As promised here’s some video footage of the time I spent in Australia in 1994 with Scania on the infamous ‘World Tour’. The trip included a spell driving this Scania twin-trailer roadtrain operated by Aussie Paul Hermel.
Enjoy a classic Scania hard at work in the outback - and yes there’s a brief shot of a Mack Ultraliner in there too.
Paul Hermel was the first operator in Oz to get a 500hp Centurion 3-Series and drove it six hours for our rendezvous at the Standpipe Motel (now the
Best Western Standpipe Golf Motor Inn). It weighed a good 60-tonnes plus and was full of aviation fuel! He was clearly a trusting soul as he let me and George Bennett of TRUCK drive it on the road to Iron Knob without batting an eyelid.
Great fun… and along with the Scania roadtrain there was also an artic with a tanker and a carrier under the tank - holding sheet steel!
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