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On February 18 2006 John Atkinson jumped into the cab of his Mack Titan prime mover near Clifton in southern Queensland, Australia and drove it for 100 meters.
Now driving a truck 100 meters is hardly a feat, but we need to take into consideration the fact that he was towing 112 trailers measuring 1,474.3 meters or 4,836 feet 11 inches, which gave John Atkinson the honor of driving the world's longest road train.
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blah, all he did was pull forward. those emtpy trailors prolly didnt weight a whole lot more than a full road train, ask fred!
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i stand corrected
Originally Posted by fordboy_52
The stories that circulated after his last endeavor brought a crowd of 8,000 people to the new site. The train had 113 loaded trailers, giving an overall length of nearly a mile and a gross weight of 2.87 million pounds, roughly 100 times greater than the tractor's. Atkinson had to start the load from a full stop and pull it 328 feet.
