American Reacts to Skilled Aussie Truckie Backs a B-Double into Coles Dropoff
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Nobody gives truck drivers a thought. Motorists complain about them constantly, when it's the truckies that keep their supermarkets stocked. Places like this rely on them heavily, yet give them a tiny patch of driveway to use. it's a thankless job and the pay is pretty crap too, if you break it down into an hourly rate. Seriously underrated people
Good point. Respect too for how these drivers can handle busy traffic while driving a small skyscraper on wheels.
I only complain when I have my kids in the car and some dipshit woolies truck driver is tailgating me on the highway, pushing me down the road at 120.
So we dont rely on other motorists? Pretty sure 9/10 cars you see are heavily relied on considering they have to go to work
@@tothelimit9992 did I say that? Did I??
@@timjohnun4297 its what you insinuated with your comment
This is one of those things that seem impossible to the average joe but is just another day for the guy doing it for a living.
So true.
This isn’t even slightly hard for a real B Double truck driver
On Outback Truckers (Aussie trucking show) there is one guy I've seen back his 2 trailers up to his 3rd trailer perfectly
Avid fan of that show and it has taught me a lot about sharing the road with our Aussie truckers and how other drivers can show them consideration.
Glad you finally got to see my suggestion 👍Also glad you enjoyed it, thought you would. I think the birds eye view really helps you understand how they do it.
I don't drive trucks myself, but massive respect to those that do, it's definitely skill backing a B double like this.
Road train adventures youtube channel has better and they explain how to connect them and back up . think one guy hooks up tp 3 and explains through video how he does it.
Remember a mate started Bdoubles and the 2nd trailer actually you turn the wheel like backing a single car because is the second trailer, a single you steer opposite. it sounds weird.
Is this a distribution centre? It can't be a regular Coles.
@@lionelmrocki7955 I have no idea, I saw the video and thought Ian would enjoy it.
I don't care what anybody says, long haul trucking is one of the hardest jobs out there and the most time consuming. People have no idea the dedication these drivers have towards their craft.
Hats off to all the truckers out there💪
Come work fifo💪💪
@@tothelimit9992 clueless...!
@@tothelimit9992 Poor fifo workers 🎻
You can say that about lots of industries and jobs. Manufacturing does 12 hour rotating shifts. Usually working every day but Christmas Day. Service industry spends their entire shift on their feet catering to rude obnoxious customers who think they’re deserving of special treatment because they visited your cafe. All jobs are the same, have the same issues and carry the country themselves.
@@marksmart9754 that’s true. And all of those workers also rely on trucks, whether it be to deliver or despatch their products. I never said truck drivers are the only important job by the way, I made a simple comment about them based off the contents of this video. If the video was about production workers I’d have probably made a similar comment about them 🤷♂️
Australia hold the record for the longest road train "18 February 2006, an Australian built Mack truck with 113 semi-trailers, 1,300 t (1,279 long tons; 1,433 short tons) and 1,474.3 metres (4,836 ft 11 in) long, pulled the load 100 metres (328 feet) " that was only for Guinness record.
Setting up 113 trailers with dollys is nothing to sneeze at either I wonder how long it took them. Also wonder how the first trailer behind the truck's ringfeeder went pulling 112 trailers behind it
Hahahahahahaha
@@Smoked_5LWhat's a dolly?
@@JohnSmith-zo6ir en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(trailer)
@Smoked_5L im more curious if the trucks co.pressor was enough yo release all the brakes, or if they had to use air compressors on the line too
Seven B doubles all parked perfectly straight that’s skill
It is that's for sure, as an Australian whose been driving doubles for 30yrs I can tell you that the line markers make it easier to make it straight but there are a lot here who can't back straight and some places I've been to it gets ugly. Even change over bays and parking bays on our highways where certain people just drive into you wonder WTF
@@jacquesjackcoomans2295as another Aussie double driver I know exactly what you mean.
Tarcutta is a circus between 10pm and 2am that’s for sure and we both know who the culprits you’re talking about are lol.
I used to work at a concrete plant in Australia. Trucks with double 'trailers' would back up to one bin and tip the aggregate in from the back trailer. Then move over to the next bin and make the back trailer jack-knife so the front trailer could back to the bin and tip it's load. It was amazing to watch.
