Diving an 18 Speed Road Ranger in Thick Traffic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2024
- This was me driving through the city streets of Brisbane, just after picking up a light load for Melbourne.
I thought I'd show what is like driving an 18 speed road ranger through thick traffic.
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I agree with you about the speedometers and tucks sitting on my back seat. On the open road I sit on, according to my speedometer, 110 kph, which is about 104 kph. So far, no red and blue lights in the mirrors. 🙂
I can't do that well but I'll do as fast as I can. 102 is the Max speed with new tyres then it goes down as the tyre wears out.
Gday Johnno.
I’m the bloke who has the son who wanted to hear more engine sound.
Just got the chance to show him and he said it is just the best.
Thankyou mate
Ha ha. Very good. You're soon needs to hear my truck in real life. It sounds awesome.
This is my daily drive to work.. i dont roll down my window to listen to shit porches anymore.. but roll down the window to hear this beast coming though.
My best does sound good. It sounds way better in real life though.
18 speed R/Ranger is my all time favourite 29 years on the highways throughout Australia's outback, but I had to give it up for health reasons and I'd be going back as soon as i get a few surgeries done if all is well.
Great videos m8tey thanks Cheers!
We need good operators so hopefully you can get all fixed up and get back out on the road.
@@RoadTrainAdventures Thanks m8
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Re manual gearboxes, I started trucking life in a Cummins powered C-1800 bogie International, then into an 8 wheeler heavy duty hub reduction Leyland Reiver, constant mesh box, diesel V8 Perkins and a very firm clutch, then Mack RS 600's with twin stick quad boxes, fine when you have young knees,......... any way through the years lots of welcome changes including air assist clutches, much better seats, and as for entry to cab well some of the older European trucks had an outer rim on the front wheel for stepping up to the cab, with wet boots I lost count of how many times I slipped off loosing some leg bark, later a cab over Freightliner (Frightliner) Argosy that had automatic swing out step when the door was opened, however if you accidently closed the door getting in it swung in with you on it, then off it!
I still remember the deep throb of an E9 V8 Mack, N14 Cummins, even years ago an air cooled Magirus Deutz and who can forget the sound of a White Roadboss with a 6-71 supercharged GM 13 speed RR with full clacking Jake coming down the Great Deviding Range
Driving wheat and cotton seasons out in western NSW and Queensland the dust always found a way of getting into the old trucks, R 190 Inters, Mack B lines etc , was just part of the job, sadly the dust still manages to get in but we get fridge freezers, cold air con and wide bunks in our sleepers now, a long cry from a tarp and swag under the trailers and Hessian water bags on the bullbar for cool water, and a Coleman single burner gas hob.
I tried an auto shift Eaton 18 speed recently....at my age I could get comfortable with that, the left knee makes more noise than a Jake brake now and getting up to the cab is harder, I do like the hydraulic trailer legs over the old crank handle but its a different game now and and its harder to work on the new rigs where 'Everything' is wired to a complex group of ECUs, and requires a computer nerd with a laptop to overthrow an errant code fault!
We now have satellite tracking, speed cameras, phone cameras, point to point cameras and tight time on demand with penaltys for late show when driving a 1000k interstate run.
Times have changed and I still do the odd bit of driving but the time is coming when I won't be able to, they took my roadtrain endorsement recently, I'm over that age where you need a medical each year and a yearly driving accessment by comparative youngsters who often just got their trainers ticket from a driving school.
I got my cataracts done to improve my chances of passing the medical eye te 3 years ago, don't need eye crutches, yet....
"Anyway its just the way it goes" ...happy truckin'
Wow Ross you've got some experience there. Thanks for sharing all of that.
Thanks mate, haven't had much to do with chains.
Was a great insight !
Awesome. Thanks Brad
Mate, you gotta buy a lottery ticket after that lot! Traffic on Gympie Road was as good as it gets and them some, and you found only courteous drivers! Dream drive! BTW I take the longer Gateway Mwy and avoid Gympie Rosd like the plague…
Well I had no idea that Gympie Rd was so bad.
