Definitely true about the lack of courtesy these days. How hard is it to change lanes in advance if the road is clear to let someone on an on ramp merge easily ? The world has gone mad and you see it most on the roads.
people seriously can't merge though. even when you leave a good gap in front of you and there's a good gap behind you, people still try merge right where you are instead of just merging into a free spot
I'm 57 I ride a cruiser motorcycle and drive cars. When I was 16 I was always told to give trucks room. To this day I always give truckies respect and room, I even call them up on uhf and have had some great conversations from northern rivers to Sydney very very early mornings when driving. I call them up to let them know to pass if they need to and have always had great experiences with truckies. What happened to drivers today that have no common sense or understanding of the room trucks need?
You said you would like to know what caused the accident with the low loader carrying the M1 Abrams Tank. It's called the Bruce Highway, the cause is the Bruce Highway.
Ten thousand semis drive on that stretch with no dramas, and one has an incident. And you're blaming the Bruce Highway? I've been on a road that had a sunken edge causing steering to pull to the left, but blaming the Bruce Highway has me intrigued. Please elaborate.
The roads are not built correctly. The main roads boffins who actually know nothing shave the shoulders off the road. A truck or a coach can't get off the bitumen without rolling over. In an emergency there is no where to go. I am pleased that I am no longer driving for a living.
Your'e dead right Terry. NOBODY has any courtesy or respect for anyone, anymore. The roads are a bloody dangerous place to be nowadays. All of the imports that couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dogs arse, don't give a hoot and a holla' for the road rules but I must say there's a shit load of P platers just in simple defiance of and respect for other road user's. Where are the Cop's? They seem to be oblivious to the whole problem, you don't see them out on the roads like they used to be. Once if you drove on a particular piece of road you knew where the Cop's stashed themselve's in the bushes but now they're scared that Greenies will have them for destroying an endangered bug or piece of grass.
First of all, well stated. Secondly, the cops have disguised themselves as movable immovable trailers, yellow in colour, with a camera for a head. Thirdliest, the greenies don't give a shit about the bugs, they want us eating them instead of real food, meat! Cheers
Our roads are bloody crap , folks are in a hurry always take dangerous risks overtaking and then we have RAJ out there with his buddys doing some weird shit , and them buggers never have the two way on 😳
Our roads are crap but you should be grateful the wealthy got tax cut after tax cut for 40 years. Now we can't fix our roads but Gina can buy South East Asia and made $45,000 in the time it took you to read this - tax free.
Either Raj doesn't have the UHF on or he has it on some weird channel. Or the UHF is turned right down and he's listening to Bollywood tunes through Spotify in his phone, LoL.
Love your style Tez. My old man new Ron Finemore. Always told me that Ron wouldn't let a truck on the road that wasn't spotlessly clean or had an expert driver. How times have changed. He pronounced Finemore, Fin-e-more.
0:36 Was Footscray station Melbourne over the Bunbury Street rail freight line. A pile of grain ended up on the track therefore closing the rail line as well 😮
I'm really enjoying your videos Tez. We have a 12.5 tag axle coach weighing in at 18t that's been converted into a motorhome. These videos help me understand some of the challenges driving a larger vehicle can have. Whenever we travel somewhere I do a google earth street view check to make sure I'm not going to end up down some narrow street. Did that with a hired campervan in Italy and don't want to make that mistake again! Cheers from the Gold Coast hinterland.
Thank you mate. I do carry with me when I go to new places is "Truckie atlas" which you can bye it in most truck service station. I get mine from BP. If I was going the city alot. I would get "Truckwiz" from "Tones Truckin stories". I think it would be good but I have not use it.
Actually it is a Law in some states to Give Way to Merging traffic. And like you mentioned just polite do so, and IF these rude pricks actually moved over into the other lane it would help to encourage traffic flow 👍
I can't watchndashcams of Australia or others they just pass me off amd put me in a murderous mood. Channels like this I can watch, with pen and paper no less. This is what the internet is for! To share information. To gather intel and discover something interesting, knowledgeable or intelligent. Please have a contingency for when you call it quits so it may continue educating people and in a bloody nice way too. Cheers
I still cant see how Raji's can pass legitimate driving tests. There needs to be an investigation into this. Especially how Police and Government carr y on about the road toll. Improperly trained truck drivers are dangerous. Go back to the standards i had to pass in the late eighties to get my HC.
Howdy, Terry! This is an interesting assortment! First clip: That's a shit place to park! Would that be a septic tank he's using as a wheel chock? The crash involving the tank was in mid July 2023, on the Bruce Hwy, near Rockhampton. It was on it's way to Talisman Sabre war games. It was destined to not make it. Others have commented with most of the details. Another (un)skilled 457 visa holder hard at "work"? There's been a few on this ep. 6:42 It's always the way. A half baked "genius" on holiday (more likely to be retired). Why do they drive around truck parking areas? Because (they think) they can. Can't say I've never seen this before. As old mate told this clown: "We put up with this every holiday". As for the grey nomad, every day is a holiday! And there's those that think it's OK to use truck bowsers, truck parking areas at rest areas, Truck Only stopping areas. Sharp as a bowling ball...
