Northern Territory of Australia, the birthplace of modern trucks

In 1934, the Government of South Australia which provides a clock 8x8 diesel truck pulling two 4-axle trailer. The device is designed to work in Australia, on rocky ridges, dunes and winding roads through the forest. The distinctive arrangement of axles, including steering axles in the front and back of the 8x8 driving machine and the other, self-monitoring of trucks at each end of each of the trailers, which allows the team to make a turn at right angles front of a door 10 feet.
This was not the truck for the first time in Australia. Long before they dragged in 1920 the followers of some steam locomotives assigned areas Territory.

Half of 1930, North Adelaide railway Marree only be achieved so that the Government of South Australia "Road Train project started for the transport of goods in the Northern Territory, as aid workers and management. In this sense, were about 4 years too late, because riders with their camels, which had run from Marree railway station completed in late 1929 and early 1930th
AEC has built the platform on which the Government Railway Road, the first engine with the minimum of the body, no windows and doors, with the ice winter flight attendant and cook in the summer known as the radiator is large to increase Fans behind the driver and a small fan in the front cabin in the air.

The 8.85-liter, 6 cylinder, 130 hp engine was driving through a gearbox with 4 speed and 3 speed transfer case with low-power unit less than a maximum speed of 20 to 30 mph. The journey of 1,100 miles from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs for more than three weeks.
Only three of the ACS units have been built, according to an Africa, one from Russia and the third in South Australia.

The road train operated in the northern part of the "territory" in 10 years to about 800,000 km.
In the years immediately after the war, Kurt Johannsen and Dave Baldock become redundant Army Diamond T truck and use it for up to seven followers to do the work of Kurt Bush Road, animal transport and up to 700 empty barrels of fuel, while Dave Baldock General Cargo Train from Alice Springs to Larrimah, where the train began to Darwin again.