Iworked in civil construction and we had those trucks coming and going all the time. Those tippers were called quad dogs. They couldn't be used in high winds though, in case the trailer tipped when it was raised.
A truck and dog set up is what you’re talking about. They only have one trailer and are a license class below a bdouble.
It’s actually really easy to jack knife the trailer to tip the truck.
And yet hubby still can't push his chair in after leaving the table..😂
Or change the toilet roll 😂
Why would he? not his job... 😂
@@barrydawson7548 laziness is the worst trait
Way to go. The subject matter that everyone wants to watch is stuck down in 1/4 of the screen while your fat head and junk background takes up the remaining 3/4. You should have your head in a tiny picture in picture and forget about your trash set. Very forgettable channel.
Clip him around the ears ! You did not train him well ! Lol
Some the supermarkets here in Sydney have docks in such tight places that semi delivery drivers have to jackknife the semis to get them in there. I've watched them in awe quite a few times.
I worked at a department store where we sort of had a situation like that, as the load/unload zone was fenced in with beautiful trees and bushes. Stupidity, really. Poorly planned and designed, just as the rest of the warehouse part. Drivers jumped out and had a look around, and one or two of us acted as spotters for them.
As one concrete corner at the edge of these shrubberies was knocked loose one day, we threw it in the dumpster and never said a word to managment. It made life a lot easier for everyone.
Years ago in Leichardt,Sydney,I watched a driver back a single trailer semi into a back lane.Did it in one go & had to climb out his window & walk along a fence top to the rear.I think he may have done it just a few times before !
And then we get people who park in the dock areas and make our days miserable. I waited an hour and a half for one guy at Illawong to finish his dinner with his family.
I'm currently learning/training to do this with just a single trailer for a major Australian supermarket chain and it's no walk in the park that's for sure, very stressful at times if I'm being honest.
@@markdotcomau I don't doubt you. I used to drive trucks but I only have HR license so I have never driven a semi. Biggest truck I drove was a 30 tonne GVM twin steer Kenworth and I also drove Isuzu 1400, a good size Scania and few other three axle trucks. My favourite was a very old International S-Line with Road Ranger and a Cummins that made hills seem like flat ground. That truck made it up the hill from Roseville Bridge without changing the gearbox to a lower gear. The most gutless was the Isuzu 1400. Even rigids can be challenging.
When I worked at Woolworths, our store loading dock was enclosed but required the truck to reverse up the loading ramp which was barely as wide as the truck itself, The really good drivers just kissed the bump stop with the trailer and knew exactly where to stop for the loading ramp. Others just slammed into the bump stop and they knew they had to stop. 😁 Cheers
I drove trucks in Australia from the mid 70's until 2004. When I started were no B-Doubles. For about the last 7 or 8 years of my truck driving days, I drove B-Doubles. There were many places where you had to split the trailers and back them in one at a time, simply because there wasn't enough room.
I love truckies, I always give them a wide birth. I try to respect their size & always give way to them to make there lives easier. Very responsible job, & we need them in this vast country. GO TRUCKIES ❤
Incredible !! The Truckies keep this country alive
Who keeps the trucks on the road? Mechanics. We all have a part to play in society.
Hi there from Australia. "B" Doubles are big but now we have on our roads the Tripple trailer rigs and in our out back we have Road Trains which will have up to 6 Trailers. Australia is a big country and as such we have BIG trucks as well as BIG trains. Great channel.
When i worked at woolworths, they did the same into finger docks. Impressive watching the good drivers nail it every time
I delivered also Semis to Woolies in Somerton finger docks..Was pretty easy .. I watched other b doubles nail the finger docks.. Much harder than this in the video here..
@@Marcus-up5wk Are you referring to the "Old Franklins DC" in Filo Dr, Somerton..???? I worked at Woolworth HDC (Hume DC) in Broadmeadows (for 8 years, right up to it closed down as it got replaced by MSDC (Melbourne South DC)). HDC Had single trailer Finger-docks. Many drivers (Including myself) would Split the "A" and unload that first; Once that was empty, hook-up the B-Trailer up and back it in as a combo; this way you drove out of the dock as one unit. BTW Coles has a DC in Somerton
@@noodnutt yes was hume..I did Arnotts biscuits in there back around 2009-2012 approximately. I remember distinctly a tugger picking up a full trailer of Schweppes drinks taking off fast and dropping it.. I was just about to drive away and I sat and watched this trailer skids for meters till it came to a stop with just enough room for me to get out and around before they shut the dock down…Yes the good drivers could back the b trailer on unhook the back the a trailer on the next dock.. Others (not so good) would unhitch in the yard.. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Truck drivers are so skilled they deliver everything respect
So proud of our Truckees. Everything relys on transport. Immobilise the trucks and the nations will crumble. The same can be said for fuel and oil. 😊❤️🙏🇦🇺
I have the same kind of feelings about freight trains. They come through my local station a LOT. I love the sound of the cars clunking (they have to slow down at my point) and the fact that, along with the trucks, they keep the country moving. It's like, things be moving. Everything is ok.
