Thread: Truck Drivers!!!

Originally Posted by V8Ian

They look pretty Andy, but they're basically a lightweight Kenworth and won't hold together on Aussie roads too long. Kenworth don't spend millions of dollars engineering, designing and building trucks in Footscray for the hell of it.
All the Euros, Western Star and Kennies in this country are unique, having millions spent Australianizing them to cope with our longer distances, heavier loads, extreme climatic conditions and less than ideal roads.
They do look the part though, this one came past me while I was getting unloaded today.

He certainly is "living the life".
It was parked across the road from the BP roadhouse today.I didnt know you could buy leather hats that big,saw him crossing the hwy
Andrew

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

It was an interesting day when I converted my HC from army to civvy....

Cant do it you have to "evolve" your license...

OK, can I get your driving tester to come out and test me for HR first?

sure.

He comes out and there parked in the carpark sits an R series with a 20T and a pair of buckets..

"sorry mate I cant assess you, I dont have a trailer ticket"
"its ok I cant qualify for that, Im just here for HR assessment"
"but you've got a trailer on"
"I'll just drive like its there and you can pretend I dont have it on"
"no I better go get someone who can supervise with a trailer on"

"how are you going to get that out of here?"
"Drive it"
"you cant" out comes my blue book
"no as in you cant just drive out of here, theres no exit that way"
"its got reverse"
"you can reverse that around an Sbend?"
"get in"

2 minutes worth of reverse later and exactly 1 gear change into second.

"you have to go back"
"how come"
"you double clutched, Im not authorised to certify for non syncro gearboxes"

End of the day they gave me HC... but I had to drive with P plates because my old paper license didnt appear on the system.

Hah, you'll like this. Quite a few years ago we were looking at my grandfathers license and worked out the only thing he couldn't drive was an articulated bus canberra (I think they were only in canbera when I was a kid).

He said for his truck license, they turned up with the inspector (several them) and a freezing cold, icy morning in ballarat. The inspector is shivering in the cab and says "right hand your licenses over, you wouldn't be here if you couldn't drive" ...... and just signed it all off. Over the decades, each time a new combination came in, it was just automatically added to his license. I guess things were different back then

My mother said she just visited the local cop for her license. She drove him around the block and he said "yep, you'll be fine" .... done!

seeya,
Shane L.