Road TrainFollow

I watched a movie today on Showtime. It was an Australian low budget horror called "Road Kill".

It starts off with a group of young people driving in a remote section of highway (don't they all?). What was strange is a semi shows up in their rear view, and they are all fascinated by it. Like they've never seen one before, it was awe-inspiring for them. They referred to it as a road train, which is a term I hadn't heard previously. A semi with multiple trailers.

For the whole movie, that first scene is what stuck with me as completely strange. One of the young women in the car said something along the lines of having never seen one before. Is it an Australian thing? Are large semis rare? Early in the movie they are walking up to it as it's parked on the road and again are impressed by it, commenting about it. It actually wasn't any bigger than your standard semi. And at least here in the US, seeing a semi haul more than one trailer is not a rare site...

Wait a minute, I saw that mad max movie with the fuel truck race, so I know Austraila has Semi trucks even in the post apocalyptic wasteland part of it!

Really? how can you tell future Australia from Present day Australia? Is it the wombat shortage? I didn't see any wombats in any of the movies. that isn't a good thing.