Wednesday, Apr 25, 2012 at 00:09
Never heard of anyone doing Wagga to
Perth in 24 hrs in a truck - that would be impossible, even in a GT Falcon.
Brookes of Bunbury used to do
Perth to
Adelaide in their empty trucks in 24 hrs (2709kms).
The fastest trucks I've seen are the Cleveland Freight Lines (CFL) Mack Muncher Kenworths.
I can recall tailing these blokes (single trailer) at 140kmh in my V8 Sandman ute in the late 1970's. They used to do
Adelaide-
Perth in under 24hrs - loaded. They were running 450 HP Cat 3408 V8's when others still thought that 300HP was plenty.
I've done
Bathurst to about 50kms West of
Ceduna in one (very long) day, in 1970. Left
Bathurst at 7:00AM and pulled up West of
Ceduna 10:30PM that night.
1085
miles (1750kms) was the distance I made, in my near new HD Holden with a 179 red motor - and it was a BLOODY LONG WAY!
I sat on 85-90mph (140-150kmh) all day. I also got extra time due to time changes. I averaged about 70 mph (112kmh) for the day, because I had to slow down through towns, and fuel up and eat. There were no open road speed limits in 1970.
There's no possible way of doing a straight line from Wagga to
Carnarvon. You'd have to cut and then repair about 1000 fences (yes, even pastoral properties are fenced) - you'd have to traverse rail lines numerous times, plus Aboriginal lands.
You can't travel along rail
reserves without a special permit, and you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get permission to directly traverse Aboriginal lands in a straight line. You wouldn't get permission to directly traverse the
Woomera region, as you'd need.
If you really need to go Wagga to
Carnarvon in a straight line, then I'd suggest a microlight.
Cheers - Ron.
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