5:57 I agree with your comment about courtesy: and I think many drivers don’t ‘read the road’ ahead and anticipate how to maintain flow or avoid accidents.
There should be a requirement to get training and a specific license to tow a caravan or at least have a LR licence. Far too many people decide to hitch up a van and have no idea about the extra width, length, height, weight, and especially how to reverse it.
A few weeks after that video did the rounds, I saw a Finemore B-Double pulled up on the side of the Hume with a tarp over the B trailer tyres (not sure if it still had tyres), being attended to by a tyre service truck...
Truck me it's a Truck'n nightmare.Sadly blokes are dying because of unnecessary unsafe behaviour.I love horror but this sh%t is way more scary a.1 born every minute they reckon..greetings from Adelaide brother.👍🍻
The truck hanging over the rails was in McNab Avenue Footscray. The tracks below are near the entrance to the tunnel, but at the other end of the tunnel which you featured in a different video a couple of months back.
Tez, from what I can gather the truck with the tank was a wide load with escorts, once again no one on 40 listening and the following caravans and trucks came on it in a hurry, all locked up and nowhere to go.
The caravans were actually on a delivery Vehicle. I believe the driver that has been charged was driving a B Double which collided with the wide load and the other 3 or 4 vehicles had nowhere to go.
With the oversize load one, someone else who can actually drive, should have backed the semi up for the steering wheel attendant. Just for the sake of getting it out the way and on with their job.
No you don't do that. You're not employed by the company or insured to even touch the truck. The only time you'd do that is if requested by emergency services. Touching a truck you're not paid to drive is you making yourself liable.
Not a chance. I'd be sending the video to the road authority and asking how on earth he got a truck license. The less of these incompetent fools on the road, the safer the roads will be for all of us.
Hey Tez that photo of the tanks on floats and the fire was south of Rockhampton on the Bruce Highway. Just on the News tonight they said that the driver who caused the pile up appeared in court and was fine $1000
1 I'd love and update if you get any information on what happened with that Abrams tank crash. NOBODY, especially my active duty Army mates, is talking. And I've put out many a feeler for the low down. 2 yeah dopey caravanner was never going to fit through that gap,but why the hell is truckie mate 3 days walk from the garden anyway? "Yeah,I'll just park inthe middle of the apron, stuff everyone else." And don't be helpful in any way...... I wish I had my Truckie/tradie licence, it seems like you buggers can just park anywhere, no really, why park so far away in the first place? But the other part of that is most of the larger servos / travel centres seem to have forgotten to include parking for caravanners so they *have* to park where the trucks park. It's not something we prefer to to do. Even when the travel centre has decided to put 3 spaces in for caravans, the dickhead cars just park there because they're a drive through park, leaving us - again - with the trucking area as our only option.
Unfortunately there are some truck driving schools that are handing out licenses to anybody who pays after a 48hr lesson in driving trucks. I drive heavy vehicles and lack of curtesy is big problem on the roads, plus the lack of drivers having no real skills in driving, don’t get me started about people from overseas who bring their habits here, bd enough with Aussies as it is. My favourite with car drivers is that they will suddenly pull out in front of you and you clean them up and then they say Oh I didn’t see you! I mean really, which part of my big heavy vehicle did you not see? As for the Grey Nomads , hmmmmmm the biggest problem of all . No idea how to tow caravans and they get them at the time when their driving abilities are deteriorating. One time coming back from Roma in my car , I stopped at Chinchilla and there was a huge RV being pulled out of the river, the bloke pulling it out, told me that it was third one that week. Yep they think the accelerator is the brake and then drive straight in.
5:50 courtesy ; one of my three driving rules + common sense and patience 2:05 great optical illusion You give me a few more reasons to stay out of the big stuff . Keep it safe mate
Truck driver of today has gone out the window.My partner is a old truck driver from way back,he shakes his head in sorrow of how truck driver turned out for the future of trucking and how some get a license at all ,He reckon it not right,how easy to get a truck license and go out and drive b double,with very little experience under your belt.good video old mate,take care with the loony out there.
The accident with the army tank which is the thumbnail for your video happened just south of Rockhampton near Bajool I think. Not sure who hit who but it's closed the Pot Hole Highway for hours. Luckily I don't think anyone was seriously injured. Very very lucky...
Not everyone is Blessed with having a CB radio Tez . Especially Company Trucks that MAINLY do Local . Case in point . Who the Fuck thought it was a Good Idea to put 6-tonne Steel Coils on a 40 foot SKEL . Jesus Wept .
Yes, it's possible to put a 6 tonne coil on a skel but with experience a rubber belt under it and chamfered blocks front and back of the coil and at least 3 chains, preferably more.
