Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to The Women Driving Australia" video.

  1. Sadly in Victoria, not all that far from Melbourne in the last fortnight a young female trucky, just had a crash off a small bridge, trapped upside down, over the creek, in the smashed truck cabin, for over 30hrs.(from memory) Was finally rescued by amputation of one leg,, smahed and pinned into the tangle cab, and in hospital the second leg also was amputated. Not the ideal fate for someone in her twenties building a career. Sadly trucking still carries significant risks, it was not yet clear, from news, what caused the crash, hopefully mot some young inexperienced or law breaking car driver, as many truck accidents still occur due to bad car driver behaviour on the roads.
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  2. Outback trucking is especially difficult and risky. Potential of hitting kangaroos, Emus, Cattle, Camels, Water buffalo is high especially pushing along overnight. Trucks need to keep going to meet deadlines and keep profitable. Car drivers are generally advised to stop before sunset and not resume till after sunrise due to dangers of crashing into animals. The dead carcasses along those outback highways, both sealed and unsealed, are common. Trucka with solid "BULLBARS" typically cope with minimal damage, leaving dead Roos and other road kill. Not unusual to have half a cattle one side the the other half opposite side. Or for kill a day or more old, bloating like a inflated balloon, to a moving mass of fly maggots after a couple of days. I have done many tens thousand km of night driving, mostly lucky, but have dodged cattle, camels, hirses and kangaroos, very dependant on excellent, well adjusted high power driving lights. But do try to avoid night driving if at all possible. Trucks do rediculous hours and distances, we loaded our test cars on a car transporter in Kathrine NT, during afternoon, had diner slept till next morning before flying back to Melbourne via Alice Springs, to be home by the next evening after putting our cars on the transporter truck. However the transporter delivered the test cars here at the car plant the next morning, having driven just over 2700km Kathrine to Melbourne in just over 32 hours. The drover did so on his own, no driver swapping. I call that suicide. He does Melbourne Darwin and Melbourne Perth, as independant owner driver of the truck, making several trips per week. I can only imagine using some keep awake drugs. Madness, but to earn a living and pay for truck/trailer, maybe necessary. How he manipulates the driver log books, I have no idea, multiple books?.
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