Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.

[weeds]

I'm skeptical as if he does have approval why hasn't he flood gates opened and we see two trailers being towed everywhere.

B Double technology???

https://issuu.com/mweekly/docs/mwvol7no24





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[jwb]

He's retired AND only allowing 3 months to do WA?? WT?

[speewa158]

Weeds  ? you haven't been ,,,smoking something grown in the back shed      ,,,,,,have you       

[weeds]

Weeds  ? you haven't been ,,,smoking something grown in the back shed      ,,,,,,have you     

Huh


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[Bird]

its been done before... it was something like apparently registration or something as truck trailers and drive as a double...
hideously cost prohibitive

[speewa158]

Weld another tow ball on the back & so on & so on . What could possibly go wronggowronggowrong            

[Brij]

The photos of this bloke's out fit have been going around the internet for years.

From the Victorian Road Safety (Vehicle) Regs -

249 Towing offences
(1) A person must not, without the Corporation's approval, use, or cause or permit to be used, on a highway a motor vehicle that is towing more than one other vehicle.

So how is a B double allowed to tow 2 trailers?

Easy -

244A Non-application to heavy vehicles
This Chapter, except regulations 245, 245A, 246, 247, 252 and 253, does not apply to a heavy vehicle

[DrewXT]

You'd have to think he's going to get pulled over by every single cop car that sees him, and gets booked by all of them...

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[Brij]

You'd have to think he's going to get pulled over by every single cop car that sees him, and gets booked by all of them...

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Actually he did.

I used to work for Vicroads and received a photo at one stage from another enforcement officer from Mildura who pulled him up and instructed him to take it back home, with the help of a couple of bits of paper for his efforts.

[DrewXT]

Actually he did.

I used to work for Vicroads and received a photo at one stage from another enforcement officer from Mildura who pulled him up and instructed him to take it back home, with the help of a couple of bits of paper for his efforts.

The Vic Roads compliance boys I used to know at Kew would have had a field day

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[weeds]

But the newspaper article says it's all approved, legal


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[tryagain]

I'm skeptical as if he does have approval why hasn't he flood gates opened and we see two trailers being towed everywhere

As Bird said cost for one getting everything engineered, other from memory is that he was a retired truck driver and you need to be liscenced to drive a B-double to drive it

[alnjan]

But the newspaper arrival says it's all approved, legal


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the newpaper is also dated Friday April 12, 2013

[Cruiser 105Tvan]

Could have been dated Friday April the 1st. just as easily.

[weeds]

On another forum they say he had no issues driving across four states when pulled up by the authorities.

Ex truckie
B Double technology
Inspected and passed and legal


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[kylarama]

The Vic Roads compliance boys I used to know at Kew would have had a field day

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Yeah, but the guys and gals over at the old Greensborough Vicroads probably gave it full approval.

After giving it the full once over by glancing at it out their window....

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[edz]

I reckon good on him ..
Sheeple's way of thinking:  Its not the normal way everyone else  does  it, Ok then I cant do it ..

Old school approach:  We need to do this and that to get that result,  so hook in and do whats needed to get it done .. 

[Brij]

On another forum they say he had no issues driving across four states when pulled up by the authorities.

Ex truckie
B Double technology
Inspected and passed and legal


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Whats the B double technology?

A B double is a configeration consisting of a prime mover (a vehicle that has it's tow coupling above the rear axle group, not behind) towing a semi trailer (a trailer with it's only axle group at the rear of the trailer and it's tow coupling at the front) which is in turn towing another semi trailer.

This blokes configeration doesn't use a prime mover or semi trailers, so it can't be considered a b double, which is why he got pulled up just outside Mildura and sent home.

[weeds]

Whats the B double technology?

A B double is a configeration consisting of a prime mover (a vehicle that has it's tow coupling above the rear axle group, not behind) towing a semi trailer (a trailer with it's only axle group at the rear of the trailer and it's tow coupling at the front) which is in turn towing another semi trailer.

This blokes configeration doesn't use a prime mover or semi trailers, so it can't be considered a b double, which is why he got pulled up just outside Mildura and sent home.

I hearing ya


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[Cruiser 105Tvan]

Be more considered as a road train, I thought.
Not at this time permitted in Vic.
Any/all trailers would need break away braking, besides anything else.

[Wukkers]

Not a B Double, not a Road Train (no dolly) more like an Urban Myth. 

[Brij]

Be more considered as a road train, I thought.
Not at this time permitted in Vic.
Any/all trailers would need break away braking, besides anything else.

There is a limited road train network in Victoria https://vicroadsmaps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5e1ec0a877eb450b8e46ac29b3343712

Then if you meet the stringent requirements you can call them a 30m A doubles and run them on this network

http://vicroadsmaps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=04f70aa330a444e4aeb0cc63bd2e31d1


Hopefully pick up the 1st of our 6 sets of A doubles next week 

[Jeepers Creepers]

Its a bit like riding a pushbike on busy roads, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. IMO 

[callmejoe]

You'll get more proof that the black pather is alive an well then that set-up IN ANY state being passed as  "legal"..

[weeds]

Its a bit like riding a pushbike on busy roads, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. IMO 

Don't bring pushbikes into it......


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