not play background music while you are speaking. It gets in the way of hearing you. You're not the only YT host doing it, and I am at a complete loss as to why everyone (ok, a lot) is doing it. There's no emotion to push (we're not watching a heartbreaking movie). So, please, don't do it. Thank you very much. That being said, I enjoyed the video.
Aaah yes. Truck driver shortage. We have that here in America too. I've been driving for 30 plus years. I'm officially retired. But! You guessed it. I'm still slinging trailers. Actually I stopped driving over the road and I stopped dragging my wagons. I drive a triaxial dump truck made by Mack. I don't have to put up with silly log books anymore. Although I still have to deal with the D.O.T time to time.
There is, or at least was, a truck driver shortage here in the UK and I'm not surprised. The money is terrible and so is the way you get treated. There are exceptions but they are so few and far between that when my HGV licence came up for renewal on my 45th birthday I didn't bother. In my last few years of truck driving I got so fed up with being sworn at and abused by transport managers (because it was impossible to keep to their schedules) that I'd leave the truck at the first safe place, turn my phone off, hitch a ride home and wait for the company to report the truck stolen. Then when the cops turned up at my door I'd tell them where it was. The wallopers were always quite amused but I doubt the company was. Revenge: Sweet but not fattening.
@@AnthonyHandcock that sucks. We are definitely not considered cream of the crop. But I've been doing it for 30 plus years and you know what I just let it roll off. I've always been like that. I laugh actually sometimes because I think to myself hey buddy. Keys are in the ignition if you can do better knock yourself out.
@@tazkrebbeks3391 "...I think to myself hey buddy. Keys are in the ignition if you can do better knock yourself out" That was my attitude and you would think that transport managers who are already struggling to get enough drivers would keep that attitude in mind. But apparently not.
Yeah Road Trains... My bucket list USA, ultra distance largest truck stop in the world Canada, ice roads Europe, multiple countries per day Australia, road trains
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Incorrect 12 hours is the standard (SFM) Standard fatigue management. Work and rest hour requirements under standard hours. Standard hours apply to all drivers who do not have accreditation for fatigue management There are two types of Advanced. Heavy vehicle operators can do fatigue management compliance course. 1(bfm) basic fatigue management. Operators with Basic Fatigue Management (BFM) accreditation can operate under more flexible work and rest hours, allowing for (among other things) work of up to 14 hours in a 24-hour period. BFM gives operators a greater say in when drivers can work and rest, as long as the risks of driver fatigue are properly managed. 2 (AFM) Advanced Fatigue Management (AFM) is the most flexible work and rest hours option available. Rather than using prescribed work and rest hours, AFM offers the flexibility to propose your own hours as long as the fatigue risks of those hours are offset by sleep, rest and other management practices in a compliant fatigue risk management system. AFM is a non-prescriptive approach to work and rest hours. It allows the NHVR to give flexible work and rest arrangements to operators who adopt a risk management approach to managing driver fatigue. In AFM, you propose your own work and rest hours based on your individual needs rather than using the hours stated by Standard Hours or BFM. In order to be granted AFM accreditation, you must demonstrate to the NHVR that you understand the risks these hours can create and must demonstrate that you can and will take steps to off-set these risks. The NHVR uses 7 fatigue risk principles to judge the likelihood the proposed hours will cause driver fatigue and 7 Fatigue Business Rules and Standards to assess the adequacy of your fatigue risk management system.
@@nc3826 we see proof every day. Trying to turn around in driveways, blocking fuel islands, docks, I saw an "immigrant" Amazon driver whip through an emergency vehicles only crossover on the freeway at 40 or 50, right in front of me doing 65 in a loaded.gravel hauler. I see their stupidity every day. Proof enough. I'm going on 31 years out here. Sick of their antics.
Man, doesn't seem much different than driving here in the states. Our Hours of Service rules as it's called here, is 11 hours of driving in a day. Up to 14 hours on duty( this includes your 11 hours of drive time) a 30 minute break within the first 8 hours of drive time, and a 10 hour off duty break. You can split that break if you're in the sleeper berth for 7 hours and get any remaining time back from the previous shift and then do a consecutive 3 hour break, or split it 8 and 2 respectively. We no longer are allowed to use paper logs and have to use an electronic log or e-log as most call it, which tracks your movement to the second. No more cheating logs and running double or even triple log books as many used to do. Too bad we don’t run road trains here in the states but maybe it’s for the best as your population is more in line with Canada than here. Wish we had more options for trucks like you guys do. It’s all conventional tractors here, no cabovers no more.
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This was a good video. I enjoyed it. I have relatives who live in Australia. Although I don't think any of them are truckers, excuse me, truckies. We have extra large bumpers on the front of our trucks too. They can either be added to the truck by the company. Or a lot of times by the driver themselves. Mainly for deer. But you get out west you never know what's going to be crossing the road. Could be an elk. Could be a buffalo. Excuse me bison. Could be a moose. Could be a long pronged antelope. I think you get the picture.
That was very good summary of our rediculous industry. 👍 Other than the wages bit as others have said. Need to about to about double the quoted ones to represent a USD amount. Also the whole cab over v bonneted trucks is 100% preference to the owners. Neither are bad or good at either jobs. I see Mack Titans and C509 kws in city doing singles regularly. And we run tripple road trains around country in Volvos and Dafs.
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The average truck driver makes a lot more than $600 a week more like $1600 plus a week and the average wage for every one else is around $1000 a week after tax
I’m not a truck driver but communicate with a lot of them on work sites and the immigration problem is like chalk and cheese. As soon as you hear an accent on the two-way, all the workers on the ground are extremely cautious; speeding through work sites, drifting across lanes, getting out of the cab to check their tailgates while it’s IN REVERSE!
Hello brother, how are you? My name is Mohamed from Algeria. I work as a truck driver. I am 36. I want to travel, live and work in Australia, but I do not know the appropriate way. Visa to travel to Australia, thank you
I lived in Tennant Creek in the mid to late 80's The highway was one lane with no decent edge. Given, even on the sections to the north and south of TC, about 250KM in total, like the rest of the highway, it had no speed limit for cars. Trucks were limited to about 120 from memory. When you saw a truck coming, it didn't matter if it was a single, or had 3 dogs, you just pulled over and waited. And overtaking those mothers was an exercise in planning! Could often take over a kilometre to happen. Miss those days though.
A correction on blue collar jobs, not sure if it's in US $ but i'm currently a yard hand went from driving HC which is semis/dog and trailer to scaffolding yard hand. On $1184 after tax, when i was driving i was on just over $1000 after tax.
My drivers make about $1,600/ week for the new hires and $2,200+ for the one that have been here for 5+ years. and the go home every day, no multi day runs.
@@YTho-ev1ej Smaller yards suck, but work at one of the big companies so nothing is done by yourself. Always got a partner with you, and the manager is surprisingly easy going and willing to give you a shout out if a regional/branch manager is out and about lol
Due to the mess the UK railway system is in, I already said years ago that they should get rid of the rails and tarmac it for exclusive use of public transport like busses. Expensive conversion, but in the long run a lot cheaper to maintain and a lot more flexible. No more delays because of malfunctioning signals or broken down trains. On a road you can pass a broken down vehicle. Not to mention you can have small vehicles or big vehicles, you're not limited to the size of the track. Oh yes, and you don't need train stations to get on/off at. Trains were great, but it's time to move on. And don't start quoting all the countries where the railways are great public transport, they are all heavily subsidised by government. There is no cheap way to run/maintain a railway for public transport
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Professional truck driver from India can drive these truck easily but the thing is the one driving trucks in Canada,US,Australia are all students and who learns to drive trucks in foreign for 1 or 2 months and become driver.
