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Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« on: October 20, 2017, 06:01:59 PM »
I'm skeptical as if he does have approval why hasn't he flood gates opened and we see two trailers being towed everywhere.

B Double technology???

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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2017, 06:25:23 PM »
He's retired AND only allowing 3 months to do WA?? WT????
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2017, 06:26:50 PM »
Weeds  ? you haven't been ,,,smoking something grown in the back shed     ??? ???,,,,,,have you  ??? ???     
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2017, 07:00:45 PM »
Quote from: speewa158 on October 20, 2017, 06:26:50 PM
Weeds  ? you haven't been ,,,smoking something grown in the back shed     ??? ???,,,,,,have you  ??? ???   

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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2017, 07:07:34 PM »
its been done before... it was something like apparently registration or something as truck trailers and drive as a double...
hideously cost prohibitive
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2017, 07:32:58 PM »
Weld another tow ball on the back & so on & so on . What could possibly go wronggowronggowrong    ???   ???     :cheers:
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2017, 08:35:31 PM »
The photos of this bloke's out fit have been going around the internet for years.

From the Victorian Road Safety (Vehicle) Regs -

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249 Towing offences
(1) A person must not, without the Corporation's approval, use, or cause or permit to be used, on a highway a motor vehicle that is towing more than one other vehicle.

So how is a B double allowed to tow 2 trailers?

Easy -

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244A Non-application to heavy vehicles
This Chapter, except regulations 245, 245A, 246, 247, 252 and 253, does not apply to a heavy vehicle
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2017, 08:36:13 PM »
You'd have to think he's going to get pulled over by every single cop car that sees him, and gets booked by all of them...

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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2017, 08:53:46 PM »
Quote from: DrewXT on October 20, 2017, 08:36:13 PM
You'd have to think he's going to get pulled over by every single cop car that sees him, and gets booked by all of them...

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Actually he did.

I used to work for Vicroads and received a photo at one stage from another enforcement officer from Mildura who pulled him up and instructed him to take it back home, with the help of a couple of bits of paper for his efforts.
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2017, 09:15:26 PM »
Quote from: Brij on October 20, 2017, 08:53:46 PM
Actually he did.

I used to work for Vicroads and received a photo at one stage from another enforcement officer from Mildura who pulled him up and instructed him to take it back home, with the help of a couple of bits of paper for his efforts.
The Vic Roads compliance boys I used to know at Kew would have had a field day

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Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2017, 09:20:13 PM »
But the newspaper article says it's all approved, legal


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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2017, 09:23:01 PM »
Quote from: weeds on October 20, 2017, 06:01:59 PM
I'm skeptical as if he does have approval why hasn't he flood gates opened and we see two trailers being towed everywhere

As Bird said cost for one getting everything engineered, other from memory is that he was a retired truck driver and you need to be liscenced to drive a B-double to drive it
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2017, 09:26:15 PM »
Quote from: weeds on October 20, 2017, 09:20:13 PM
But the newspaper arrival says it's all approved, legal


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the newpaper is also dated Friday April 12, 2013
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2017, 09:31:57 PM »
Could have been dated Friday April the 1st. just as easily.
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2017, 09:38:43 PM »
On another forum they say he had no issues driving across four states when pulled up by the authorities.

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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2017, 06:47:15 AM »
Quote from: DrewXT on October 20, 2017, 09:15:26 PM
The Vic Roads compliance boys I used to know at Kew would have had a field day

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Yeah, but the guys and gals over at the old Greensborough Vicroads probably gave it full approval.

After giving it the full once over by glancing at it out their window....

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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2017, 07:46:22 AM »
I reckon good on him ..
Sheeple's way of thinking:  Its not the normal way everyone else  does  it, Ok then I cant do it ..

Old school approach:  We need to do this and that to get that result,  so hook in and do whats needed to get it done ..  :cup:
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2017, 09:26:54 AM »
Quote from: weeds on October 20, 2017, 09:38:43 PM
On another forum they say he had no issues driving across four states when pulled up by the authorities.

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Whats the B double technology?

A B double is a configeration consisting of a prime mover (a vehicle that has it's tow coupling above the rear axle group, not behind) towing a semi trailer (a trailer with it's only axle group at the rear of the trailer and it's tow coupling at the front) which is in turn towing another semi trailer.

This blokes configeration doesn't use a prime mover or semi trailers, so it can't be considered a b double, which is why he got pulled up just outside Mildura and sent home.
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2017, 09:46:19 AM »
Quote from: Brij on October 21, 2017, 09:26:54 AM
Whats the B double technology?

A B double is a configeration consisting of a prime mover (a vehicle that has it's tow coupling above the rear axle group, not behind) towing a semi trailer (a trailer with it's only axle group at the rear of the trailer and it's tow coupling at the front) which is in turn towing another semi trailer.

This blokes configeration doesn't use a prime mover or semi trailers, so it can't be considered a b double, which is why he got pulled up just outside Mildura and sent home.

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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2017, 09:51:36 AM »
Be more considered as a road train, I thought.
Not at this time permitted in Vic.
Any/all trailers would need break away braking, besides anything else.
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2017, 11:23:17 AM »
Not a B Double, not a Road Train (no dolly) more like an Urban Myth. 
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #21 on: October 21, 2017, 12:15:14 PM »
Quote from: Cruiser 105Tvan on October 21, 2017, 09:51:36 AM
Be more considered as a road train, I thought.
Not at this time permitted in Vic.
Any/all trailers would need break away braking, besides anything else.


There is a limited road train network in Victoria https://vicroadsmaps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5e1ec0a877eb450b8e46ac29b3343712

Then if you meet the stringent requirements you can call them a 30m A doubles and run them on this network

http://vicroadsmaps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=04f70aa330a444e4aeb0cc63bd2e31d1


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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #22 on: October 21, 2017, 12:24:38 PM »
Its a bit like riding a pushbike on busy roads, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. IMO  :angel:
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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #23 on: October 21, 2017, 01:44:21 PM »
You'll get more proof that the black pather is alive an well then that set-up IN ANY state being passed as  "legal"..



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Re: Towing two trailers....apparently this guys has approval.
« Reply #24 on: October 21, 2017, 01:49:31 PM »
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on October 21, 2017, 12:24:38 PM
Its a bit like riding a pushbike on busy roads, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. IMO  :angel:


Don't bring pushbikes into it......


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