Truck Watching At Night

Desert Dweller · Senior Member

Truck Watching At Night

Radar · Guru

Interesting thought but no thank you, after my life as a full time driver, we generally gauge the overnight rest areas by the noise of the trucks going though.

You know I worked hard, spent so much of my time on the road, sleeping where ever I could park, the noises outside the cab didn't disturbed me then, they do now.

Getting okd and gumpy.

I rather look at the star these days. Listen to nature in the mornings that to me is being a live.

Enjoy.

the rocket · Guru

No. Am inside at night. noise does not bother me while sleeping either.

Bass · Senior Member

yes radar, strange isn't after years and years on interstate and local, put me in the sleeper of an aerodyne and its straight to sleep and I hear nothing all. but in the van on side of road or truckstop I'm awake all bloody nite.

Cheers bass

Bas + Eve · Senior Member

Yes I often sit and watch trucks approaching from far off and timing how long before they pass. The lighting on these rigs is spectacular.

dogbox · Guru

Desert Dweller wrote:

We were wondering if other travellers enjoyed watching trucks at night like we do. Some of the lights that they have fitted these days make some of them look like mobile Christmas trees.
If we're within sight of a busy main highway we love sitting relaxing watching them go by & commenting on which ones we like best. We even have a scoring system out of 10.
We're currently at Lake Boga VIC on the Murray Valley Highway, as the trucks go through & around a slight bend their lights reflect on the lake which makes them look even better.
It sure beats looking at some of the rubbish on TV these days we reckon.

an some of the lights are getting over the top blazing led an hid lights tend to tire the eyes if not dazzle to the point of been dangerous they tend to remind me of the old river boats may I should give the night driving get into the bunk an be lulled to sleep by the fridge motor roaring away allnite

NeilandRaine · Guru

Sit beside the Hume at night and its one big line of light
Slim has a song for every thing www.youtube.com/watch

Tony Bev · Guru

Hello Desert Dweller

I can relate to what you are asking

Back in the day, when only a few trucks had fairy lights, the ones we saw were a spectacular sight, as they were few and far between
Unfortunately for me I have never been parked on higher ground, or near a bend, to actually look and watch the trucks coming and then going from view

Back in the day (late sixties), in winter time, so there would have been dew on the ground.
I was travelling by car, from Kalgoorlie to the Southern Cross area.

It was a moonless night, and my vision only extended to the end of my headlights
The sun rose behind me, and lit up the old servo of Yellowdine, in the distance

For a brief moment the colourful reflection from the roof, completely surrounded by darkness, was one the most spectacular sight, I have ever seen
Perhaps it was a case of simple minds accepting simple pleasures, but that was a sight I shall never forget

Moorey · Senior Member

Probably going off track a little, but I was in a truck with pretty blue and red lights. In the early nineties we were responding to a house fire in a Canberra inner suburb. As we crested the hill on Barry drive we were above the inversion layer where the below zero temperature divided with the upper atmosphere showing a smoky bottom layer ( open fire heater smoke) and a crystal clear night sky above. Looking across to the area of the fire we could see a red smoke funnel that went straight up to the flat surface of the inversion layer and where it met the clear air it created a beautiful bright red dome, something I had never seen before. Unfortunately this beauty is also someone elses misery as it was their home and full of personal possessions which unfortunately suffered serious damage.

KISS · Veteran Member

Been over the Nullabor 9 times and enjoy free camping with a few reds watching the lit up trucks go by. Also many a good sight to see along any highway in our travels.

Desert Dweller · Senior Member

KISS wrote:
Been over the Nullabor 9 times and enjoy free camping with a few reds watching the lit up trucks go by. Also many a good sight to see along any highway in our travels.

That's the spirit! Not a major component of our travels but an enjoyable one anyway.

Quanger · Veteran Member

Back in 2008 on our way to Darwin we free camped a few hundred metres off the Stuart Hwy about 100 kms north of Port Agutta, we were watching the roadtrains go past up a long pull past our campsite, from the time we could first see there lights coming South on the horizon to the time they actually past us was around 15 minutes.

Happywanderer · The Master

Love watching the trucks all lit up, going past. Some of them are lit up like a Xmas Tree. So magic. Enjoy watching them as so different to their daytime attire.