Australia is fucked without truck drivers! We’re soo proud of them!!
@@CaleMessner Aussie truck drivers are fucked without truck mechanics, Truck mechanics are fucked without school teachers. School teachers are fucked without people of higher education teaching them how to teach, I could go on and on but you get the idea.
I used to tow a 9m caravan behind my 4x4. I now drive a large motorhome with a car being towed behind. I always move over for truckies so they can get their work done. I have had a number of convos with them to let them know I will be moving out of their way asap. They have always been very thankful for this. As I say to them , “you guys and working, I am on holidays. You are more important than me.” By the way, I am a very small woman, travelling with my disabled husband.
Yes, people who complain about truck drivers probably enjoy a nice quiet office, or think everyone on the road owes them right of way. My dad, driver of a small truck, taught me to stand back from the pedestrian crossing so truck drivers knew they could slow down and keep going. He said, don’t make them change down all the gears to stop for one person. But many trucks are automatic now.
@@lesleymcneill1403 Automatic trucks are the worst. I've yet to drive one that isn't frustrating. Sure, they shift faster than I ever could and much more consistently but they can't look 100m ahead and see that theres a hill and hold the gear their in. Even putting it in manual mode is a pain.
My husband used to work for Kalari driving quads and yes he could reverse all four trailers
Funniest thing about doing this is ask the driver to reverse a single trailer. After reversing a bdouble every day, the boss throws a curve ball and gives you a single trailer, you forget how to do it.
Or you get home and tow a car trailer and keep turning the wrong way. 😂
Dog combo guys in a normal semi kinda funny
Having designed many industrial and warehouse projects, I was always told that it was impossible to reverse a drawbar trailer but then I went to the flower market in Aalmeer in Holland and saw that this was commonplace as draw bar trailers operate throughout Europe. I take my hats off to the truck drivers who have learnt this skill.
One interesting point is the use of bendy buses that are a coupled trailer, often with the pusher motor in the rear trailer. One of their failings in London when BoJo introduced them was their inability to reverse around a corner because the electronics would not allow them to articulate over the (low) prescribed limit, which resulted in many bendy buses being stranded at junctions until a Merc tech could be called out to reboot/override the electronics.
Plenty of drivers reverse A Doubles in straight lines with the occasional slight bend here in Australia (that's a prime mover, a lead trailer, a dolly (drawbar) and a dog trailer). Would be much more difficult to reverse them than the B Double in this video but this was a very nice neat job.
Lot of respect and appreciation for truck drivers
We call them "B-Trains" in New Zealand and I used to drive 'em here. Of course until you get tips on how to back them correctly it can be a handful, but once you get it, it's not so bad. And yeah you can tell that the designers of the loading docks have never driven trucks!
Easier than reversing a 6x4 - when one knows how. 😉😊
Only difference is the length, b trains are 20m where the B Doubles in Australia are 26m and recently new 38 pallets combinations have been approved which are 28.1m, these are still easier to control than a truck n dog, 19m long same amount of pivot points works in the same way just chasing the 1 - 1.5m dolly is real touchy 😂
@@williammcmurtrie5767 not wrong mate, truck n dog on wet clay, mudstone sludge, fully loaded is no joke. I've seen many operators in new trucks struggle even with lockers on.
I'd rather back one of these than a box trailer with a short draw bar
@@hornetpilot1817 I've driven them too and again it's not too hard when you get used to it.
I've always admired truck drivers and their amazing skills. Seeing such skill with a truck never ceases to amaze me.
As someone once said "if you don't want trucks on the road, stop buying shit"
I've seen a road train do the same thing. It was incredibly impressive.
