Irish truck driver in Australia

Irish truck driver in Australia from ireland

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  1. I saw something on those jobs before and it was so much hassle to stop and restart for a toilet break that they used to piss into plastic bottles whilst driving. Hours and hours and hours of driving then on empty roads out in the arsehole of nowhere, fair play to them because I certainly couldn’t do it.

  2. I had a laugh when I first saw the Caution: Long Vehicle signs on the back of a truck here after living in WA. Those road-trains are something else, once they are up to speed, it takes them a kilometre to stop even under emergency braking. I know this because a news clip interviewed activists who were going to lie in the roads used by the trains in protest against something or other and they asked a truckie for his views.

    Edit: typo

  3. Had a beer with a road train driver in Alice Springs once and he said the worst part of the job was kangaroos jumping out on to the road at night time.

    The kangaroos are stunned by the headlights and they freeze so there is that couple of seconds where the driver realises they are going to hit them head on while the kangaroo is staring right at them but is frozen by the lights and cannot jump out of the way. Theyre similar to rabbits and deer in that regard, the lights stun them and they freeze up and cannot move.

    The road train drivers are trained never to swerve or the whole train will topple over at high speed. So they have no choice but to hit them for their own safety and even then they feel the trailers behind them hopping as they go over its body. It cant be nice to see and also hoping their entire rig doesnt crash at those speeds when they hit one.

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