@@spanners94 . I am a retired Semi Driver myself . Did a lot of Steel too . I know it is POSSIBLE to use a Skel . Doesn't mean it isn't a Terrible Idea . Just everything about it .
Judging by the trucks, this might be in SE Asia, or South America somewhere. Pretty sure nobody in Australia would do such a stupid thing.... steel coils + skel trailer = death wish.
Good day Tez, What is the common denominator here regarding driver. It is the bleeding obvious & everyone is going to call me a racist & things but from what I can see they are all Raj Truckies. No different to metro Melbourne work they get themselves into a lot of situations weekly. Because of there behaviour you wonder why insurance premiums are going up. Think about it. Cheers Louis Kats 👍
6:12 just south of Rockhampton I think at bobs creek, car towing caravan tried to overtake in the last section of an overtaking lane with traffic travelling the other direction
Tank 1 was 19th of July last year. Just search tank burnt crash qld. "A US military tank - believed to be on the way to the Talisman Sabre military training exercise - has been caught in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on the Bruce Highway in central Queensland. Six people were taken to the Rockhampton and Gladstone hospitals, three with suspected spinal injuries"
At 7.00 of this video here we have a typical entitled NOMAD towing a caravan. Before all these cameras were watching everything the truck driver just pushed the caravan out of the way. Also we have diesel land cruisers towing caravans fuelling up at the TRUCK ONLY diesel pumps and then leaving their vehicle and wandering around with no sense of urgency or respect for the truck driver who has this service station as his designated fuel refilling point. I have seen almost all, still getting surprised.
Hey Tez, I'm 67 and when I was younger Lindsey Bros, were always known as The upside down transport company because their trucks were always ass over head somewhere in the state, ALWAYS. And Mills timber transport wasn't much better. The Tesla towing the trailer, how the hell did they get the air brakes off without a lot of stuff assing around, seriously, only in America. Thanks Tez, stay safe mate. Seeya Rob
There was a speed advisory sign on a corner about 1 km South of Woodburn in Northern NSW, that had a diagram of a truck tipping......some wag put a hand painted sign underneath it that said Lindsey Bros 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The reefer unit door is open because they were using it as a generator to charge the Tesla while driving!! I don't know, just saying. We got bogans and BOGANS, just like Australia. 😂😂
Like wazza said the firey crash with the US Abrams tank was at bajool which is 20km south of Rockhampton in central Queensland on its way from Gladstone port to the shoalwater bay military training area for exercise talisman sabre. The story I heard was a vehicle towing a caravan ignored the directions of the wide load escort pilot. But I’ve also just recently seen that the truck driver carrying the Abrams has been charged with dangerous driving, so 🤷♂️
Heya Tez, luvin' the continuous content and it has been a while since I've commented on one, but god damn, the thing that infuriates me most of all and you had heaps of examples here it that the vast majority of all the F ups were ding dings. They are quickly becoming a menace on the roads. The gov needs to stop accepting international licenses and make all do valid safety and competency tests on them. I am in no way being r@c1s7, I am simply being factual. I gave up running the highway because it's becoming more and more dangerous. At night they drive with the highs on and fail to dip lights to on coming traffic, they have a hard time keeping to their own side of the road or lane, constantly drifting (either watching vids on the phone or making TikTok vids) and even doing local now I see this on a daily basis. Even my brother doing Mel-Dubbo is forever complaining about it. Look I get it, we all have to learn somewhere but seriously, allowing people to drive heavy vehicle with an international ticket without competency or proper training is ludicrous and I am pretty certain there is no suck thing as a double where they come from....Rant over
The one with the tank on the loader was the one up near Rockhampton I think, I was in the news tonight, driver received a fine for not keep safe distance.
With the tank crash near Bajool, on the news tonight was the story that a truck driver involved was fined $1000 for failing to keep a safe distance, no conviction recorded
I think the truck drivers interaction with caravaner in Car/Truck Park could have been a little More politely Handled. The caravaner Made a slight miss calculation. and probably could have backed out of there :) But was labelled !
Hey tez 😂😮 do you think that it's a drug problem or a nationality problem... seemed to be a factor in more than a few of these clips... that ev truck didn't appear to be on fire are you sure it was an Ev
@@tezthetruckie I got out of it back in 2012 as I started to see a lot of side swipe instances which came down inexperienced and a lot of other things were showing that inexperienced was rife Once Upon a Time all you had to worry about was turbo coming at you backwards through flood water ... now is more turbans coming at you with or without tyres
My guess with the Low Loader and Military Tank ?? Anytime a Caravan is involved. 99.99% chance the guy towing the Caravan caused this accident. People love their Caravans. But, they seem to turn their brains off Every time they hook up a caravan to there car 🙄
some of these solo trucks dont have radios, I have seen semi divers swerve around cars on Albert street Preston and they are carrying goods for a grocery outlet big red truck with white writing and tipper and dog cutting of corners hitting the curb with the dog Man o Man they are in to much of a hurry puts a bad taste in your mouth bad vibes for all the good drivers
Wow what a racist comment. I've come across Ron Finemore on multiple trips (approx 30 x 6hr trips over the past 2 years) and they've been good truck drivers. For context of my experience, I've driven across India in a rickshaw, around Australia, across North America, and in numerous other countries (USA, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.) on both a motorbike and car licence. In my experience I've found Asian drivers the most aware of their surroundings.