Watch some of the livestock hauliers and general freight guys reversing three trailers , that’s real skill 😊
When you see it with your own eyes it's crazy the skill of the drivers. Been to New Zealand as well as Australia, you have to take your hat off to them. Some drivers here in UK can't even reverse one 40 foot trailer which is easy, never mind 2.
It takes a lot of practice to be good at backing , it makes it harder if they design the docks so they don't have room to pull straight.
Sometimes you'll have to park in among other parked trucks with 2 feet either side in pitch bkack with no room to swing the cabin , and you have to back in jackknifed , and what really makes it fun is if its pissing rain and you cant see out of your mirrors 😃.
This reminds me of playing with trucks I built out Lego when I was a kid. My Dad was surprised when I backed a trailer at the tip because I didn't really have any experience with it but I think I drew on my experience playing with those trucks as a kid.
Where i work on an industrial estate, it always amazes me how a semi with just one trailer can get into a driveway from a narrow street lined with parked cars. Usually in just one go! The cab almost faces backwards at a point in the operation!!
Hey Ian,The Theory behind backing a double trailer up is quite simple, you need to treat the trailer behind the truck as the truck shift your thinking to how you want to push the trailer furthest away from you. Having said that, I can't do it either and I've been a trucker for a long time. So hats off to the guy reversing it into the bay at the distribution centre.
I’m Australian and have a friend who is a truck driver and he can back up a “Road Train” which has 3 trailers. Seen him do it and when I asked him how he replied “not something you can teach mate, ya just gotta get in and have a go”.
My youngest boy is a newbie truck driver (20) in the States, and I'm already impressed by what he can do with doubles. I sent him this so he can watch himself. He's working at a gravel plant now gaining his experience but one more year, and he can legally drive trucks out of state. 😊
My son drives B doubles in Australia. The set he uses is what we call taut liner. The trailers have curtains on the side which are pulled back so that all loads are side loaded and unloaded. He impresses me with his backing abilities.
I am in awe of truck drivers...the way they are able to maneuver their rigs in to out our mind tight spaces. Here in Adelaide South Australia, Australia, in the suburb of St Agnes you should see how they back their B double rigs in to the holding bay of Coles....it has to be seen to be believed and they do it on the first go...incredible
Years ago I started playing "Euro Truck Simulator". In a few hours my respect for truck drivers grew ten fold. Something like this here, still seems like magic to me. Respect.
As an Aussie, I will explain the B Doubles config, The front trailer is the "A" trailer and the rear is the "B" trailer. I used to drive road trains of 40 ft long trailers in 2 or 3 trailers at a time, It was stock trailers mainly cattle. It takes about a month working every day, to learn to reverse all 3 trailers correctly. There are mine trailers that are about 30 ft long, and sometime up to 5 trailers in length, but they are mainly side dumping.
Just casually dropping he is a certified forklift operator...
Nothing casual about being a forklift driver
@@trevorjohnston9504 Dude, you do not understand my reference or sentence :)
@@jklas4591I don't understand it either... can you enlighten us?
29 people understand and appreciate your comment.
Only 2 DON'T understand.
And those 2 seem to believe YOU are the 'wrong' one. SMH
@@trevorjohnston9504
Read the comment again - slowly.
See if you can determine - by yourself - which verb, noun, phrase is modified by the ADVERB 'casually'. 🤔
Quick update. That is actually an AB double. A being the smaller trailer at the front and B full size at the back. For Queensland, at Toowoomba have to go from B double to AB double to come down the great dividing range. And to make things interesting the Port Of Brisbane runs limited routes for Super B Doubles. So can run with 4 x 40 foot containers. Double decker set up.
At the Port of Brisbane, since January this year, they are now using a worlds first O'Phee London Container Super B, it is 3 trailers, double stacked and transports either 12x20ft or 6x40ft containers or any combination inbetween. It is only used around the Port and is very eye opening when you see it for real
No mate that’s a b double not an A double believe me I’ve been driving them for 22 yrs
That is a B double, I drive one everyday so I should know.
Dude that’s a standard b double not an AB
There is a video of an Aussie Trucker backing a 3 trailer road train, probably Northern Territory.
B Doubles a what you regularly see around Cities and Towns in Australia. When go outback, there are road trains, Prime Mover with 3, 4 or 5 trailers.
He's an Aussie, what more can you say. We always do it better than the rest of the world. Seeya from Australia.
