We often see this kind of special car in the foreign movie, I've never thought of meeting it in Australia which seems to be high fuel consumption. It impressed me that three trailers behind it, the length was amazingly long, some of them even got four trailers. If you wanna overtake it, lots of details you have to consider, such as to make sure no inbound car coming within 1 KM, the horsepower of your car, the accelerate ability of your car should not be too bad.
常常在外國的電影裡看到這種特別的車頭，沒想到在澳洲也能看見，感覺就是非常耗油的樣子。讓我印象比較深刻的是，在愛麗絲泉的時候，它的後面拖著長長的三節拖車，聽說還有到四節的。要超這種車的時候真的要注意非常多的細節，像是確認至少前方一公里沒有車子、車子馬力、加速的能力不能太差之類的。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
A road train consists of a relatively conventional tractor unit, but instead of pulling one trailer or semi-trailer, the road train pulls two or more of them.
公路火車是由傳統的拖車頭，後面拖二至三個貨櫃。
In the 1930s, the Government of South Australia operated a fleet of AEC 8x8 military trucks to transport freight and supplies into the Northern Territory, replacing the Afghan camel trains that had been trekking through the deserts since the late 1800s.
Australian Kurt Johansson is recognised as the inventor of the modern road-train.
1930 年，南澳州政府利用軍事卡車運送貨物和補給品到北領地，以便取代早期的阿富汗駱駝所拖運的火車，這條穿越沙漠的路線從十七世紀末期就開始使用。
Australia has the largest and heaviest road-legal vehicles in the world. Road trains are used for transporting all manner of materials, with livestock, fuel, mineral ores and general freight the most common. Their cost-effective transport has played a significant part in the economic development of remote areas, with some communities totally reliant on a regular service.
澳洲是世界上擁有法律上所允許，最大、最重的公路運輸公具。公路火車是用來運輸各式各樣的材料。它的運輸成本效益對偏遠地區的經濟發展扮演了非常重要的角色。
Overtaking a road train can be quite difficult. Patience, assistance from the driver, and large amounts of either clear road or horsepower are required. On the unsealed outback roads the road trains create huge amounts of dust that need to be reckoned with when overtaking.
要超公路火車的車可能相當困難。耐心、暢通無阻的道路或是強大的汽車馬力都是必須的。在澳洲中部沙漠區，在未鋪上泊油路的路面上想要對公路火車超車，你一定要知道，公路火車是會搞的馬路塵土飛揚。
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