Driving beyond 100kms from base under Standard Hours you can actually drive 5 hours in 5 and 1/4 hours, with a total of a 30 minutes of breaks by 8 hours and a total of 60 mins of breaks by 11 hours in a 12 hour shift. There's a minimum of 10 hours rest before the commencement of the next shift but you can't actually start another shift on a consecutive day before the start time of the previous day; so if you start at 6:00am on day one, even though you've had 10 hours rest you can't start the next shift before 6:00am on day two. This means in 24 hours you can drive 12 hours with a shift time of 13 hours including a total of 60 mins of breaks with at least one 30 min continuous break. All break times must be rounded forward and only in blocks of 15 minutes defined by 15, 30 and 45 minutes after the hour so if you begin a 15 minute break say from 12:45 - 13:00 but you actually begin the break at 12:48 then to log a 15 minute break you can't start driving again until 13:15 with the actual log book entry showing 13:00 - 13:15. Don't laugh but what I've just written is in fact true. No wonder people run into difficulties and there's more, there are some grey areas subject to the sole discretion of police or NHVR staff (who are failed police and therefore far, far worse than police). It is so diabolically complex the work diary is called the book of lies. Drivers do take the Work Diary seriously but you just can't make any mistakes in them no matter how minor. Even the most minor oversight like forgetting to hand in a yellow page or inadvertently signing a page gets you finedand you simply don't have the power to reason with them. Employers effectively force drivers to lie in log books by ringing drivers and getting them to do more work than we could ever possibly do in a normal shift because there's is no paper trail on the phone. They never text instructions either. If drivers get caught out the employer denies doing anything of the sort because they used the phone so the driver is hung out to dry. Chain of responsibility laws don't apply to employers because they just blame the driver. If the driver makes a mistake in the log book and the employer finds out then the driver has to sign a non compliance form exonerating the employer, effectively saying the driver did whatever he/she did without coercion from the employer - and if you don't sign it you don't get paid. It's all worked out. Basic Fatigue Management (BFM) extends Standard Hours but has annual medical checks for drivers over 50 and some other paperwork requirements that must be carried at all times. It's a low status job. Blame always and I do mean always flows to the lowest common denominator - the driver. Who would ever want to do it? No wonder they can't get drivers. BTW the pay is far higher than the pay you mentioned even for average workers. Average workers get at least $600 take home and truckies well over $1000 for 40 hours and more for overtime or line haul.
What you describe sounds very similar to EU rules (even if these are just 40 t semi trucks), and in EU drivers from eastern Europe are additionally pushing heavily on the prices and wages. Fines are high (even for small things), but income for drivers is low in comparison
Sounds like you have been hammered by an allocator who always wants more mate, you owe them nothing if they think it's ok to push you. The answer to this problem is simple, go slower, take your breaks etc while you are looking for another job, there's plenty of good ones out there mate and you don't need logbook fines going on your driving record.
Americans can pull two 53 ft trailers. I don't know what that comes out to meters you figure that out. We could drive for 11 hours. But must take a half hour break after 8 hours. We have log books too. Of course. We call them comic books. And many other things. But when I was driving over the road I always call that my comic book. This was before your electronic log books. Back when we had paper log books. I usually ran on or three at a time.
Really like your content. Please keep up the great content. If you could do one on just the differences of Australian Mack, Kenworth compared to their US counterparts would be much appreciated
Most folks don't know that Australia is almost as big as the USA.........The middle of Australia is sparsely populated.....There are ranches they call cattle stations in the outback.....So to get cattle/goods/services to and fro they use big trucks and train them.......I've seen similar in Nevada.....
I work next to the quad’s with 2 engines (second one in middle), they can reverse them around a corner and into a loading dock that is so tight you can drive a forklift onto the trailer.
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A friend of mine is a trucker in Australia, he told me once that the main problem they have is the natives who will literally raid their trucks if they stop to sleep in the middle of nowhere.
It happens in cities too, some industrial areas where people leave their trucks in Sydney, they'll find sometimes a dozen trucks with their windows smashed in within the same area
All of that was actually pretty well researched But I’m curious, what currency were you using for the average wage part? Because I made more than $600 working part time at Hungry Jacks as a teenager As a truck driver I’d make nearly that in just one day
I see Australia doesn't pay their skilled trades and labor sector (blue collar) good at all if that $375 is correct. Right out of trade school in 2001 at 18yo my first taste of blue collar work as an apprentice carpenter I started at $500 a week. $375 is a joke considering the amount of labor some skilled trades have. Even $600 for driving truck isn't good at all. No wonder the shortage lol
@@Saltinator he said “well above” And I said I made $600 working at Hungry Jacks (what you’d call Burger King) Tradies and truck drivers make WAY more than that
@@Saltinator He's completely wrong. The average pay here in Australia is higher than the US. The mines near me are offering $75/hr for diesel mechanics right now, for example.
Blue collar work gets you a lot more than 375 USD per week. An average blue collar worker doing 50 hours, they're more likely to end up with 1000 USD per week.
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The issues you're talking about in Australia sound so similar to North American trucking, poor pay, long hours, over policing (or lack of adequate policing to general motorists), immigrant unskilled truck drivers and a ton of disrespect from everyone and everywhere else! So I'm going to consider that there is no shortage of good drivers 'down under', but rather not enough good drivers willing to put up with the BS!
Nice video very informative 👏🏻, you should try to investigate Colombian trucking , we have all types of trucks , ASIAN ,European ,American , and Russian , and the trucking life there is like driving a normal car
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I love the honest comment about log books,, most drivers break the fatigue laws and they call the log book the book of lies. I like to call it the book of truth to keep people happy
@@alpharaptor7510 exactly!!! I got pulled over the other day and I hadn’t signed one page which could of resulted in a fine of something like $600aud, luckily the officer just told me about it and didn’t fine* me :). If it was someone who was on a mission to fine people, I would of copped a fine
It's not greatly different from trucking in America, with the exception of the equipment itself. and the fact there isn't much in the way of mountains. the log book is a lie book here also, and maximum driving hours is 12 hour's but only eight hours can be attributed to driving. before the computer entered the trucks here. I remember a lot occasions where I would run as many as three log books. here a driver has to be aware of the weigh stations and port entries. because they keep track of your time between weigh stations. but there are ways around that. here especially where I live we pull trains also. but they are different than from down under. they commonly used for apple harvest, but they can also be used other kinds of loads such as lumber .the most common trains are forty foot lead trailers with twenty foot pup's. and if the tractor has a drop axle. you can haul one hundred and five thousand LBS. there are other configurations that are used as long as they don't exceed the maximum length. during apple harvest they are used to haul apple bins. that were traditionally made out of wood. but more recently some of the farmers have have switched to plastic bins. in the neighboring State of Oregon State, Yellow freight is the last company to still pull triple trailer's. in this Country many of the States have different requirements. but tractors and single trailers are legal in all States. this was very interesting, I have always wanted wanted to know more about Australian trucking. thanks for posting this.
@@emptycoffin Before the computers were put in the trucks. driver's would just cheat on their log book's. but now that computers are onboard the trucks.. it can shut the truck down when the maximum hours of service are reached. it definitely added to the supply chain issues in this Country after the pandemic. and that there's a shortage of driver's.
“Many of the accidents are caused by the unskilled immigrant drivers.” - sounds like it’s “the immigrants” causing the problems, but isn’t it the industry itself, lacking responsibility to educate these drivers?! It seems there are major neglections in terms of this, and the short-term $ is more interesting than keeping the Road Trains run safely on the long run. And it seems also the government, lacking rules recommending proper education and seniority before driving a long truck on one’s own. As often it’s not “the immigrants” but those with the profit in their greedy eyes.
Spot on mate. The real problem is the fact that there are no younger drivers learning the trade and the govt have no clue how to fix this, so they open up the visa rules and ease up licensing restrictions. I've worked with plenty of overseas drivers, some were very good, some not so much. Most of them had only a year or two's worth of experience and it takes a lot longer than that to become good at this job, in 5 or 10 ten years they will be just as good as the rest of us, we all sucked when we started and that goes for truckies in every country on earth. Most of these guys come from a place where they make less money in a whole month than what can be made in a week driving here (the video was way off in regards to wages), who can blame them for trying to better their's and their family's lives.