I really like your Chanel, easy to watch and advice is great. Thank you
Awesome. Thanks Dan
You love that Right-Hand Lane Mate
For sure. Why not. I'm always faster than the cars once up to speed plus in bumper to bumper traffic it really doesn't matter.
ahh, the sounds of the splitter and range change as you pull up (pssst, click-clunk!) bring back many a child hood memory of sitting in the passenger seat of the 650 KW as it worked thru newcastle and sydney. The deep growl as she worked up one side of the blue mountains, then getting rocked to sleep in the bunk and the sweet lulliby of the Cat jakes on the 3406 coming off mt victoria as we head back west to home in central west nsw ❤.
Im no driver but with the old man hoping in and out of quite a few over the years (did years on the road with a big blue and red crew running across the middle when the original owners still had it, now working closer to home one an east coast "milk run") i cant help but love em. Love the channel Johno 👌🍻
Thanks Joel. I'm glad I can bring back some great memories for you.
This is the channel I needed!!!! As a kiwi temporarily in QLD I need this kind of content. Just subbed.
Oh very nice. Thanks and its great to have you along.
Been a trucking for 39 years and been everywhere. Haven’t been to city of Brisbane for while. Looks like it’s all changed.
You can’t give up eating hungry jacks 😂…
Thanks for the subtitles as I’m deaf.
Keep it up john.
Awesome. Thanks Steve. We have a deaf person working in our company. He has an implant so he can hear phone calls. He's very good at his job.
Really. Good to hear that he had cochlear implants and working for Lumbars. I have been to Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide but not Perth. Will love drive to Perth.
For sure
Thanks Johno great information and visual from looking from the inside of the cab😊
Thanks again Bruce. I didn't know how much people would like this kind of video.
Thanks for the content (and the noise) have a safe trip home and happy birthday Mate.
Thanks Cid. Is my sons birthday.
Ah sorry Mate my mistake, Happy Birthday to your Son !! 🎊
Very nice
I live in Cape Town South Africa and really enjoy your content Johno. Thanks for the tour around Brisbane. Looks great.
Thanks Dave. It's great to have you along
This is great, I love the POV footage, being able to see when you check the mirrors and stuff. I'll be back to watch the rest in the morning.
Very good. I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you for the insights. Very interesting views and explanation. GREAT sound 👍🐺🙂
Thanks Dirk
That's some long tunnels! Thanks for sharing. Watching from British Columbia.
Thanks heaps. It's great to have you along.
Awesome video Johno, it’s time for a beer mate👍👍👍
Maybe on the weekend. I've still got work to do.
The sound of the air being sucked in is great! As you said! You love the sound!!!! Great video! Keep it up please!
Thanks Michael. It sounds so much better in real life though.
@@RoadTrainAdventures I used to own a 1970 R600 Mack. Going up Mount Vic I always had the window down to hear the sound! ( Twin stacks a massive 350hp)!
Oh let's be honest here! The window was down because it was HOT in the cab 🤣
@@michaelclayton1827 No air conditioning in those days
@@RoadTrainAdventures Was kinda my point 🤣
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Great clip mate 👍 ridden and driven that route plenty of times on my trip to the sunny coast and have to agree the roads are nice to drive on 😊
For sure. Thanks Ben
hahaha that's my neck of the woods! Driving through Chermside! Can't believe I didn't see you Johno
And it's unlikely you will now. I've and who knows when I'll be back
i love jake shifting in traffic, just get a couple pops as you split upto the next cog and the sound bounces off of everthing around you
Unfortunately it didn't sound as good on video as it did in real life.
Born and raised in Brisbane, now in Bundaberg it's great to see Gympie Rd again. Personally, I hate tolls so I would turn right after Aspley and head off through W Stafford, Ashgrove and Bardon and this takes you through to the Centenary Hwy and on to Ipswich Rd. Probably a bit tedious driving a big rig through there. I was surprised how little traffic there was and how those tunnels teleport you to a new dimension. Very enjoyable video.
Awesome. I'm glad I was able to bring back some memories and show your a few new things.
Happy Birthday to your son hope y'all have fun. some drivers like to drive with their windows down i don't like to much noise. Truck i drove had 12 in. Chrome stacks little over 125,000or more had the truck and 3 trailers that's what he owned. anyway thank you for taking us along with you on your journey.