Absolutely 😂🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Unless you are a kiwi 😂🤣 😘
As an Aussie I can confirm
You should chase up the video of the Liebherr digger climbing a tower in Austria. Exceptional skill.
Aussies!
Yea I've seen a truckie reverse a 3 trailer into a tighter spot and in a much more tighter squeeze.
Most American truck drivers still think this sort of setup cant be reversed 🤣
Trucks are essential here in Australia. We also have b triples and road trains that can be 3 or 4 full size trailers with dollys between them. There are also a couple of trucks on the road that are called centipedes with 6 trailers
My brother was our dedicated tractor driver back on our farm in his youth, because he was best at it, and became a trucker later.
He alsways told about one of the companys warehouses, where he had to drive his big rig in backwards from a busy main street. On german streets btw.
Everyday I walk to work threw the factory areas and they are every where there incredible things
The truck that is getting unloaded is a Kenworth T610 SAR operated by G1 logistics, a truck I drove often when I worked for them
Hey Ian, I just finished watching your 2.5hr snooker video and seeing this truck reverse reminds me of it lol. The front of the truck (cue ball) has to have the right angle with the first trailer so it moves in a way that makes the end trailer (third ball) line up with the receiving bay (corner pocket) 😂
We even have B-Triples now and mini road trains with two forty foot containers, one per trailer being towed by one semi.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
That is a DC not your standard store. And yes these guys are fantastic at making it look easy. My hat is off to them
Can you imagine the other drivers judging?
We need to see a panel of experienced drivers judging each others parking.
I'm currently a driver for one of the biggest transport companies in Australia, (Won't say which one), and we have Dangerous Goods placards on the front and rear of our trucks, and on the sides of the trailers. All of these placards have a neutral position, which they need to be on if we are carrying
cough Linfox cough.
I prefer "if you own it, it came on a truck". More thought provoking.
I assume you meant >1 (greater than 1) ton of DGs? Cheers :)
@@damianwright3690 No "neutral position" means not displaying the DG placard, so less than 1 ton. They are like a flip card design, where you open and pin it to the relevant placard, or the neutral (slogan) position if you are not carrying. It's an offence to show a DG placard on a vehicle that is not carrying dangerous goods, because it could slow down rescue efforts waiting for specialists and personnel that are not required.
I don't even drive but I do have an a appreciation of the skills of drivers of any large vehicle and love to see stuff like this. Thanks for your reaction Ian ... as fascinated as I am with this type of thing, I never think to search for stuff like this to watch.
those are like top notch driving skills. even here in germany i see way too many people having trouble even backing their freakin compact cars like fiat punto, vw polo or even smart... those truck drivers know what they doing for damn sure
There is somewhere on the internet of a driver in OZ reversing a triple into a parking spot. Totally amazing.
I'm am Aussie and I take my hat off to your fire fighters who back a ladder truck back in to some of your fire stations. Getting that trailer between those narrow doors... awesome!
This is the way 🇦🇺 truck drivers do it down under 💯💯👍🇦🇺👍💪🤙
You should check out the massive Australian Roadtrains that sweep across the outback!! They are something else!!
Some docks here in Australia are horrendous. Some of the drivers do a fantastic job backing in.
Outback truckers Australia, will blow your mind. Three and four trailers
Back in the day, when I was a young fella, I worked on my cousin’s farm. One of the jobs was picking up hay bales. I used to drag two trailers behind the tractor. I’m blowed if I could get the hang of backing them in to places. I had no problems with one trailer, but two. You had to think and steer the opposite of everything you had learned. Then be accurate as well. These guys are terrific. I’m an Aussie too.
In Australia we also have 3trailers called Road Train and also experienced drivers back then in reverse
Good video
I've seen 4 trailers while visiting Alice Springs. Not uncommon with those mining trucks.
Road trains and b triples are ultra skilled drivers. Respect to all the big rig drivers out there
My son explained that it actually quite simple. Just regard the first trailer as a very long drawbar.
Nowadays he drives a 32 wheeler, sometimes more axles, with maximum weight 145 tons.
We also have wild situations for horse trailers - seeing a very long horse trailer that seemed longer than a B-double somehow (thought i don't know anything about horse trailers) turning into Moonee Valley Racecourse was an absolute treat - the racecourse is basically in the suburbs now and the intersection is very neighbourhoody. Never seen any drone footage of it from above, but that is something to see as well!!
