For anyone who has ever seen a road train they are essentially very huge trucks. They carry freight on the highways especially in Australia’s outback. Previously these goods may have been carried on trains but over the years the railroads have been closed.

There are many different combinations of road trains. They can have up to 7 trailers attached and can be up to 54 metres in length. This makes overtaking them very dangerous. Our experience was that road train drivers would help guide smaller faster cars to overtake if it was safe to over take by pulling over. We however would do the opposite. Our slide on is heavy and slow so we would pull over to help the road trains overtake us. Due to their sizes they are not allowed on all roads and it was not unusual for car parks to hold the trailers if the road trains needed to go into an area where the road rules didn’t allow the complete structure.

On our travels the longest road train we saw was 50 metres. I was so surprised I took a photo. During our trip to South Australia and the Nullabor we saw so many road trains that it was easy to see why people say that without trucks Australia stops.