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Mind you, talking to Seddon-Atkinson man Jeff Greenhalgh, just back from Australia, those American train lengths seem chickenfeed. The big multi-trailer livestock road trains in Aussieland, which run for hundreds of miles on dead straight outback roads, are commonly 110ft long. With the floods of the past year, it seems, the not-to-be-beaten Antipodean truckers have been coupling three such trains together in order to get their loads through.
When otherwise impassable floodwaters are encountered, the two rear outfits' forward momentum pushed the first one through the mire; then