Life As An Australian Truck Driver | Big Australia

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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
  • Australia is the 6th largest country in the world and home to twenty-one million people. It’s an enormous landmass with extensive resources and massive industrial operations underpinning its economy. It’s a country where big ideas are dreamt and then built.
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  • @boss290bafalcon
    @boss290bafalcon 4 года назад +41

    Good to see they look after their workers, monitor the drivers sleep patterns and diet. Healthy drivers equals less accidents

    • @davidfortier6976
      @davidfortier6976 4 года назад +3

      Truck drivers have usually been pretty safe drivers, back in ~2005 (in North America at least) they had half as many at-fault accidents per driver-kilometer than the national averages. But there's usually room for improvement and I agree, nice to see them working on it.

  • @seanlemar1268
    @seanlemar1268 4 года назад +33

    35:47 'I've laid pipe all over the world and this is one of the biggest' 🤣🤣🤣 Nice one

    • @timmyjones1921
      @timmyjones1921 3 года назад

      Yes this is Mega Pipe Laying , Wish I Could See It In Person . I worked for a plant in Minnesota for awhile concrete pipe was molded and placed on trucks and taken to pipe laying teams but nothing this massive as in this Australia Video.

    • @mathu_stans
      @mathu_stans 3 года назад +1

      not many will get the joke,but when you do...

  • @Dinkum_Aussie
    @Dinkum_Aussie 4 года назад +12

    Mate, Australia 🇦🇺. rides on the back of our trucks! I love my job!
    Great video for SIMON, I work a few doors down from their Darwin depot! Those guys are alright. 💪😎👍

  • @andrewchristopher7138
    @andrewchristopher7138 4 года назад +42

    I've been driving a truck for 14 years in America I find this fascinating

    • @wengu3242
      @wengu3242 4 года назад

      you are luck as you find what you are interested

    • @andrewchristopher7138
      @andrewchristopher7138 4 года назад +2

      @Ian Visser I wish I could afford a electric car. I would love to see electric trucks takeover the industry . The effect they would have on air and noise pollution would change the world

    • @robertkiell
      @robertkiell 4 года назад

      @Ian Visser not me... id prefer diesel power.. more reliable i just hate electric trucks till they somehow make it last 1000 miles before charge and add auto charge thing like adding 2 electric motors in front wheel just for charging batteries

    • @robertkiell
      @robertkiell 4 года назад

      True tho... but his rules in USA is 11 hours on road , 3 hours on duty, 10 hours off duty... which equals to70 hour work time each week with 30 minutes break in middle of driving time

    • @robertkiell
      @robertkiell 4 года назад

      HOS or hour of service

  • @martinmuriihi121
    @martinmuriihi121 4 года назад +20

    Watching from Embu Town, Embu County in KENYA(EAST AFRICA). AMAZING

  • @pcz5233
    @pcz5233 4 года назад +36

    That dude laid pipe all over the world..👌👍😀

  • @davidfortier6976
    @davidfortier6976 4 года назад +15

    Without trucks it wouldn't just be Australia that stops. Just about every country, possibly all of them, would grind to a halt.

  • @timmyjones1921
    @timmyjones1921 3 года назад +3

    Wow I seen the Pilbra Ore Road Trains , These Are Just as Awesome . Logistics Is King .

  • @Heavy-metaaal
    @Heavy-metaaal 4 года назад +6

    I'm a Supply Chain professor in Brazil. Great documentary!

  • @abdiboos2802
    @abdiboos2802 4 года назад +6

    I love trucking and I always admire the adventure behind

  • @131dyana
    @131dyana 4 года назад +3

    Thank you for showing this to us in the United States.

  • @mrlithium69
    @mrlithium69 4 года назад +15

    Australia's really something else

  • @marktwain368
    @marktwain368 4 года назад +6

    This is an amazing look at the men/women who drive trucks that literally keep a nation alive. Much of it on two-lane blacktop. Unbelievable! They seldom get the credit they deserve so let's raise our glass to them right now! Cheers from Canada--another vast country with few highways to reach remote towns.

  • @GodKing804
    @GodKing804 4 года назад +7

    Need more Road Train Journeys in the outback!

