Thread: Outback Truckers - Better than Ice Road Truckers!

This is about the third rerun on TV at the moment. Has been discussed a few times previously. The classic is the woman truckie blaming a car for stopping at a railway crossing and she overtaking at the crossing against the red flashing lights.

Wait till series 2 comes out. I worked on it and we went hard….

Outback Truckers Series 2

I look forward to that.

The friend of mine who I went with they wanted to go with 1 of his trucks that does most of the communities between my Isa , Normanton and Wepia. His trucks got stuck for 4 days in the end of November, shame they weren't filming that.

Cheers Ean.

Originally Posted by garrycol

This is about the third rerun on TV at the moment. Has been discussed a few times previously. ...

Well, all I can say is the AULRO search function is junk then! I searched for "Outback Truckers" and got a gazillion returns, but none on this topic, and then I searched again just on "Truckers". Same.

Sorry for the dud post

Originally Posted by garrycol

This is about the third rerun on TV at the moment. Has been discussed a few times previously. The classic is the woman truckie blaming a car for stopping at a railway crossing and she overtaking at the crossing against the red flashing lights.

Problem was the car stopped for the lights but the truck could not stop in the distance availble, so rather than crush the car, she went round it, blaming the car driver. In my opinion she was following too close to the and so couldn't stop in time.

Another thing I see is cars passing trucks and then pulling in front of them only to have to stop at a junction or round about. Suddenly the car has reduced the braking distance for the truck but it would be the trucks fault.

Was a great series, we enjoyed it, yeah, the old fella going up to Kalumbaroo I think it was, got a bit for him and his truck, he got to a hill and had to drop trailers and do one at a time, and he had is old dog as well.

Hay Ewe

Yep typical truckie - crying that cars do not understand their stopping distances yet truckies drive too close to the vehicle in front. It seems to me truckies also don't understand their own stopping distances.

All vehicles, irrespective of vehicle type should be abloe to meet the same standards for stopping at various speeds so a 80t truck should be able to stop within the same standard as a lightweight car. If a vehicle cannot meet these predetermined standards then they are off the road.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

Yep typical truckie - crying that cars do not understand their stopping distances yet truckies drive too close to the vehicle in front. It seems to me truckies also don't understand their own stopping distances.

All vehicles, irrespective of vehicle type should be abloe to meet the same standards for stopping at various speeds so a 80t truck should be able to stop within the same standard as a lightweight car. If a vehicle cannot meet these predetermined standards then they are off the road.

Garry

So what you are saying is that if a series 1 Landy can't stop within the same standards as a Range Rover Sport then it should be put off the road?

IMO drivers need more training/education. They should make it harder to get a license.