Fill'er up, and could you check the tires?
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Fill'er up, and could you check the tires?
I love these things! http://www.longestroadtrains.com/Titan.html
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you and me both. I would love to get behind the wheel of one of those. If you do a search for the world record longest road train you will be extremely impressed. It has about 120 trailers.
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Yeah, I didn't look hard, just wanted one for the post. I couldn't imagine doing a rotate and balance. You could make your whole week on one truck!
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That is really aggravating....were not all computer geniuses and I closed mine in the middle of something important....oh well, i guess its in good humor somewhat
That is really aggravating....were not all computer geniuses and I closed mine in the middle of something important....oh well, i guess its in good humor somewhat
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This is a cut & paste of the current record...it was set in late 2006:
Old truck driver sets world's longest road train record
The world record for hauling the longest road train has been broken in southern Queensland.
Thousands of spectators watched near Clifton on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland as John Atkinson from Brisbane used a single prime mover to pull 112 trailers for 100 metres.
The record road train stretched almost 1.5 kilometres in length.
The previous world record was set in Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and was a road train of 1,445 metres.
Event organiser Mick Boyce says there was uncertainty about whether the record could be beaten.
"You just don't know if all the trailers are going to stand up on the day and all of those sorts of things there were tankers, flat tops, tippers - you name it, it was in there - but you know it's come through," he said.
Mr Boyce says moving the 112 trailers the required length was not an easy task.
"We had problems we had to overcome and we did run out of dollies and they had to be shifted in from Toowoomba," he said.
"There was a last minute panic but the boys came through and it started to wheelstand but no, it did the job, so it was 1,474.3 metres long - so yes, it's big."
Old truck driver sets world's longest road train record
The world record for hauling the longest road train has been broken in southern Queensland.
Thousands of spectators watched near Clifton on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland as John Atkinson from Brisbane used a single prime mover to pull 112 trailers for 100 metres.
The record road train stretched almost 1.5 kilometres in length.
The previous world record was set in Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and was a road train of 1,445 metres.
Event organiser Mick Boyce says there was uncertainty about whether the record could be beaten.
"You just don't know if all the trailers are going to stand up on the day and all of those sorts of things there were tankers, flat tops, tippers - you name it, it was in there - but you know it's come through," he said.
Mr Boyce says moving the 112 trailers the required length was not an easy task.
"We had problems we had to overcome and we did run out of dollies and they had to be shifted in from Toowoomba," he said.
"There was a last minute panic but the boys came through and it started to wheelstand but no, it did the job, so it was 1,474.3 metres long - so yes, it's big."
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Oh sorry, is that you in that pic JKM??
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link is not working for me in Firefox or IE. Ah well. 
Guess I will have to imagine it! Not even www.longestroadtrains.com is working.
Guess I will have to imagine it! Not even www.longestroadtrains.com is working.
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