yeah i do my best to give truckies room. I live along a narrow road so if i can i get right to the side to give them some space. There's one corner that is a bit tight for truckies so I'll often wait for them and let them have all the space they need.
+Dave Lucre You and I both. It used to be that common courtesy is something that people were brought up with and used without a thought, but now you'd think it actually cost people like money... +Robarz ZZ Good on you mate, any GOOD driver knows that you can't give a large vehicle too much space. They also know that the large vehicle often needs far more space to complete a move than a car driver often realises. Sadly that's why so many car drivers end up as roadkill...
My step dad told me the funniest story. He was on a road trip with mates, and the driver over took a truck and grabbed the UHF, and asked the truck driver if there was a crack in the back windscreen. One of the guys in the back pulled his pants down and stuck his arse on the windshield. The truck driver got back to the driver saying that it made his day
ute and truck aren't completely compatible. In this case, we do still call the large vehicle a truck, not a ute, in Australia. A ute is a smaller vehicle with a tray, normally the size of your typical road car.
50 years ago, was great for traveling and checking out different state number plates as a child. cause it was such a big adventure at the time. No worries in talking to people "Were you from? Were you going?"
Most Aussies were until......., US TV, the internet, lefty universities, unchecked immigration all degraded our culture to a point it's almost unrecognizable. RIP Australia.
Great to see, overtaking lanes usually means time for slow vehicles to speed up and every other vehicle to jump into the right line so nobody else can overtake.
About 20 years ago from Brisbane to Sydney. Almost every overtaking lane is uphill :(, if your in a shitbox car you were fucked. If they were going 93-95, and you 100 90% of the time you could not pass the vehicle as the overtaking lane was not long enough. If you went at a higher speed you risked getting pulled over. We saw at least 15 cop cars in NSW.
Stick to the slow lane ... it's usually faster. Even if there are 3 lanes there's always an expensive European vehicle doing the hogging with a stream of vehicles stuck behind and everybody else in the middle lane. Left lane is almost always empty !!!!!!!!
They still do this mate, back in January I drove Gold Coast to Newcastle and back, heading south I was stuck behind a guy with a caravan and a truck going 60 in the 80, overtaking lane came up and I ended up doing 115 to get past them, on the way back I was the guy in front doing exactly 1km over the limit, clear sailing Coffs Harbour to Ballina
As a truck driver this is bloody awesome and I wish more caravaners would do this instead of sitting on 90-95 in impassable areas then speed up to 100-105 on long straights or overtaking lanes.
Trucks do it too which is also super annoying.. On my way to work i take a 100kmh backroad that is a single lane but has 3 roundabouts that open up to 2 lanes, the only opportunities to pass.. it is very common for people to sit at 80 and trucks to sit at 70 or even 60, then when they come up to these roundabouts sit in the middle of the two lanes..
Here's a rough translation... 4WD: Copy the southbound Lindsay? [Lindsay being the name of the freight company displayed on the truck] Truck: [indistinct acknowledgement] 4WD: Thanks mate. Do you want to have a go round this van in front of you, the white one? [van = caravan, called a trailer in North America] Truck: That'd be good thank you mate...I'll have a crack at it right now. 4WD: I'll just ease her back a bit, give you a go. Truck: Bloody lovely thanks mate, thank you very much. (Truck passes) Truck: Thank you very much. 4WD: No worries mate. I'm in no hurry, you've got to get to somewhere before me, I'm sure. Truck: [indistinct] mate, cheers. Ah, that's alright. You going to pull up and have a beer or so? 4WD: Yeah, a bit early yet. Truck: Thank you and have a nice day. 4WD: Yeah no worries mate, see ya.
You can have a button in an obscure cave at the end of the observable universe that has a sign above it with nice, big red letters that say *END OF UNIVERSE BUTTON, DO NOT PRESS!* and someone will still come along and press it to see if it actually works same reason why people thumbs down videos
G1000RR Agreed. It this case, it looks as though it's a long uphill stretch, so the B-Double will only make it if he's got enough momentum - if he hangs back to let the car go first, he'll lose so much of his momentum that he won't be able to go around the van, I'd say. And there's no guarantee that the car would've pulled out to overtake early anyway; most car drivers have no idea about trucks, (weight, inertia, momentum, acceleration etc) and so often wait till the last moment to overtake (as you probably know ... !) I've been driving (bike/car/truck) for over 30 years and in that time have had about three close calls with truck drivers ... and thousands of near misses because of incompetent car drivers due to their lack of road craft, no situational awareness, poor observation, slow reflexes, no consideration etc., etc. I feel safe near truckies, they know how to drive skilfully and they are almost always predictable and competent - unlike car drivers generally.
