ROADTRAIN!

Dear Viewer This is a version of the first Road Train video I produced in 1993. It was mostly shot in 1992. With VHS video tape distribution through the 90s in Europe and Australia, it has had more than a million views so you may have seen these stories before. If so, apologies. The program was then re-published in 2011 in my years at Truckin’ Life magazine. It is now something of an historic documentation of the times. Index of stories and timecode: 2:20 The Gulf Run - a Mercedes Benz pulls freight to the Territory’s cattle stations and road houses. 10:08 The Old Days - an overview of road train development. 13:52 Bulldogs and Bullocks - a Road Trains of Australia loads cattle at Scott Creek Station in the Katherine region of the NT. 17:24 Boss Drover - a Western Star hauls sheep in Western Queensland. 24:27 Up the Track - The late Dean McBride’s operation using Ford LTLs to haul triples of freight from the railhead at Alice Springs to Darwin (the rail ran only Adelaide to Alic