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Many long range trains you’ll see both Mack and KW as these rigs offer more power for very heavy loads. Oh the stories I coujd tell of going out west with skippy and the danger he’s caused.
Saw a few late model bonneted Volvos in there too. Haven't seen one of those in the wild for a lot years and the ones I remember are quite a bit older than the ones in the vid.
There's some good stuff in there but some was way off. The wages are especially wrong if in AUD rather than USD. Driving road trains and mining trucks you can get $AUD2000-3000 a week easily. Most of the fatalities relating to trucks is not from unskilled immigrants. It is either from fatigue in the truck driver or the stupidity of car drivers who have no idea what a 20-120T truck is like to stop or maneuver. Australia has pretty near no container transport via rail. Other than ore or grain everything else gets moved around by truck and B-doubles and road trains are exceptionally common for anything traveling much more than a few hundred km.
Speaking for myself I'm clearing $1400 per week AUD after tax & super on the tax file number, if I was working under the ABN (Australian business number I'd be clearing +$2000 AUD per week as a HR (heavy vehicle) operator. & I'm not even leaving the 100km radius under the basic fatigue management regulations.
Good day truckers. You can earn as much as $5000 weekly and still continue working without any interruptions. I shared this information with some truck drivers here last week and now they are earning very huge. One of them bought a brand new truck just within the week after withdrawal. Inbox me for details if you want to know how
I got a few mates that do Longhorn I heard what they suggested for the salary and could not help but laugh for my good friends in long haul have told me what they can earn very similar to what you mentioned I'm in the transportation can I know casual drivers that get off 5 hours 3 days a week so that is 15 hours is all a casual needs to be offered this is not what they work though at $36 an hour 5 hours is 180 buks x 3 minimum 540 but of course with the demand no-one work the minimum. Most people I know bus and truck are taking home at least 1000 pw
I remember the first time I saw a road train and was absolutely in awe. I don't even know how to tow a trailer let alone one with multiple trailers. I remember that the roads were also a lot wider for the road trains on the outskirts of the city.
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I can understand the reasons for having longer tandem trucks in Australia with the distances and long remote drives. Also that cab over truck is easier to maneuver in tighter spots. Maintenance, tires, fuel, would be a concern too, as alluded. It's lonely and treacherous I'm sure. Maybe they should encourage two man teams, or even husband and wife teams to get younger people as "truckies?"
I'm considering upgrading from heavy rigid to heavy or multi combination next year. Always liked truck and if I can't get a trade fixing them I may as well drive them.
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Well worth the jump if gunna drive them as a job. I would advise go HC then when your comfortable go MC, as in Vic you have to still pass HC tests to go to MC and most training places will construct training to get you there but you loose valuable time in the seat and dont learn as much as doing them seperate
A couple of weeks ago I watched a triple road train driver back his rig out of the big, BP service station in Norseman, Western Australia. Backing up a 60+ yard long, triple trailer vehicle in a crowded service station......I was well impressed.
@@YTho-ev1ej I've also experienced a semi-decent earthquake in Norseman....whilst in the shower in a house up on stilts. That got a bit exciting. But, agreed, that's pretty much where the excitement ends in Norseman.
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@@YTho-ev1ej Certainly not on the scale of New Zealand or California. But we get plenty of little tremors in the Western Australian Goldfields (up to about 5 on the Richter scale). The tremor I mentioned in Norseman was a memorably large one for this area at a bit over Richter 5. I'm a geologist and could bore you stupid as to why we get tremors in the middle of a continental plate.....but will restrain myself.
I just like to hear people talk about the "*strict*" rules in Australia, in Germany, Switzerland etc. youll get fined even when your max width is 2.51m or just a bit over the max length
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John Franke...because the video is directed to Americans even though it's about Australia. If an Australian was narrating it Americans wouldn't be interested enough to click on it and America's where the big bucks are for making money on TH-cam based on the number of viewers of a particular video.
at the times code 3:17, I want said thanks you for put the remperatures also de degres celciuls (°c), this is very appraciate for a little frenchy like me, I could understant at lot of more thing.
In our country, these 4 hour, 30 min, 12 hour a day rule doesn't exist, there is no rule, you can drive 24/7 if you want. I've had days where I work 22 hours, sleep 2 hours and work another 20 hours, the most I've managed to work in a week around 110-130 hours \o/
@@wrx111 My record for 2 weeks is up towards 30.000 dkk (danish kroner) which is currently 4.333 usd. A co-worker of mine earned 200.000 dkk in 2 months which is 28.908 usd
It's amazing what $50 a hour, paid sick days, and paid wait times will do. Truckers coming out of the wood work!!!!!! The other thing that happens is the job becomes so valuable, you attract better drivers, who will self regulate and make the entire industry safer.
Australia has close area of the continental USA, the USA is more than 2 million km square bigger than australia (Mexico is 1.9 million km square just for comparaison)
You might also enjoy: Why Australia Is The ONLY Place With Road-Trains? th-cam.com/video/TksLDZ9IDbE/w-d-xo.html
What wasn't mentioned is that Australia, many years ago chose NOT to build a system of railroads, and instead invest in roads, which is why they have road trains to begin with.
Why, the country was ideal for railroads. Ore is too low value to waste on truck transport. Barges are only for calm waters not the sea. Trains are the real solution, what moron brain trust made that decision?
Railways need sufficient population density to justify the Infrastructure cost of building and maintaining . Trucks are way more efficient in sparsely populated regions .
@@johncunningham4820 : Yes, but i would substitute "practical" for "efficient" for moving X tons of cargo Y miles rails are more efficient. I believe there may be a few dedicated rail lines in Australia for the mining industry.
@@johndavidwolf4239 . Efficient/Practical ?
Semantics .
Those Mining operations built the Railways themselves , to move Hundreds of Millions of tonnes of Ore per year . No general Freight or Passenger service runs on those lines .
And yet other Mines use Trucks like the Centipedes instead . Specially Licenced 6 trailer Road-Trains . Economies of Scale .
They not only didn't go ahead with building new ones, they closed down existing ones.
Just a few corrections, a) driving hours only apply when going outside 100km radius of depot and in that scenario required breaks are 5.5hr/15min, 8hr/30min, 11hr/60min and allowed 12 driving hours in any 24hr period with some exceptions. No one works full time for under $400/wk the minimum wage alone is $800/wk with the average wage being closer to $1000/wk and apart from specialised equipment a standard trailer is 45ft
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We’re you talking in AUD? I believe the video creator was speaking in USD.
@@nathantarr7308 even if he was talking USD and allowing for the exchange rate, he's still $300+/wk out. Speaking for myself as a metro truck driver, I clear $950/wk without OT
@@bradsmckay 615 USD a week
Nath?
As a car driver, when driving on outback roads, if a roadtrain is approaching I pulled off the road completely and stopped the car until the roadtrain had passed. Some outback roads are a little more than one lane wide so experienced car drivers let the roadtrain keep the whole road. If it's a dirt road one can't see anything until the dust disperses so it's best to stop anyway. I always used to stop at trickies stops for a meal because they knew all the best places. I learnt to have a lot of respect for truckies when I was in the oil industry and they were interesting to talk to: lots of stories. Once I had a truckie ask me if I had seen an axle and wheels because he lost an axle and couldn't see the axle and wheels going off into the bush because of all the bull dust (very fine dust, behaves like a liquid).
Good tip. I imagine it would be quite a fright to expect the dust to clear after two trailers, only to find you have another couple to go!
Very smart. My old men hatred coming behind cars as sone would slow down for dumb reason causing him to lose revs and speed.
