...is it a monster truck? and then some
Heading west back across the Nullarbor on Sunday we heard the radio conversations from a wide load convoy ahead of us - "Caution, 8.5m load approaching please pull over"....."repeat that?"..." EIGHT AND A HALF METRES" - you heard it right. We caught up to them just before the services we were planning to refuel at and they really were that big - 2 CAT mining trucks on low loaders, hanging over the verges on both sides of the road. Stopped to let them get ahead and thought we might not see them again, but ran into them again 50km up the road. Pilots told us to overtake as they slowed going up the next hill, so we were there in 3rd gear doing 80 with 2 wheels just on the tarmac, the other 2 way over in the dirt, and all you could see from the passenger window was the side of the massive tyres. Very scary.
Pulled in for the night another 60km up the road and watched them roll past head on. Big beasts indeed.
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