Thanks heaps Terry for the birthday wishes. I like to travel with my windows up too.
Great job
Thanks Jessica
Great show John o .I gave the long distance stuff away 18 years ago.I’m still driving ,but only local now . Just an idea “ you could show people what it takes to back in on “ the blind “ It’s a shame that the art “ of using a “ crash box “ is dying out . Truck,s are becoming like motor cars to drive . Truck,s in the old days had a “ soul”
I don't know what I could say about backing on my blind side except that I use my small wide angled mirror for that.
Hats off to you brother. Not really heavy traffic tho. I’ll stick with my auto 😂
Very good. Thanks Wayne
Hey Johnno, driven that route thousands of times as a Brissy boy but never up in the drivers seat of a Kenworth. What a buzz. I was trying to work out why the GPS was sending you that way and not down the Gateway then Logan Motorway to Ipswich Motorway then it dawned on me you were heading for the tunnels and the great shortcut. Thanks for the ride. Safe travels mate.👍
Yes Google gets it right most of the time. As long as I check the route before I go out of will send me under some low bridge or through suburbia.
Thank you very much John for this interesting video, I am your fan and watch every video of you. Greetings from Europe, always drive safe. Stay safe. see ya 😃
Awesome. Thanks again
@@RoadTrainAdventures very welcome 😉👍
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wow, you've gone through my old haunts Northside Brisbane .. Beams Road 1:30 Bro, Carseldine, Aspley, Chermside, Stafford, uggghh traffic. Glad we left that city and moved out to the country. More rain East Coast bro for green lawns too. Watching with much intent lolol, saves me driving thru this part of the city, which i choose not to bc look at them road works omg. You'll have a tunnel coming up soon. Yesss.
Very good
I know that road and area very well also, currently at Kallangur but don't travel much. Good move to center lane at 2:55 that's how trucks used to travel on Ipswich Road, don't get people turning left or right in front of you like the outside lanes. Plenty of speed cameras and red light cameras, can't go over 60K through Kedron, let's see how he does!
Thanks John. Yes it's all a mine field to get through.
Your a good operator johno , my rr skills are sad , happy birthday johno 🎂 apparently 🎉 🤪✌️👍
Thanks Andre. It was my sons birthday.
When I was learning to drive trucks the teacher was very insisting on slowing down right away when the traffic lights shifted to red (or were red), because maybe the lights would shift to green before you reached the intersection. Saving fuel because you are rolling instead of starting from zero, less gear changes makes smoother driving, and also, of course, saving brakes because you don't have to brake that hard. It makes a big difference when you are pulling 50 tons or more. I always use this trick when I'm driving, even my own personal car. The trouble is often that others cut in front of you. Morons! 😉
Yes you got it. Everyone else speeds up to the red light.
Awesome vid Johnno. My old hunting ground. My in-laws (outlaws) live at Albany Creek. The main road is smooth but thank the Gods that you don't have to venture into the suburban streets on the North Side. The roads are garbage. PS: That Porsche on the north side was a Macan and they retail starting in the low 100's and go up from there. Cheers
Thanks Darren. I rarely get to checkout the suburbs so I don't know what they're like.
Dang mate ya got me all excited, I'm gonna havta start driving agin. ATS that is on me motion sim driving a KW200 down Mexico. Only driving I'm allowed to do. Thanks Buddy. Stay safe. The Ol' Fella Greg.
For sure. Come on down
I have the same electronic diary/ Camera system it's awesome
Yes it's pretty good
Gday Johnno. Can you do a video sometime while your in traffic showing which gears you go through, especially from the lights. Brisbane weather is fantastic. In winter I still wear t shirt and shirts during the day. The humidity only last about three months of the year, so you just put up with it. Most homes are air conditioned and our trucks and cars are, so it’s not to bad. But we also get a lot of rain this time of year and that with the heat, is why everything is so green. At the moment,the lawns grow so fast, the need mowing about every 4-5 days. A good idea when going through the 5unnels in Brisbane is to set your cruise control. There are Speed cameras all the way through them. Listening to the noise with the windows up, the tyre noise was louder than the engine noise. Next time you are in Bris, hit me up and I will take for a good pub feed. 👍
Thanks Louie. I'll see how I go for time. I don't come to Brisbane much. I wondered about the speed cameras in the tunnel.