Can you prove 90% of the truckies involved here are Indian (or cite where these facts can be found)? I've spoken to many truckies, thanks. @@billydog1954
In respect of people having to monitor channel 40: It helps if ALL these people driving interstate trucks could speak English. I have tried communicating with Nullarbor runners hauling B-doubles having heard them chattering to their mate in Indian only to get total silence, nothing, nada. How can these "drivers" even understand road signs, let alone read and understand a road rules book ?
When was the last time you actualled googled, or used a search engine, and asked a question like “how do you get a driver’s license in NSW” …. Wow wasn’t that informative!?? It’s no wonder no one has any idea of road laws in our country - they change dependent upon which search engine you use, “apparently”!
The truck driver on his brake irritated me with his manner. The car n van driver realised his error, and "Im on my brake and not moving" someth8ng called courtesy works both ways
Every time I see a Ron Finemore on the road coming towards me i pray i Survive and once the camel express has passed i tap my body to make sure im alive because lets face it they are the worst drivers on the road
I always found car drivers where I live seem to slow down & sit right near the front of the side trailer in the truck driver’s blind spot as it the car driver is too scared to pass the truck while blocking the lane they are in so nobody can get passed.🫣🙄
Definitely true about the lack of courtesy these days. How hard is it to change lanes in advance if the road is clear to let someone on an on ramp merge easily ?
The world has gone mad and you see it most on the roads.
Very true
Not to mention they looked far too close together to begin with.
people seriously can't merge though. even when you leave a good gap in front of you and there's a good gap behind you, people still try merge right where you are instead of just merging into a free spot
I'm 57 I ride a cruiser motorcycle and drive cars. When I was 16 I was always told to give trucks room. To this day I always give truckies respect and room, I even call them up on uhf and have had some great conversations from northern rivers to Sydney very very early mornings when driving. I call them up to let them know to pass if they need to and have always had great experiences with truckies. What happened to drivers today that have no common sense or understanding of the room trucks need?
Thanks for sharing
My dad told me that when he taught me to drive to leave enough space between the truck & me.
Drivers these days are that far up themselves, to be of any use to themselves, let alone others...😮
That Tesla will have to recharge every 1.5km towing that load. Keep up the ripper work Tez.
Thank you mate
AND chassis issues, stretched....😅
Goes to show though how much bloody torque those electric engines have
Pretty sure that's why the fridge is open. He's using it as a Genny to keep some charge
It can pull it, but not stop it
You said you would like to know what caused the accident with the low loader carrying the M1 Abrams Tank.
It's called the Bruce Highway, the cause is the Bruce Highway.
Not sure but didn`t the truck driver get charged over that accident ?
I'd say it had something to do with the humans that use it
Ten thousand semis drive on that stretch with no dramas, and one has an incident. And you're blaming the Bruce Highway? I've been on a road that had a sunken edge causing steering to pull to the left, but blaming the Bruce Highway has me intrigued. Please elaborate.
The roads are not built correctly. The main roads boffins who actually know nothing shave the shoulders off the road. A truck or a coach can't get off the bitumen without rolling over. In an emergency there is no where to go. I am pleased that I am no longer driving for a living.
Your'e dead right Terry. NOBODY has any courtesy or respect for anyone, anymore. The roads are a bloody dangerous place to be nowadays. All of the imports that couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dogs arse, don't give a hoot and a holla' for the road rules but I must say there's a shit load of P platers just in simple defiance of and respect for other road user's. Where are the Cop's? They seem to be oblivious to the whole problem, you don't see them out on the roads like they used to be. Once if you drove on a particular piece of road you knew where the Cop's stashed themselve's in the bushes but now they're scared that Greenies will have them for destroying an endangered bug or piece of grass.
I do agree with you.
First of all, well stated. Secondly, the cops have disguised themselves as movable immovable trailers, yellow in colour, with a camera for a head. Thirdliest, the greenies don't give a shit about the bugs, they want us eating them instead of real food, meat!
Cheers
Absolutely CORRECT 💯
Our roads are bloody crap , folks are in a hurry always take dangerous risks overtaking and then we have RAJ out there with his buddys doing some weird shit , and them buggers never have the two way on 😳
Our roads are crap but you should be grateful the wealthy got tax cut after tax cut for 40 years. Now we can't fix our roads but Gina can buy South East Asia and made $45,000 in the time it took you to read this - tax free.
Either Raj doesn't have the UHF on or he has it on some weird channel. Or the UHF is turned right down and he's listening to Bollywood tunes through Spotify in his phone, LoL.
