IVECO Road Train Pic???

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Freightliners are usually seen pulling b-doubles on line haul, not road trains in the north & west. Freightliner's creed, at least before becoming part of Daimler-Benz, was low tare weight. They used lots of aluminium and high tensile steel components to reduce tare weight often at the expense of relaibility and durability. The very low tare Freightliners beloved of North American operators simply did not withstand the stresses of Australian operations and a more conservative philosophy was required to successfully enter the Australian market.

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I had a frightliner on the fleet I ran at one stage, most of the interior was held together with super glue:D, unfortunately we had it running a road train configuration:(

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Heavy truck operators favour normal control trucks over high cabover trucks because of the far better ride from the longer wheelbase and lower driver position. These give less driver movement both vertically and in the arc of pitch. Maintenance is also perceived as being easier with an engine that sits up on its own with the bonnet open. Radiator frontal area can be greater with a normal control design as the width restrictions of a cabover do impose limitations in this area. you have to fit a driver in alongside the radiator.

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I don't have a MC licence, but I would have also thought that the bonneted trucks would also have twice the range that the cab overs have from carrying twice the number of fuel tanks between the front and middle axles.

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Originally Posted by Slunnie

I don't have a MC licence, but I would have also thought that the bonneted trucks would also have twice the range that the cab overs have from carrying twice the number of fuel tanks between the front and middle axles.

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Companies prefer cab overs because they can have slightly more load space in a b double configuration

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Originally Posted by DiscoTDI

Companies prefer cab overs because they can have slightly more load space in a b double configuration

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Ahhh, a slightly different point but thanks.

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A local company here "McGlashans Transport" (now part of Scotts Transport) ran several cab-over V8 Iveco's as B-Doubles for many years as part of their fleet. A mate used to drive for them and I went along for the ride many a time. He had previously driven road trains in western Queensland for McIver Bro's Transport and Barcoo Transport which were mostly Kenworths, Western Stars, Mac's etc which were all long nosed prime movers. He reckons the cab-over Ivecos were good to drive, especially in the city, however the ride was a little rougher sitting on top of the front axle.




Cheers, Mick.