Loooong Overtake

[Ravix]

Haven't seen this posted yet... An overtake with a difference

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/technology/2011/05/1...

[ludicrous speed]

wtf! how does that thing get round corners?

[Blakewater]

It's an illegal overtake as he crosses a solid line on his side. Especially dangerous as it's such a long vehicle and he has nowhere to go if something comes the other way.

[Deluded]

Got to be fake.

As said, how would it get around corners? Also, how would that truck up front be able to pull all that? Fully loaded I imagine that weighing a hell of a lot.

[geeteeaye]

Blakewater said:

It's an illegal overtake as he crosses a solid line on his side. Especially dangerous as it's such a long vehicle and he has nowhere to go if something comes the other way.

Except for the miles of visibility and acres of grass on the left hand side if by some miracle a Veyron on full chat comes the other way?

[Blakewater]

When he moves out it's the brow of a hill.

[soad]

Fecking hell!

[Baffled Spoon]

Deluded said:

Got to be fake.

As said, how would it get around corners? Also, how would that truck up front be able to pull all that? Fully loaded I imagine that weighing a hell of a lot.

It's completely real;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train

The things have been in quite a few movies and tv shows from down under too.

[powwerr]

Its a "road train" used in Austrailan outbacks to cart stuff about. Not fake in the slightest. google is your friend.

Edit for the beaten to it.

[GingerWizard]

You see this is where you need VTEC. Its the only safe way!!!!

[Risotto]

I don't see why it has to be fake - there are plenty of countries that use road trains. Funnily enough, they tend to be the same countries that don't have many corners on their roads

Judging by the voices on the video I'd say they were speaking some sort of Spanish (Castilian?) which would suggest South America, maybe Argentina. Possibly they're on the Pan-Am highway.

[busta]

Not sure where this is but it's definitely not Australia unless the video has been flipped left to right.

Comments about oncoming traffic and brows of hills are a bit daft really. If you'd ever driven on the kind of roads where you find road trains you'd know that traffic is few and far between, run-offs are huge and graded (so perfectly safe to drive on) and visibility is often well over a mile.

[davepoth]

Judging by the language and terrain I think it's Argentina.

[Blakewater]

I'm just being a smart as but he did cross a solid line. There have been attempts to take extra long "superlorries" onto British roads but they haven't got very far.

http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/-superlorry-takes-...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2753608/...

These lorries are legal in some European countries and the superlorry is based on a Dutch design. The owner of the haulage firm Denby tried to exploit a law allowing lorries up to 85ft long on British roads that was designed to permit the recovery and towing of broken down lorries. As the law doesn't specify this he decided he could take advantage of the loophole.