I found driving in the city with a 909 quite stressful went back earthmoving
Oh. It's harder than a cabover but I'd still rather have this for the smoother ride.
I love da engine noise 😊
Yes it's great hey
I drive Gympie Rd regularly.
The roadworks are a lot better than a year ago. They’re putting in a dedicated bus lane northbound.
Wow it's been a whole year and that's all they've done. No good
Johno, looks like you’ve got the knuckleheads over there that do stupid four wheeler stuff like we do in the states. Sad to see these Noodlehead on the road. Be safe brother.
They be everywhere. There is no escaping unless you're in the middle of nowhere which is the best place to be.
Very informative drive through heavy traffic, and your truck appears to keep up with all the other cars , so u must have good knowledge of that gearbox, very smooth and seamless, great commentary along the way, there is so many elements to being a true professional truck driver, great stuff, cheers from Geelong,❤️🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺
Thanks Steven
Great show, good on ya Johnno!
Awesome. Thanks. I haven't seen you around for a while.
Drinking my morning cuppa, crisp minus 15°C outside, sun shining nice though. Watching Johnno drive through city and Brisbane tunnel!
I enjoy the city driving with traffic as much as the outback routes and drone shots.
The roads do look quite good for QLD in general. Comparing them to Bruce Hwy in FNQ and Cairns area. 😂
Thanks heaps. I'm down in Melbourne already and about to unload that load I picked up. It's about that here too.
Oh, no!!! You ended so abruptly. I assume there will be a Part Two? Thanks for showcasing my old city. It sure has changed a bit. I didn't know Brisbane drivers were civilised compared to other capitals. 😃
Thanks. I didn't know where to end this video and it was going on too long so I just cut it.
Good one
Thanks Jonathan
Great video. It would be good if you filmed the climb up the hill into Toowoomba. Tunnels and engine brakes are made for each other. I was going through the tunnel under the Yarra River late one night when a Lamborghini went flying past on full noise. It sounded fantastic.
Ha ha. A Lamborghini might sound loud in a tunnel. I got done drone footage of the Toowoomba range. I'll try to fit it in to some video.
@@RoadTrainAdventures that would be great.
For sure
Just watching your video. I was a truck driver in England and out of a fleet of about twelve lorries mine was the only manual gearbox. I also preferred that to driving an automatic.
Thanks Steven. Yeah you got it
Appreciate you replying to me. I am retired now but I was a long distance truck driver covering Europe and Scandinavia. I enjoy watching these types of videos because they remind me of my career. Take care and drive safely
Yes it's always very to see what's happening around.
Really interesting and enjoyable to watch ✌️🇬🇧
Awesome. Thanks Chris
Stay in the right lane as you are passing all the slow cars
For sure
Nice tour Johno you wouldn't want to be caught in one of those tunnels with a burning plastic EV, as for the Porche keep the Kenworth it would probably be cheaper in the long run.
Your Kenworth is faster than the Porche because you overtook it a few times😂
Thanks Tony. Yes I'm usually quicker than the other cars on the road.
Absolutely spot on with your NSW atrocious roads comment!! 😳😳. WA definitely has the best roads in the country, if you want ridiculously priced Toll roads….come to Sydney!!! 😡😡
Thanks Mick
Great vlog boss although I don’t drive big trucks only a little van I too always prefer manual transmission over automatic and to hear that albeit USA powered engine with 620 rampaging horses and 3000 plus NM of torques is always great so thanxs for making this vlog for us to enjoy and along side the gear change vlogs plz keep making ones like this 😊😊😊
PS :- Happy Birthday to your son
Thanks so much Neil. I'll certainly do my best
Just as a question when you did your vlog on driving an 18 speed truck when you changed gear you never depressed the clutch pedal would love to know why and the reason as obviously I am an amateur and am eager to learn ??
There is no reason for the clutch pedal to be pressed for every gear change. As you see there was no grinding of gears as I went up ages down them. I only use the clutch to stop and start.
