Trucks with two linked trailers?

[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.......

[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

[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