The Incredible Australian Road Trains
<p>Watch yourself if you see these trucks coming down the road. The Australian road trains are the world’s longest truck and trailer configurations. These massive machines haul freight in the Australia Outback and are relied upon to supply the remote Outback towns.</p>
<p>There are many configurations and regulations of a road train (shown below), and as the weight and cargo of the train get larger, the number of wheels increases. In configuration (A) below, the number of wheels of the road train is 34, up to the (H) configuration, which is an astounding 74 wheels and the highest configuration legal for the road. The (K) configuration is a special case and is limited to the Granites Gold Mine in Northern Territory, Australia. They are known as “Power Trains” and have a 600 hp diesel engine in the truck with another 400 hp diesel engine in the rear trailer. These only operate on private land and have a whopping 130 wheels. That’s a lot of tires to change.</p>
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