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Hello forum members hope you all had a great Christmas and are planning a good welcome for the new year tonight. As you probably know I have my car for sale on a few sites, one of the things I mention is trading a good GT40 replica so thought I would ask on here as this forum has the best cars...

The Old "Butter Box" ACCOs they were very popular over here, the Australian Army had 4x4 and 6x6 versions in the 60s that were built in Australia especially for them and they also sold them to the RNZArmy. They did service in Vietnam and out performed the American trucks of the time. I read a...

For todays instalment, I have talked about STD Quads, Super and Ultra Quads so I want to put up some photos so you can see the difference between them, they say a pictures worth a thousand words. The first pic is Cambells brand new Ultra Quad, note the 3 rear trailers have 4 axles on the back...

Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember when those rigs were King Of the road. SAR KW are rare in NZ only a few collecters have them now and the DCF 400 International was the mainstay of big rigs in the early 70s on NZ roads. I'm guessing that both those trucks had 71 Detroits in them, the DCF...

Hi Bill, 140,000 lbs (63.5 ton) is similar loading to NZ we can go 60 ton on 9 Axles that is our max weight. Larry, that is a SatNav antenna, we don't carry Sat phones in our trucks as the normal Cell phone coverage is pretty good but the guys that Go Bush do carry them. "Going Bush" in...

Morning guys, As you see I have no life, I'm a FIFO worker. I work 8 weeks on and 2 weeks off, the company supplies everything, a house a car and food they fly me home to NZ for my 2 weeks off, I'm doing 10weeks this trip and 3 weeks at home then back for 12 weeks but that gets me Christmas at...

Hi Larry Yes you are right there is no overhead obstacles on the entire Great Northern Highway for that very reason. the Great Northern stretches from Perth in the South right up to Darwin and is a round 5000km long. Randy, you would be surprised how quick they pull up, lots of wheels and...

Lets start with some photos. Its not just mobile plant that has to be moved but also the processing Plant the big load in the Photos is on its way to a new Mine some 300km from Port Hedland, Thats me standing in front of a 600HP MACK and a Quinn trailer Train.

Hello Guys, For those of you who Love anything truck or Machinery related and the bigger the better I'm starting a thread about the huge trucks and Machines I see everyday as part of my job as a Road Train driver in Western Australia. I little bit about me, those of you who have followed my...

For those who are interested I could start a section about these monsters I have heaps of photos and some of the oversize loads I see on the highway every day are amazing. The standard for Aussie is the "Tripple" Road train, the Quads are only seen in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Yeah Udo your Kinda right. We call the first Trailer the "lead" then the 2nd is the "A" and the last Is the "Dog" Its all about Axle combos If you look at that Last Cattle truck set up thats a 53mtr std "Quad" and has 7 axle groups we run "Super Quads" which Have 8 Axle groups and 60mtrs Long we...

Just a couple of Pics, For our US friends that don't see these every day These are Australian Road Trains 60metres long and 200tons Loaded and they run on the public roads at 100kph. The last one is Mining Dumper that carries 225ton per load. Cheers Leon

Hi Udo, yeah mate I'm driving Road,Trains out of Port Hedland. I'll give you a call on my next 24hr break. I'm going home on the 8th of September back on the 25th and staying until Christmas. I'll look forward to a chat. Cheers Leon

Wow!! what can you say that hasn't already been said, just an amazing quality build in every aspect. That Electonic injection has alot to do with the great starting I imagine. Mine does start and Idle straight up like that now but not with out a lot of setting up on the dyno to get the fuel...

Well it has been several months since the photographer/writer came and did the article about my car for NZ Classic Car Magazine but it has finally made it into print and onto the shop shelves. I'm really pleased with the photos they used including quite a few from my collection of build progress...

Hi Andy, I was talking to Tom Morrison on Wednesday and he was telling how many castings they had to get out for Hollinger. They did 30 a couple of months back and now have another 35 to do starting next week (he's going to slip your wheel centre's in with that run) they have done a run of...

Hi guys. the trailer is almost finished now, just have to wire the lights and run the brake lines last thing will be the carpet. Put the winch in yesterday and tested it on the door, works well. The cable is run though hooks on the roof and down to the door. once the door is lowered the cable is...

They are wide alright!! wait until you have to put it on a trailer. I have been building one that is 2.1m inside the guards, its doable but only just and you have to have skinny tyre's on it. Cheers Leon

Yes you do seem to be doing a lot of cutting, not to be unexpected as I'm sure there is some suttle differences in our tub measurements. How are you going to do the front bracket? I glassed a tube in each side where the shaft for the front wing pivots on then made arms that come forward like...

I look forward to seeing how you jump this hurdle. Not something I had to worry about with Old School injection and to be honest, Thank goodness because I have NO skill when it comes to electrical wizardry. Cheers Leon