Love your style Tez. My old man new Ron Finemore. Always told me that Ron wouldn't let a truck on the road that wasn't spotlessly clean or had an expert driver. How times have changed. He pronounced Finemore, Fin-e-more.
thank you mate. Times have not change for the better.
Can you settle a bet once and for all?
Is it pronounced FINE MORE or FINNEY MORE Transport?
0:36 Was Footscray station Melbourne over the Bunbury Street rail freight line.
A pile of grain ended up on the track therefore closing the rail line as well 😮
@@David-xk6xq I think it is fine more but I could be wrong
I’m a local to Wodonga where RFT is based, and have mates who work for them. It’s pronounced “fin-ah-more”.
Greetings from the USA. Retired from driving eight years ago. Seems things never change. Be safe.
Trucks ain't camels.
This made me giggle my ass off. Cheers mate 👍
Kalgoorlie. You can turn around in a 3 chain street Mate.
I'm really enjoying your videos Tez. We have a 12.5 tag axle coach weighing in at 18t that's been converted into a motorhome. These videos help me understand some of the challenges driving a larger vehicle can have. Whenever we travel somewhere I do a google earth street view check to make sure I'm not going to end up down some narrow street. Did that with a hired campervan in Italy and don't want to make that mistake again! Cheers from the Gold Coast hinterland.
Thank you mate. I do carry with me when I go to new places is "Truckie atlas" which you can bye it in most truck service station. I get mine from BP. If I was going the city alot. I would get "Truckwiz" from "Tones Truckin stories". I think it would be good but I have not use it.
That was cool video mate thanks, that one with the tank was up north coming down coast road last year
Thank you mate
Skilled (?????) visa🤣🤣🤣
When coming up on a merger lane or slip lane, if a car is merging, I always move over, not a rule or law, just polite
Actually it is a Law in some states to Give Way to Merging traffic.
And like you mentioned just polite do so, and IF these rude pricks actually moved over into the other lane it would help to encourage traffic flow 👍
I can't watchndashcams of Australia or others they just pass me off amd put me in a murderous mood. Channels like this I can watch, with pen and paper no less. This is what the internet is for! To share information. To gather intel and discover something interesting, knowledgeable or intelligent. Please have a contingency for when you call it quits so it may continue educating people and in a bloody nice way too.
Cheers
Thank you mate. somedays I have to turn my brain off to watch most of these videos for the same reason as you mate
Have your radio turned on and be able to understand the English language usually helps
Companies should start being fined for hiring these cowboy's,otherwise it will only get worse on our roads.
I still cant see how Raji's can pass legitimate driving tests. There needs to be an investigation into this. Especially how Police and Government carr y on about the road toll. Improperly trained truck drivers are dangerous. Go back to the standards i had to pass in the late eighties to get my HC.
Howdy, Terry! This is an interesting assortment! First clip: That's a shit place to park! Would that be a septic tank he's using as a wheel chock?
The crash involving the tank was in mid July 2023, on the Bruce Hwy, near Rockhampton. It was on it's way to Talisman Sabre war games. It was destined to not make it.
Others have commented with most of the details. Another (un)skilled 457 visa holder hard at "work"? There's been a few on this ep.
6:42 It's always the way. A half baked "genius" on holiday (more likely to be retired). Why do they drive around truck parking areas? Because (they think) they can.
Can't say I've never seen this before. As old mate told this clown: "We put up with this every holiday". As for the grey nomad, every day is a holiday!
And there's those that think it's OK to use truck bowsers, truck parking areas at rest areas, Truck Only stopping areas. Sharp as a bowling ball...
Just a heads up, Finemores is actually pronounced "Finnymores". Thanks for you vid. I love looking at the stuff ups and know that that wasn't me!!
5:57 I agree with your comment about courtesy: and I think many drivers don’t ‘read the road’ ahead and anticipate how to maintain flow or avoid accidents.
This was said to me Once. Driver's ready the road is a lost art
There should be a requirement to get training and a specific license to tow a caravan or at least have a LR licence. Far too many people decide to hitch up a van and have no idea about the extra width, length, height, weight, and especially how to reverse it.
I have an MR licence and drove buses for 4 years and have driven 14 pallet trucks and I guarantee I'd bloody struggle towing a caravan.
Thank god I only drive a little garbage truck (clean waste).
Steel coils on a skelly trailer is just crazy!
Maybe a case of the usual suspects.
I do try to not put them on video but some time it can not be help
courtesy, yes it's a severe failing by a LOT of drivers!!
A few weeks after that video did the rounds, I saw a Finemore B-Double pulled up on the side of the Hume with a tarp over the B trailer tyres (not sure if it still had tyres), being attended to by a tyre service truck...
