DIG:
Where were you when you took this photo MRM looks like maybe Papa New Guiney. I have never seen any of our aboriginals using the head to carry the shopping but seen a few bogged trucks over the years.
Dig
Hi Dig, I took that photo in Nigeria in 1975, it was somewhere between Kano, Nigeria and Bangui in the Central African Republic. I would have to climb up in the loft to get my old Michelin maps out to be more precise.
I know that there are a few dog lovers on here so I thought that I would add this photo of one of our local Dingoes.
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Looks like Fraser Island to me - I maybe wrong.
Many years ago when I was doing ecology, I spent several nights in a tent somewhere on the wrong side of the dog fence out the back of Barrington Tops. I can’t quite describe the calls dingoes made, but it’s eery.
mushroomman:
Yes Dig, it was probably taken about twenty years or so before I headed Down Under, I took these two probably about the same time.
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While looking through the photo shoe box, I did come across this picture that I downloaded from the local paper in 2003, after we had a bit of rain. I think that the company was N.Q.X. or North Queensland Express, I bet that S.D.U. can shed some light onto it.
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These were all taken about ten years ago.
I liked the Greyhound bus rego.
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These were all taken at Apple Tree Creek, I bet S.D.U. has passed this layby a few times.
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Unless I’ve completely lost it, I think Toll Group bought the NQX brand some years ago.
mushroomman:
Yes Dig, it was probably taken about twenty years or so before I headed Down Under, I took these two probably about the same time.
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While looking through the photo shoe box, I did come across this picture that I downloaded from the local paper in 2003, after we had a bit of rain. I think that the company was N.Q.X. or North Queensland Express, I bet that S.D.U. can shed some light onto it.
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These were all taken about ten years ago.
I liked the Greyhound bus rego.
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These were all taken at Apple Tree Creek, I bet S.D.U. has passed this layby a few times.
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Unless I’ve completely lost it, I think Toll Group bought the NQX brand some years ago.
Yes, Toll took NQX and I believe QRX, which they shut down. Both were started by TNT.
mushroomman:
Yes Dig, it was probably taken about twenty years or so before I headed Down Under, I took these two probably about the same time.
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While looking through the photo shoe box, I did come across this picture that I downloaded from the local paper in 2003, after we had a bit of rain. I think that the company was N.Q.X. or North Queensland Express, I bet that S.D.U. can shed some light onto it.
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These were all taken about ten years ago.
I liked the Greyhound bus rego.
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These were all taken at Apple Tree Creek, I bet S.D.U. has passed this layby a few times.
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Unless I’ve completely lost it, I think Toll Group bought the NQX brand some years ago.
Yes, Toll took NQX and I believe QRX, which they shut down. Both were started by TNT.
An extremely high artic trailer seen on the A49 at Goose Green, heading toward
Wigan town centre. I wouldnt want to drive a vehicle as tall as that, especially
when the dreadful high winds happen. I estimate it to be about 16 feet tall.
Ray Smyth:
An extremely high artic trailer seen on the A49 at Goose Green, heading toward
Wigan town centre. I wouldnt want to drive a vehicle as tall as that, especially
when the dreadful high winds happen. I estimate it to be about 16 feet tall.
Ray Smyth.
I would agree that it will be a 16’ high trailer, but it looks taller because it has a low floor - clearly a high-volume / low-weight trailer. We used to use 16’ curtainsiders on United Glass work (see pic of one I drove below). They were only really a nuisance in high winds when empty. I always tied back the curtains in high winds with Tautliners anyway.
Ray Smyth:
An extremely high artic trailer seen on the A49 at Goose Green, heading toward
Wigan town centre. I wouldnt want to drive a vehicle as tall as that, especially
when the dreadful high winds happen. I estimate it to be about 16 feet tall.
Ray Smyth.
I would agree that it will be a 16’ high trailer, but it looks taller because it has a low floor - clearly a high-volume / low-weight trailer. We used to use 16’ curtainsiders on United Glass work (see pic of one I drove below). They were only really a nuisance in high winds when empty. I always tied back the curtains in high winds with Tautliners anyway.
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I seem to recall the eight wheeler rollonoffs at Smiths were around the 16ft high mark with a 45yd container on, there was one incident where one of the lorries was returning from a demolition job in Northampton loaded with re-bar, a piece sprung up a bit whilst traveling and he basically took all the telephone cables down in kempston high street!
