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The BAB Quad road-train, consisting of three semi-trailers connected by two converter dollys behind a powerful seven-hundred-horsepower FH16 Volvo prime mover, measured approximately fifty metres in length and weighed close to one-hundred-and-five tonnes.
Traveling at ninety kilometres per hour, it was going to take upwards of two hundred metres to stop one of these mammoth truck/trailer combinations in an emergency. The driver, Tom Cremer, a big, burly man in his mid-fifties, had in excess of fifteen years behind the wheel pushing big rigs up and down the Stuart Highway. Sitting high in the cab of the big Volvo, his view of the road ahead was unobstructed and he saw the four-wheel-drive coming in the opposite direction from a long way off.
As the distance between the two vehicles ra
