A closer look
Logistics companies operating in the vast, desolate outback of Australia routinely utilize massive road trains, which are terrifyingly long transport trucks towing up to four or more massive trailers and weighing nearly two hundred tons. Because the Australian interior is basically a post-apocalyptic wasteland completely devoid of corners, these mechanical leviathans blast down the dusty highways at full speed, taking up to a full mile just to bring their immense, barreling momentum to a complete stop. If you happen to be a casual tourist driving a rented hatchback and you encounter one of these thundering juggernauts in your rearview mirror, your only viable survival strategy is to pull off the road and pray to whatever deity you believe in. It is a uniquely terrifying approach to long-haul freight that completely abandons normal vehicular safety standards in favor of strapping enough cargo behind a single engine to qualify it as a low-orbiting land missile