Truck me it's a Truck'n nightmare.Sadly blokes are dying because of unnecessary unsafe behaviour.I love horror but this sh%t is way more scary a.1 born every minute they reckon..greetings from Adelaide brother.👍🍻
The truck hanging over the rails was in McNab Avenue Footscray. The tracks below are near the entrance to the tunnel, but at the other end of the tunnel which you featured in a different video a couple of months back.
Tez, from what I can gather the truck with the tank was a wide load with escorts, once again no one on 40 listening and the following caravans and trucks came on it in a hurry, all locked up and nowhere to go.
A South Australian truck driver has just been charged by police (yesterday) for causing this accident.
The caravans were actually on a delivery Vehicle. I believe the driver that has been charged was driving a B Double which collided with the wide load and the other 3 or 4 vehicles had nowhere to go.
In the 80's we used to call Lindsay Bros. "Upside Down Transport".
Scotts did a good job stealing that award.
With the oversize load one, someone else who can actually drive, should have backed the semi up for the steering wheel attendant. Just for the sake of getting it out the way and on with their job.
No you don't do that. You're not employed by the company or insured to even touch the truck. The only time you'd do that is if requested by emergency services. Touching a truck you're not paid to drive is you making yourself liable.
@weaselman24 fair point
Not a chance. I'd be sending the video to the road authority and asking how on earth he got a truck license. The less of these incompetent fools on the road, the safer the roads will be for all of us.
Hey Tez that photo of the tanks on floats and the fire was south of Rockhampton on the Bruce Highway. Just on the News tonight they said that the driver who caused the pile up appeared in court and was fine $1000
thank you mate
7:48 I've heard (dunno if it's true) that Indian drivers tend to turn their radios off because they cop incessant racism from Aussie truckies.
I have heard some colourful observations of their driving skills or lack of shared over the radio.
Last one is aus with the rolls of steel. Indian pride on the side of the truck
Y people like me have left the industry
1 I'd love and update if you get any information on what happened with that Abrams tank crash. NOBODY, especially my active duty Army mates, is talking. And I've put out many a feeler for the low down.
2 yeah dopey caravanner was never going to fit through that gap,but why the hell is truckie mate 3 days walk from the garden anyway? "Yeah,I'll just park inthe middle of the apron, stuff everyone else." And don't be helpful in any way...... I wish I had my Truckie/tradie licence, it seems like you buggers can just park anywhere, no really, why park so far away in the first place?
But the other part of that is most of the larger servos / travel centres seem to have forgotten to include parking for caravanners so they *have* to park where the trucks park. It's not something we prefer to to do. Even when the travel centre has decided to put 3 spaces in for caravans, the dickhead cars just park there because they're a drive through park, leaving us - again - with the trucking area as our only option.
Unfortunately there are some truck driving schools that are handing out licenses to anybody who pays after a 48hr lesson in driving trucks.
I drive heavy vehicles and lack of curtesy is big problem on the roads, plus the lack of drivers having no real skills in driving, don’t get me started about people from overseas who bring their habits here, bd enough with Aussies as it is.
My favourite with car drivers is that they will suddenly pull out in front of you and you clean them up and then they say Oh I didn’t see you! I mean really, which part of my big heavy vehicle did you not see?
As for the Grey Nomads , hmmmmmm the biggest problem of all . No idea how to tow caravans and they get them at the time when their driving abilities are deteriorating.
One time coming back from Roma in my car , I stopped at Chinchilla and there was a huge RV being pulled out of the river, the bloke pulling it out, told me that it was third one that week.
Yep they think the accelerator is the brake and then drive straight in.
Great Video, thanks for sharing
Thank you mate
@@tezthetruckie my pleasure
That tank crash was Rockhampton last year
thank you
The accident with tank was on news stations
So you'll be able to find out through media sights
It's a mad mad world we live in Master Jack.... (apologies to 4 Jacks and a Jill "Strange World" 1968)
5:50 courtesy ; one of my three driving rules + common sense and patience
2:05 great optical illusion
You give me a few more reasons to stay out of the big stuff . Keep it safe mate
Truck driver of today has gone out the window.My partner is a old truck driver from way back,he shakes his head in sorrow of how truck driver turned out for the future of trucking and how some get a license at all ,He reckon it not right,how easy to get a truck license and go out and drive b double,with very little experience under your belt.good video old mate,take care with the loony out there.
As expected, mostly Raji's. I'm bewildered as to how they pass tests
The accident with the army tank which is the thumbnail for your video happened just south of Rockhampton near Bajool I think. Not sure who hit who but it's closed the Pot Hole Highway for hours. Luckily I don't think anyone was seriously injured. Very very lucky...
Not everyone is Blessed with having a CB radio Tez . Especially Company Trucks that MAINLY do Local .
Case in point . Who the Fuck thought it was a Good Idea to put 6-tonne Steel Coils on a 40 foot SKEL . Jesus Wept .
Yes, it's possible to put a 6 tonne coil on a skel but with experience a rubber belt under it and chamfered blocks front and back of the coil and at least 3 chains, preferably more.