Attention drivers who tow a caravan/boat, this is how you should also be on the road. Many many times you drive along and let up to 7+ cars trail behind you.
Some of my most heroic/dumb overtaking was to get past that scenario. Was moving at a fair clip by the time I was passing the actual asshat slow caravaner.
@Maitre Mark While I agree with the sentiment. Enough that the rest needs to be below the "read more" and is generally not worth reading It's actually the other way around. If you pull over it will take about 5min by the time you slow down, wait for everyone to pass you, and then speed back up again. Meanwhile for the rest to follow you the entire journey at 5~10k below the speed limit, it will only add a couple of minutes to the trip at most. But on the other hand if there is 7 people behind you that is a total of 7 min saved vs the 5 min you lost so a net gain of 2min?
@@bmerigan No you dick! The speed limit when towing is 20kmh LESS than the posted limit. THAT'S THE LAW! People aren't being 'asshats', they are obeying the law. Try it someday, you might like it! (asshole!)
Rob, got a Diesel 40 series - top speed about 90 ish - easier to just call up the trucks and ask them what they'd like to do - happy to either let them pass or stay in front.
Phocks, a Diesel 40 series is not a car. Wieghs over 3 metric tonnes with a normally aspirated 2H diesel and a 4 speed box. Not the fastest thing in the world......
I have a two way in my falcon. Handy during floods. Also TMA's are usually hang around ch40 during roadworks. Sometimes they tell you which lane they're setting up in. Which also helps.
Hats off to (most) truck drivers here. A few years ago I learned a whole new respect for most truckers' skill and courtesy on the roads. This clip is icing on the cake. :)
Reminds me of the time I was driving towards Belfast NI on the M1, I was on overtaking lane and coming up to a big semi about 100m ahead on inside lane. He had come up to a slow moving car and slowed down not sure if I was about to overtake so I flashed my lights to let him do so, at the same time listening to back seat locals constantly telling me how to drive, watch out for that car entering motorway etc. (I've been driving for over 50 years) So I says to them I know exactly what's going on around me at all times, see that big white truck? he's about to indicate and pull out to pass that slow car. And of course he does so and the locals then start going off at him, stupid driver pulling out like that blah blah. So I tells them that I intentionally flashed him to let him do so otherwise he would have had to hit the brakes to let me pass, losing a lot of speed and then having to go through fifteen sets of gears to regain his speed. It's a lot harder to drive a big truck than you think so give them a lot of respect and even more room. They shut up after that.
I googled UHF radio to learn a little about it. The first video had an animation, where a semi-truck and a Ute with an antenna in the front, just like in the video, were communicating. Proves the point that these are indeed popular in Australia.
Australian with UHF and curtesy on the road 🎖, and know how to use both 👍, beer awarded my friend 🍻. I don’t work for Lindsay, their rival company in fact but road users like you make our roads a safer place 👌. For people who don’t understand if a truck catches up to you, let them go around you, the safest place you can be is behind a heavy vehicle 🤔.
That used to be the norm when I fist started driving, regardless of having a CB radio. People would use their mirrors and think of others. Then again, we used to wave to opposite direction traffic drivers as well.
Truckies get a bad wrap, I have only had one bad experience in 40 years, the rest of the time they have been good blokes and appreciate when you assist. Like the bloke in this video.
ah....., so that's what overtaking lanes are for, I thought it was to put your foot flat to the floor in your $70,000 show pony SUV, and not let anyone else past, then slow down to a crawl for the first corner?
I'm always on the road with these truckies. gotta give em space. I'm the guy always helping the freeway merge. truck in front looking to get over, I'll go across so he see's just me still behind but in the lane he wants so he has a clear run, quick flash of headlights, over he comes, simple courtesy. just remember distance judgement on these big b-doubles must be bloody hard at speed with other vehicles chopping and changing everywhere especially when they need to change lanes.
Most of the time you have your radio on the "Highway Channel" (either 40 or 26, depending which part of the country). It's used for short messages (like, "Accident ahead road closed", "I can't see around you, is it safe to overtake?", etc) and for calling someone you want to talk (then you both go to an unused channel).
