Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to How to Unbog a Road Train in the Australian Outback" video.

  1. On those outback roads all hell catches up with you if rain hits while you are well away from the sealed main roads. Turns these wide dirt roads into impassable deep mud/clay. Roads can become quite deep water channels, and also periodical intervals cross desert water courses that are dry except hours after rain, but in pkaces csn be many meters deep and fsst flowing. The deep muddy surface can close those roads to traffic for months. Driving is more slippery than ice, but worse still often as it is sticky state builds up on tyres, even filling fender wells, plugging exhausts. Needing manual work to remove, exhaust pipe plug gets rock hard, much work to remove. Really stops you even trying to drive. Not that it is even legsl to try. The grooves left by any vehicle remain, and when dry are like formed in concrete channels weaving along, making driving both difficult and hazardous, to even keeping the road unusable until regraded at huge cost. Hundreds of kilometer of the wide road regrading is very expensive. At times a single day rain can result in months of closed road, while drying out, surface is quick but deeper ground takes time keeping road in boggy state. While gazetted closed drivers breaking the closure can face truely huge fines, and result in many millions costs to repair. Not so evident here but even in dry these roads can hide some nasty surprises . The ground is quite sandy, but also very ancient and hss a large proportion of very fine dust, which is slick clay like when wet but in dry state, gathers to low places, that when a pot hole forms, as traffic passes, ever larger nasty big pot holes, full of this dust that sits looking quite smooth like the rest of the road appearance. You come along doing significant speed and CRASH as you hit this hole casting a massive cloud of dust up. If you are lucky your vehicle survives and is able to drive on, you may end up with bruises. Worse though your suspension has just suffered fatal damage stranding your vehicle, or worse causes a major rollover crash, with fatal result. A pothole that a road train bumps through, can near swallow smaller vehicles and 4WDs. Additionally the roads develop quite nasty ripples tuned to suspension resonances of traffic and normal dpeeds travelled. Need careful driving or aldo can cause serious problems. By the way for Road Train drivers those suspension seats are even more essential than for other long distance haul truckers. Without these drivers would in short time destroy their bodies and internal organs.
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