@@spanners94 . I am a retired Semi Driver myself . Did a lot of Steel too .
I know it is POSSIBLE to use a Skel .
Doesn't mean it isn't a Terrible Idea .
Just everything about it .
Judging by the trucks, this might be in SE Asia, or South America somewhere.
Pretty sure nobody in Australia would do such a stupid thing.... steel coils + skel trailer = death wish.
Good day Tez,
What is the common denominator here regarding driver.
It is the bleeding obvious & everyone is going to call me a racist & things but from what I can see they are all Raj Truckies.
No different to metro Melbourne work they get themselves into a lot of situations weekly.
Because of there behaviour you wonder why insurance premiums are going up.
Think about it.
Cheers
Louis Kats 👍
I here what you are saying.
6:12 just south of Rockhampton I think at bobs creek, car towing caravan tried to overtake in the last section of an overtaking lane with traffic travelling the other direction
All Raj drivers don't turn there radios on, or me don't speak English.
and the reason they don't is because they cop racism
Tank 1 was 19th of July last year. Just search tank burnt crash qld. "A US military tank - believed to be on the way to the Talisman Sabre military training exercise - has been caught in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on the Bruce Highway in central Queensland. Six people were taken to the Rockhampton and Gladstone hospitals, three with suspected spinal injuries"
thank you mate
At 7.00 of this video here we have a typical entitled NOMAD towing a caravan. Before all these cameras were watching everything the truck driver just pushed the caravan out of the way. Also we have diesel land cruisers towing caravans fuelling up at the TRUCK ONLY diesel pumps and then leaving their vehicle and wandering around with no sense of urgency or respect for the truck driver who has this service station as his designated fuel refilling point. I have seen almost all, still getting surprised.
@ 6:18. Fatal smash on Bruce Highway, Marmor. Between Rockhampton and Gladstone, 2 years ago..?..!
Hey Tez, I'm 67 and when I was younger Lindsey Bros, were always known as The upside down transport company because their trucks were always ass over head somewhere in the state, ALWAYS. And Mills timber transport wasn't much better. The Tesla towing the trailer, how the hell did they get the air brakes off without a lot of stuff assing around, seriously, only in America. Thanks Tez, stay safe mate. Seeya Rob
Hi Rob. Someone else was telling me the same thing about Lindsey some time back. I forgot all about that.
There was a speed advisory sign on a corner about 1 km South of Woodburn in Northern NSW, that had a diagram of a truck tipping......some wag put a hand painted sign underneath it that said Lindsey Bros 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The reefer unit door is open because they were using it as a generator to charge the Tesla while driving!! I don't know, just saying.
We got bogans and BOGANS, just like Australia. 😂😂
So was Roccisano TPT always tipping then over.
Like wazza said the firey crash with the US Abrams tank was at bajool which is 20km south of Rockhampton in central Queensland on its way from Gladstone port to the shoalwater bay military training area for exercise talisman sabre. The story I heard was a vehicle towing a caravan ignored the directions of the wide load escort pilot. But I’ve also just recently seen that the truck driver carrying the Abrams has been charged with dangerous driving, so 🤷♂️
There's a common theme here with certain ones and we can thank the government for that
Well, that's one way to destroy a multi-million dollar Abrams tank. I hope someone has a lot of insurance coverage.
Heya Tez, luvin' the continuous content and it has been a while since I've commented on one, but god damn, the thing that infuriates me most of all and you had heaps of examples here it that the vast majority of all the F ups were ding dings. They are quickly becoming a menace on the roads. The gov needs to stop accepting international licenses and make all do valid safety and competency tests on them. I am in no way being r@c1s7, I am simply being factual. I gave up running the highway because it's becoming more and more dangerous. At night they drive with the highs on and fail to dip lights to on coming traffic, they have a hard time keeping to their own side of the road or lane, constantly drifting (either watching vids on the phone or making TikTok vids) and even doing local now I see this on a daily basis. Even my brother doing Mel-Dubbo is forever complaining about it. Look I get it, we all have to learn somewhere but seriously, allowing people to drive heavy vehicle with an international ticket without competency or proper training is ludicrous and I am pretty certain there is no suck thing as a double where they come from....Rant over
I know what you are saying. I see out here too. I can make a long video with just them in it. I am seeing more and more of it all the time.
Yes some of these incidents I'm glad it wasn't me but I think everyone who drives trucks wishes they hadn't got out of bed days
The one with the tank on the loader was the one up near Rockhampton I think, I was in the news tonight, driver received a fine for not keep safe distance.
Thank you.
Sadly majority of whats in this video can all be avoided (chuckles) but we wouldn't have any videos to laugh at others misfortune.
🤣🤣👍Very true mate
I know in NSW you can only move at night because of traffic same as most road works
3:34 Maybe the bloke in the Tesla towing the trailer had taken it for a test drive and will return it soon?