Channel 40 is Highway channel everywhere in Australia except along the Pacific and Bruce Highway which is ch 26. Most people choose to listen and travel on those. Channel 5 is the emergency channel Convoys and caravans generally use 18 so they keep 40/26 clear. Truckies don't really want to hear Bruce & Sheila discussing what they are going to have for tea with, Jason and Kylie 4WD and Convoys, usually use 10
zaim c Yeah, most countries or regions have some sort of traditional protocol; specific channels for specific people. Many are sort of open though, so you can tell your friends which one you usually use and they can just give you a shout and see if you are in fact on the road. Also, the common trucker channel is for like accidents, speed traps, sometimes general chitchat but mostly for serious working chatter like move over and there are cops somewhere important. Accidents too, and you can ask people driving ahead how the weather is or traffic nearing cities.
It seems insane that there's nothing close to this in most cars. All we have is 'beep', 'beep beep' or beeeeeeeeep'. Also lights I guess. It's like we ignore that we know language when we're driving, so weird.
Joseph Billing can you imagine the noise of 200 other cars within a mile of you all trying to use the same frequency at once to talk to each other? And then work out whose talking to who?
I was thinking of something more modern like bluetooth for cars where you could choose who to talk to by touching their car on your windscreen HUD and everyone would have to opt-in to even be notified that someone is trying to talk. In the end it would probably still cause more rage than it would save though, thanks to human nature. Still, a man can dream.
The biggest problem is there is so many dickheads on UHF40 around the cities. I wish the idiots why just want to talk about what they had for "fuckin dinner" last week went to another channel so we do not have to listen to that drivel.
Reminds me of when I was in NZ and some bloke towing a caravan was doing 40-50km/hr and had a line of traffic 10-12km backing up behind him. Eventually the cops had to pull the guy over so all the traffic could pass.
was travelling between the three ways and Mt Isa, lucky I had a CB as I heard a 7m wide load was coming, had plenty of time to find a nice spot to pull off the road.
I've never questioned it, but I am curious why the antenna is almost always on the front bumper. Sadly here in Canada I have had CB's in my vehicles for decades, and for the last 20 years they have been basically silent... But I just got a UHF/VHF the other day, I just have to figure out how to use it!
It's a shame that common sense is not that common anymore. Atleast this bloke can still hold his head high and be thankful that the people that educated him had manners. Manners..... google it people. You might get an education.
I've loved CB radio since I was a boy. I've always wandered how did drivers know to to be on the right channel that nearby vehicles would also be on so they could discuss their current area?
my grandparents had one of these in their motorhome, whenever i used to travel with them around some parts of australia like darwin all the way down to SE QLD or the WA area, they always used to let the truckers overtake, like he said in the video i've got no where important to go you proably do.
In NZ vehicles that were driving ridiculously slowly on windy bits usually speed up to the limit every time they hit a passing lane. Come to think of it, I've not seen so much of that recently, which makes you wonder if overseas tourists are usually to blame.
He's done it all wrong. They normally do 85km/h until the overtaking lane then when they get to the overtaking lane, they accelerate to 120km/h then back to 85 after the overtaking lane closes.
bit early for a beer yet, no worries mate, lol. I think the truckie said ' you will be able to have a beer soon'. As in when your holidaying you might stop at a nice pub for lunch and have a beer with your food.
Begs the question, as no-one has been able to answer it for me for years, what is the general UHF "hailing frequency"/channel between vehicles on East Coast major roads (Hume Highway, Nat Route A1, Pacific Highway, etc) ??
comes in handy so much especially when over taking or when someone behind you wants to over take you. takes away tail gating and a chance of a head on crash
This happens all the time in the Pilbara except the other way round. Faster moving traffic (LVs and coaches) catch slow moving triples (road trains) and the road trains will talk you through going around them. These fellas back off to make the maneuver a safer one.
have mine for trips with mates to communicate but other than that channel 40 and allows me to hear or call out traffic condition and radars etc also when I was towing my mates np300 with my n70 hilux it was a struggle but when I was merging into m1 truck had called me across givin me plenty of room and a minute up the road let’s me know I had to get over again there just handy to have
That's the best thing about a cb, any time there's a truck behind me I'll offer to lem go, sometimes they're happy sitting back a bit following and letting you be a roo bar haha.
I drive a lot from Brisbane to the goldy, I used to get frustrated at some driver’s until I adopted this attitude. Pretend the other drivers are your mates, watch how acceptance you are of their behaviour. You will giggle your arse off and have fun drive.
Meanwhile on any freeway in or around Sydney you have a chain of people tailgating each other at 120 or 130ks an hour in the right lane at any given moment.
