Aboods, again. No surprises.
Just looking at those two how did the Americans take over the Australian market just like the Europeans took over the UK markets 
@ramone they simply offered a better product. Choice between Cummins or Perkins, no contest.
Cummins, RoadRanger, Rockwell on Hendrickson walking beam, a combination made in heaven.
It was a tongue in cheek comment SDU. We could never compete in Australia because what worked for us on our island was never going to cut it on the vast roads of a continent with a completely different climate and road conditions and weights we canāt even imagine. It was the same with the Europeans once the invasion started.Better cabs bigger engines (in some cases) and we didnāt respond quick enough.
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Aboods makes the peaches and cream look basic. Typical TNT.
The Aboods looks new, with a new trailer to boot. See the flash 10ā1" spread on the bogie.
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Didnāt catch the spread bogie. What was the idea?
We had closed bogies, 8ā1", 9ā1" and 10ā1" spreads, the wider the spread the greater loading allowed under bridge weights. We also had the same wheel spreads on tris, when they were introduced.
Understood, a bit like the Kiwi regs(?) Tyre scrub mustāve been bad.
Not too bad on highway trucks that werenāt constantly negotiating intersections, with the added benefit of better stability.
While you put another steak on the barbie and stock the fridge up with Fosters spare a thought for us poor cold soles in blighty.The view out of my window today .
FOSTERS? Wash your mouth out, we only make that for export.
I didnāt know we still made itā¦
Ha ha i dont like any lager too gassey.Iām a hand pulled bitter drinker.Its killing me
Australian-spec DAF3600ATi
Iāve never seen very many (IMO) āproperā DAFs here: the few Iāve seen were all 3300 or 3600, except one 2500 rigid once somewhere.
A few years ago, one Oz-spec 3600ATi was bought and imported back to Dutch-type Holland:
@parkroyal2100 Maynes in Queensland had some 3300 and 2800 in the mid 80s.
Remember Queenstate, Newstate and Vicstate in lime green and royal blue?
Whatās killing you, the hand pulling? 
Nice one but the barmaid does the pulling
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That picture raised quite a discussion when it was posted on another forum. Dating the photo to before any of us had heard of B doubles, is the prime mover, probably an R Inter, the rear trailer being a bogie Fruehaf and the DANGER WIDE LOAD sign.
Yes, do you think it is one manās invention, fixing a 5th wheel over the bogies of his low loader trailer? If so, I wonder what the authorities thought about it. Perhaps, looking at the load and itās carrier, he was out in the sticks beyond the Black Stump. 