Trucks with two linked trailers?

[YellowDog]

Joining the motorway I check my mirror and look over my shoulder. What appears to be a single trailer truck passes and I look to ease in behind it before accelerating to pass it. The second trailer is so far behind that it is easy to miss. Slipping in between two trailers is something that I really would like to avoid. Admittedly when it happened to today it was on a bend which helped to conceal the second trailer but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced the same problem with these huge vehicles?

It would be nice if there was a way of identifying them from the front or side of the first trailer.

[Taz]

No....... Take a better look.

[BMWST?]

i had a mate who used that gap when over taking once....i dont think he planned to,any port in a storm.!

[2wheeldrifter]

What sort of truck and trailer was it? can only think of a tipper... they have long draw bars??

but then dude, think you looked to quickly and think your lucky still to be with us? :mellow:

[YellowDog]

No....... Take a better look.
Faaark, just me then.

IMO - I take a pretty good look but I am not as flexible as I used to be.

Perhaps a little more caution is called for. I hate these extra long vehicles and have missed the second trailer more times than I would like to.

[Quasievil]

Perhaps a little more caution is called for.

Thats what Im thinking, I used to drive bulkies for Regal a couple of years back it had a long draw bar for good reasons, bikes tended to get way to close to the rig, if shit hit the fan I would come of just fine poor bikie guy would be introduced to about 20 odd tyres with about 30 tonne on them.

Give trucks a wide berth, they are sensitive fuckers to drive and not very manoeuvrable at all

[MIXONE]

More caution needed mate.Waiting an extra minute could add years to your life.


PS,I hate those RIP threads.

[cowpoos]

No....... Take a better look.
I think you make a mighty valid point!!

[Maha]

What sort of truck and trailer was it? can only think of a tipper... they have long draw bars??

but then dude, think you looked to quickly and think your lucky still to be with us? :mellow:

And aint they fanatstic to watch!!!!
Have been at a road works area on Stop and watch the driver reverse in, dump the load from the rear trailer then almost 'jack-knife' it out of the way and empty the front trailer...brilliant to watch really.

[kevfromcoro]

I done the same thing a few years ago..
quick look,, and out i went.
bit frieghting,

[The Pastor]

i'd quit the moring box of beers mate

[ynot slow]

Heard years ago of a guy pissed leaving pub in central Nth Island town,walked accross road,let truck unit pass and walked into trailer,apparently never saw it.

[MarkH]

It would be nice if there was a way of identifying them from the front or side of the first trailer.

What about a truck followed closely by a car? I suggest taking more care - maybe even stretching exercises for the neck muscles so you can head-check more easily.

[YellowDog]

Will go and squirt some Pledge on my visor rightaway.

[2wheeldrifter]

Will go and squirt some Pledge on my visor rightaway.


GOOD IDEA....:done:

[YellowDog]

I have always had a problem with grey coloured vehicles of any kind. They seem to blend into the background. I have generally got by OK by being more cautious. Those double trailer trucks really do piss me off.

I didn't realise that it was just me!

This thread has been a real 'eye opener' :)

[cowpoos]

Will go and squirt some Pledge on my visor rightaway.
and then wipe with rainX [get it from repco] brillent for visability in the rain :)

[Taz]

I didn't realise that it was just me!

This thread has been a real 'eye opener' :)

It's not just you only that all the others died.......:blink:

[JohnC]

Faaark, just me then.

IMO - I take a pretty good look but I am not as flexible as I used to be.

Perhaps a little more caution is called for. I hate these extra long vehicles and have missed the second trailer more times than I would like to.

No,it's not just you.
I was half way up the dome valley hill about two years ago when a guy on a Kawasaki ZXR750 had a crack at going around me.
It was a pretty poor choise of over taking places to begin with,but when he got to the front of the first trailer he realised he wasn't going to make the second plus the unit,so he ducked between both trailers.
I was waiting for the bump (and hoping my book was in order) but he must of been kind to little old ladies or something,so he's still alive today,,at lest I hope so.

[merv]

Bloody mothertruckers :2guns:

[Ixion]

i had a mate who used that gap when over taking once....i dont think he planned to,any port in a storm.!

I done it once. Scary but better than the alternative. Funny thing was, I kept freaking out about the trailer behind me, when logically, that couldn't be a problem. It was the truck a foot in front of me I needed to be worried about.

Saw a push biker come a right cropper trying to ride between a truck and trailer. Unit was stopped at lights. Pushie blasts down between the lanes (no problem with that), decides for some reason he wants to cut across to the left hand side. But cars are all closed up, no easy gap. Ah, theres a gap, behind that truck. What was he thinking? Hit the draw bar and catapulted himself a goodly distance.

[mctshirt]

No....... Take a better look.
yep that sums it up

[caseye]

Did you go get a LOTTO Ticket ? Next time take that second and or third look, it ain't worth dying for.
Glad you didn't.

[rebel]

Never heard of that one before. Bet ya it was an eye opener for the truckie, have a looking in the mirror and theres a bike sitting between the truck and trailer at 100 kays!

[junkmanjoe]

And aint they fanatstic to watch!!!!
Have been at a road works area on Stop and watch the driver reverse in, dump the load from the rear trailer then almost 'jack-knife' it out of the way and empty the front trailer...brilliant to watch really.

Ive been a truck and trailer driver for just over 20yrs,
longest draw bar units would be metal tippers, for spreading and stock pileing, grain bins, jack knife, e.t.c.

i was able to jack knife my truck and trailer,to a point where the back of the trailer was up next to my passengers side window of the cab, tip off both loads and drive away with out getting out of the cab...

all other units, bulk tipers, high sides,wool or palet flat beds, 99% of them have a shorter draw bar, so they can make up the longer length to carry more cargo.
you would never get in between B train A/B unit,or curtin sider, artic, or box unit, as trailers are so close to the truck.

my cusy made a near death dession, when he tryed to pass a caravan and car, ran out of room, on comming traffic, one place to go.

you can think of what happened next.......

when ever i saw a bike coming from behind, my self being a rider, i knew, all he wanted to do is get passed that truck.. some of the passing ive seen form the cab,, shit scarry,, ive nearly had the back of bikes hooked up on my front bumper, as they cut back in.. ill move over when i could, and waved riders on when road was clear ahead, as it is difficult to see past a truck and trailer some times.

but remeber guys, it not that easy to mover 40 + tonne over or try to stop it on a dime,

JMJ