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    • ParkesHub posted
    Posted in New South Wales » Hay: Northam to Condo

    Loving the expert opinions floating around in this thread from people without a clue but who love to comment anyway.
    Bailed Hay is easily loaded onto the 20 and 40 foot open containers of which there are thousands...you all know the type of container a flat deck with 2 end walls just as it is on semi trailers,absolutly no need for any flat wagons or bogie opens at all.

    For the last 4 months there has been a constant flow of Road Trains and B doubles North bound through here in Hay on the Mid Western highway approximatly one every 15 minutes with the corosponding empty movements south bound.

    These are ALL paid freight movents by trucking companies apart from 2 Drought relief convoys.
    SHELL Roadhouse has gone from 1 B double of Diesel per week to 3 deliveries per week to cater for this traffic.

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    You're pretty much on the money. You'd need open top containers, tarptainers or, better yet, 40' flat racks. FCL Transport did just that into NSW some years ago. A train load of feed into Parkes on flat racks so it can be done but as YM says, it requires co-operation and co-ordination.

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    Edited 11 Nov 2018 07:35, 3 years ago, edited by ParkesHub

    Loving the expert opinions floating around in this thread from people without a clue but who love to comment anyway.
    Bailed Hay is easily loaded onto the 20 and 40 foot open containers of which there are thousands...you all know the type of container a flat deck with 2 end walls just as it is on semi trailers,absolutly no need for any flat wagons or bogie opens at all.

    For the last 4 months there has been a constant flow of Road Trains and B doubles North bound through here in Hay on the Mid Western highway approximatly one every 15 minutes with the corosponding empty movements south bound.

    These are ALL paid freight movents by trucking companies apart from 2 Drought relief convoys.
    SHELL Roadhouse has gone from 1 B double of Diesel per week to 3 deliveries per week to cater for this traffic.

    42101 A end

    You're pretty much on the money. You'd need open top containers or, better yet, 40' flat racks. FCL Transport did just that into NSW some years ago. A train load of feed into Parkes on flat racks so it can be done but as YM says, it requires co-operation and co-ordination.