Can’t believe I forgot about that lovely curved screen, but my memory tells me that my dash board was in front of me , not over the engine cover like that.
Then of course, I didn’t have that great big ugly tacho either, just a rather large wad of self printed log sheets, not even a numbered book of them. When I started I was taught by an old hand how to put them all in the correct order. First thing, find a cafe with a very large table.
I assume you kept your logs neat and tidy David?
Looking at that interior of the Highwayman, I can honestly say that comfort has come a long way… and is here to stay
What was the max. driving axle weight back in the day, as I reckon some of the following might have been struggling to keep within the set boundaries…?
Courtesy of the Dave Weedon collection
Quite a collection of pictures of times gone bye Patrick.
Cheers Johnny, yes it’s still remarkable what one can find here and there
DEANB:
Some interesting photos posted today.
Johnny that bull dozer you posted further up the page has to be the largest one i have ever seen. Wonder what it weighed ?
An unusual trailer built by King Trailers in 1980 for an operator in Abu Dhabi.
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Hi Dean, apparently the bulldozer is a Liebherr PR 776 and has an operating weight of 79.1 – 80.6 tons - according to specification sheet - liebherr.com/shared/media/c … ngb-us.pdf.
Here is the photo again in case some are wondering what we are writing about…
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Had a look at the Cat D 11 specs and that is quite a bit larger than the Liebherr so the Komatsu must be a whopper.
DEANB:
Some interesting photos posted today.
Johnny that bull dozer you posted further up the page has to be the largest one i have ever seen. Wonder what it weighed ?
An unusual trailer built by King Trailers in 1980 for an operator in Abu Dhabi.
Click on twice to read.
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Hi Dean, apparently the bulldozer is a Liebherr PR 776 and has an operating weight of 79.1 – 80.6 tons - according to specification sheet - liebherr.com/shared/media/c … ngb-us.pdf.
Here is the photo again in case some are wondering what we are writing about…
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Thanks for the link Patrick. The Komatsu D575A-3SD has an operating weight of 153 tonnes… What a machine. Don’t get in it’s way… If I have read the specification sheet correctly, the blade itself weighs over 32 tons. https://cdn.machine.market/specifications/komatsu-dozers-spec-6f99aa.pdf
Better get back to the main topic - Heavy Haulage through the years - before we upset someone…
Turhus Maskin is a Norwegian company based in Gol, located about three and a half hours north of Oslo. Their web site is in Norwegian, but I did find their photo gallery page - turhusmaskin.no/bildegalleri/
DEANB:
Some interesting photos posted today.
Johnny that bull dozer you posted further up the page has to be the largest one i have ever seen. Wonder what it weighed ?
An unusual trailer built by King Trailers in 1980 for an operator in Abu Dhabi.
Click on twice to read.
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Hi Dean, apparently the bulldozer is a Liebherr PR 776 and has an operating weight of 79.1 – 80.6 tons - according to specification sheet - liebherr.com/shared/media/c … ngb-us.pdf.
Here is the photo again in case some are wondering what we are writing about…
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Thanks for the link Patrick. The Komatsu D575A-3SD has an operating weight of 153 tonnes… What a machine. Don’t get in it’s way… If I have read the specification sheet correctly, the blade itself weighs over 32 tons. https://cdn.machine.market/specifications/komatsu-dozers-spec-6f99aa.pdf
Impressive machines eh It’s been a while since I went to the BAUMA in Munich, but Liebherr always had the biggest dumptruck on display there, had the size of a a building!
jsutherland:
Better get back to the main topic - Heavy Haulage through the years - before we upset someone…
Turhus Maskin is a Norwegian company based in Gol, located about three and a half hours north of Oslo. Their web site is in Norwegian, but I did find their photo gallery page - turhusmaskin.no/bildegalleri/
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I think I saw on of their wagons when I was on my way to Trondheim last year, someone else on here might like the look of their fleet
I don’t know which company is transporting the McCloskey screener, but I think I have found the Screener’s web page. S190 Screener - McCloskey International. Since I have less than 1%knowledge in this area any additional information is welcome. If it is the S190 screener, it weighs 36.5 tonnes.
When I posted the photos below a few weeks ago, DIG (one of the contributors from down under) kindly sent me the following information from his experience 15 years ago - some of it may have changed since then. He gave me the okay to post the information here which I found interesting and may be of interest to some of you.
The fuel distributors truck looks like it was north bound m/t out of Alice Springs on the Stewart Highway I have travelled with a couple of their blokes on that run as A/S is pretty well all supplied from Darwinby road a bit unusual seeing as there is now a rail connection.
The BP unit could have been on the same Highway but could also have been heading for Kunnanara in WA as I believe the truck stop and the BP agency there is supplied from BP Darwin or Katherine.
The BP unit could have been on the same Highway but could also have been heading for Kunnanara in WA as I believe the truck stop and the BP agency there is supplied from BP Darwin or Katherine.