I think the 4x4 driver is about 0.01% of drivers that give truckies a fair go. nice one. However: Look at the SUV driver behind the semi, almost giving him a butt shave, absolutely no braking room for safety. You should be at least 3 white lines away from the vehicle in front of you @100km/h
UHF CB’s are a vital tool for road safety especially in the outback!! A lot of people have UHF CB’s but don’t turn them on because there might be a few blue words! They are just words! If you have young ears in the car then ask if the people could tone it down due to young ears and most truckies will do the right thing!
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I wish there was more of this on the roads.
yeah i do my best to give truckies room. I live along a narrow road so if i can i get right to the side to give them some space.
There's one corner that is a bit tight for truckies so I'll often wait for them and let them have all the space they need.
Robanz ZZ As a truckie myself... Thank you. Wish more people were as understanding as yourself. Have a great day and drive safe.
I always give truckers plenty of room on the roads. 0:-)
+Dave Lucre You and I both. It used to be that common courtesy is something that people were brought up with and used without a thought, but now you'd think it actually cost people like money...
+Robarz ZZ Good on you mate, any GOOD driver knows that you can't give a large vehicle too much space. They also know that the large vehicle often needs far more space to complete a move than a car driver often realises. Sadly that's why so many car drivers end up as roadkill...
I wish they roads had dual carriage ways and unrestricted speeds. But alas,..
My step dad told me the funniest story.
He was on a road trip with mates, and the driver over took a truck and grabbed the UHF, and asked the truck driver if there was a crack in the back windscreen. One of the guys in the back pulled his pants down and stuck his arse on the windshield.
The truck driver got back to the driver saying that it made his day
Has me laughing.
Hahaha what a crack up
awesome story. Tell the grand kids
Lmfaooo😂😂😂😂
GOLD. PMSL......🤣🤣🤣
"Pull up and have a beer, aye." *Clock reads **9:15**am*
Ol mate might of been going since 10pm the night before , it's could technically be his "arvo"
It's beer o'clock any time down under, mate.
The ole "Sun's past the yardarm somewhere" is the way it usually works.
my dad always said that its always beer o'clock somewhere in the world!
it's afternoon somewhere in the world ;)
The guy in the ute is as Aussie as they come. Perfect accent, nature and laid back attitude. If only all Aussies were like him.
ute and truck aren't completely compatible. In this case, we do still call the large vehicle a truck, not a ute, in Australia. A ute is a smaller vehicle with a tray, normally the size of your typical road car.
Thats cause Aussies these days speak Chinese or Indian
@@apoxapex Sad but true.
50 years ago, was great for traveling and checking out different state number plates as a child. cause it was such a big adventure at the time. No worries in talking to people "Were you from? Were you going?"
Most Aussies were until......., US TV, the internet, lefty universities, unchecked immigration all degraded our culture to a point it's almost unrecognizable. RIP Australia.
Great to see, overtaking lanes usually means time for slow vehicles to speed up and every other vehicle to jump into the right line so nobody else can overtake.
About 20 years ago from Brisbane to Sydney. Almost every overtaking lane is uphill :(, if your in a shitbox car you were fucked. If they were going 93-95, and you 100 90% of the time you could not pass the vehicle as the overtaking lane was not long enough. If you went at a higher speed you risked getting pulled over. We saw at least 15 cop cars in NSW.
Stick to the slow lane ... it's usually faster. Even if there are 3 lanes there's always an expensive European vehicle doing the hogging with a stream of vehicles stuck behind and everybody else in the middle lane. Left lane is almost always empty !!!!!!!!
Name and shame...just say/write BMW or Mercedes...
@@MartintheTinman With how close they travel to each other to slipstream maybe it was his turn to burn a little more fuel :P
They still do this mate, back in January I drove Gold Coast to Newcastle and back, heading south I was stuck behind a guy with a caravan and a truck going 60 in the 80, overtaking lane came up and I ended up doing 115 to get past them, on the way back I was the guy in front doing exactly 1km over the limit, clear sailing Coffs Harbour to Ballina
"you wanna have a go around this van in front of ya?"
"aaaahhheyehhaeeeaehehthehee ksshhhhhh!!"
I'm a truck driver let me translate..." why thank you good sir I shall do just that, and I do appreciate the help thank you once again." ....lol
Truckie said "that'll be good thank you mate, yeah I'll, aah have a crack at ya on ya right hand side"
@@Snowddova "ill just ease her back a bit mate let you have a go" "bloody lovely mate thankyou"
As a truck driver this is bloody awesome and I wish more caravaners would do this instead of sitting on 90-95 in impassable areas then speed up to 100-105 on long straights or overtaking lanes.