Adding to Brad's comment, most drivers are on Basic Fatigue management allowing 14 hour work days. In Western Australia it's a 17 work day. I just do East Coast BFM in bdoubles, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, rinse and repeat. 50 to 60 hour weeks, two days off a week. Average aud 2300 to 2800 a week. Harder weeks aud 3000 to 3300, before tax. With allowances and superannuation and some salary sacrifice to super, usual take home about aud 2000 to 2500. Too many cameras around and in truck tracking to lie effectively on the logbook. And the fines for getting caught at it are draconian: aud 2-3000 or more. One of the few jobs around where age is actuallly a virtue in employers eyes. I'm 68 and still going strong (ish). I'd stay home if pay was only aud 900 ( usd 600 ). I may go West soon just to get away from the cameras and traffic. Quad Road Trains and red dust here I come. 😀
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What are you gonna hit out in the middle of nowhere anyway a kangaroo?
In Europe every truck has a electronic data logger on the speedometer, police just ask for a print of it instead of a manual log book
Definitely don't miss the Brisbane/ Mackay overnighters. 3 times a week never getting a day off.. Or pulling sugar out of Bundy to Melbourne or Sydney and getting stuck down there for months cause nothing comes back up here unless it's coke...🤣🤣🤣
Round town clown now. Same coin easier money and no fucking scalies or taskforce.
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Cob if you seen the size of the roos out there you wouldn't be cocky saying that!!!!
I've had em standing as high as the bonnet and bending a FUPS bar in half ....
Hats off to all the under appreciated drivers out there working hard to keep the shelves stocked and building materials there on time and everything else that comes on a truck which is pretty much everything. I know from experience what it's like on the road. We're always in the way, we're a nucence, we're hogging up the road. Poor Mike wants to get home and have a beer on the couch watching t.v. while we are STILL driving into the night. We are such a pain in the ass, but ya notice that everyone is always happy when they get what they needed at the store.. Remember people.. everything in your house came on a truck. EVERYTHING! Relax and let the drivers do their job PLEASE
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My dad is 60 years old and still driving up and down the highway. I’ve been going with him in the truck since I saw a little kid. Thanks to him I want to get into it.
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Well said I’m a truck driver myself
I recently completed (October 2022) a circumnavigation of Australia by motorbike (17,000 kms/11,000 miles). This was my second "Lap Of Oz", the first being in 2016 (22,000 kms/14,000 miles). On both trips I encountered many road trains on the roads across the top of Australia ... both triple and quad trailers. I am in awe of these machines and the people who drive them. The skill level of the drivers and the power of the prime movers/tractors are sights to behold. On may occasions I pulled over just to watch a road train being manoeuvred with a degree of precision that is hard to believe unless you witness it personally. In terms of sharing the road I showed them the respect they are entitled to and they treated me similarly: signalling when it was safe to pass when vision beyond the truck was limited; sharing a drink of ice cold water when the temperatures were soaring above 40C+/104F+; sharing a conversation at rest stops ... I take my hat off to all the people who do this work!
Post your story/trip bro
@@Avatar711Wizard Cheers mate, but I don't post on YT. I just do a photographic record my travels on Instagram.
I just got my doubles/triples endorsement her in America. Maybe go to Oz for 6 and 7 trailers at the mine?
Good day truckers.
You can earn as much as $5000 weekly and still continue working without any interruptions.
I shared this information with some truck drivers here last week and now they are earning very huge. One of them bought a brand new truck just within the week after withdrawal.
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@@ericlarousse1149 there is actually a shortage of long haul truck drivers (you call them truckers, we call them truckies) here in Aus. Good luck getting a working visa though! If you can get an employer to sponsor the visa it's much easier. Beware, though, there are romantic notions of life in the Australian outback. It is a magnificent environment like no other in the world, but it it is harsh and uncompromising and unforgivingh!
Ok, a few quick corrections from someone who's spent 30+ yrs driving roadtrains in Oz. Yes, over policing is a huge issue and why I stopped driving on the east coast. You can legally drive up to 16 hrs/ day with special conditions. Trucks are now more heavily monitored via GPS for driving hours. Quads can now be up to 60m and carry 154 tons with a total on road weight of around 215 tons. Wages are about what you said in the city but long haul and mining pays much more. Wages of $3500+/ week are not uncommon.
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Good day truckers.
You can earn as much as $5000 weekly and still continue working without any interruptions.
I shared this information with some truck drivers here last week and now they are earning very huge. One of them bought a brand new truck just within the week after withdrawal.
Inbox me for details if you want to know how
@@TruckTropia im doing local MC driving pulling in about 2500+ before tax. definetely needs a bit of an update atm
Lads should be getting more than that to drive across country. Idk how they do it
My dad drives the east coast. And the police are just money hungry weirdos with nothing better to do. Especially now since NHVR has taken over.
@ 6.56 That's what we call a B Double, where you have a shorter section for freight and the axles extend further back to accommodate the turntable for the rear trailer.
Nice to hear tractor 🚜 being used in a correct way in Australia and New Zealand
Almost everywhere, tractor is what the farming equipment is called. US might be different.
@@helliboss I wonder what they call a actual 🚜 tractor there😂😂
@@alliswell3372 . A , um , Tractor . An Implement for Towing OTHER implements .
It's not an incorrect term . Aust.NZ simply use the British nomenclature .
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@Ben Çamaşır Makinesiyim we say kamion 😂
Driving these monsters in such challenging conditions is no easy job . Not anyone can do this .Big respect for the Drivers .
Good day truckers.
You can earn as much as $5000 weekly and still continue working without any interruptions.
I shared this information with some truck drivers here last week and now they are earning very huge. One of them bought a brand new truck just within the week after withdrawal.
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Anyone can drive a truck.
But!
Not anyone can be a Truck Driver.
@@tazkrebbeks3391 But then again, anyone can drive a TRAIN, whereas it takes a special breed of TRUCK DRIVER - to drive a ROAD TRAIN.
Moving cargo only between a few mayor cities would make this country perfectly suited for trains
A lot of cargo between the main cities is moved by trains, it's connecting to the smaller cities that gets a lot of the trucks. Although there is still a huge problem of too many trucks being used when trains could do the job. The Brisbane port is a good example of this, it has a rail connection but I think it's something like more than 90% of the freight gets moved out in trucks.
Trains only benefit the very wealthy hedge funds, but are paid for by everyone. A good road system benefits everyone. The main challenge it is a lot of distance to maintain.
The rail operators stick their noses up in the air at spot loads or single container loads, where trucks will take the load regardless of the size. I work in the rail industry, so I know first hand what rail bosses want on their trains.
@@harryniedecken5321so a passenger rail system that also moves freight?
@@darthmaul216 I am not a fan of rail in general. A perfect example locally they expanded a regional passenger train system. It cost me so much in taxes that I could have instead taken a limo anywhere I want to go, as well as my children and grandchildren
The trucking industry held me for 4 months. I figured out quick that it's not worth working in an industry in need of such massive reform.
"Debt peonage" couldn't be more accurate. "Indentured servitude" would be a good term for it as well. You would not believe how many of these companies try to get brand new drivers to lease trucks just to be indebted to the company. It's a predatory system that robs the workers of their livelihoods. Many of these people have little to no education and don't see it coming until they're underwater and out of options until i was directed by my therapist to make research about governmental grants and hire a licensed professional grant writer who helped me in securing a grant and I could start up a business for myself.
That pay figure is way way way off, a standard paycheque here in Australia is roughly $700-1200 a week for working class
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That's what I thought too.
It's probably even higher in WA.
Too little to live, too much to die!
Yeah, even if you convert what they said into USD and after tax it would still be not high enough
4 or 5. I was driving into a town called Tom Price back in 99.. we hit or were hit (they ran into us, smashed mud guards, dented fuel tanks) 76 large kangaroos. Not only did the damage the sides of the truck but smashed two sets of driving lights, the headlights and truck grill. Cost me a fortune to repair or replace everything. They were that numerous we were driving at 10 kilometres an hour and the bastads were still banging into us. I have never seen them that thick, before or since. But I retired from long haul driving a couple of years after that.
Good day truckers.
You can earn as much as $5000 weekly and still continue working without any interruptions.
