And you thought double-trailers were scary...

[Joe Frickin' Friday]

Some pics of road trains here.

 

 

Imagine trying to pass one of these on a 2-lane road...

[yabadabapal]

Looks about the length of 10-15 car lengths. Is this in the mid west somewhere. Amazing.

[bugeyed]

Aussie land. The only place I know of that run land trains. I have seen triples in Nevada, but they were 3 short trailers.

[Twisties]

We have triples here too. They are scary.

[Gregori]

20 years ago, I drove trucks during breaks from college.

I've pulled triples, and it's really not that big a deal. (The pups are only 24'-26' long)

Pulling one wasn't significantly different from just pulling a regular trailer, except you're pretty much unable to back up.

Oh yeah - you can DEFINITELY corner better (with doubles or triples) then with a 53' box, too!

[motorman587]

Cool pictures, thanks for sharing. Like riding a LT.

[Semper_Fi]

wonder how long they take to stop?

[Gregori]

The stopping distance is a function of weight, braking power and traction.

I've pulled trailers that had great brakes, and with a moderate load could stop darn near as fast as a car.

I've also pulled trailers that had 'adequate' brakes - with 80,000 lbs on board, those have the approximate braking power of a sailboat.

 

(Oh, the stories I could tell...)

[Semper_Fi]

I can just imagine that 4 gas tanker "train" trying to make a panic stop for Bambi!

 

Guess I know the results......

 

Are these "trains" handled differently at Depots, I can't see them backing up for anyone unless they start shedding some of their cargo.

[Albert]

The stopping distance is a function of weight, braking power and traction.

I've pulled trailers that had great brakes, and with a moderate load could stop darn near as fast as a car.

I've also pulled trailers that had 'adequate' brakes - with 80,000 lbs on board, those have the approximate braking power of a sailboat.

 

(Oh, the stories I could tell...)

 

Actually the parameter missing from your stopping distance function (probably the most important one) is speed.

[OoPEZoO]

I can just imagine that 4 gas tanker "train" trying to make a panic stop for Bambi!

 

With that much weight behind me, I wouldn't even take my foot off the gas. be kinda like hitting a water balloon

[Gregori]

Al - yeah, that was in my post when I started it, but when I fixed the syntax, I lost the speed.

[Burt]

Cool pictures, thanks for sharing. Like riding a LT.

The truck wouldn't be as top heavy.

[RBertalotto]

Alaska.......Trucks are all chained together to get up the hills and to brake going down. Amazing!

 

[bugeyed]

I can just imagine that 4 gas tanker "train" trying to make a panic stop for Bambi!

 

No Bambi in Australia, they got roos to worry about. Notice the bumper on the truck? I don't think they panic brake for roos.