Trucks do it too which is also super annoying.. On my way to work i take a 100kmh backroad that is a single lane but has 3 roundabouts that open up to 2 lanes, the only opportunities to pass.. it is very common for people to sit at 80 and trucks to sit at 70 or even 60, then when they come up to these roundabouts sit in the middle of the two lanes..
I couldn’t understand a word except, "No worries” and “see ya.” Ha!
no-one butchers the english language like the english...
baums547.
No no, it's Melb'n, Straya.
LOL Aussie as...
"I'll ease it back a bit and let ya go"
"Bloody lovely mate"
Deette Kearns I couldn't really understand the truck driver till the end but I could figure out what was happening.
Here's a rough translation...
4WD: Copy the southbound Lindsay? [Lindsay being the name of the freight company displayed on the truck]
Truck: [indistinct acknowledgement]
4WD: Thanks mate. Do you want to have a go round this van in front of you, the white one? [van = caravan, called a trailer in North America]
Truck: That'd be good thank you mate...I'll have a crack at it right now.
4WD: I'll just ease her back a bit, give you a go.
Truck: Bloody lovely thanks mate, thank you very much.
(Truck passes)
Truck: Thank you very much.
4WD: No worries mate. I'm in no hurry, you've got to get to somewhere before me, I'm sure.
Truck: [indistinct] mate, cheers. Ah, that's alright. You going to pull up and have a beer or so?
4WD: Yeah, a bit early yet.
Truck: Thank you and have a nice day.
4WD: Yeah no worries mate, see ya.
The further you get away from the city, the closer you get to Australians!
especially those new Australians with old world mentality!
who Ivan?
yep, it is a different world today.
And to the racists
Yasmin Reyhani idiot.
Wtf , why are people hitting dislike. This is an awesome example of courtesy on the roads.
You can have a button in an obscure cave at the end of the observable universe that has a sign above it with nice, big red letters that say *END OF UNIVERSE BUTTON, DO NOT PRESS!* and someone will still come along and press it to see if it actually works
same reason why people thumbs down videos
I guess we know how many shit drivers watch the you tubes.
eaglen00b Old ‘control freaks’ that have to set the pace.....
It’s kinda boring.
@@andiwaslikewtfmate3250 what were you expecting? lol
It's GREAT to see that common courtesy still exits on our roads.
More people need to be like this.
Ikr, it sure is exiting, and fast.
Every time I watch this I notice something new that just makes it more wholesome. Great to see courtesy like this on the roads.
He can also give him a heads up about that Subaru renting space his rear bumper.
Cipher160 I do that sometimes and pretend im a F1 driver.
Saving fuel?
+EVOXSNES No, making sure they got past the slower vehicle before the end of the overtaking lane.
G1000RR Agreed. It this case, it looks as though it's a long uphill stretch, so the B-Double will only make it if he's got enough momentum - if he hangs back to let the car go first, he'll lose so much of his momentum that he won't be able to go around the van, I'd say. And there's no guarantee that the car would've pulled out to overtake early anyway; most car drivers have no idea about trucks, (weight, inertia, momentum, acceleration etc) and so often wait till the last moment to overtake (as you probably know ... !) I've been driving (bike/car/truck) for over 30 years and in that time have had about three close calls with truck drivers ... and thousands of near misses because of incompetent car drivers due to their lack of road craft, no situational awareness, poor observation, slow reflexes, no consideration etc., etc. I feel safe near truckies, they know how to drive skilfully and they are almost always predictable and competent - unlike car drivers generally.
@@jemfly1062 bang on mate
they should start a 'you go i'll slow' campaign. this manouver can be done in 10sec even without the extra lane
Attention drivers who tow a caravan/boat, this is how you should also be on the road.
Many many times you drive along and let up to 7+ cars trail behind you.
None
Some of my most heroic/dumb overtaking was to get past that scenario. Was moving at a fair clip by the time I was passing the actual asshat slow caravaner.
@Maitre Mark While I agree with the sentiment.
Enough that the rest needs to be below the "read more" and is generally not worth reading
It's actually the other way around.
If you pull over it will take about 5min by the time you slow down, wait for everyone to pass you, and then speed back up again.
Meanwhile for the rest to follow you the entire journey at 5~10k below the speed limit, it will only add a couple of minutes to the trip at most.
But on the other hand if there is 7 people behind you that is a total of 7 min saved vs the 5 min you lost so a net gain of 2min?
Lol stop buying econoboxes with no power. Problem solved...