  • @sintopaulv2
    @sintopaulv2 4 года назад +2

    I love truck. Drivers, they are the real road heros,,,,, big salute.

  • @njenlo1310
    @njenlo1310 4 года назад +3

    i love Australia so much...i must visit there after we get through this COVID-19 shite first.

  • @عليالشمري-و6ي4ص
    @عليالشمري-و6ي4ص 3 года назад +2

    I work as a bus driver with more than 15 years of experience. I travel long distances. I would like to work in your country. Thank you

  • @RogerDiotte
    @RogerDiotte 2 года назад

    LOVE these episodes! The Blokes are cool guys...what a life!

  • @josevalenzuela7610
    @josevalenzuela7610 4 года назад +9

    Amazing program well narrated

    • @davidfortier6976
      @davidfortier6976 4 года назад

      Yeah, that was a really good one. Spark tends to be hit-and-miss that way.

    • @lydiaanderson9765
      @lydiaanderson9765 3 года назад +1

      @Jose Great video How are you doing
      Hope we get to know each other with time and patience?

    • @josevalenzuela7610
      @josevalenzuela7610 3 года назад

      @@lydiaanderson9765 yes hopefully we will

    • @lydiaanderson9765
      @lydiaanderson9765 3 года назад

      @@josevalenzuela7610 Hope you are doing good I love to meet new people and get to know each other probably. Do you mind suggesting any means we can talk off here and no more about your self

  • @victormgv
    @victormgv 4 года назад +12

    ‘Australia lies at the bottom of the world.”
    Antarctica: Am I joke to you?

  • @josh656
    @josh656 4 года назад +2

    "A couple of days ago, I saw a rig big enough to haul that tanker. You wanna get outta here? You talk to me."

  • @brianoneil9662
    @brianoneil9662 4 года назад +2

    I drive long haul in the U.S. My longest run has been 3240 miles. Just one trailer though and not through anyplace as harsh as the outback.

  • @hawssie1
    @hawssie1 3 года назад +1

    lets see him back that up into loading dock that would be impressive! In really Im sure reverse is a very much unused gear when hooked up to that train.

  • @davidanalyst671
    @davidanalyst671 3 года назад +1

    this wasnt a summary of logistics or truck driving, its just a video of two different trucking loads delivered.

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury5319 Год назад

    I never thought trucking was cool until i saw these articulated semis. I don't know why they don't have turbine trucks because they would work real well in Australia. They would well on flat open ground and there are long flat terrains all over the world they would work well in. in the U.S. it may be to late because the traffic on highways, and i'm sure many of Australia's logistic centers are near highways (so these trucks can drop of trailers) so they don't have to go deep into towns and cities were they'd congested traffic. But if you zone properly so factories and intermodal facilities are located by highways/rail lines/waterways/airfields it would make a super efficient logistics network being you could move 3-4 times the goods with 1/3rd the truck drivers.

  • @nahashonbalos2796
    @nahashonbalos2796 2 года назад

    a whole lot of fun in the outback,,,,great doc

  • @dwynepen7626
    @dwynepen7626 2 года назад +1

    I used to run 8500km in just over 6.5days solo... 0 accidents .

  • @joycewaithera5182
    @joycewaithera5182 4 года назад +3

    I love trucking live long truckers

  • @thomasburke7995
    @thomasburke7995 3 года назад +1

    Talk about limited.. 105 kph.. hell Canada allows for 100 kph. And in the states some allow as high as 70MPH.

  • @Roihan54
    @Roihan54 4 года назад +4

    46:11 that is fast for that kind of load

  • @CarlosGonzalez-kt5be
    @CarlosGonzalez-kt5be 3 года назад +3

    Australia es aparte de todos los países y tiene por suerte muchos minerales para no depender de ningún país.

  • @YPO6
    @YPO6 4 года назад +11

    48 min long Volvo commercial.

  • @armella_life
    @armella_life 3 года назад

    Would love to try such a roadtrain...... Have only tried to drive a little Danish roadtrain aka 2 trailers. Would love to try this :D

  • @Pepin-LB
    @Pepin-LB 3 месяца назад

    Hello I'm Belgian and I'm now applying for a work visa in Australia as trucker 😍

  • @Blessed_givers
    @Blessed_givers 2 года назад

    I wish I could someday drive for such a bigger company

  • @pratheepanumat6384
    @pratheepanumat6384 3 года назад

    ขอบคุณครับ

  • @BdDream
    @BdDream 4 года назад

    I liked the information.

