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 Post subject: Those aussies
PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:15 
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One up on the Yanks - but nice.

Imagine two of them on the M25, LIMITED TO 56MPH passing each other :lol:

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Don't you love the Aussies - they have a road with a straight section 90 miles long called, apparently the "90 mile straight".

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:shock: Gotta feel sorry for that clutch!
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smeggy wrote:
:shock: Gotta feel sorry for that clutch!


Why?, 1st gear in even a small truck is low enough to climb a 45 degree hill.

Look at the heavy haulage tractor units, even pulling a load in excess of 150 tons, they don't burn the clutches out very often.

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Dratsabasti wrote:
Why?, 1st gear in even a small truck is low enough to climb a 45 degree hill.

That’s not nearly the same. There’s hardly any mass to accelerate, hence the truck will go from zero speed to zero clutch-slip quickly.

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Look at the heavy haulage tractor units, even pulling a load in excess of 150 tons, they don't burn the clutches out very often.

The lead truck didn’t look particularly heavy duty (to me anyway but I don’t claim expertise here).

It would be interesting to know the total mass and rolling resistance of all those trailers (I couldn’t get much out of Google)
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