A couple of points Johnny, it is the Stuart Highway from the Alice to Darwin and if that BP truck has already left Katherine, where I lived for a time, for Kununurra, that road has improved a helluva lot since my day, although the first 75 miles was sealed, certainly not to that standard.
Interestingly I see that both the Stuart through to Darwin and the road heading west from Katherine are designated No.1 now. Unusual for a main road to split in 2 like that without a (slight) change of ID. ie A1(M) in England. Is that unusual in Oz these days Dig?
The BP unit could have been on the same Highway but could also have been heading for Kunnanara in WA as I believe the truck stop and the BP agency there is supplied from BP Darwin or Katherine.
A couple of points Johnny, it is the Stuart Highway from the Alice to Darwin and if that BP truck has already left Katherine, where I lived for a time, for Kununurra, that road has improved a helluva lot since my day, although the first 75 miles was sealed, certainly not to that standard.
Interestingly I see that both the Stuart through to Darwin and the road heading west from Katherine are designated No.1 now. Unusual for a main road to split in 2 like that without a (slight) change of ID. ie A1(M) in England. Is that unusual in Oz these days Dig?
The BP unit could have been on the same Highway but could also have been heading for Kunnanara in WA as I believe the truck stop and the BP agency there is supplied from BP Darwin or Katherine.
A couple of points Johnny, it is the Stuart Highway from the Alice to Darwin and if that BP truck has already left Katherine, where I lived for a time, for Kununurra, that road has improved a helluva lot since my day, although the first 75 miles was sealed, certainly not to that standard.
Interestingly I see that both the Stuart through to Darwin and the road heading west from Katherine are designated No.1 now. Unusual for a main road to split in 2 like that without a (slight) change of ID. ie A1(M) in England. Is that unusual in Oz these days Dig?
Thanks David.
Thank you Johnny.
Good point David and to be truthful I don’t know the answer to the split.
The roads of the NT are second to none now my first time from WA to Katherine was single lane sealed with quite a drop off onto the verges for passage of vehicles going in opposite directions, scary at times one of Buntines old timers put me straight on the correct way to do it with road trains and that was wait until the last moment before dropping off this gets the cabs clear of the rocks that were thrown up, still scary but once you had confidence in the other drivers not so bad.
The grey nomads[cars and caravans] were a different proposition if they refused to give the trucks all the road they got absolutely splattered with rocks when 3 trailers went by with one set of wheels off the sealed stuff they soon learned as windscreens van windows and paintwork bore the brunt of the damage, nowadays plenty of wide sealed stuff the envy of other states and WA hasn’t done a bad job but the last time I went across to Queensland all I can say is if I get to go that way again I hope its improved.
Good point David and to be truthful I don’t know the answer to the split.
The roads of the NT are second to none now my first time from WA to Katherine was single lane sealed with quite a drop off onto the verges for passage of vehicles going in opposite directions, scary at times one of Buntines old timers put me straight on the correct way to do it with road trains and that was wait until the last moment before dropping off this gets the cabs clear of the rocks that were thrown up, still scary but once you had confidence in the other drivers not so bad.
The grey nomads[cars and caravans] were a different proposition if they refused to give the trucks all the road they got absolutely splattered with rocks when 3 trailers went by with one set of wheels off the sealed stuff they soon learned as windscreens van windows and paintwork bore the brunt of the damage, nowadays plenty of wide sealed stuff the envy of other states and WA hasn’t done a bad job but the last time I went across to Queensland all I can say is if I get to go that way again I hope its improved.
Dig
I was taught at Buntines to always put one foot in the dirt and not hog the highway, completely in self-interest to avoid the stones. Fortunately not too many nomads, just the odd tourist bus but they often pulled up to allow everyone to get out with their cameras after seeing our dust clouds approaching, often miles away. Sadly of course they were enveloped in said cloud as we passed them.
I see that nowadays most trucks have the wire stone guards across the lower part of the screens, we didn’t have those and the received wisdom was to press all the fingertips of one hand against the inside of the screen when passing others in the belief that screens shattered because of vibration caused by a strike and that this stopped that and thus a break. I always did that and never once had a break but have no idea if that was the saviour or if it was just an old drivers’ superstition.
I never did take the road east from Tennant Creek through Mt. Isa to Queensland, but I might nearly have done, in the other direction, later. My progression in Australia was in a giant ‘U’ from Darwin through the Alice almost to Adelaide, then to Melbourne and north to Sydney, Brisbane and eventually to Townsville. Unable to find work in Sydney the first time there I rang an old mate, Ray Mantoba, from Buntine’s to try and get back on with them, but he wasn’t in (his home was in Brisbane). I eventually backtracked to Sydney and the taxis before my ‘holiday’ (which never ended ) back in Europe.
Another couple of pictures from Coast 2 Coast. They specialise in transporting boats (that probably cost more than my house) around the country and have been around since 2004. More information and pictures can be viewed here. c2cboat.com/ They do like their German wagons…
) back in Europe. 
