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Fear - Australia - Giant trucks on roads
Tasmania,Australia -The Mercury, by SUE NEALES -10 Dec 2005: -- Tasmanians face the prospect of monster road trains thundering up and down the Midlands and Bass highways if all rail services are permanently axed next week... Major paper manufacturer Norske Skog has warned it will be forced to use the triple-length trucks to ship paper from its Boyer mill at New Norfolk to Burnie and Bell Bay ports economically... Such massive road trains are used in outback Australia but are banned in Tasmania, Victoria and most of NSW... The 60m length of the B-Triple trucks, their vast weight and the long time it takes for them to stop are considered too dangerous for Tasmania's roads...
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