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![]() Even if people - like me - are not too interested in cars and technics: road trains are impressive to see. All their decoration and glossy chrome is certainly a male thing and not always designed entirely for usefulness. But why not? Women also pay a lot of money for useless decoration, it's a common human fault. The huge machines are not designed to transport a pile of feathers from one village to the next one. Road trains trail a heavy load over long distances and our driver told us they needed a kilometer to brake. That's why TV in the Northern Territories advertises to beware of them. Our driver also told us, better populated states like Queensland don't allow them at all. ![]() Visitors of this website keep adding corrections and more details: Eddie Gooderham wrote me, our driver's remark was (again) not quite true: Pat Sparks added: Remark by Loz Fegan: I keep learning :) |