With the tank crash near Bajool, on the news tonight was the story that a truck driver involved was fined $1000 for failing to keep a safe distance, no conviction recorded
Thank you
what a joke, people get more than that for having a phone visible on a passenger seat..
I think the truck drivers interaction with caravaner in Car/Truck Park could have been a little More politely Handled. The caravaner Made a slight miss calculation. and probably could have backed out of there :) But was labelled !
Courtesy,like commonsense went out of fashion in the '80s and it probably isn't going to make a comeback.
Hey tez 😂😮 do you think that it's a drug problem or a nationality problem... seemed to be a factor in more than a few of these clips... that ev truck didn't appear to be on fire are you sure it was an Ev
Yes mate there is a drug problem on the roads. Mybe a bit a nationality problem as well. but we had problems on are roads be for that.
@@tezthetruckie I got out of it back in 2012 as I started to see a lot of side swipe instances which came down inexperienced and a lot of other things were showing that inexperienced was rife Once Upon a Time all you had to worry about was turbo coming at you backwards through flood water ... now is more turbans coming at you with or without tyres
😂😂 sorry guys lol Courtesy was thrown out the window when common sense was lost roughly the same time
You Aussies drive on the right side of the truck and wrong side of the road, we drive on the right side of the road and wrong side of the truck... lol
I gonna try hauling a truck trailer with my Hyundai sedan lol
I like to see that. 🤣🤣👍
I want some ...lol let me know!!!😂 take me to your dealership!!!🕳👽🤙✌️🇺🇲😎😜
Will do
Hi tezzathat tankthe big stack pretty sure it was a very bad fatality 😢
Unfortunately one cannot fix stupid !!!!!
My guess with the Low Loader and Military Tank ??
Anytime a Caravan is involved.
99.99% chance the guy towing the Caravan caused this accident.
People love their Caravans.
But, they seem to turn their brains off Every time they hook up a caravan to there car 🙄
Why the hell would you load tin rolls on a skel????
Raj is so prevalent in these clips
It getting hard to not find him in a video
Did anyone see the video of Raj driving the finemore truck, with the rear tri axles with no tyres
Just about everyone saw that.
some of these solo trucks dont have radios, I have seen semi divers swerve around cars on Albert street Preston and they are carrying goods for a grocery outlet big red truck with white writing and tipper and dog cutting of corners hitting the curb with the dog Man o Man they are in to much of a hurry puts a bad taste in your mouth bad vibes for all the good drivers
0:11 you can’t park there sir
looks like our Aussie truck drivers find their licence in a Kellogs Rice Bubbles packet
I would bet my house 90% of them are Indian drivers they're everywhere these days and none of them could drive a nail into hot butter
International Ricence
Yeah it's a fucking joke, meanwhile you and I have to spend thousands to get the proper licences.
Wow what a racist comment. I've come across Ron Finemore on multiple trips (approx 30 x 6hr trips over the past 2 years) and they've been good truck drivers.
For context of my experience, I've driven across India in a rickshaw, around Australia, across North America, and in numerous other countries (USA, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.) on both a motorbike and car licence. In my experience I've found Asian drivers the most aware of their surroundings.
@@stiffpants Facts aren't racist ,you obviously haven't spoken to any truckies
Can you prove 90% of the truckies involved here are Indian (or cite where these facts can be found)? I've spoken to many truckies, thanks. @@billydog1954
I agree how many caravans park at truck stops when it's says truck bay bloody idiots
In respect of people having to monitor channel 40: It helps if ALL these people driving interstate trucks could speak English. I have tried communicating with Nullarbor runners hauling B-doubles having heard them chattering to their mate in Indian only to get total silence, nothing, nada. How can these "drivers" even understand road signs, let alone read and understand a road rules book ?
When was the last time you actualled googled, or used a search engine, and asked a question like “how do you get a driver’s license in NSW” …. Wow wasn’t that informative!?? It’s no wonder no one has any idea of road laws in our country - they change dependent upon which search engine you use, “apparently”!
I going try that
Stay Safe
These guys should not be behind the wheel
Fkn curries!
At 6:14, Looks like they tanked it.
Buut Buut Ville😂
I know what happened with the us army tank as I work for the company but too much written to explain
Sad industry now.
Currymucher think they know everything about trucking or driving when a lot of them should not be on the road
The music is pointless.
😢
The truck driver on his brake irritated me with his manner. The car n van driver realised his error, and "Im on my brake and not moving" someth8ng called courtesy works both ways
Its called common sense not many who drive have it in todays world
Every time I see a Ron Finemore on the road coming towards me i pray i Survive and once the camel express has passed i tap my body to make sure im alive because lets face it they are the worst drivers on the road
🤣🤣🤣
I refused to change tyres for ron..he owns a tyre company..they can send someone out...
I always found car drivers where I live seem to slow down & sit right near the front of the side trailer in the truck driver’s blind spot as it the car driver is too scared to pass the truck while blocking the lane they are in so nobody can get passed.🫣🙄