I shared this information with some truck drivers here last week and now they are earning very huge. One of them bought a brand new truck just within the week after withdrawal.
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Australia is a weird mix of UK and USA xD Like in terms of cars, trucks, culture, how the cities look like it really is a crossover of the UK and the US.
Ummm. No. Pretty UK centric.
@@sinoperture nah hints of American in there. Like how they use $ and not £
@@86kickass For sure… but the deep elements of the culture are very much British still. There is certainly a lot US pop culture influence.
@@sinoperture no usa culture has alottttt of Mexican/Spanish influence especially after we annexed the Spanish/Mexican states of Florida, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Nuevo México and California. East coast u have British culture but west coast is Mexican and Cali is Mexican and Asian
As an Australian I agree, definitely a bit of a mix
I wanted to be a truck driver once. But I was so fed up with so many people relying heavily on people with experience as opposed to showing newcomers the ropes that I renounced my professional driving career period
Drivers can't gain much experience unless given a chance.same with any trade.
@@scottdouglaswashburn7769 I know right. These people expect you to magically find it. Works with some people but not me
Just on the mining rigs, they’re typically operating on private road’s specifically built to move material from the processing facility at the mine site to train yards or water ports for export.
So you won’t see these big 6+ trailer units on the public roads, which is probably reassuring since you’d need to share the road with a vehicle that’s 160m long!
A few decades ago, I used to drive interstate in Australia regularly in my car.
I found it beneficial to hook up with for want of a better term, a convoy of trucks, as is was far safer than driving with regular car drivers.
Catching a draft behind a truck can also save you alot of gas.
@@travismartinson1813 for real. It can be pretty shocking how much you save.
I'm an Aussie. I'm sorry but my dad is a truckie of 50 years and I'm a tradie ( electrician) I just have to say that the wages comment was so wrong even when u take into consideration Australian dollar to American dollar ... think you may need to check your facts mate
Triple and quad road-trains are more like 140 - 205tons with mass management.
60m long super quads can weigh up to 240t
Minimum wage in Australia is 560 US dollars a week, the numbers given here are representative of about 10 years ago.
Having first driven in Australia in 1990 travelled thousands of kilometres all over Australia, the thing you have to be aware of at all times are police you can be quite literally in the middle of nowhere and there will be a speed trap with a potential heavy fine and if it is a bank holiday. They will double the fine kid you not.🇬🇧🏴🇦🇺
Back about 12 years ago, travelling to Mildura, from Murray Bridge, was stopped at Loxton by the local Senior Inspector from the Transport Inspectorate. As the both of us served on a State committee and we knew each other, my opening comment to the Inspector upon pulling up: "G'day Ted. You up to having a read of some fresh fiction?" While handing over my work diary. Ted is having a good chuckle at that comment... after reading the diary, and signing off on it, he hands it back to me, with the comment: "You missed your mark - that should have been sent to the Adelaide Library, and catalogued in the Fiction Section!" Both of us are having a good laugh at this time! But, he did mention that some of the Inspectors would be battling to understand why my times were so slow. They would not be able to understand the concept of a truck being gearbound to 85 km/h, considering that the current speed limiting requirement is 100 km/h.
Good day truckers.
You can earn as much as $5000 weekly and still continue working without any interruptions.
I shared this information with some truck drivers here last week and now they are earning very huge. One of them bought a brand new truck just within the week after withdrawal.
Inbox me for details if you want to know how
0:33 "This means the majority of Australia's freight runs from Melbourne in the South to Sydney or Brisbane."
Shows routes from Adelaide to Sydney and Brisbane...
And also WA is home of the road train lol
And pronounces Brisbane wrong
It was mentioned that there are different fatigue laws in Australia you can drive for more than 12 hours if you have done an advance fatigue course
"Up to 120F (48.8C)" that's on a good day.... it can get over 52 easy in the outback during the prime time of day
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Well there are regional limitations on how many trailers on public roads in Western Australia. I believe 2 trailers below Geraldton, 3 below Newman, port Hedland, 4 above. Your wage and salary figures are off. $ 800-1200 a week for normal blue collar
No room for these rigs in USA. 53' trailer max. Our docks are set up for it. Also, we are much closer together, so restocking is not a big problem. If we need a bunch of goods to one place, we have a network of trains that run all around the country.
Anyone who does not respect a truck driver- especially an Outback truck driver- clearly doesn’t understand exactly how their own way of life would suffer without the truckers hard work! Thousands of kilometers where it’s only you if there’s a problem, long hours, danger, sacrifice.. I take my hat off to these people.
I agree with you mate. My dad is 60 and still going at it.
In INDIA we call prime mover as ENGINE ! And Truckers/Truckies as Lorry drivers and Truck as Lorry and BullBars as BUMPER RODs and Very good skilled driver in India is called unskilled in Australia because ..In India we have small Lorries and U can even see a single Mutli carriage truck in whole day on any highway ..So basically Our Drivers donot gave enough experience with Big movers
LOL Pay is way off ma bro, depending on truck size, location or conditions drivers earn from $850 to $3500 a week.
Interesting video. Incidentally, the average age of truck drivers and the reason we have a huge shortage here in the UK ourselves are very much the same as in Oz!
If you are doing specialised haulage up to the mines in the Pilbara or hailing Iron ore it's big coin so your pay rates are laughably low.
The fastest street racer in Sydney is a bloke named Mohammed in a dual semi on the M5. If you want to experience it all drive from Liverpool to the cbd.
Bit understated just how big some of these trucks can be, most outback road trains top out at 53.5m and around 160 tonnes, but some roads have larger rigs transporting ore that are up to 60m long and weigh over 200 tonnes. Some are even longer than that like the one you described but those are not road-legal and are only used on mine sites on privately owned roads.
Majority of Australia’s freight runs from Melbourne in the south (points to Adelaide)
Back in 2015 or so, there was a show on Netflix that followed a few of the truckies. The things they had to deal with. Good stuff.
One suggestion for your videos: please do not play background music while you are speaking. It gets in the way of hearing you. You're not the only YT host doing it, and I am at a complete loss as to why everyone (ok, a lot) is doing it. There's no emotion to push (we're not watching a heartbreaking movie). So, please, don't do it. Thank you very much. That being said, I enjoyed the video.
Aaah yes. Truck driver shortage. We have that here in America too. I've been driving for 30 plus years. I'm officially retired. But! You guessed it. I'm still slinging trailers. Actually I stopped driving over the road and I stopped dragging my wagons. I drive a triaxial dump truck made by Mack. I don't have to put up with silly log books anymore. Although I still have to deal with the D.O.T time to time.
There is, or at least was, a truck driver shortage here in the UK and I'm not surprised. The money is terrible and so is the way you get treated. There are exceptions but they are so few and far between that when my HGV licence came up for renewal on my 45th birthday I didn't bother.
In my last few years of truck driving I got so fed up with being sworn at and abused by transport managers (because it was impossible to keep to their schedules) that I'd leave the truck at the first safe place, turn my phone off, hitch a ride home and wait for the company to report the truck stolen. Then when the cops turned up at my door I'd tell them where it was. The wallopers were always quite amused but I doubt the company was.
Revenge: Sweet but not fattening.
@@AnthonyHandcock that sucks.
We are definitely not considered cream of the crop. But I've been doing it for 30 plus years and you know what I just let it roll off. I've always been like that. I laugh actually sometimes because I think to myself hey buddy. Keys are in the ignition if you can do better knock yourself out.
@@tazkrebbeks3391 "...I think to myself hey buddy. Keys are in the ignition if you can do better knock yourself out" That was my attitude and you would think that transport managers who are already struggling to get enough drivers would keep that attitude in mind. But apparently not.
actually I want to get a truck driving job but I don't know how to get there for such opportunities
@@kiikomagajoseph2623 do you have a license?
Yeah Road Trains...
My bucket list
USA, ultra distance largest truck stop in the world
Canada, ice roads
Europe, multiple countries per day
Australia, road trains
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Incorrect 12 hours is the standard
(SFM)
Standard fatigue management.