  • @andresquinonezramirez9373
    @andresquinonezramirez9373 3 года назад

    For some reason am starting to like this channel more

  • @rodneyalicaway1438
    @rodneyalicaway1438 3 года назад

    I love this movie
    Same as I play on World Truck Driving simulator

  • @gameshareprime
    @gameshareprime 4 года назад

    I cant believe that a truck can even make a turn towing a triple trailer. And are those trailers max weight?

  • @semiretired6033
    @semiretired6033 3 года назад +2

    Man i laughed when he said truckers are treated more like athletes whose diets and sleep patterns are tested regularly. I dunno if it really the case in Aussieland but it sure isn't the case in North America, where most are obese, out of shape heart attacks waiting to happen.

  • @MisteriosGloriosos922
    @MisteriosGloriosos922 3 года назад

    Nice!!

  • @oluwadamilolaoluwarotimidu2072
    @oluwadamilolaoluwarotimidu2072 3 года назад +1

    Very fascinating, I wish you journey mercies although👌🏾👍😃

  • @kamilkarwat2706
    @kamilkarwat2706 4 года назад

    What a tiny sleeper cab.

  • @fernandobarajas3157
    @fernandobarajas3157 2 года назад

    Truck drivers are in such a demand in the US that Walmart advertises on their trucks $95k-$110k($$1,800-$2,200@ week) which is pretty good for Walmart... It's also pretty crazy when convenience stores such as Rebel,Terribles and 7/11 are paying $14-$17@ hour in Vegas and that's the most I've ever scene them offer a cashier...That's our Brandon..

  • @fernandobarajas3157
    @fernandobarajas3157 2 года назад

    Don't know how many hours a day/week driver are allow d in Australia but I've scene "triple" drivers so they can drive pretty much coast-2-

  • @stugill4513
    @stugill4513 4 года назад +2

    carnt belive there only using 480 bhp on them runs , over in england we use 480/500 or alot more on 400 mile trips that last a day

    • @fredburmeister7125
      @fredburmeister7125 4 года назад +3

      The Volvo road train was running 600HP and the pipe truck was running a 540HP motor at 46,000KG. The one you thinking about was the 480HP single trailer they use locally.

  • @emadeldinhessain3272
    @emadeldinhessain3272 3 года назад

    Great.

  • @5thgen418
    @5thgen418 3 года назад +1

    I drive lemosine service in UAE
    I want a job in Australia.
    Is it possible

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones 3 года назад

    Um, actually, that thingie at the bottom of the world is called "Antarctica."

  • @xcesar4impx666
    @xcesar4impx666 4 года назад

    hahahah he bought new flip flops hahaha !!

  • @mikec1651
    @mikec1651 3 года назад

    hello I do get the sense , in the comment section, that it has been heavily visited by robots, honing their craft.
    Anyway I enjoyed this video m

  • @xcesar4impx666
    @xcesar4impx666 4 года назад

    i bet the heat there is NOOOOO JOKE!!!

  • @snmaina237
    @snmaina237 4 года назад +2

    the background music is very distracting

    • @clairee5357
      @clairee5357 4 года назад

      at least its still background music. Can hear the voices... not like some that seem to think drowning out the voice wih the music is the way to go.

  • @ginessanchez3583
    @ginessanchez3583 2 года назад

    The video is very good but its music makes it unpleasant

  • @majhangprakash
    @majhangprakash 3 года назад

    15:56 that man's mustouch, is that a fashion or shaving mishap?

  • @larryhooverpedofilekillerc4177
    @larryhooverpedofilekillerc4177 4 года назад

    Hello good evening thank you for being beautiful thank you for being wonderful I hope you have a great day. Goodnight the greatness in you is beautiful

  • @firdausmohammad5530
    @firdausmohammad5530 3 года назад

    Dear volvo or others manyfacture,please make a bunker with air ride..coz our road its not that s smooth

    • @firdausmohammad5530
      @firdausmohammad5530 3 года назад

      Constant shaking its unnecessary when u try to sleep sir

  • @joserenaud2420
    @joserenaud2420 Год назад

    Any english subtitles?

