Ok, that's a truck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=womDrAUCgzw&feature=related

yeesh, nearly 1 mile long...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train

and It's a MACK..

Go... volvo.. I mean Mack.

You probably won't find a "Caution: I Brake for Wallabies" sticker on that thing.

I doubt it can brake for anything

oops. Mad-machine i voted your comment up.. AFTER i flagged it! lol apparently i can miss?

Anyway, with enough tires and trailer brakes i would think it stops surprisingly well, but only surprisingly well for a truck with 100 times as many trailers as usual hooked to it..

20+ years ago I was working with a Freestyle BMX out of Indy, and we did a show at a tiny little town in southern IN. It was their annual festival/parade, and one of the parade entrants was a local trucking company. They had one of their trucks pulling 50 pup-trailers all hooked together - and he made both 90* corners along the parade route!

Vigo wrote: oops. Mad-machine i voted your comment up.. AFTER i flagged it! lol apparently i can miss? Anyway, with enough tires and trailer brakes i would think it stops surprisingly well, but only surprisingly well for a truck with 100 times as many trailers as usual hooked to it..

Exactly. Most heavy trucks have more contact patch per weight than a car. The problem is overheating the brakes.

lotsa canoe sniping, sob even in my own thread

Kill it with fire!

I did a seek and destroy on 231321 and I'm looking for more of the paddling bastards...

please carry on, big trucks and such....

TYVM, oh stomper of floating, paddle powered vehicles

I find this fascinating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0663asT5xY

http://bringatrailer.com/2011/05/03/1973-ryder-paymaster-cummins-tractor/

Jerk has posted 84 canoe s

Waste of time canoe not one sale will come of this E36 M3

aussiesmg wrote: Waste of time canoe not one sale will come of this E36 M3

But should any of our members be so technologically skilled and inclined a D.O.S. attack would be fabulous

bravenrace wrote:

Vigo wrote: oops. Mad-machine i voted your comment up.. AFTER i flagged it! lol apparently i can miss? Anyway, with enough tires and trailer brakes i would think it stops surprisingly well, but only surprisingly well for a truck with 100 times as many trailers as usual hooked to it..

Exactly. Most heavy trucks have more contact patch per weight than a car. The problem is overheating the brakes.

to get back to the post at hand. I know.. I used to drive a truck for a living. another problem with braking hard on a land train.. from what I have heard, the rear trailers don't exactly follow in the same line.. they tend to wiggle a bit.. brake hard when one is wiggling, and it could be ugly, unless there is a way to make the rear trailers brake first and then sequentially forwards

This is why they are called "WiggleWaggins" Pass quickly or stay way back.

I'd really hate to have to back one of those things.

wlkelley3 wrote: I'd really hate to have to back one of those things.

Go around the block.

another canoe

Luke wrote: http://bringatrailer.com/2011/05/03/1973-ryder-paymaster-cummins-tractor/

Digging the E brake.

wlkelley3 wrote: I'd really hate to have to back one of those things.

They don't. Either around the block or start unhooking trailers.