Power take-off or PTO is a way of diverting power from the engine of a truck to an attachment, a trailer or a separate machine. On a truck, these are commonly used to: Raise a dump truck’s trailer or body…
Power take-off or PTO is a way of diverting power from the engine of a truck to an attachment, a trailer or a separate machine. On a truck, these are commonly used to: Raise a dump truck’s trailer or body…
Trucks range from small, light ones that you can drive with a car licence up to the largest road trains. In smaller trucks, the gearboxes are similar to what you would find in a car (albeit slightly more heavy-duty): they’ll…
To drive a bus in Australia you need a medium rigid (MR) or heavy rigid (HR) licence, there’s no such thing as a ‘bus licence’. The MR licence covers buses with a gross vehicle mass of more than eight tonnes…
A car carrier or car transporter is designed specifically to carry light vehicles (cars, utes and light trucks). While they are usually a semitrailer pulled by a prime mover, there are shorter rigid trucks with car transporter trailer. The most…
A dog trailer has an axle set at both the front and back, plus a drawbar to connect the trailer to a towing vehicle. The front axle of the dog trailer has a drawbar connection and this axle steers. This…
If there are cones or signs that indicate road work is taking place or has taken place, do you need to slow down? The road works speed limit will be either 40, 60 or 80km/h, depending on the road and…
Around 45% of all deaths of young people in Australia are related to a road accident, a statistic that could be improved to reduce the number of fatalities. Inexperience on the road is one of the major reasons, but another cause is the use…
