Thanks for sharing this link to an Australian trucking website, Jesse.
As an Australian who visited the US and Canada for the first time in 2011, it baffled me how there were so many single trailer trucks operating over there. Here there is an increasing number of B-doubles, as shown in the website link, which allows a single prime mover to haul two trailers. The efficiency benefits are obvious.
I didn't get the chance to ask any US truck experts why this is the case, as the roads over there certainly seemed capable of handling the loads . . . if anything, due to the wide weather and temperature variations in most US States compared to Australia, your roads are superior.
probably due to scared old ladies and lawyers. No one has a louder conniption fit about what they feel is safe, and heaven forbid that the facts, or reality, intrude on their opinion about what is safe on the big highways, interstates, and freeways. Also, most passenger car drivers are too stupid to survive among big trucks as it is. They just don't seem capable of coexisting on roads with double or triple trailers.
Thanks for sharing this link to an Australian trucking website, Jesse.
ReplyDeleteAs an Australian who visited the US and Canada for the first time in 2011, it baffled me how there were so many single trailer trucks operating over there. Here there is an increasing number of B-doubles, as shown in the website link, which allows a single prime mover to haul two trailers. The efficiency benefits are obvious.
I didn't get the chance to ask any US truck experts why this is the case, as the roads over there certainly seemed capable of handling the loads . . . if anything, due to the wide weather and temperature variations in most US States compared to Australia, your roads are superior.
probably due to scared old ladies and lawyers. No one has a louder conniption fit about what they feel is safe, and heaven forbid that the facts, or reality, intrude on their opinion about what is safe on the big highways, interstates, and freeways. Also, most passenger car drivers are too stupid to survive among big trucks as it is. They just don't seem capable of coexisting on roads with double or triple trailers.
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