Thank you to our truckers 🤗
Retired now, but used to work in IT in relation to Coles - this will be a distribution centre feeding a couple of dozen supermarkets. When their orders come in, the packing of a pallet is all software planned - from light stuff on top of heavy - through to optimizing the path through the warehouse (some of which are a couple of acres in space - and to the sequence they are loaded onto trucks (reverse order of delivery, to save double handling)., As you note they are side loading these so they will be "tautliners" - i.e. fabric curtain sides to the trailers.
You will not that every truck there is a B-double - it's actually getting rare to see a semi on the road that isn't a b-double, especially amongst the supermarket replenishment fleets. OF course, the next step are road trains - 3-5 trailers, and in many cases these only operate on dirt roads in the outback.
5 trailers?
Where does that happen?
5 trailers would only be doing mine work and would be on enclosed land so not public roads.
I am fairl good at backing up a shopping cart trailer and RV (Caravan) into position, but this absolutely blows my mind to see how he made that look easy, my hat goes off to the driver of this B Double
it helps that the tow arm on rear trailer, has a double pivot, where it connects and under the trailer, gives the driver more control
you could say you chucked a sickie last week lol
Whatttttt !!! Double pivot is that your professional opinion or did you accidentally pick up book from fiction section at the library where you get your stories from 😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Tow Arm"?? bullshit, i'ts a B-Double mate, the rear trailer is hooked to a fifth wheel (turntable) on the front trailer.
@@becs2635 thank you, I wasn't sure of correct term and was being very general, because I know very little about them really, only stuff I vaguely recall from people that do/did drive them, was sure someone would elaborate on the details
Huh??????
When you get a chance look up Road Trains (trucks) in Australia and the size they actually pull
I used to be a truck mechanic for Toll in Sydney Australia and I was the guy parking the trailers after we worked on them and I can confirm it was super hard to learn how to back a B-double but once it clicked it was one of my favourite things to do.
That’s our boys! 🇦🇺
The big distribution centres are easy, it's the off the street with cars parked everywhere and traffic watching and waiting going through a gate that's to narrow because the premises has been there since before b doubles existed 😂😂 those are exciting, a lot of people don't realise we do a lottttt of local work with doubles and a lot of companies are client to client direct freight or multi drop loads
I was up in northern territory a year ago . Got to watch these guys backing up with 4 trailers. Also breaking down on the side of the highway at midnight and 4 other trucks stopped from different companies not knowing each other to help.
Easiest way to back them is to imagine that the front trailer is your prime mover and to remember that the front trailer actually guides the back trailer.
Dead right.
The front trailer becomes the "truck" and the rear tyres of the truck becomes the "steering" wheels.
Then back up the rear trailer.
That's the way I do it.
So individually we would call them A and B trailers. A on the front and B on the back.
That style trailer is called a Taughtliner which is basically a curtain side trailer.
Where I work we do refrigerated and have Panteks which rear load which is annoying because you actually have to unhook from the B trailer to unload the A.
And to back them, just takes a little practice, I’m only a part time driver, so sometimes I struggle a little to back a double, but straight lines are pretty easy, round a corner on the drivers side isn’t too bad, round a corner on your blind side can be very challenging.
My husband was a trucker in NZ and Australia and could back a B Double anywhere without correcting, just amazing. I'm in or of them.
Beautiful work! And so quickly!!!
I worked at Ford Australia in Melbourne when they still built cars. They had Double B's running between Geelong and Melbourne, multply ones ever day and the did that backing everytime all day long!
The Volvo Truck ad with J.C.van Damme comes to mind. They call it dynamic stearing.
We are the only country in the world that uses road trains. We have to, the country is massive and remote communities can be hundreds or thousands of kilometres away from major towns or cities. Aussie truck drivers are over worked, under appreciated, and absolutely vital to Australia's economy.
You hit the nail on the head. Its how they park initially before reversing is what makes it easier. Its knowledge from experience that makes it wasy.
Australia relies on truckies, road transport in general to deliver everything from essentials to mail. We simply dont have the rail system to deliver goods. Even when nearly all australian states were linked by rail, it wasn't a true national railway around the time of Federation. The states all adopted a different gauge. I believe state sovereignty got in the way. Possibly to prevent neighbouring states from running trains across state borders (weren't we a smart nation? 😂).