@@RoadTrainAdventures thanks for the info Jonno the information is much appreciated boss so thanks for answering my question
Anytime I can help
That was a fun watch. Thanks!
Awesome. Thanks Mike
The bridge is replacing the north bound bridge. Weight restriction on northbound. Bridge was damaged in the 2011 and 2022 floods.
I see. Thanks Scott.
having a few months off for an operation but i drive a truck and dog in briz , mack titan c15 with 5 inch sporties , fkn loud , glad to be away fron that traffic as i di a similar run 6 times a day from over near the airport , but gotta love that traffic , and they are only getting worse
It's actually not as bad as other cities.
@@RoadTrainAdventures true looks like you times it well after 3pm south of the tunnels is a parking lot , glad you got a good run
Oh wow. I didn't know it gets that bad.
I agree with you John, I would rather drive in Brisbane than Sydney any day. Thank you for a great video, Stay Safe.
Thanks Peter
It’s amazing no one road raged you for being in the right lane the whole time.
I may have taken off a little slower but I was faster than all the cars within a short time.
In QLD nobody seems to take any notice of the right hand lane. It’s just another lane.
Unfortunately, most city dwellers are complete muppets and either too incompetent to drive in the middle or slow lanes or just don’t give a toss about others on the roads. Even when there are signs “Keep Left Unless Overtaking”. It drives me up the wall. Even coppers these days do the same and if not, they don’t book anyone for doing it.
I thought Queenslanders were very considerate.
Yes you got that right. I'm usually the one trying to overtake cars and even when I flash my lights at the show car in the right hand lane some just flip me off instead of moving to the left.
Nice rig Johnny and you must have a lot of patience mate
I have a lot of patience except for when slow car drivers are in front of me.
I’m laughing at the experts asking why your hugging the right hand lane , well your passing most all other vehicles so why would you keep jinking in and out of lanes in a big truck , you keep doing what you do , keep safe 😊
Thanks John. That's right. I'm passing everyone.
heya john. Loving these city driving vids as much as the cross country vids.
Im just wondering if you have a facility to show the gear changes up and down as you are with your trip meter on your dash there? It would be most helpful to have a digital display indicating when your changing gears up and down...As much as we can hear the gear changes, It would be really handy to have a visual of the gear changes.
Maybe its an editing thing to pop a gear change indicator in but Im sure you could have the changes on the dash like the speed indicator is...
Again, a fantastic vid mate!
Ok. I'll try to Mount a camera so you can see the gear changes the next time I do something like this.
ahhh thankyou my friend, It might just give an idea of what you are doing and how you get into each gear 😊 @@RoadTrainAdventures
For sure
Hey Johnno what a great video, bit different to Townsville traffic lol. Between the lights on the flat with the one trailer do you drive it like a 13 speed?
Basically yes. I change from gears until I get faster.
smooth traffic. no 4-wheelers changing lanes 5 meters in front of you. You get enough space to keep your distance, even when braking at a traffic light, there is no one who will squeeze it in between. Nice job like this. That's different here. They'd rather drive you off the road. You can't get distance. If you take it, there is always one person who puts it in the space.Seen that to much for 23 years everyday overhere, loaded with 45t.Full brakes for the traffic lights because you don't get the space. Now quickly back to the bush.😁
Wow. Sounds like a hard place to drive in the Netherlands.
@@RoadTrainAdventures Big parts of EU is like that. Like city trafic. To much people. Crazy angry trafic. like ants on an anthill. Where every ant wants to be at the front. In this Point Of View video I automatically checked whether one would come into your space. Instinkt. that is still there hahaha.
Ha ha. For sure
I find road train drivers very safe pals on the road, but I always give them space to get around safely .....
That's very nice. Thanks Graham.
That was interesting, but I'm wondering if you would have been better served by giving the Gympie Arterial and the traffic and lights a miss and taken the Gateway Mwy all the way then onto the Logan Mwy. That way you would probably have been in top gear all the way except for over the Gateway bridge. Depending on time of day, of course.
When you exited the tunnel and asked what the road was, it's the Western Freeway/Centennial Motorway.
