Oh what a feeling, Landcruiser

Fraser Island being a classic example, with the end result being people killed on a regular basis.

Hire vehicles are made to withstand greater stresses and can go more places than ANY privately owned vehicle.

It's a known and proven fact.

There's no such thing as a speed bump in a hire vehicle.

It looks like there is enough guys standing around to push it out. Maybe these all came out of the hire vehicle.

Hi Matt, I thought that rule also applied to company vehicles!!

Yeah, and then people complain about how expensive the insurance is for a hire vehicle, and how one-sided the hire contract is...

joc,

I think company vehicles are a special category of hire vehicle with even better capabilities.

Matt.

Yeh, looks suspiciously like a mining vehicle.
Yardie Ck is a fair way from the big mines up there! Perhaps another oil expl in Cape Range? ;o)

Most of the hire 4wd's up that way do have the light/safety flag packages, etc as the main customers are the Pilbara mining companies.

John

Most of the hire companies in WA have 4wds kitted out to mining standards.
This is for contractors who may only need to be on site for a short duration and dont want the expense of out fitting a vehicle

My folks sent me the photo as they are up there at the moment.
They said that two 4wds with snatch straps could not move it so a tow truck was called and I guess it was then winched out.

Well if two 4x4's couldn't get it out then there goes my 'pushing' idea.

Wizard1 - I wonder if you know my mate. He was guilty of all those things.

He hired a 4x4 when visiting Alice Springs and got bogged in sand. Story goes (and his wife just loves telling it as he rolls his eyes) that he was digging away and putting in a rock road to get him out. She reckons by 2010 they'd have been out of there using his approach of all brawn and no brains.

Meantime she sat in the car & actually read the instruction book. "Says here Darl that we engage 4x4 low by doing these things".

"What the....." He of course bumped his head on the underside of the car, cursed and wondered why he didn't think of that before her.

Low 4x4 engaged, hubs locked in and she was out in seconds.

Naturally when ever we see them we somehow weave in that story.