My only critism of the trucking industry in Australia, is the amount of pressure drivers have placed on them to make their delivery or pickup by a specific time(or they lose money). Often see some quite dangerous situations arise due to that pressure.
You wanna see a top operator handle a B Triple !!! (Road Train)
It'd blow your mind !!!
😮 !!!
GAZZA
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
That looks more like a distribution centre more than a store. I don’t think I’ve seen a B-double deliver to a store. I could be wrong though
I think you're right. I live Brisbane Bayside (south of the river), we have a small Coles & Ww's in older shopping district & also both in a Plaza complex ~ deliveries for both are done by single semi's.
Most supermarkets barely have room for a semi. I was told that this was because they cram in as many car spaces as possible, as each car space is worth $x to the store in gross sales.
Just from what we can see around, that would have to be a DC.. The more normal freight trucks (with the rear roller door) are used from the DC to the actual store, as the stores usually only have a single loading dock and not a lot of extra space around for a forklift to offload stock from both sides of a big truck..
Definitely a DC..
This is a guy from work that recorded this
That is Coles DC in Smeaton grange, Sydney. i come here myself a fair bit
The side loaders with the vinyl curtain are called ''tautliners'' in Australia.
australia has the BEST TRUCK DRIVERS
I was in residential agricultural collage around 1992 fixing tractors, being residential and board at weekends we would get offered extra courses at weekends like i done 4x4 course one weekend and another i done tractor and trailer reversing skills, because i was so good at reversing a trailer our lecturer called me over and stuck a second trailer on, everything went to shit from there 🤣 i just couldnt get my head around it
Spent some time at Biloela in Qld. It was as far east as the road trains could carry cattle to Rockhampton. Was insane to watch guys backing three and occasionally four trailers.
Some B-Double and Road train drivers are very skilled, and some are just drive through pit drivers, you can spot them easily. The front trailer is often referred to as the ‘A’ and the rear trailer is referred to as the ‘B’.
Damn man what a driver
So, first off. I'm not a truck driver. My dad drove for 42 years, and consequently, I became a heavy vehicle mechanic. Specifically on trailers.
As a result, I had to learn to reverse b-doubles and last year, taught myself to reverse a b-tripple. Which is hooking up a second A-trailer(front trailer). So I can attest to how difficult it can be operating a b-double.
I should probably point out that the A-trailer is slightly shorter than the B-trailer, and the articulation point is set just forward of the middle axle. So to get that back trailer to hook around the way that driver did is a pretty standard move with a b-double, because 98% of Australian industrial sites and estates were established before we had even adopted tri-axles or airbag suspension, let alone b-double trailer combinations. So, double combinations have that to compete with. A lot of the time, drivers have to split trailers apart, because the sites are not big enough for a double to safely navigate. Cab-over trucks make things a tad easier, but not enough to completely eliminate the difficulties that a driver has in operating a b-double everyday.
It's not just about stirring correctly, but 'seeing' where the trailer is in the grand scheme of things.
These wagon trains are legal in Denmark from 1-1-2024. Double trailers are up to 34 meters long and weigh up to 72 tonnes and can initially drive between Aarhus and Høje-Taastrup and further over the Øresund Bridge to Sweden
you can one one further in Australia and add another 40 foot trailer to the front of a BDouble. That's a truck/prime-mover/tractor >trailer >dolly >A trailer >B trailer . My son can actually back that onto livestock loading ramp that is 1/2 the width of the back of the trailer . Bare in mind that has added another two pivot points to the unit in the video ; however it is usually more of a straight in back up . They also back a two trailer road train to hook up a third trailer ! Got me F'ed how they do it !
The USA is so far behind Australia when come to transporting and I cannot believe some of weird and proven unworkable setups the USA tries to use
We weren’t allowed to reverse our bdoubles into the warehouse, they hard yardmen who didn’t even have a truck licence but all they did was reverse through a 90deg into the shed, work of art!
I had to do a pick up out of "Kimberley Clark" (Toilet Paper Warehouse) in William Angliss Dr in Truganina. They have full-length B-Double Finger-docks (6 inches either side for clearance) ; you need to bring all your skills into play when reversing into them. Always loved a challenge when driving doubles, but! those days are long-gone as I drive a desk now.. lol.