@@bmerigan No you dick! The speed limit when towing is 20kmh LESS than the posted limit. THAT'S THE LAW! People aren't being 'asshats', they are obeying the law. Try it someday, you might like it! (asshole!)
Wish more caravaners were like this bloke.
I've done this a number of times with Road Trains in my 4by. Some have passed, others have been happy to sit behind.
scooter2099.
Just let 'em know what ya doing and everybody's happy.
Rob, got a Diesel 40 series - top speed about 90 ish - easier to just call up the trucks and ask them what they'd like to do - happy to either let them pass or stay in front.
Why do you drive slower than a road train in a car?
Phocks, a Diesel 40 series is not a car. Wieghs over 3 metric tonnes with a normally aspirated 2H diesel and a 4 speed box. Not the fastest thing in the world......
Scoot, maybe a turbo could help. Although I don't think I would like to punt a 40 series around at 60 mph anyway.
You'd make so many friends, and you wouldn't even have to see them
Legalize Funhaus
I read your name as Legalize Fatuous. Oops.
just like facebook
And people still think online friends aren't real friends
I have a two way in my falcon. Handy during floods. Also TMA's are usually hang around ch40 during roadworks. Sometimes they tell you which lane they're setting up in. Which also helps.
Imagine talking with other humans...
And politely!?
Crazy world we live in xD
Hats off to (most) truck drivers here. A few years ago I learned a whole new respect for most truckers' skill and courtesy on the roads. This clip is icing on the cake. :)
Reminds me of the time I was driving towards Belfast NI on the M1, I was on overtaking lane and coming up to a big semi about 100m ahead on inside lane. He had come up to a slow moving car and slowed down not sure if I was about to overtake so I flashed my lights to let him do so, at the same time listening to back seat locals constantly telling me how to drive, watch out for that car entering motorway etc. (I've been driving for over 50 years) So I says to them I know exactly what's going on around me at all times, see that big white truck? he's about to indicate and pull out to pass that slow car. And of course he does so and the locals then start going off at him, stupid driver pulling out like that blah blah. So I tells them that I intentionally flashed him to let him do so otherwise he would have had to hit the brakes to let me pass, losing a lot of speed and then having to go through fifteen sets of gears to regain his speed. It's a lot harder to drive a big truck than you think so give them a lot of respect and even more room. They shut up after that.
This was nice to see this morning. There should be more considerate drivers like this guy.
3 years on and this dude is still a legend!👍👍
👍 city people need a lesson to be nice like that guy
I googled UHF radio to learn a little about it. The first video had an animation, where a semi-truck and a Ute with an antenna in the front, just like in the video, were communicating.
Proves the point that these are indeed popular in Australia.
Australian with UHF and curtesy on the road 🎖, and know how to use both 👍, beer awarded my friend 🍻. I don’t work for Lindsay, their rival company in fact but road users like you make our roads a safer place 👌. For people who don’t understand if a truck catches up to you, let them go around you, the safest place you can be is behind a heavy vehicle 🤔.
David Dou you clearly have no idea, stick to riding your moped and stay out of our way 😒.
How wonderfully considerate.
We need more people like this guy on the roads.
Now that's the attitude and respect on roads! Well done lad
That used to be the norm when I fist started driving, regardless of having a CB radio. People would use their mirrors and think of others. Then again, we used to wave to opposite direction traffic drivers as well.
Truckies get a bad wrap, I have only had one bad experience in 40 years, the rest of the time they have been good blokes and appreciate when you assist. Like the bloke in this video.
ah....., so that's what overtaking lanes are for, I thought it was to put your foot flat to the floor in your $70,000 show pony SUV, and not let anyone else past, then slow down to a crawl for the first corner?
Have experienced this while behind two semi’s. They spoke amongst themselves to let me pass. Good work. Should be more of it.
HOLY SHIT! did that just happen?!?!?!? wow maybe there is still hope for humanity
This driver is a unicorn in all the years I've been driving trucks this never happens!!!! You sir are a gentleman!!
Happens in Australia all the time, just not that well publicised. Those that use UHF radio on a daily basis are usually onto it.
