B-Double trailers

[Storm]

Gday everyone i was wondering if anyone knows if we are ever going to get b-double or road trains in ATS.

If you know of anything that may happen please tell me thankyou.

[ヅ]

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[Chris]

atm these trailers aren't possible

[eViLoZzy]

So Triple trailers are definitely out then? My bad, was thinking of the T900 lol

[Trucker64]

We don't have B-Double or Road Trains in the US. We run two 20ft " Wiggle Wagons" I think Road trains are illegal here and B- doubles are european style trailers..

[Reese]

Originally posted by Redneck50:

We don't have B-Double or Road Trains in the US. We run two 20ft " Wiggle Wagons" I think Road trains are illegal here and B- doubles are european style trailers..

Road trains are restricted, not illegal. They're just as illegal as wide loads. Proper paperwork and it's completely legal.

B-doubles are generally only used for heavy haul purposes.

There is a bunch of normal double trailers with a dolly, but generally reserved for postal companies like UPS and for transporting Steel Coils.

[mpuone]

I know it's a state by state type thing. Here in my home province (I'm Canadian) I see more and more of two trailer setups (with a dolly) with various company logos. I remember one had a McDonalds trailer in the back.

[room217au]

" the largest road trains operating in Australia and the world. Called a "power train" or "body and six", these machines operate at the Granites gold mine in the western Northern Territory, and are used in place of 200t dump trucks, because of the distances involved on the haul run. A 600 hp (450 kW) 19 L (1,200 cu in) Cummins engine powers the prime mover, while a 400 hp (300 kW) Cummins engine is installed in the rear trailer of the B-double, driving through an automatic transmission, giving a total of 1,000 hp (750 kW). Weights of 460 t (453 long tons; 507 short tons) are achieved with ore loading in side-tipper bodies on a 100 km (62 mi) round trip. As these trucks operate on private property, they are not subject to governed weight and length rulings, but instead are used in the most efficient way possible"

[Hemorrhoids]

Why in the world would anyone want to drive a road train anyways??
It completely baffles me to why anyone
would want to drive that in this game

[ヅ]

Originally posted by marcaus1988:

Why in the world would anyone want to drive a road train anyways??
It completely baffles me to why anyone
would want to drive that in this game

why? It's a bigger challenge and just reverse with it while beeing maybe 40ft+ long would be yeah...

[Beryll Argent]

Some of the current company-facilities are proably too small to park a double trailer, unless you can take those apart and park each one separately.

[Hemorrhoids]

Originally posted by Dark:

Originally posted by marcaus1988:

Why in the world would anyone want to drive a road train anyways??
It completely baffles me to why anyone
would want to drive that in this game

why? It's a bigger challenge and just reverse with it while beeing maybe 40ft+ long would be yeah...

It would be far more challenging but the idea of doing it in the game doesn't make sense at all..
Now driving a double would be fun to do in game, but
driving a road train though is the most inefficient way to haul goods and the ones that do it are for very short distances..
That's why the railroads are still in buisness

[eViLoZzy]

Marcaus, you're wrong, sorry mate but the tripples are used everywhere up north from me, they mainly haul cattle and for very long distances(very efficient btw). When I was an off-sider, we hauled two full length flatbeds carrying steel roof trusses. They don't back them up, they do it one trailer at a time - I do know it is impossible in ATS, but b-doubles are do-able for sure.

[Hemorrhoids]

I would see a way far better expeirence in adding a trailer with it own axis point for the mega hauls like for instance a wind generator shaft rather than putting in game a road train hahaha.

[Hemorrhoids]

Originally posted by Aussie Lee:

Marcaus, you're wrong, sorry mate but the tripples are used everywhere up north from me, they mainly haul cattle and for very long distances(very efficient btw). When I was an off-sider, we hauled two full length flatbeds carrying steel roof trusses. They don't back them up, they do it one trailer at a time - I do know it is impossible in ATS, but b-doubles are do-able for sure.

I'm not sure to the answer but
How long are them trailers though?

[eViLoZzy]

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=triple+road+trains+nsw&num=30&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKs_v9y-LQAhUBp48KHf8NAuoQ_AUICCgB&biw=1108&bih=669

Every type of goods you can think of and up to 5 trailers per rig - scroll through the imaged, and trains go most places these go but there's just too much to shift for the trains.