  • @noelhall945
    @noelhall945 3 года назад

    With all that produce, is it temperature controlled?

    • @zxbigmikexz
      @zxbigmikexz 2 года назад

      Yeah, those were refrigerated trailers.

  • @manojsilva9382
    @manojsilva9382 Год назад

    Hello sir how can join this transport company .will you give a chance for sri lankans ?

  • @seanvaughan8914
    @seanvaughan8914 3 года назад

    So many in-show ads.... worse than public free-radio!

  • @kingtut5923
    @kingtut5923 3 года назад

    Nice way to spoil all this .....MUSIC must go

  • @dawiskid187
    @dawiskid187 4 года назад

    Road house or truck stop?

  • @virgillasher5656
    @virgillasher5656 2 года назад

    i was doing 4500 miles in 4 days wen i drove truck single driver

  • @luckyunlucky3893
    @luckyunlucky3893 3 года назад

    1:33 but how do they know where to go and what to carry?
    Simple, if I'm a supermarket and I order 50 crates of tomatoes, I call them up, tell them what I want and where I am. That's a very silly question
    2:14 specialized in carrying anything and everything. Uhhhh, then they generalize, not specialize. The guys who wrote the script is an idiot

  • @turbovtec5390
    @turbovtec5390 3 года назад

    As a truck driver I can't stand these big company monitor your every move.

  • @onyoxvlogs9871
    @onyoxvlogs9871 3 года назад

    Hi sir I'm very interested to apply trillir driver and your company

  • @heinrich5758
    @heinrich5758 4 года назад

    fuel consumption? 1l/km ?

  • @shakirkhanshakir6103
    @shakirkhanshakir6103 4 года назад

    Interested to job in Australia to that team my name shakir Khan from Pakistan and I'm job Saudi Arabia for truck Trailer driving my experience is 10 year and I'm professional driver so that possible to job in that company?

  • @olzhasolzhas1869
    @olzhasolzhas1869 4 года назад

    Why cant they carry not 3 but 5 pipes? Looks easily possible

  • @briansebogodi1331
    @briansebogodi1331 3 года назад

    I dream to own this business someday 😭🙏Lord help me

  • @moonman387
    @moonman387 4 года назад

    Fucking crazy Aussies. Truck driving in America seems like a walk in the park compared to what you guys do.

  • @robinhyperlord9053
    @robinhyperlord9053 4 года назад

    How many (per year) cubic kilometers of Earth could be minded?

    • @Kevy_G
      @Kevy_G 4 года назад +1

      at least 3

    • @robinhyperlord9053
      @robinhyperlord9053 4 года назад +1

      @@Kevy_G
      Thank you for the information.

    • @davidfortier6976
      @davidfortier6976 4 года назад +2

      About fifteen years ago I read in, I think Popular Science, that mankind collectively moves enough Earth for all purposes, mostly mining and construction, to fill the Grand Canyon four times. The Grand Canyon's volume is estimated at 5.45 trillion cubic yards, which works out to almost 4 200 cubic kilometers. So if all that's correct, we move (but not necessarily mine) 12 000 to 13 000 cubic kilometers of Earth each year. The largest mine is the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, USA. it is also the largest man made excavation and is allegedly visible from an orbiting space shuttle without binoculars/telescope. It is about five cubic kilometers. None of this is exactly an answer to your question, but might interest you.

    • @robinhyperlord9053
      @robinhyperlord9053 4 года назад

      @@davidfortier6976
      Thanks, I'm researching Thorium nuclear fission.

  • @yengsabio5315
    @yengsabio5315 4 года назад

    Don't they have freight trains in Australia?

    • @dumyjobby
      @dumyjobby 4 года назад

      They do

    • @carl8790
      @carl8790 4 года назад

      Don't you have a brain?

    • @yengsabio5315
      @yengsabio5315 4 года назад

      @@carl8790 Hey, I don't assume to know all, hence, I ask!

  • @edwald4056
    @edwald4056 4 года назад

    The audio is rubbish.