Work and rest hour requirements under standard hours. Standard hours apply to all drivers who do not have accreditation for fatigue management
There are two types of Advanced. Heavy vehicle operators can do fatigue management compliance course. 1(bfm) basic fatigue management. Operators with Basic Fatigue Management (BFM) accreditation can operate under more flexible work and rest hours, allowing for (among other things) work of up to 14 hours in a 24-hour period. BFM gives operators a greater say in when drivers can work and rest, as long as the risks of driver fatigue are properly managed.
2 (AFM) Advanced Fatigue Management (AFM) is the most flexible work and rest hours option available. Rather than using prescribed work and rest hours, AFM offers the flexibility to propose your own hours as long as the fatigue risks of those hours are offset by sleep, rest and other management practices in a compliant fatigue risk management system.
AFM is a non-prescriptive approach to work and rest hours. It allows the NHVR to give flexible work and rest arrangements to operators who adopt a risk management approach to managing driver fatigue. In AFM, you propose your own work and rest hours based on your individual needs rather than using the hours stated by Standard Hours or BFM. In order to be granted AFM accreditation, you must demonstrate to the NHVR that you understand the risks these hours can create and must demonstrate that you can and will take steps to off-set these risks.
The NHVR uses 7 fatigue risk principles to judge the likelihood the proposed hours will cause driver fatigue and 7 Fatigue Business Rules and Standards to assess the adequacy of your fatigue risk management system.
Unskilled drivers are a huge problem here in Canada 🇨🇦
The US as well.
@@nc3826 we see proof every day. Trying to turn around in driveways, blocking fuel islands, docks, I saw an "immigrant" Amazon driver whip through an emergency vehicles only crossover on the freeway at 40 or 50, right in front of me doing 65 in a loaded.gravel hauler. I see their stupidity every day. Proof enough. I'm going on 31 years out here. Sick of their antics.
Same here in Australia. That’s why all the European trucks are popular here 😂
What are the best way to gain the skills so that I can overcome such issues
Man, doesn't seem much different than driving here in the states. Our Hours of Service rules as it's called here, is 11 hours of driving in a day. Up to 14 hours on duty( this includes your 11 hours of drive time) a 30 minute break within the first 8 hours of drive time, and a 10 hour off duty break. You can split that break if you're in the sleeper berth for 7 hours and get any remaining time back from the previous shift and then do a consecutive 3 hour break, or split it 8 and 2 respectively. We no longer are allowed to use paper logs and have to use an electronic log or e-log as most call it, which tracks your movement to the second. No more cheating logs and running double or even triple log books as many used to do. Too bad we don’t run road trains here in the states but maybe it’s for the best as your population is more in line with Canada than here. Wish we had more options for trucks like you guys do. It’s all conventional tractors here, no cabovers no more.
Thanks for sharing 👍
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This was a good video. I enjoyed it. I have relatives who live in Australia. Although I don't think any of them are truckers, excuse me, truckies. We have extra large bumpers on the front of our trucks too. They can either be added to the truck by the company. Or a lot of times by the driver themselves. Mainly for deer. But you get out west you never know what's going to be crossing the road. Could be an elk. Could be a buffalo. Excuse me bison. Could be a moose. Could be a long pronged antelope. I think you get the picture.
Thanks for sharing 👍
You get deer here too. Cattle and Camels are a far bigger problem than roos, they are everywhere in the outback and will annihilate a truck.
2:50-3:02 Thank you for your honesty 😌
That was very good summary of our rediculous industry. 👍
Other than the wages bit as others have said. Need to about to about double the quoted ones to represent a USD amount.
Also the whole cab over v bonneted trucks is 100% preference to the owners. Neither are bad or good at either jobs.
I see Mack Titans and C509 kws in city doing singles regularly.
And we run tripple road trains around country in Volvos and Dafs.
Thanks 👍
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"About double"? Are you making some allowance for cost of living? Today (Jan 2023) US$100 is equivalent to around A$140.
Volvo is one of the largest truck builders in the US, making exclusively "conventional" trucks, as well as making cab-overs for the European market.
@@pulaski1 2 months ago we were at 1.96 to US$1.
It varies but double covers it all haha 😄
The average truck driver makes a lot more than $600 a week more like $1600 plus a week and the average wage for every one else is around $1000 a week after tax
I’m not a truck driver but communicate with a lot of them on work sites and the immigration problem is like chalk and cheese. As soon as you hear an accent on the two-way, all the workers on the ground are extremely cautious; speeding through work sites, drifting across lanes, getting out of the cab to check their tailgates while it’s IN REVERSE!
Hello brother, how are you? My name is Mohamed from Algeria. I work as a truck driver. I am 36. I want to travel, live and work in Australia, but I do not know the appropriate way. Visa to travel to Australia, thank you
I lived in Tennant Creek in the mid to late 80's The highway was one lane with no decent edge. Given, even on the sections to the north and south of TC, about 250KM in total, like the rest of the highway, it had no speed limit for cars. Trucks were limited to about 120 from memory. When you saw a truck coming, it didn't matter if it was a single, or had 3 dogs, you just pulled over and waited. And overtaking those mothers was an exercise in planning! Could often take over a kilometre to happen. Miss those days though.
A correction on blue collar jobs, not sure if it's in US $ but i'm currently a yard hand went from driving HC which is semis/dog and trailer to scaffolding yard hand. On $1184 after tax, when i was driving i was on just over $1000 after tax.
Thanks for sharing
My drivers make about $1,600/ week for the new hires and $2,200+ for the one that have been here for 5+ years. and the go home every day, no multi day runs.
Scaff yard surely gotta suck ass
@@That-Guy_ Any spots that need filling? That's pretty solid considering the current payrates around.
@@YTho-ev1ej Smaller yards suck, but work at one of the big companies so nothing is done by yourself. Always got a partner with you, and the manager is surprisingly easy going and willing to give you a shout out if a regional/branch manager is out and about lol
Truckies earn a heap more than $600 per week. My brother drives between Sydney and Melbourne and earns about $100,000:00 per year.
Watch the video description 😅
Thanks a bunch for the clip
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...Polish-German border crossing at the moment
@qty1 ❤️
Due to the mess the UK railway system is in, I already said years ago that they should get rid of the rails and tarmac it for exclusive use of public transport like busses. Expensive conversion, but in the long run a lot cheaper to maintain and a lot more flexible. No more delays because of malfunctioning signals or broken down trains. On a road you can pass a broken down vehicle. Not to mention you can have small vehicles or big vehicles, you're not limited to the size of the track. Oh yes, and you don't need train stations to get on/off at. Trains were great, but it's time to move on. And don't start quoting all the countries where the railways are great public transport, they are all heavily subsidised by government. There is no cheap way to run/maintain a railway for public transport
Same problem in Canada new drivers from India have caused many accidents and death on the roadway and they have never seen snow
Snow's definitely not a problem in Oz. Neither are mountains.
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Professional truck driver from India can drive these truck easily but the thing is the one driving trucks in Canada,US,Australia are all students and who learns to drive trucks in foreign for 1 or 2 months and become driver.
Few EU / UK drivers have died not knowing the Country and carrying enough food and water....
I just spat my beer out when they pointed out Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane.
Driving beyond 100kms from base under Standard Hours you can actually drive 5 hours in 5 and 1/4 hours, with a total of a 30 minutes of breaks by 8 hours and a total of 60 mins of breaks by 11 hours in a 12 hour shift. There's a minimum of 10 hours rest before the commencement of the next shift but you can't actually start another shift on a consecutive day before the start time of the previous day; so if you start at 6:00am on day one, even though you've had 10 hours rest you can't start the next shift before 6:00am on day two. This means in 24 hours you can drive 12 hours with a shift time of 13 hours including a total of 60 mins of breaks with at least one 30 min continuous break. All break times must be rounded forward and only in blocks of 15 minutes defined by 15, 30 and 45 minutes after the hour so if you begin a 15 minute break say from 12:45 - 13:00 but you actually begin the break at 12:48 then to log a 15 minute break you can't start driving again until 13:15 with the actual log book entry showing 13:00 - 13:15. Don't laugh but what I've just written is in fact true.