Very good. I guess Google would have suggested that way if it would have worked out to be quicker. I get the way your talking about and yes it wouldn't have been so much stop start.
at 25.30 you made it out of the tolls you just have about 5 more phone seat belt cameras and about 10 more speed cameras before Gatton to get through so if you get through without a fine you're quite fortunate.
Thanks Paul. I was watching out for those cancers. It's a mine field.
Good wrll balanced driving in meduim traffic Gympie rd ,ps are you going nth or sth bound .
I was going south in this video.
Interesting watching all the other cars, but you seemed to be carrying good speed. Also average value of a Porsche Cayenne 150k..thx again Johnno
Oh thanks Mark. Looks I've got some saving to do if I want one of those then.
As far as toll roads go, they also demand that trucks use toll roads over free roads.
Must use the Toowoomba bypass toll instead of the old Toowoomba range road.
Must use the Logan Motorway rather than through the main roads across Brisbane.
You’re on the Western Freeway once out of Legacy Way & then onto the Centenary Hway.
Yes you've got that right.
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Oh the auto correct and me not wearing my glasses when typing these messages.
Oh c'mon mate you know you would love to drive an Auto 😂😂 Kenny does 😁😁
No. I he'll too much when driving an auto. They rarely select the right gear.
Most drivers didn't take up your stopping distance , as for Auto, only ever drove 1 , 1974 it was , a damn BMC Auto for McCullochs Car Carrier out of Wagga Wagga , top of Razor Back it went into like angel gear , that was first trip, quickly learned had to change down manually
Yes Brisbane drivers aren't too bad. Gee that was a long time ago 1974.
Those roads look pretty narrow to me. Ofcourse you are used to it. Respect to all truckers out there.
Some of the roads I showed you were narrow but others here are wider.
What’s your trick to keep the big girl within the white lines? Thanks for the video mate
This is just a big car so just like your car you get used to how wide it is.
Tolls, yeh I set GPS to avoid when travelling alone, especially in Sydney.
It may cost a lot but when you factor in the cost of going through the suburbs with all the traffic lights it's no saving.
Just a heads up john, in a double you can't go through the tunnels if you're over 50t from what I've heard
Well that sounds retarded.
Great video, what is de maximum speed in Australia for trucks. Here in Holland ( Netherlands ) it is 85 km/h. Gr. Ferry
We're set at 100 km/h
100 ks
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What were they waiting for?
The right shade of green?
Ha ha. Very good
Man that kenworth sounds sick as.
Yeah I need to take it to the workshop. Ha ha. Yes it does sound good.
Okay, I watched from start to finish; curious, who pays the tolls? Guess they go to the company registered number plate so it doesn't bother you? Thanks for saying that Brisbane drivers are great (Hint: don't watch Dash Cam channel videos) and thanks for sharing, stay safe out there.
Thanks again John. Wow that was a longish video to watch it all. Yes the company pays for everything to do with the truck.
Base model Porsche Macan is approx $110k-$120k, higher Spec GTS $180-$200k...I agree they're nice.
Alright. Thanks for that
Hey mate great video. Is that a egr cummins up front?
Thanks heaps. Yes. You know your engine.
@@RoadTrainAdventures thanks mate yeah she has that distinct exhaust rumble.
Oh yeah. It sounds much better in real life.
Cannot believe he hogs the right lane. He will get a fine in the mail
Is that really what you took away from this video? Who was going faster? Me or the cars? You can't get a fine for travelling in the right lane unless the speed limit is over 90 and you're not overtaking.
@@RoadTrainAdventureseveryone’s an eggspurt on fining people for shit they haven’t done wrong apparently! Is that Bald Hills type area, before it joins the Bruce?
No that was Gympie Rd just north of Brisbane city
@@RoadTrainAdventures righto, i know you may think I’m a southern jerk but having lived in Nambour, and around the sunshine coast, and worked in Mount Gravatt, and the Gold coast, I do know my way around southern qld, fairly well…and I hope they’ve improved the roads between Eumundi and Gladstone by now, there were some shocking stretches of bitumen up that way.
I heard that it's due to the ground under the road surface. The bitumen itself is usually very good.
