Stunning images Tim, Thank you for sharing these

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http://photobucket.com/cat627g equipment pics. theres nothing like the smell of asphalt in the morning!

Tim, great shots, just one word, MOO!!

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Still Plays with Toys

I quess that answers the age old question-WHERES THE BEEF?
Kinda looks like the Canandian invasion we see here in North Idaho every year at this time. There was a wreck on 95 last week about 1 mile south of my house. When the traffic started moving I swear I counted 150 Canandian bull racks heading back north.

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Are you an enviromentist, or do you work for a living?

Hey Tim,these pix were taken on Helen Springs Station, which is located in the NT between Tennant Creek and Elliot, about 600 k's or so north of Alice Springs. All the trucks are from the RTA (Road Trains of Australia) fleet...about 204 decks of wild NT Cattle! With the live cattle export ships operating out of Darwin there is always plenty of activity in getting cattle to the quarantine yards just outa Darwin and then shuttling the cattle from there to the wharf at East Arm for loading the ship. Heres a couple of more pics from the same collection of photos:


Some rather large humpy looking things, dont think they're cattle

Another RTA loading out in Western Queensland...note the double-deck loading ramp-most stock crates in road train configuration are constructed this way so the whole unit can be loaded through to the back two trailers without shifting the truck (in the old days Haulmark marketed this as a 'Volume Plus' Crate

Finally a local (Victorian) B-Double unit, specced for road train operation if required (note green panels on bull-bar covering up the Road Train signs)

As with other road train operations livestock prime movers are usually Kenworth, Western Star or Mack units.
Cheers
Stripeyjack

Roadtrains are great when everything goes well, but I had to attend an accident near Kununurra in Western Australia where a roadtrain fully loaded with around 200 head of cattle left the road and toppled over, a mangled tangled mess with many head of cattle injured with broken legs. I spent around two hours shooting 90% of them with a Winchester .308, very sad to see. It was helpful where the accident occurred, regards cleanup, because we were able to leave the dead ones where they fell as they decompose very quickly in the high humidity high 40s celcious tempurature.

Kenworth & trailers were all write offs, only used as parts after that.

Unfortunately, that was 10 years ago when I didn't have a camera with me.

Peter

Always GREAT pics Tim T !!!

So how come we don't see any Roadtrains in 1:50th ?????

I bet you can smell that road train a mile away.

Here is a nice little set of videos showing what it was like driving a roadtrain in the 80's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_oJLMiXYhs&feature=related

I have video's of most of those trucking companies and they are great.......

WIlliam.....