No wonder people run into difficulties and there's more, there are some grey areas subject to the sole discretion of police or NHVR staff (who are failed police and therefore far, far worse than police). It is so diabolically complex the work diary is called the book of lies.
Drivers do take the Work Diary seriously but you just can't make any mistakes in them no matter how minor. Even the most minor oversight like forgetting to hand in a yellow page or inadvertently signing a page gets you finedand you simply don't have the power to reason with them.
Employers effectively force drivers to lie in log books by ringing drivers and getting them to do more work than we could ever possibly do in a normal shift because there's is no paper trail on the phone. They never text instructions either. If drivers get caught out the employer denies doing anything of the sort because they used the phone so the driver is hung out to dry. Chain of responsibility laws don't apply to employers because they just blame the driver. If the driver makes a mistake in the log book and the employer finds out then the driver has to sign a non compliance form exonerating the employer, effectively saying the driver did whatever he/she did without coercion from the employer - and if you don't sign it you don't get paid. It's all worked out.
Basic Fatigue Management (BFM) extends Standard Hours but has annual medical checks for drivers over 50 and some other paperwork requirements that must be carried at all times.
It's a low status job. Blame always and I do mean always flows to the lowest common denominator - the driver.
Who would ever want to do it? No wonder they can't get drivers.
BTW the pay is far higher than the pay you mentioned even for average workers. Average workers get at least $600 take home and truckies well over $1000 for 40 hours and more for overtime or line haul.
What you describe sounds very similar to EU rules (even if these are just 40 t semi trucks), and in EU drivers from eastern Europe are additionally pushing heavily on the prices and wages. Fines are high (even for small things), but income for drivers is low in comparison
Sounds like you have been hammered by an allocator who always wants more mate, you owe them nothing if they think it's ok to push you. The answer to this problem is simple, go slower, take your breaks etc while you are looking for another job, there's plenty of good ones out there mate and you don't need logbook fines going on your driving record.
When he says unskilled overseas drivers 🤣🤣🤣everyone knows who he referring too!!
Americans can pull two 53 ft trailers. I don't know what that comes out to meters you figure that out. We could drive for 11 hours. But must take a half hour break after 8 hours. We have log books too. Of course. We call them comic books. And many other things. But when I was driving over the road I always call that my comic book. This was before your electronic log books. Back when we had paper log books. I usually ran on or three at a time.
Mate you have got the wages wrong as the money you mentioned is what people get on unemployment in Australia.
Thanks for sharing
Really like your content. Please keep up the great content. If you could do one on just the differences of Australian Mack, Kenworth compared to their US counterparts would be much appreciated
Most folks don't know that Australia is almost as big as the USA.........The middle of Australia is sparsely populated.....There are ranches they call cattle stations in the outback.....So to get cattle/goods/services to and fro they use big trucks and train them.......I've seen similar in Nevada.....
I work next to the quad’s with 2 engines (second one in middle), they can reverse them around a corner and into a loading dock that is so tight you can drive a forklift onto the trailer.
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How can I join the industry, just want to become one of the truckies
I’ve been trucking in the USA and Canada for almost 34 years and I’ve always wanted to go to Australia and drive for a few years
A friend of mine is a trucker in Australia, he told me once that the main problem they have is the natives who will literally raid their trucks if they stop to sleep in the middle of nowhere.
Kinda like many cities in the US.
Don’t stop near LA 😂
@@1ponsford the only difference is that there you are not raided by natives but by some special communities
@@physics77guy True
It happens in cities too, some industrial areas where people leave their trucks in Sydney, they'll find sometimes a dozen trucks with their windows smashed in within the same area
Having crossed AU twice by bicycle. It is very excellerating when a road train passes you with only mm to spare.
All of that was actually pretty well researched
But I’m curious, what currency were you using for the average wage part? Because I made more than $600 working part time at Hungry Jacks as a teenager
As a truck driver I’d make nearly that in just one day
I was wondering this too. Most Blue collar workers that have any kind of certificate are earning well above $375usd a week 😂
I see Australia doesn't pay their skilled trades and labor sector (blue collar) good at all if that $375 is correct.
Right out of trade school in 2001 at 18yo my first taste of blue collar work as an apprentice carpenter I started at $500 a week. $375 is a joke considering the amount of labor some skilled trades have.
Even $600 for driving truck isn't good at all. No wonder the shortage lol
@@Saltinator he said “well above”
And I said I made $600 working at Hungry Jacks (what you’d call Burger King)
Tradies and truck drivers make WAY more than that
@@Saltinator He's completely wrong. The average pay here in Australia is higher than the US. The mines near me are offering $75/hr for diesel mechanics right now, for example.
Blue collar work gets you a lot more than 375 USD per week. An average blue collar worker doing 50 hours, they're more likely to end up with 1000 USD per week.
Depending on the states there are places where two trailers is limited an others more than two exists
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Logbook was a book of lies, some drivers had so many lies they needed extra books 😆
Trailers are also so colorful and attractive to see .. not boring like in USA
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The issues you're talking about in Australia sound so similar to North American trucking, poor pay, long hours, over policing (or lack of adequate policing to general motorists), immigrant unskilled truck drivers and a ton of disrespect from everyone and everywhere else! So I'm going to consider that there is no shortage of good drivers 'down under', but rather not enough good drivers willing to put up with the BS!
Nice video very informative 👏🏻, you should try to investigate Colombian trucking , we have all types of trucks , ASIAN ,European ,American , and Russian , and the trucking life there is like driving a normal car
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I'm from Uganda -Africa and I'm kindly inquiring whether i can get a truck driving job in Colombia
I love the honest comment about log books,, most drivers break the fatigue laws and they call the log book the book of lies. I like to call it the book of truth to keep people happy
Gotta be careful. One tiny mistake can cause you to go broke or jail time 😅
@@alpharaptor7510 exactly!!! I got pulled over the other day and I hadn’t signed one page which could of resulted in a fine of something like $600aud, luckily the officer just told me about it and didn’t fine* me :). If it was someone who was on a mission to fine people, I would of copped a fine
It's not greatly different from trucking in America, with the exception of the equipment itself. and the fact there isn't much in the way of mountains. the log book is a lie book here also, and maximum driving hours is 12 hour's but only eight hours can be attributed to driving. before the computer entered the trucks here. I remember a lot occasions where I would run as many as three log books. here a driver has to be aware of the weigh stations and port entries. because they keep track of your time between weigh stations. but there are ways around that. here especially where I live we pull trains also. but they are different than from down under. they commonly used for apple harvest, but they can also be used other kinds of loads such as lumber .the most common trains are forty foot lead trailers with twenty foot pup's. and if the tractor has a drop axle. you can haul one hundred and five thousand LBS. there are other configurations that are used as long as they don't exceed the maximum length. during apple harvest they are used to haul apple bins. that were traditionally made out of wood. but more recently some of the farmers have have switched to plastic bins. in the neighboring State of Oregon State, Yellow freight is the last company to still pull triple trailer's. in this Country many of the States have different requirements. but tractors and single trailers are legal in all States. this was very interesting, I have always wanted wanted to know more about Australian trucking. thanks for posting this.
Your welcome, and thanks for sharing 👍
Only 8 how do you get anything done? In Australia we can legally drive for 14 on a basic qualification.
@@emptycoffin Before the computers were put in the trucks. driver's would just cheat on their log book's. but now that computers are onboard the trucks.. it can shut the truck down when the maximum hours of service are reached. it definitely added to the supply chain issues in this Country after the pandemic. and that there's a shortage of driver's.
@@musicauthority9939 yeah hard pass on that. I'd never make any money.
