You thought you had reversing problems!

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Well, I’d hate to be the first to reverse this thing into a bay! Do you really think this can do A roads etc . Surely the operation of something this big is quite limiting.

denbytransport.co.uk/EcoLink.htm

Would love to have a go though.

GMANSCAN

2

They should have road trains over here. I’d love to drive one but the money would have to be right.

Denby need to stop painting their wheels yellow as well. What a mess.

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That would react in the same way a drawbar wagon and drag reacts when backing up, in fact better because being longer it wouldn’t fold up so quick. The rear trailer is hitched to the chassis of the front trailer, which obviously has a fith wheel on it. Over here we have 25ft tractors pulling 2 x 48 ft trailers with a set of bogeys in the middle, they are impossible to reverse unless keeping them dead straight.
Denby’s truck seems that without that extra bogey a certain amount of limited reversing is possible, I’ll bet their are a few Dutch drivers out there who could get one in a bay. :slight_smile:

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And Swedish drivers because you see outfits not unlike this on the roads there.

5

just a bigger version of wag and drag :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: still would love to have a run in it :wink: :wink: can you imagine the looks you’d get wtf is that doing in this housing estate :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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I’d like to try multidropping round the middle of Leicester in it :sunglasses: .

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Having read the press report on this baby, it is designed with trunking in mind, apparently going forward it handles just like a normal artic thanks to the steering axles on the first trailer, they had it on the test track and noticed very little difference in the handling.
The driver who has been driving it showed it can be reversed with some accuracy.
It seems to be a better development than Stan Robinson produced a few years back.
Best of luck to Denby’s.

ps, I’d love to have a cabby.

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Having read the press report on this baby, it is designed with trunking in mind

never, honestly, i’m shocked :blush: :blush: :blush: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

would never have guessed :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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They have run those between Rotterdam and Venlo for years.

Rynart Trading and Transport in Moerdijk ran them to Russia too, using numpty East European drivers :stuck_out_tongue:

Doubt if ■■■■ will convince the government here though :exclamation:

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It’s just a simple B-train double-you see them all over the place in Canada, and they aren’t that hard to reverse. Actually, they’re easier to back than those “wagon-drag” units. I’d say probably 1/3 of all trailers in Canada are B-train doubles such as these, but longer. In Australia, they run B-train triples!!