Trains have been around for years, as have intermodal containers, and the advent of double stacking enabled trains to carry twice as many containers as before. But what if you tried the same with a truck? Double stacking containers on trucks In 2023 Qube Logistics along with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and the […]
Trucks getting stuck under the Montague Street bridge is a running Melbourne joke, but there is another bridge that gets hit far more often, but where the risk to the public is far worse – the Napier Street bridge in Footscray. The incident On Sunday 3 March a so-called ‘professional’ driver of a container truck […]
Every fortnight a rubbish truck goes past my house and empties my bin full of green waste. Well I found out a few months ago, when my local council organised a tour of Veolia’s Bulla Organics Facility. Road trip time The Bulla Organics Facility was opened in 2013 at a cost of $15 million by […]
The other day I photographed a mysterious looking unmarked semi trailer, and wondered what the hell it was. It was no ordinary truck, with air conditioning units on the roof, and an equipment cabinet beneath the floor – was it an outside broadcast truck? Photo by Enbytv, via Wikimedia Commons But turns out it wasn’t […]
It might seem strange, but as the Level Crossing Removal Project separates road and rail across Melbourne’s railway network, a new kind of level crossing is appearing in their place for a specific purpose – road rail access pads for maintenance vehicles. Road–rail vehicles Many different kinds of road–rail vehicle exist, ready to assist with […]