Hi mushroomman,
“Oily and our other Scottish Truckneteers may find the Scottish connection quite interesting”
Couple of uncles(mother’s side) settled inland from Sarina early 1920s Crichton by name, quite a few now in and around Sarina, Mackay, Bundaberg, Rockhampton and further afield.
Cheers
Oily
Thanks Oily, I enjoyed that. Love the perspective that a drone gives.
The country’s looking lush and green after a couple of good wet seasons.
The deliveries were made in the eastern Channel Country, in the central, west of Queensland, where it often doesn’t rain for ten or more years. The water in the area comes from the underground artesian basin, or flooding from rains 1,000 km to the north in the Gulf Country.
Actually, Fraser Island has now gone Woke and it changed its name a few months ago to K’gari, which is allegedly the Aboriginal name for the island.
Oily and our other Scottish Truckneteers may find the Scottish connection quite interesting if they look up Eliza Fraser, Captain Fraser and The Stirling Castle.
And not to go too far off track, I came across this road train video which I don’t think that you have posted before on Your Back Yard thread so apologies if you already have.
Spardo:
I’m up for it, only problem is I can’t afford the bus fare.
Can’t you borrow a Mobility Scooter off somebody David. You might fit right in here and just think of the Long Distance Diary that you could write.
Which has just reminded me
If any of you old fellows have never seen the film ‘The Straight Story’ based on a true story, with Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek, then it’s well worth a look.
Thanks to Oily for the video of the guy delivering the wire and as his first drop was to a place called Ilfracombe in Outback Queensland, it reminded me of a few months ago back on this thread when we had a few posts about cattle. I was going to mention this back then and then decided not to, but I think that I should mention it now.
About twenty years ago we set off in the motorhome to go from Brisbane to Alice Springs and just before Longreach, we passed through a little town called Ilfracombe.
Now from what I can remember as we were heading west, there were lots of old tractors, lorries and bits of old agricultural equipment spaced out neatly along the left-hand side of the road, most of it which was in a rusty depleted condition.
So, a few months ago after reading this thread, I decided to look on Google Earth to see if they were still there and surprise, surprise it looks like they have all been moved across the road and it seems that there is now a museum.
I wouldn’t be surprised if S.D.U. had passed it on his travels.
Really enjoyed that, thanks Oily, and I even got lost in the fascinating, but very long, advert in the middle about mindfulness with animals.
One thing which I would miss though on a job like that, the interaction with and company of other drivers, something I really loved about France and partly why I went back on the road after retirement with the car and the dogs.
@Mushroomman
Can you just imagine it, a mobility scooter through Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan?
No real problem back in the '60s, but I think I might pass on that this time.
Spardo:
I’m up for it, only problem is I can’t afford the bus fare.
Can’t you borrow a Mobility Scooter off somebody David. You might fit right in here and just think of the Long Distance Diary that you could write.
Which has just reminded me
If any of you old fellows have never seen the film ‘The Straight Story’ based on a true story, with Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek, then it’s well worth a look.
Thanks to Oily for the video of the guy delivering the wire and as his first drop was to a place called Ilfracombe in Outback Queensland, it reminded me of a few months ago back on this thread when we had a few posts about cattle. I was going to mention this back then and then decided not to, but I think that I should mention it now.
About twenty years ago we set off in the motorhome to go from Brisbane to Alice Springs and just before Longreach, we passed through a little town called Ilfracombe.
Now from what I can remember as we were heading west, there were lots of old tractors, lorries and bits of old agricultural equipment spaced out neatly along the left-hand side of the road, most of it which was in a rusty depleted condition.
So, a few months ago after reading this thread, I decided to look on Google Earth to see if they were still there and surprise, surprise it looks like they have all been moved across the road and it seems that there is now a museum. I wouldn’t be surprised if S.D.U. had passed it on his travels.
experiencelongreach.com.au/our- … lfracombe/
I used to pass it twice a week, on the way to and from Normanton/Karumba. ilfracombe.com.au/machinery-mile
As I recall, it was always on the right, between the road and train line, as you headed north.
Did you go via the Plenty Highway and Boulia or across the Barkley?
