Re: Declining oil traffic

["Rod" <berlina@bigpond.com>]

in running rail  B doubles beat rail hands down.
>If the current trends continue , ie the rate of loss of freight from rail
to
>road and the current number of B doubles keep increasing then withing 10
years
>there will be NO rail in this country servicing general freight,
>Once the Pacific Highway is duplicated beyong Maitland to the Queensland
>border you can kiss goodbye to rails existing share of the east coast
>freight market.
>About all that will survive is the coal trains,
>
>MD

Although I hate to be this negative, I can only agree with you Maurie! I
just followed a new type of truck along the Freeway to Albury a few days
ago. I don't know how they call it, but
 B-Triple should tell you what I saw. It had a 'short' tautliner ' van
section, and was followed by two normal size tautliners. Had no advertising
on it whatsoever, and left the last tautliner at The end of the Freeway in a
special Truck parking bay before continuing into NSW in its shortened form.
The Prime mover was a New Ford with Bogie drive, and each set of wheels that
supported the trailing sections were 3 axles .
Rod