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Old 19-02-2005, 11:03 PM   #5
Timmeh
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Road Trains are supposed to be speed limited to 110kmh, but in the hilly areas, they can be doing anything less than that, or slighty more. Which means you usually are passing them, nothing worse than sitting behind a cattle road train - bugs are bad enough on the front of the cars, but you can imagine having 4 trailers of cattle doing what nature asks of them... haha.

As svo347 said, in general the roads are well cleared so you can see fair distances most of the time, but some of the broken white line roads go over suspiciously hard to see past hills, so much discretion was used.

Psycho Chicken - I agree, cars just don't accelerate from 150kmh like they do from 100kmh, so you need to factor alot more time in for that, plus the higher distances needed to pass the longer road trains, and to also take into account the higher speed of oncoming traffic.

Tim
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