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It is hard to appreciate blogs & comments from overseas corrispondants without a fundimental knowledge of the society they are coming from so here it is from Australia. It may not be the same for all of Australia & I have no experience at driving Road Trains in arid central Australia. I live [...]

If you saw this headline, where would you assume the article originated?
Bandits an ‘epidemic’ for truckers
“It’s become quite a problem. The biggest problem is when drivers are running up and down the road they’re talking on the CB, saying what they’re hauling. “They’re talking when they shouldn’t be talking.”

The Money
The Wages are not too bad for Australian’s around 700 a week the average wage in Australia is about 500 a week in Australian Dollars the Australian dollar is less than the U.S. Dollar.
The good part of doing the job is there is no boss looking over you shoulder and every trip is different. [...]

Trucks have to be made to Road-Trains standards with outgoing into lots of details, that would take all day - The chassis are made stronger with more cross-members and the chassis are not allowed to be too long so you do not have room for big sleeper cabs. We have to double the number of [...]

The Trucks
Most Road-Train tractors, that’s what you call them in the U.S. are Macks or Kenworths, both makers have their tractors assembled in Australia with right hand drive. Most tractors have v8 engines, the engines are the same as used in the U.S. but are not smaller than 450 H.P. The gear boxes have a [...]

British Columbia has been extremely vocal about their “driver shortage”. Even more, now that the Olympics are coming to Vancouver. Their idea of a career and a job is amusing:
Trucking industry starts push to recruit new drivers
A big segment of British Columbia’s trucking industry wants to promote truck driving more as a career and less [...]