avoiding the truck routes???
Submitted: Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 19:45
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robertbruce
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does anyone know how to avoid the truck
routes?
last year i turned off the tar and took the dirt only to find stock-trucks or mud-carters.
As a road the M1 has no character to travel on, just service-center after service-centre. Smaller roads are very interesting to travel, but often much more intimidating and dangerous...
so apart from gazzeted tourist-roads, what are the best ways to go?
Reply By: Member - John - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 19:54
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 19:54
from where to where?
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Follow Up By: robertbruce - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 19:58
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 19:58
ok, ill start with 2
1. Koziosko to
Gawler
2. The Sturt Highway
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Reply By: disco driver - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 20:33
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 20:33
Robertbruce,
From now until Feb any roads in grain farming country may have grain carting trucks of every conceivable configuration and weight (including overweight) running around on them.
In dairy country there are semi and bigger tankers picking up milk from farms on rural roads and tracks.
In timber country there are timber trucks, usually B double or bigger with logs stacked high, travelling at or about the speed limit.
In mining country there are service trucks, ore trucks and occasionally haulpaks taking up space on usually dirt roads.
In the city there are delivery trucks, builders vehicles with ladders or timber planks secured more or less safely on roof high frames and cyclist gaggles in their lycra uniforms going everywhere.
You can not avoid trucks anywhere, just be considerate and patient and enjoy the drive no matter where you are travelling.
Disco.
(who rides a bike, a motor bike and drives a 4wd and occasionally a semi or a road train)
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Follow Up By: Brian (Montrose, Vic.) - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 20:47
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 20:47
And maybe keep the UHF on the road channel to keep an ear out for their movements....
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Follow Up By: robertbruce - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 21:18
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 21:18
"yep-yep"
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Reply By: robertbruce - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 21:34
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 21:34
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DARN IT
that's it.... A google overlay based on collected data, collating things such as seasons, harvests, road conditions, last graded etc...
the overlay would show a color-coded road usage intensity.
Yellow would be the color for us tourists.
this would not be hard to do and would save lives...or might even be the intention of the latest google thingy everyone was up-in-arms-about.
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Follow Up By: Member - Old Girl (QLD) - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 21:43
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 21:43
freshly graded would be good lol.
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Follow Up By: bushy04 - Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:09
Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:09
some people should not have licences to drive as it means that they may encounter other road users.
Robertbruce you really do need to get a life, and grow up.
as is a great site to learn from. If you dont like trucks then dont drive, because you will find them on nearly every road in Aus.
Bushy.
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Follow Up By: Karen & Geoff - Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:38
Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:38
Over!!!!!!!!!
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Follow Up By: robertbruce - Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:27
Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:27
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.and some people are that bigoted that stuff fly's right over the tops of thier heads...
im sorry you missed the point b, k & g, but thanks for helping prove it
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Follow Up By: Member - Pesty (SA) - Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 at 09:48
Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 at 09:48
In most better truckstops/roadhouses, you can buy a Hema truckies map book with all the main
routes for different configurations of rigs marked in it.
Go buy one and you will be able to see where the main
routes are, but your always going to encounter trucks, they carry this country.
Cant see what your worried about, personally i would be more worried about some of the people who are now towing large vans around the country who have a car licence and little or no rig driving experience.
KAREN !! havent you left yet ?? LOL
Pesty
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Follow Up By: robertbruce - Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 at 16:45
Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 at 16:45
many many thanks Pesty, that was the answer i was looking for...
I agree about the caravanners, personally, id rather ten luxury around the world cruises rather than humping a trailor between caravan parks...
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Follow Up By: Karen & Geoff - Monday, Oct 05, 2009 at 18:42
Monday, Oct 05, 2009 at 18:42
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I have your number Pesty and I will let you know when we are on our way.
Karen.
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Reply By: Hairy (NT) - Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 23:20
Friday, Oct 02, 2009 at 23:20
Stick to the motorbike tracks?
Whats wrong with shareing the road?
Not sure what you mean...........
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Reply By: Rockape - Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 14:31
Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 14:31
Mate,
most of those dirt roads are there to service the rural communities and properties.
We just come along and like to use them, guess wherever there is a road trucks will be on them.
Maybe you could have a map overlay of the least likely route trucks are going to use. Having said that if they are moving stock you will get lots of roadtrains on a any road.
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Reply By: robertbruce - Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 15:40
Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 15:40
..oh gee, i guess i should have said "main-truck-routes-for-the-annanly-rentive-pendantics".... but being on this site, with an occordingly open mind, one might think that was what i would be more-so refferring to...
It would be good to hear from some truck-drivers about how to avoid thier more intensively used roads....listenning on the radio coming across the sturt is easy enough but what about the smaller routes that stock-vehicles take between auction and paddock for instance....
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Reply By: disco driver - Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 19:09
Saturday, Oct 03, 2009 at 19:09
Robertbruce
GUESS WHAT,
Yesterday was FRIDAY, a good opportunity to take the P**s out of anyone.
It just happened to be you
Cheers
Disco.
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Reply By: Member - ross m (WA) - Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 at 21:49
Sunday, Oct 04, 2009 at 21:49
Catch a plane
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