Just thought I would say We have Just completed the first stage of our journey and have really enjoyed triping around Northern Queensland and meeting lots of friendly people. We made it safetly up as far as Cape Tribulation and In around the Athertons ,Ravenshoe, Mount Garnet,The Lynd etc. Those big Road trains are frightning!! Had a narsty fright in Brisbane when at first I found my self in the Bus lane heading over a Bridge in the central city (i wonder how much the fine will be), but the blood pressure really went up 5 minutes later when I found myself 200 meters up the off ramp of the M3 with two lanes of traffic heading at me head on. Thanks very much to the Taxi driver who blocked traffic while I backed the caravan up 100 meters or so to a spot I could do a uturn from. Some signs need to be bigger maybe. Still no harm done just a brused ego. Has any one else been through something like this? Also I could not find the emergency flasher switch when I needed it in the Falcon as Ford have positioned it behind the steering wheel out of sight,I will now make a point of locating it when ever I get into a new vehicle just in case I need it again. Hope to be back on the road in about 6 weeks or so a little further south Mike and Cushla
Hah!!! HAh! Hah! as if none of us has'nt been in that position
I found myself in three lines of traffic heading in to hobart over the bridge with a copper alongside me, he signalled for me to look up at the lights overhead and I was going against the arrows (mornings only have 2 lanes in and one lane out or whatever, I was heading on the in lane when I was supposed to be going out,
copper just smiled and waved me goodbye, I hate citys and freeways, I dont understand them
here is one for everyone to have a giggle about. i was driving a b-double for refrigerated roadways,and i am on my way to tee tree,about 200 klms north of alice springs, ( the first grapes to come on the market in australia ) and i have loaded a full truck of grocerys for woolies in alice, i think i will be real smart here i will wait till 2.30am,then sneak into woolies. everthing is going great until the first big round about on the corner of woollies street. so i cant get around the round about and i cant back up ( its pitch dark.) so i wind down the legs for the back trailer,and disconect,and race down to woolies loading dock,with the first trailer. back for the 2nd trailer thats blocking the round about and here is the coppers waiting for me.
we had a feller on the next street from us brought his rig home with him, son wanted a ride so he wound the legs down, fired up the louis lnt9000 and unhitched, took son for a burgle but upon return found the legs had sunk through the bitumen, took a crane, half a dozen blokes and two days to get the trailer back up to hook up stage, dont know what it cost him
Think the Mortgage broker might have received an URGENT call..........poor B*&#*r
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Guru & Ma Ulladulla NSW Happy day, safe travelling Ford Ranger towing 21ft Jurgen shower and toilet which was large enough to fit in a few extras (fridge, bed, stove...)
thats what got me in hobart, they use the same system, but me not being used to having to look "up" to see what bloody lane I'm supposed to be in I was completely stonkered, the arrows on the road proclaimed that I was correct but this overhead rubbish stuffs me right up
I hooked onto that southern expressway heading down to K.I. one lot of honkerdays, I struck 3.30 on a friday trying to get through adelaide from the north, I was "escorted" by two semis all the way through, good job I didnt need fuel 'cos there was no getting off, vehicles up my freckle and semis in front and both sides, spinning wheel nuts was my only outlook all the way through that madhouse
when I explained the way I came to other travellers they just stared at me in disbelief, they pretty much chorused that "we NEVER go that way, we head up through Hahndorf and back down the peninsula" HMmmm!!! maybe last time for Dave too!!!
After driving and towing for about 3,000kms to Perth, things were a bit tense trying to follow Tom's instructions to the van park. There's the traffic to consider, and then the morons who are just so inconsiderate. While I'm very confident towing my van all over the place, I have to admit big towns and cities do create some tension behind the wheel. Avoid peak hour wherever you are is the best advice I can give from experience. If it's tricky for van towers it must be absolute hell for drivers of semis, B doubles and triples. Give me the open road. Cheers Chris
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20ft Roma caravan - Mercedes Benz Sprinter - SA-based at the moment. Transport has no borders.
Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
Yeah Smokey...............Gotta love the Southern Expressway.
Out of courtesy Heavy and slow vehicles should use the left lane........Try changing lanes (at peak hour) to get off at the Marion road exit...... A real hoot!!
All this road with no traffic light and then guess what we ahve at either end of it............???
Traffic Lights!!! Still stops it all!!
Never heard od clover leaves ??
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Adelaide South Australia
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Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.
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