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[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

how would the really lomh ones handle turns without further back cars coming off the road?

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

The majority of unsealed outback roads that a really long, 4-trailer, road-train would be used on, have slow sweeping turns and corners cut for T-junctions and 4-way intersections.

When back on the sealed(bitumen) roads, they are separated into doubles or triples.

Known turn around loops exist to reverse direction, without de-coupling.

Note: trying to overtake a 4-trailer road train on a dusty road is usually only possible on a very wide, straight section of road or by contacting them on UHF radio(CB).