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Thanks heaps. I haven't seen you around for a while
I do not miss running around Brisbane in the truck.
How long were you doing that for?
the Car speedo is out as you said. reason is. An ADR rule from 2005. a speed must read at or below. 10% speed allowance. PLUS add in the allowance for a 50 mm increase in tire rotation diameter. so, the 50 mm allowable increase is the 8 k/h error. this is across the board with all cars. but outside of a 4x4 who would?
You are very correct. It's a pity that most people don't this so they go slow. I encourage people to download a gps speedo app from their app store to check the sites they're really doing.
I hate trucks that stay in the right lane. Specially on roads like Gympie rd where there are heaps of road works.
Yes if they are going show them that's no good but you might notice that I drive faster than the cars do. It's usually the cars in front of me that slow me down.
I don't have a problem with toll roads if it means better roads
Sometimes that doesn't mean better roads. In Melbourne the toll roads can be bumper to bumper.
How do you go at traffic lights? If you start entering a junction, just as it changes to yellow, are you breaking the law if your last axle enters the junction on red?
No. It's all about the front of the truck when it crossed the line. If it changes red just as the trailer is still crossing the line, that is fine.
There have been many times when I can take off fast, due to me being heavy and I can't cross over and clear the intersection fast enough before the lights are red.
Does that mean the Cab-Over are safer for forward vision?
No. Once you get used to it, it's fine.
G'day Johnno Posted yours and Kens channels around so you might've picked up a few more subscribers mate Have a good one ..👍
Oh very nice. Thanks for that. We need to help Ken get more subs for sure.
11:15 Porsche Macan. Not that expensive. Between $94K -$180K plus on road costs depending on the model you want. 🤣
Oh wow
Could not agree more . . the corruptness of the Toll Roads we now have to put up with is appalling !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ever increasing pricing to suit these villains are even written in their contracts. Absolutely disgusting behaviour from our weak as piss politicians .
For sure Rob. We are to blame too as 'we the people' can affect change but we do nothing. Society thinks that we just have to do everything politicians tell us. They don't realise that they're there to do our will as public servants.
Hey there. how many full gears do you go down when going down a steep grade hill?
When the truck is fully loaded thanks
Mmm
It depends on how heavy and how steep. I go down as many as I can before the truck starts to get away from me.
When the Constitution was being negotiated, there were few cars, so the federal interest in transport was confined to railways and shipping. The states are left with roads and they can do what they like within their borders. I don't recommend a legal challenge to tolls. Just pay up. WA has its minerals and a great GST share deal so they don't need to rely on Transurban to build their roads.
You might be getting mixed up with section 92 which is about trade, not transport.
Driving south from Brisbane on a Friday afternoon might change your views about automatics.
Thanks Richard. You might also remember that Australia only had one border which is 200 miles of the coast. Within Australia we have jurisdictional limit our political boundaries.
Yes I know what you mean with section 92. That section also talk about free intercourse among the states.
Is that some sort of computer screen mounted on the dash as a speedometer or something?
It's the company tablet which has the electronic work diary plus other things like that speedo.
@@RoadTrainAdventures Cool. Looks pretty handy
Yes it is easy to use.
So at 8:15 if I want to save fuel, get in front of a truck and put it in neutral LOL
You got it and so does that car.
Very nice of you to hog the right hand lane for ages, normally you do a very good job
I was going to mention that behind him would be a few angry drivers!
Check your road rules before you slag off, unless there’s signage that says keep left unless overtaking the lanes are anyone’s
@@seanlonergan9631Actually mate, in Vic, trucks are not allowed in the right hand lane unless turning..Here in WA, common sense prevails, cannot speak for other states.
Sais who . What a load of twaddle @@user-wi4sd2pd2c
@@user-wi4sd2pd2c On some roads and freeways in Victoria, trucks over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass (GVM) are restricted from the right lane. 'No Truck' signs on the freeway and at entry points indicate where this restriction is in place. The sign may apply 24 hours a day or may be time-based.
Like I said, the signage didn’t indicate a restriction.
No u r not wrong
Definitely
Like a manual yes. Drive one in a major capital city - nope.
Thanks boomer.