Right now in 23’ they are paying 60$AUD per hour plus 80$AUD meal daily.
“Many of the accidents are caused by the unskilled immigrant drivers.” - sounds like it’s “the immigrants” causing the problems, but isn’t it the industry itself, lacking responsibility to educate these drivers?! It seems there are major neglections in terms of this, and the short-term $ is more interesting than keeping the Road Trains run safely on the long run. And it seems also the government, lacking rules recommending proper education and seniority before driving a long truck on one’s own. As often it’s not “the immigrants” but those with the profit in their greedy eyes.
Spot on mate. The real problem is the fact that there are no younger drivers learning the trade and the govt have no clue how to fix this, so they open up the visa rules and ease up licensing restrictions. I've worked with plenty of overseas drivers, some were very good, some not so much. Most of them had only a year or two's worth of experience and it takes a lot longer than that to become good at this job, in 5 or 10 ten years they will be just as good as the rest of us, we all sucked when we started and that goes for truckies in every country on earth. Most of these guys come from a place where they make less money in a whole month than what can be made in a week driving here (the video was way off in regards to wages), who can blame them for trying to better their's and their family's lives.
In Orlando, I drive a motor coach for $900.00 per week. We still need more drivers.
Australia and New Zealand are some of the best countries for seeing awesome looking trucks. 👍
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Many long range trains you’ll see both Mack and KW as these rigs offer more power for very heavy loads.
Oh the stories I coujd tell of going out west with skippy and the danger he’s caused.
When splicing bits into your videos please remember that Australia drives on the left!
Saw a few late model bonneted Volvos in there too. Haven't seen one of those in the wild for a lot years and the ones I remember are quite a bit older than the ones in the vid.
There's some good stuff in there but some was way off. The wages are especially wrong if in AUD rather than USD. Driving road trains and mining trucks you can get $AUD2000-3000 a week easily. Most of the fatalities relating to trucks is not from unskilled immigrants. It is either from fatigue in the truck driver or the stupidity of car drivers who have no idea what a 20-120T truck is like to stop or maneuver. Australia has pretty near no container transport via rail. Other than ore or grain everything else gets moved around by truck and B-doubles and road trains are exceptionally common for anything traveling much more than a few hundred km.
Speaking for myself I'm clearing $1400 per week AUD after tax & super on the tax file number, if I was working under the ABN (Australian business number I'd be clearing +$2000 AUD per week as a HR (heavy vehicle) operator. & I'm not even leaving the 100km radius under the basic fatigue management regulations.
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I got a few mates that do Longhorn I heard what they suggested for the salary and could not help but laugh for my good friends in long haul have told me what they can earn very similar to what you mentioned I'm in the transportation can I know casual drivers that get off 5 hours 3 days a week so that is 15 hours is all a casual needs to be offered this is not what they work though at $36 an hour 5 hours is 180 buks x 3 minimum 540 but of course with the demand no-one work the minimum. Most people I know bus and truck are taking home at least 1000 pw
0:37 "from Melbourne" (shows map with route from Adelaide, Melbourne is not highlighted)
I remember the first time I saw a road train and was absolutely in awe. I don't even know how to tow a trailer let alone one with multiple trailers. I remember that the roads were also a lot wider for the road trains on the outskirts of the city.
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You drive the truck, not the trailer...
I can understand the reasons for having longer tandem trucks in Australia with the distances and long remote drives. Also that cab over truck is easier to maneuver in tighter spots. Maintenance, tires, fuel, would be a concern too, as alluded.
It's lonely and treacherous I'm sure. Maybe they should encourage two man teams, or even husband and wife teams to get younger people as "truckies?"
Tractor, Australia setting the record straight
Ideal for SWIFT
" No, Sir, i'm afraid this road is a dead end. You have to drive 3 Kilometres backwards and take the 3rd exit at the small circle."
I'm considering upgrading from heavy rigid to heavy or multi combination next year. Always liked truck and if I can't get a trade fixing them I may as well drive them.
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Well worth the jump if gunna drive them as a job. I would advise go HC then when your comfortable go MC, as in Vic you have to still pass HC tests to go to MC and most training places will construct training to get you there but you loose valuable time in the seat and dont learn as much as doing them seperate
@@petej222what could be your advice to someone like me a beginner in truck driving because I want to acquire an opportunity in truck driving
Wrong wages perhaps, weekly pay you mean was a day pay. Who would drive a truck for $600 a week through the desert
A couple of weeks ago I watched a triple road train driver back his rig out of the big, BP service station in Norseman, Western Australia.
Backing up a 60+ yard long, triple trailer vehicle in a crowded service station......I was well impressed.
I’d say that’s about the most exciting thing going on in Norseman 😂😂
@@YTho-ev1ej I've also experienced a semi-decent earthquake in Norseman....whilst in the shower in a house up on stilts. That got a bit exciting.
But, agreed, that's pretty much where the excitement ends in Norseman.
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@@ohlordy2042 that’s interesting.. I didn’t even know you could get earthquakes in WA
@@YTho-ev1ej Certainly not on the scale of New Zealand or California. But we get plenty of little tremors in the Western Australian Goldfields (up to about 5 on the Richter scale).
The tremor I mentioned in Norseman was a memorably large one for this area at a bit over Richter 5.
I'm a geologist and could bore you stupid as to why we get tremors in the middle of a continental plate.....but will restrain myself.
600 a week is below the minimum wages in Oz man, unless you works only 20..25h per week you would get something like 600pw
And i dont think anyone in Australia would get out of bed for $375 a week!
I just like to hear people talk about the "*strict*" rules in Australia, in Germany, Switzerland etc. youll get fined even when your max width is 2.51m or just a bit over the max length
Yeh same in Australia. You can be oversized but need flags, lights, and signage and more restrictions on you
Why can't we find an Australian to tell this story in our language, and knowledge of our industry
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John Franke...because the video is directed to Americans even though it's about Australia. If an Australian was narrating it Americans wouldn't be interested enough to click on it and America's where the big bucks are for making money on TH-cam based on the number of viewers of a particular video.
at the times code 3:17, I want said thanks you for put the remperatures also de degres celciuls (°c), this is very appraciate for a little frenchy like me, I could understant at lot of more thing.
In our country, these 4 hour, 30 min, 12 hour a day rule doesn't exist, there is no rule, you can drive 24/7 if you want. I've had days where I work 22 hours, sleep 2 hours and work another 20 hours, the most I've managed to work in a week around 110-130 hours \o/
The pay must be pretty good for you to push that hard.
@@wrx111 My record for 2 weeks is up towards 30.000 dkk (danish kroner) which is currently 4.333 usd. A co-worker of mine earned 200.000 dkk in 2 months which is 28.908 usd
In Danmark? Hell no! What about regulation 561?
How is possible that?
@@TheDDriver We use danish currency, but I never metioned that I was from Denmark.
It's amazing what $50 a hour, paid sick days, and paid wait times will do. Truckers coming out of the wood work!!!!!! The other thing that happens is the job becomes so valuable, you attract better drivers, who will self regulate and make the entire industry safer.
Australia has close area of the continental USA, the USA is more than 2 million km square bigger than australia (Mexico is 1.9 million km square just for comparaison)
He should have put an asterisk, excluding Alaska lol
@@jasonwilliams8016 Exactly, reference to the 48 contiguous states or "Lower 48" would be more accurate.
This channel is hilarious, I get 1/2 from the video, then the rest from all the comments correcting it all lol
No hills to cross🤣🤣🤣 NSW be like HOLD MY Beer watch me make this one use 2 liters of diesel every 1k🤣🤣🤣 on a good day
Hills, that's cute. Try a mountain range in the dead of winter, a real winter...
@@DCB1209 nup only get fake winters here
Fake winter to go along with your “hills”.
@@DCB1209 *eye roll emoji* 🤣😮💨😮💨righto hero, go on, go save us all from these fake hills and real winters you speak of
@@MadLadMartyMcFly85 You need saving from those hills and mild "winters"?