I heard that the woman driving in the first series who had the issue on the rail crossing lost her job over it. I think I read that on OBT Facebook....
Generally though, as for truckie behaviour on the road, I would say that you need to remember that most on this forum are reasonably astute and skilled drivers. We are not the majority. After spending a few weeks in the cab of trucks on this show, the average car driver is vastly more stupid and reckless than almost every truck driver I came into contact with.
In fact it is largely due to the professional behaviour of the truckies that there isn't massive carnage on a daily basis. I have seen that when driving a truck, it is right to assume that nearly every other car driver will try to do something incredibly stupid. Belligerant, reckless and aggressive driving by impatient, ignorant and poorly skilled motorists is what gave me the most scares on the road.
Im in Sydney working with the Fire and Rescue Crews and the car drivers get what's called siren Syndrome which is tech speak for.. They do really dumb and scary things when they see you coming.
On another note, it was fun to come rattling and crashing over a rise churn through a mud hole and and see the expressions on the Grey Nomads with their 200 series cruisers and all the fruit and the camper trailer as we went by..... in Steve's Kenworth Brute and three massively loaded trailers on the worst sections of the Gary Junction Road. You could see the big black circle of their open mouths as we went past.
In fact in Pat Callinans mag this issue there's an article by a journo about a 4wd route out into WA. I said to my wife.. yeah, we did that... Pulling a fully loaded triple. Out to Kiwirrkurra and back again from Perth via the Central Road. My hat's off to these Truckies in a big way. And that's from personal experience.
The only landy I saw on the trips was a 200TDI Disco on the Strezlecki near Moomba.