Nice work, wish there were more out there like this, the roads would be a much better place. Keep it up. :)
I'm always on the road with these truckies. gotta give em space. I'm the guy always helping the freeway merge. truck in front looking to get over, I'll go across so he see's just me still behind but in the lane he wants so he has a clear run, quick flash of headlights, over he comes, simple courtesy. just remember distance judgement on these big b-doubles must be bloody hard at speed with other vehicles chopping and changing everywhere especially when they need to change lanes.
how do you pickup on neighbouring vehicles CB frequencies? how did that truck and that 4x4 driver find each other on the radios
Most of the time you have your radio on the "Highway Channel" (either 40 or 26, depending which part of the country). It's used for short messages (like, "Accident ahead road closed", "I can't see around you, is it safe to overtake?", etc) and for calling someone you want to talk (then you both go to an unused channel).
a lot of caravan drivers have the channel that they sit on in the back window of the caravan so you can contact them if needs be too
Most areas truck drivers and other motorists use Channel 40.
Channel 40 is Highway channel everywhere in Australia except along the Pacific and Bruce Highway which is ch 26. Most people choose to listen and travel on those.
Channel 5 is the emergency channel
Convoys and caravans generally use 18 so they keep 40/26 clear. Truckies don't really want to hear Bruce & Sheila discussing what they are going to have for tea with, Jason and Kylie
4WD and Convoys, usually use 10
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Yeah, most countries or regions have some sort of traditional protocol; specific channels for specific people. Many are sort of open though, so you can tell your friends which one you usually use and they can just give you a shout and see if you are in fact on the road.
Also, the common trucker channel is for like accidents, speed traps, sometimes general chitchat but mostly for serious working chatter like move over and there are cops somewhere important. Accidents too, and you can ask people driving ahead how the weather is or traffic nearing cities.
What a bloody top bloke, well done to the both of them. Learn something everyday, now I know about the 4x4 radios :D
From this truckie ( stu ), thanks to that nomad . More of this comms on the road , is good to hear👍
Thats why I have a a UHF radio in my ute when I'm pulling my 22 FT van around it does help
Another good use is that it indicates where the front of the truck is
Bonza mate ...what a ripper of a bloke...fair dinkum we need to see more of this.
It seems insane that there's nothing close to this in most cars. All we have is 'beep', 'beep beep' or beeeeeeeeep'. Also lights I guess. It's like we ignore that we know language when we're driving, so weird.
Joseph Billing can you imagine the noise of 200 other cars within a mile of you all trying to use the same frequency at once to talk to each other? And then work out whose talking to who?
I was thinking of something more modern like bluetooth for cars where you could choose who to talk to by touching their car on your windscreen HUD and everyone would have to opt-in to even be notified that someone is trying to talk. In the end it would probably still cause more rage than it would save though, thanks to human nature.
Still, a man can dream.
no thanks i don't need the verbal abuse in my car as well from their cb
The biggest problem is there is so many dickheads on UHF40 around the cities. I wish the idiots why just want to talk about what they had for "fuckin dinner" last week went to another channel so we do not have to listen to that drivel.
@@thebnicho exactly ch40 is a general channel if you want to have a chat move to a different channel. leave the main channel for what its meant for
Great to see and wish this happened more on our rural and outback roads.
It's because he's listening to the cool tunes of The Cat Empire
especially 'The Crowd' that song is always chill
Reminds me of when I was in NZ and some bloke towing a caravan was doing 40-50km/hr and had a line of traffic 10-12km backing up behind him. Eventually the cops had to pull the guy over so all the traffic could pass.
was travelling between the three ways and Mt Isa, lucky I had a CB as I heard a 7m wide load was coming, had plenty of time to find a nice spot to pull off the road.
What lovely driving and how very polite. Nice one fellas. 👍👍👍😁😁😁
I've never questioned it, but I am curious why the antenna is almost always on the front bumper.
Sadly here in Canada I have had CB's in my vehicles for decades, and for the last 20 years they have been basically silent... But I just got a UHF/VHF the other day, I just have to figure out how to use it!
So simple but so nice
My uncles a trucky and he sounds just like him so I understood everything haha great video
Loving the Cat Empire in the background!
Me and her in doors will be bringing our new (second hand ) van home tomorrow. A lesson I knew and respect 👍
awesome video, great driving, communication and truck driving....
It's a shame that common sense is not that common anymore. Atleast this bloke can still hold his head high and be thankful that the people that educated him had manners. Manners..... google it people. You might get an education.
That was so wholesome to watch!
I've loved CB radio since I was a boy. I've always wandered how did drivers know to to be on the right channel that nearby vehicles would also be on so they could discuss their current area?
Truckies have a channel (40) and everyone else listens on that channel.
my grandparents had one of these in their motorhome, whenever i used to travel with them around some parts of australia like darwin all the way down to SE QLD or the WA area, they always used to let the truckers overtake, like he said in the video i've got no where important to go you proably do.
Nice to see some good news for a change.