  • @est2035
    @est2035 4 года назад +1

    I think Frank should get a pay rise then he can buy some new teeth.

  • @mediachaneltayo1652
    @mediachaneltayo1652 4 года назад

    Hallo...
    I'm from Indonesia, agency Media Logistics local

  • @InservioLetum
    @InservioLetum 2 года назад +1

    "I've laid pipe all over the world, and this is one of the biggest"
    **HUUUGE GRIN**

  • @guimaraspc
    @guimaraspc 3 года назад

    Whats up with the shorty shorts? Don't depend too much on china now look at what they did.

  • @footsy420
    @footsy420 2 года назад

    canada has more coastline than australia

  • @rscii497
    @rscii497 4 года назад

    Ben George should consider performing an impromptu striptease and show us his Lebanese Aussie ****

  • @Janjua.1
    @Janjua.1 3 года назад

    I am a driver i also have saudi arabia license

  • @Amanturchikkoak3
    @Amanturchikkoak3 3 года назад

    Перевод
    Перевод

  • @ngakadaakhlak8314
    @ngakadaakhlak8314 3 года назад

    Old Volvo😀😀😀😀😀😀

  • @balareddythanugundla7990
    @balareddythanugundla7990 4 года назад

    How can I Visa to drive those trucks ...am from India

  • @thebluewhale8891
    @thebluewhale8891 4 года назад

    Thank fuck for Adblock.

  • @viccalubad1136
    @viccalubad1136 4 года назад

    Good morning AMERICA pillihnes Tegyu

  • @方乐覃为首-i3b
    @方乐覃为首-i3b 3 года назад

    仪地金天

  • @ritchienegrea5779
    @ritchienegrea5779 4 года назад +1

    Just pay the damn drivers so we can have a life. Don’t spend billions in trucker research equipment it’s fine good enough. Fkit.

  • @Paolo-v9k
    @Paolo-v9k Год назад

    Hi ha dificultats i hi ha plaers

  • @Fortwo64
    @Fortwo64 2 года назад

    Sangat tertarik untuk bergabung mengendarai Truck Simon, andai ada peluang. Saya supir truck Indo.

  • @antonmursid3505
    @antonmursid3505 2 года назад

    Antonmursid🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨

  • @morganmorales9474
    @morganmorales9474 4 года назад

    48:03

  • @اسامهالعبيدي-ج8غ
    @اسامهالعبيدي-ج8غ 4 года назад

    وعصابات وجنسيات عراق وبغداد ونجف جنسيات أولى وأخرى وحالي ون وحلفهم شنكاف مدعش يأت وحلفهن جيني ومنوع وكوادرها يستخدمون فل زوجات من جذر وجذور بداية كل المشدودين والمؤمنين والصالحين وأيضا يفلوهم ويفكوهم نفس حالة في براري ومحيطات وجو ومحافلها وبطنيات ومبطن آت ويركبوها بحيوشاتهن وبمجنداتهن قطع ورزم ومنوعات ظلما وجورا وال قبل هاي فصليات وحوادث ها وما كان قبلهن وما فيها وما بعدهن وال يليه ن وما خلفها وما وراهن وما بعدهم وما قبلها وماروي وما بعدهن وما قبلهن و

  • @اسامهالعبيدي-ج8غ
    @اسامهالعبيدي-ج8غ 4 года назад +1

    من جذر ومن زمان ومن بداية كل هاي ماتراه وتشوف نها وتشو لونها وتشو فونهن مسروقات وعجائب من هنا وهناك في حياتيات أخرى وعوالم أخرى وكل ش مسروق هو من ضلع ومن ظهر ومن يوميات مغصوبين وال مسجونات وال تحت سجون وسجود عبوديات شنكاف مدعش وزوجي آت أولى غايب حضور أموات أحياء وكلهن حقوق َ ومستلزمات مسروقة ومغصوبات ومهدر آت ومسروقين ومسرو قي ة وال يليها و

  • @SharonD369
    @SharonD369 4 года назад +1

    Truckies lol makes them sound like sissies, they’re Truckers everyone knows that........... oh and motorcycle riders are Bikers not bikeys or how ever it’s spelt lol 🤘🤘🤘

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    @fredlonbottom238 3 года назад

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