Anyone driven Sydney to Adelaide in a day?

**hoadie72** · 29th January 2009, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Dead easy. Line haul truckers do (or did) it all the time juggling the log book. Go via Bathurst, Dubbo, Nyngan, Wilcannia, Broken Hill,Yunta, Burra, Gawler. Alternatively, Sydney, Narrandera, Hay, Mildura, Renmark, Gawler. Via Broken Hill is longer but in a heavy truck is faster, fewer towns, and you dont go into Victoria and its speed penalties.

Have you timed the Broken Hill route, cos it's around 300km further - surely you'd have to be losing a lot of time thru towns for it to be worth your while driving an extra 300km.

**Bigbjorn** · 29th January 2009, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by hoadie72

Have you timed the Broken Hill route, cos it's around 300km further - surely you'd have to be losing a lot of time thru towns for it to be worth your while driving an extra 300km.

It is quicker because once past Narromine it is hammer down almost all the way. Sit the Detroit on 2250 in 15th, grossing 44 tonnes.

**catch-22** · 29th January 2009, 10:17 AM

yeah Broken Hill certainly seems longer. To make up time over 300 k's.....hrmmm

**abaddonxi** · 29th January 2009, 10:22 AM

Whereis says fifteen hours and fifteen minutes.

Cheers
Simon

**Sleepy** · 29th January 2009, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Sit the Detroit on 2250 in 15th, grossing 44 tonnes.

<<Queue Smokey and the Bandit music>>

"East Bound and Down...Loaded Up and Truckin"

**Tank** · 29th January 2009, 10:42 AM

The Hay plains route is better, used to drive Sydney-Adelaide 18/20 hours (depending on load), then straight back Adelaide-Canberra hauling the walls of Parliament House, sometimes twice a week, Regards Frank.

**Bigbjorn** · 29th January 2009, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by Sleepy

<<Queue Smokey and the Bandit music>>

"East Bound and Down...Loaded Up and Truckin"

No, just normal practice to make a mile where you can. Long straight flat roads with light traffic and almost no towns and small ones at that. Those big Detroits did that easily on those long flat runs for hours on end.

Early 80's truck times with a White Road Boss, 8V92TA, RT12515, and 3.7 diffs:-

Bris-Sydney 14 hours,
Bris-Melbourne 20-22 hours
Bris-Adelaide 24 hours
Bris-Winton 20-24 hours, depending on number of trailers. If pulling a double, we had to go back to Brisbane from Toowoomba after dropping one trailer at Toowoomba, and get the second trailer.

**hoadie72** · 29th January 2009, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

It is quicker because once past Narromine it is hammer down almost all the way. Sit the Detroit on 2250 in 15th, grossing 44 tonnes.

So you mean that in theory, not that you would condone it, you could exceed the speed limit considerably without fear of the police? lol

**Basil135** · 29th January 2009, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Dead easy. Alternatively, Sydney, Narrandera, Hay, Mildura, Renmark, Gawler. Via Broken Hill is longer but in a heavy truck is faster, fewer towns, and you dont go into Victoria and its speed penalties.

This is the way I did it, only in reverse - leaving from Adelaide.

Takes about 17 or so hours.

**BMKal** · 29th January 2009, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by hoadie72

Have you timed the Broken Hill route, cos it's around 300km further - surely you'd have to be losing a lot of time thru towns for it to be worth your while driving an extra 300km.

I used to drive furniture trucks between Adelaide / Sydney / Brisbane (usually coming in through Towoomba & Ipswich).

The ONLY time that we would travel via Broken Hill was when travelling between Adelaide & the Queensland destinations. When travelling between Adelaide & Sydney, we travelled the Hay Plains route all the time. There is no way that the Broken Hill route is quicker.

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