A lively morning on the tolls!

Screw counting them! I asked how many tyres! once they got through the toll they aired up the tyres again. From driving through the toll,the logistics of some engineers dudes climbing on top of the thing to check height because he was a couple of mm short of knocking out the etoll sensor and metal brackets.. That would have been disastrous if that happened. The time frame of getting all vehicles through the toll booth and then pulling up to air up again and do a truck tyre check, They had already been one hour and where still there when I knocked off.

Mark may as well drive Barbie Dolls bus!!!

Well he does own a poofter poodle for a dog..................We may have to start calling him Ken LMAO

Ken!! ROTFLMFAO!!!!

ken.. ohh I man Mark


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Ken knows of this post cause I have MM'd him LMAO

Ken drives a poofy Navara, has a pink poodle.

I think Ken is in hiding, we need Hairs to find him I think ;)

And he gets around in the nudy apparently if the above picture is anything to go by.. Dang Mark.. it is sooo not looking good for you!!!!!

Looks like Ken was going for a bath LOL

Mark, thats a bit too much Brillcream on ya hair pal. And can I suggest you stand at a urinal rather than the edge of the bowl, OHS you know!!!!!!! Don't want you slipping in there mate.

The wife seems to be in hot water too Mark.

Colin,

He is now known as Ken, not Mark LOL

Cheers Kev

Kev,
maybe that should be "Blaine" Barbies new Australian love object.

Ken lost half his stuff in the messy divorce case (see Divorce Barbie).

Ken is history now, Blaine is the latest hunk in Barbies life.

Ken is history if Jo gets hold of him LOL

Seems i'm wrong about that, Ken is back according to Wikipedia

Seems that Ken didn't know he was supposed to lift the seat....




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leave it up. LOL

what i want to know is why @ 34 years of age is JO still playing with dolls? maybe they are still her security blanket? LOL

If you look properly at my rig pic, I am not playing with Dolls, I am roasting them!
Let me guess by your rig pic... you are the grouchy arse one and hairs is the funny one!

JO

but you still have dolls........mmmm makes ya wonder?
the 2 on my rig pic are Kev & Stefan

You don't know your toys Ken.
They are not Dolls, they are Trolls!!!!

(that pic actually came in an email with other pics, haha but damn it is funny for my sense of humour, especially remembering Trolls from when I was a kid. Wish I'd thought of it!!!!!)

Hey Willie.
The vehicles in front, we have to classify each vehicle one at a time (same as what I would have to do if you came through)you classify, the sensor picks up their etoll and once it registers it the boom automatically opens, (unlike everyone's thought that for etoll we open the boom). Then the truck is classified, his etoll goes off and the boom automatically opens, we then lock the boom to stay up until the whole push me is through, police vehicles are exempt from paying any toll fees, then boom is then lowered again and the normal vehicles following behind are classified one at a time and their etolls go off.
The toll fee for the truck with load? $4.50..
My plaza is cheaper than the gateway.
The tolls here are set as one rear axle single wheels, ie car is $1.90.
with trailer same cost.
Trucks that are one rear axle but duel tyres, different classification but same price as cars. BUT if that truck is towing a trailer that puts him to big truck class and it is $4.50
Big Trucks that are more than one rear axle and more than duel tyres, full fee of $4.50. Doesn't matter how many tyres or axles, is one set price.
And what was it? wish I could tell ya but I haven't got a bloooody clue!!!!!!
I am assuming something for the mines because that is what most of all the massive push me pull me stuff is (transformers, air conditioning units).

Looks like a new Gen Set for one of the new gas fired power stations that are being built 30 k west of Dalby.

There have been a few come up over the past few years.

The trip up the Toowoomba range would be more exciting.

And watching them pull the gen set out of the float is also interesting. The beams each side of the float get lifted away after they jack the gen set up a little to take the weight, then they tow front and back wheels away, leaving the Gen set sitting there.

Regards

See I should never listen to my boss!, turns out it was a gas turbine that is supposedly going out to Roma?
Is Roma Darling Downs?
Darling Downs is what one of the convoy blokes told me, Day shift supervisor said Roma.

Roma could be classed as part of the Western Darling Downs

cheers Kev

Thought you'd appreciate it, just wish I could tell ya's what it was!

It was something that ran on hydraulics I can tell you that much!

That would make sense Doug.. My supervisor had said they were airing up but I did think that would be rather difficult!!!!!

See I should never listen to my boss!, turns out it was a gas turbine that is supposedly going out to Roma?
Is Roma Darling Downs?
Darling Downs is what one of the convoy blokes told me, Day shift supervisor said Roma.

Doc, the solution to that is to show them a record palyer and a record and ask them to male it work.
They text message constantly, sometimes across the room, but still have no idea why the bill is so high.
They might have been born into the geewhizbang generation but most haven't had to learn any common sense :)))

I just sent the pics from my phone as a message to my email address. You'd be able to do the same.

where are you based Mr Troopy?

If I made the rules you wouldn't be paying an tolls!

So they would add even more!!!!!!

Its an awesome sight. Mind you Bradshaw seem to have grown they may have done it them selves.

hehe..
yeh we also rate it per axles on ground. I should have wrote that in my follow up earlier on.. If you are a truck coming through an you have 2 rear axles, but have one lifted up then officially you only have one rear axle with duel wheels, there fore you only pay the Class 3 toll of $1.90. But drop that axle down and it will be $4.50

Hey Andrew.
Glad to be of assistance. Next time I will make sure I title the thread " A Push Pull coming your way!!"