Re: The Dash Cam Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:38 pm
Last Saturday, returning home from a road trip to the Carnarvon National Park in Queensland, I was stuck behind a wide load on the Newell Highway, approaching Coonabarabran from Narrabri. It seemed to be an eternity at the time, but it was probably 15-20 minutes.
I say stuck because the load was the width of two lanes, and a support/pilot vehicle was driving behind it in the right/oncoming lane, probably to dissuade drivers from trying to overtake.
Police and pilot vehicles warned oncoming traffic to get completely off the road to let it pass. It often managed to do ~80 km/h on the mostly flat road (with a 110 km/h speed limit) but slowed significantly on the occasional incline, and possibly to allow oncoming traffic to find a place to pull over safely.
Most of the highway has only two lanes, with an occasional long overtaking lane, but usually in only one direction. Thankfully, eventually, there was a section with an overtaking lane in both directions, and it took up both oncoming lanes, allowing the queue of held-up vehicles to get past on the left.
The load was the chassis of a CAT 793F mining truck. Thank fuck it didn't have the bed and wheels attached!
I knew these fuckers were big, but I didn't realise how big until seeing one in the fleshmetal.
My "fuck me" towards the end of the video is because the ute in front of me slowed down from 105 to 85 km/h for some inexplicable reason?
I say stuck because the load was the width of two lanes, and a support/pilot vehicle was driving behind it in the right/oncoming lane, probably to dissuade drivers from trying to overtake.
Police and pilot vehicles warned oncoming traffic to get completely off the road to let it pass. It often managed to do ~80 km/h on the mostly flat road (with a 110 km/h speed limit) but slowed significantly on the occasional incline, and possibly to allow oncoming traffic to find a place to pull over safely.
Most of the highway has only two lanes, with an occasional long overtaking lane, but usually in only one direction. Thankfully, eventually, there was a section with an overtaking lane in both directions, and it took up both oncoming lanes, allowing the queue of held-up vehicles to get past on the left.
The load was the chassis of a CAT 793F mining truck. Thank fuck it didn't have the bed and wheels attached!
I knew these fuckers were big, but I didn't realise how big until seeing one in the fleshmetal.
My "fuck me" towards the end of the video is because the ute in front of me slowed down from 105 to 85 km/h for some inexplicable reason?