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Sep 15, 2009

EXTRA LARGE TRUCKS * On South Africa Road

KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa -Railways Africa -14 September 2009: -- Anyone who thought the South African government was serious in getting freight off our badly overloaded and under maintained roads and back to rail – think again. For starters, we permit bigger trucks than a raft of better informed countries. The roads suffer, not only as a result of this, but because they are inadequately looked after anyway – due to a critical lack of funds... But now hear this. From September 2009, according to the Mercury, published in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), “articulated trucks longer and heavier than anything else in everyday use on South African roads” will be in operation, transporting timber to Sappi’s Saiccor plant at Umkomaas... “They are the first licensed ‘performance-based system’ vehicles in South Africa and were bought by transport company Timber Logistics Services for use on its runs from the KZN Midlands and Zululand to Umkomaas. The vehicles will transport timber from Bulwer and Richard’s Bay to the Saiccor plant"... (Picture from roadtransport/Big-lorry-blog, by Darren Alexander, Professional Photographer: Western Star big-hitter hurrying to its next humungous heavy assignment in South Africa)

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Mar 20, 2009

Long Load * Australia - Truck lobby seeks more B-triple rigs

Sydney,NSW,USA -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Debra Jopson -March 21, 2009: -- There are just 26 of them restricted to western NSW but the Australian Trucking Association estimates within a few years 1000 B-triple trucks could travel daily along the Newell Highway and the upgraded Hume Highway... Weighing up to 82.5 tonnes, the 35-metre vehicles would deliver freight to Sydney industrial suburbs but not enter residential areas, said the association's communications manager, Bill McKinley, who claims their use would help save lives and the environment...

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Mar 27, 2007

97 feets long * USA - That string of trucks just got a little longer

St. Louis,MO,USA -The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, by Elisa Crouch -26 Mar 2007: -- ... Last week, the Federal Highway Administration loosened its length limitations on "four-ways," a slang term for a truck towing three other trucks. Used to be, they couldn't stretch longer than 75 feet. Now it's 97. Just what we needed... There's been increased pressure from truck safety groups to reduce the number of truck-related deaths, which reached about 5,200 in 2005, according to the Truck Safety Coalition. That same year, Congress said OK to the 97-foot-long truck combinations... Nevertheless, the rule published last week by the Federal Highway Administration cites studies from groups that say safety concerns from the truck drivers are unfounded. It's nice to think that's true. But there's something about a line of trucks 97 feet long that's pretty scary at 70 mph...

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