That vehicle is screwed if it arrives at a roundabout!

G train...

How does it turn at an intersection?

So Brazil skipped right over railways and went straight to a trucking industry?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'truck, long, trailers, brazil, sugar cane' to 'truck, long, trailers, brazil, sugar cane, road train' - edited by calvados

dude...what I don't even! Is there no turns in brazil?

Those guys are so screwed if a car comes at them while they're passing!

i'm surprised that wimpy truck could pull so many

>> ^sadicious:

How does it turn at an intersection?


By turning the steering wheel, but that's not important right now.

Whoopidy-doo.. a road train.

I like the little beep-beep at the end, as if to say "Wow, long truck dude". truck driver beeps back "Ya, I know, right?"

I don't have a CDL license, but I used to drive semi trucks on back roads for my family farm, so I'll take a stab at a couple of the question/comments here.
>> ^sadicious:

How does it turn at an intersection?
This is a fair bit different from the trucks and trailers I've seen, but I've personally been at the wheel of a double trailer and seen quite a few triple trailers. In either case, I was quite surprised at how well the successive trailers track the path of the semi cab itself and the trailer in front of it. I could actually take corners sharper in a double trailer than with a standard long single trailer. So, I bet that this thing can take a fairly standard wide semi-turn and each trailer will follow almost exactly the same track as the one in front of it.

Backing up would be pretty much impossible, although I felt that way about the double trailer I drove and some of the more seasoned hands than mine could back it through a course around obstacles with seemingly relative ease. I've even seen veterans do the same with triple trailers, which just blows my mind.
>> ^mxxcon:

i'm surprised that wimpy truck could pull so many
Note that all of the trailers were empty! A standard semi with a single grain hopper trailer like my family farm used would weigh about 23-25,000 pounds empty, with a bit higher empty weight for a double/triple trailer. The limit on total weight for any such a rig in the US is around 82,000 pounds (with some more specific regulations on weight per axle, etc.) so you can legally haul a bit under 60,000 pounds of cargo. On back dirt roads with very very rare vehicle inspection, sometimes we would try to cram a trailer full and ignore the weight limits.

Most of our hopper trailers could get up to around 92,000 lbs for semi plus trailer if we did that, but the double trailer I drove on occasion could sometimes top 105,000 lbs.

My guess is that the truck in the video is hauling about all the weight that it can handle in empty trailers, and once they get loaded with sugarcane (I think?, from the tags) the 10 trailers get divvied up between either 5 or 10 trucks. They might not have weight limit regulations, or they might not be enforced. Without any weight limit laws, or lax enforcement, people will tend to load to the maximum their trucks can handle.

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