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Originally Posted by oldtamiyaphile
So much talk of big blocks on here.
My Trafic is a 1.6, much bigger than a Touareg and rated for 5tons GCM.
Sits on around 6l/100km at 100km/h.
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You're from a country that has no road system comparable. Not even a population sufficient to support cross-island rail service. Nor was ever self-sufficient in petroleum much less an exporter. Do you even manufacture your own vehicles, or all they all imports?
We could plop down the populated regions of Aussie land in a back corner around here and no one would notice you for weeks.
Your 5T trucklet is something no one willingly drives past fifty miles at a time. Do you rack up the equivalent of 100k miles in 3,4 years? That's what some metro service personnel do. Ranchers and farmers.
We have Class 4 & 5 trucks with 5T capacity and more. Same motor as some ordinary pickups. But they can cross the continent in a timely manner. Yours wouldn't make it over the Arbuckles without a jam up, much less the Rockies, the Appalachians or Cascades. Plenty of difficult terrain here. To cross or to live within.
I notice that semi-trailer service is similar. Same trucks, trans and engines. They go somewhere, and they do it in scheduled service. Capacity and timeliness. Thus, same solution (but more focused on longevity and fuel burn; tax structure, etc).
And weight distribution hitches are new, there. We've had them over fifty years. See Collyn Rivers articles and posts on Caravanners. Salient difference is that we stay on pavement and you don't. Other differences apply (A-frame length, etc)
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