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RE: Heavy (truck) thoughts
8 tonnes is still a fairly big truck, so I'm ok with it...Was just being dramatic for my post. Lol.
An average appliance could weigh around 16 tonnes or a little more. The larger are up to about 28 tonnes and are often articulated; These are mainly ladder trucks.
Very interesting sir galenkp, I knew that 8 tons sounded pretty big but those big boys are huge!
Yeah, 8 tonnes is big enough I guess. Driving something like krazzys truck is something else altogether. I take my hat off to those guys and gals.
I do too, I love driving on long trips at night because it's mostly truckers but he thinks they're pitiful drivers these days.
Yeah, I know...Truckies (truckers) of old are a dying breed. It used to be they needed to be able to drive a Road Ranger gearbox, these days they're mainly automatic transmission. Still, that's progression for you I guess.
I guess so. I'll have to ask krazzytrukker but it seems to me like accidents involving big rigs like his are occurring at an alarming pace these days.
Yeah, I know...Possibly due to unrealistic deadlines, other idiots on the roads and innatentive phone-driving?
I don't know, krazzytrukker just says they don't know what they're doing which is a pretty scary thought!
Yes, that too I guess...Loads of reasons for a higher incidence of road accidents with heavy trucks. We have massive ones here, up to 5 or 6 trailers. They hike along at 140kph (almost 100mph) and can be very frightening for the uninitiated when one is confronted by one. Still, we need them to keep the country moving.