In NZ vehicles that were driving ridiculously slowly on windy bits usually speed up to the limit every time they hit a passing lane. Come to think of it, I've not seen so much of that recently, which makes you wonder if overseas tourists are usually to blame.
He's done it all wrong. They normally do 85km/h until the overtaking lane then when they get to the overtaking lane, they accelerate to 120km/h then back to 85 after the overtaking lane closes.
Brilliant music your listening too as well! I bet your a top bloke!
Well done & thank you from a truckie himself.
Good on him! Top bloke :)
Gee that was easy wasn't it. Well done fella.
I know that passing lane in the video, I drive through there a couple hundred times a year. It's just 20mins south of where I live.
bit early for a beer yet, no worries mate,
lol. I think the truckie said ' you will be able to have a beer soon'. As in when your holidaying you might stop at a nice pub for lunch and have a beer with your food.
Begs the question, as no-one has been able to answer it for me for years,
what is the general UHF "hailing frequency"/channel between vehicles on East Coast major roads
(Hume Highway, Nat Route A1, Pacific Highway, etc) ??
Common Channels are CH 40 - Road Channel, CH 18 - Caravans, CH 10 - 4x4s, CH 5 & 35 Emergency Use.
comes in handy so much especially when over taking or when someone behind you wants to over take you. takes away tail gating and a chance of a head on crash
This reminds me of the USA circa 1975-1981. I miss the relative politeness of the roads/airwaves of that era.
Dude, that was Smokey and the bandit. From the movie marathon last month...
This is my favourite video ever
This happens all the time in the Pilbara except the other way round. Faster moving traffic (LVs and coaches) catch slow moving triples (road trains) and the road trains will talk you through going around them. These fellas back off to make the maneuver a safer one.
But how would he know how to contact the truck behind him?
have mine for trips with mates to communicate but other than that channel 40 and allows me to hear or call out traffic condition and radars etc also when I was towing my mates np300 with my n70 hilux it was a struggle but when I was merging into m1 truck had called me across givin me plenty of room and a minute up the road let’s me know I had to get over again there just handy to have
Is this on the Bruce highway? looks like somewhere between Townsville and Rocky
Nice work mate 👍
Best dash cam owners video ever :-)
I can't believe it's a caravan which doesn't speed up in overtaking lanes! Good job
he was going to FFC produce in sydney,across from the markets.
That's the best thing about a cb, any time there's a truck behind me I'll offer to lem go, sometimes they're happy sitting back a bit following and letting you be a roo bar haha.
yea i do the same when on trips with camper trailer i just wish that some caravans would do the same for me but yet too find one
What a great bloke.
Wow ... love your work mate !
Not just 4x4s. Cars too. Always had a radio when I was out in remote and rural areas. Just gave my last UHF to a.mate for his 4by.
I have a CB in my car here in the UK, mostly talk to truckers when I'm out and about.
The world would be a better place if everyone would act like this to eachother instead of the egoistic ways of ours..
Give this man a beer 👍
which channel these truck drivers use. I do frequent travelling between Dubbo Sydney and Melbourne so would be good if I know what's going around.
Gives me a warm inner glow!
I drive a lot from Brisbane to the goldy, I used to get frustrated at some driver’s until I adopted this attitude. Pretend the other drivers are your mates, watch how acceptance you are of their behaviour. You will giggle your arse off and have fun drive.
How do you use one of these? Can you just radio random strangers?
Cool Trucker 👍😎👍💯
Bloody lovely stuff !!!
CB radio. It was the internet of the 80s. Still good fun.
That's a big 10-4.
Meanwhile on any freeway in or around Sydney you have a chain of people tailgating each other at 120 or 130ks an hour in the right lane at any given moment.
They need to turn this into a commercial on Canberra local television. The majority of drivers down here are oblivious to big rigs!
I think the 4x4 driver is about 0.01% of drivers that give truckies a fair go. nice one.
However:
Look at the SUV driver behind the semi, almost giving him a butt shave, absolutely no braking room for safety.
You should be at least 3 white lines away from the vehicle in front of you @100km/h
Wow Australia!! THAT'S road etiquette! THAT'S road courtesy! THIS is what using the road looks like when you're not on f***ing ice!! [Head explodes]
How does one know what channel the vehicle is on ????
UHF CB’s are a vital tool for road safety especially in the outback!! A lot of people have UHF CB’s but don’t turn them on because there might be a few blue words! They are just words! If you have young ears in the car then ask if the people could tone it down due to young ears and most truckies will do the right thing!