North American Road Vehicles

[duffman74au]

well the blue one at the bottom actually can drive in the city under permit and gets special dispensation for cargo
weight in perth so it can carry 50 tonnes of grain instead of gross vehicle mass which can vary by up to 5 tonne over pending on truck config where two trucks that look alike can be 2 tonnes different in weight pending on what its total gvm is. American trucks dominate Australian transport cause of horsepower and strength but thank god for Rodger Penske who bropuhgt computers to trucks throu Detroit Diesel now we can hae vehicles like this

[DaleStan]

Duff, please limit yourself to sentences of no more than about 30 words. 70 words in a single sentence is too hard to parse.

[duffman74au]

yea sorry grammer was not one of me good points. but if its a truck just ask they were me life and i still keep me eye in. drivin euro,jap and american trucks in australia singles roadtrains georges road vehicles make this game for me so if any road set is too follow that i think is the benchmark were looking at

[DaleStan]

Then LEARN IT! And get a spellchecker.

[Roy Brown]

First off I would like to clarify a lot of mistakes. Before that I drove Transport or tractor-trailer in both Canada and the USA for 35 years. Road Trains aka Turnpike-doubles as what they are called in North America are operated in Alberta,Saskatchewan,Manitoba and Quebec which consist of 2- 53 foot semis, in Canada. In Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba triples are allowed; which are 3-28 foot semis. In the USA Turnpike doubles are allowed in 18 states mostly in the plains and NE USA, triples are allowed in 17 states also in the same areas as well as some NW states. Each state/province has different overall lengths but average about 110 feet. There also is another LCV aka Longer combination vehicle, this is called a Rocky Mountain Double. Which consists of 1semi up to 53 feet and 1 semi up to 28 feet.
Enough said, that should clear up some of the questions.

[ostlandr]

Just to get technical, a B train double has the second trailer hitched to a 5th wheel on the frame of the first trailer. This makes it a tractor/semitrailer/semitrailer combination. http://www.canlii.org/on/laws/regu/1994 ... whole.html

The doubles in the eastern US (limited to the Interstates and "qualified access highways" are what is called a "turnpike double" here: http://www.usroads.com/journals/rej/9708/re970806.htm Note: This page is from 1997, and turnpike doubles are now two 53' trailers.

If it were up to the trucking industry, the number and weight of truck trailers would continue to increase. A single 48' trailer or two 28' pups are quite big enough, thank you very much. 60 tons on nine or ten axles and over 100 feet/30 meters long is a bit much.

[Topher]

Actually, British Columbia has two-trailer semis as well, Roy. There's a company that gets shipments of wood chips in my town, and a third of all the trucks have two trailers.

*looks at last response date* Oh. I hope I'm not reviving a dead topic... How old does a topic have to be to be considered dead? And if I am reviving a dead topic, then sorry. It won't happen again.