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This time, on Outback Truckers.
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And there it is in front of
me, the 1,000 K and Red Dust.
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Every day on the road
is the role of the Dyson.
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I can see a fair bit of
water laying on the road.
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This is bloody scary.
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But rains, it turns into a cosmon.
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We're going across the Nullabore.
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This will be very, very tight.
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Pay attention to the sun, pay attention.
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There's going to be a problem.
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If we find someone now,
we might have opportunity.
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Better than it's what
I'd call a make or break.
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You need to make an up for
you, break something going up.
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If a gas power comes over
to the side, it could explode.
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This is what the Nullabore has held.
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So how'd you go, slick?
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You got about two inches
into between each week.
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Shit, they're close, don't they?
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When we get out in the dirt,
things are rocking and rolling.
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No, I think we should be right.
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72-year-old Steve Graham and
his subcontractor, Slick Serafini
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are using every available inch of
trailer space to load valuable cargo.
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We've got some second-hand
mining gear on the front trailer.
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But this trailer, here's what worries me.
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He's a very good customer in Perth
and he's bought some good cars.
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He doesn't want them scratched.
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You can't handle crease
in this job, get out of it.
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What we've got in front of
us is about 2,700 kilometres,
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and I've got 1,100 kilometres
of dirt in there, I've desert.
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From Alice Springs, Steve will haul
the 60-ton loaded rig past all the road,
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before hitting the Great Central Road,
over 1,000 kilometres of ragged dirt,
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crossing into Western Australia,
and then onto his destination.
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Perth.
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It's ominous, the sky like this is not
good when you're heading out with the dirt.
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If it rains, there's no bitumen out there.
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It turns into a fog mine.
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And it did rain all yesterday.
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People in Alice Springs
are saying, "Don't go.
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The road will be closed.
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" If the Great Central
Road is closed,
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the alternative route would
add over 600 kilometres,
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an extra day and over
$1,000 in diesel to his journey.
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The gamble is, you're then
in the hands of the weather.
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Sometimes we might lose money on a load.
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So, I'm going to get going.
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I do like this new motor.
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It's settling in now, it's freed up a lot.
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I'm driving it a bit harder
than what it was before.
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Over a year ago, Steve
invested almost $200,000,
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installing a new motor in his
30-year-old Kenworth C501.
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600 horsepower in here, 2,050 foot-pounder
torque and better fuel economy.
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To claw back some of his huge investment,
Steve needs to make money on this run,
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delivering his load on time
and in pristine condition.
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You've got to get the gear to
the other end without damage.
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You can see people don't want to play here.
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If I get no problems, it'll
be with these bloody cars.
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I've only got 50 mil between
some of those bumpers.
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Here we go, we've got rain on the windscreen,
and we've got water walled race guys.
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Those clouds are getting fatter and fuller.
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It's starting to look quite ominous.
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My gut feeling about
this is not good at all.
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This is the sort of rain that
hangs around for a couple of days.
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That's when you get road
closures and/or get involved.
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This is bloody scary. I can see a
fair bit of water laying on the road.
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If it's been raining out there on the
dirt, it just turns to gutless red mud.
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This is not good. This is not good at all.
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I'll just go up and throw this in.
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Getting me warm warning, working out again.
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My wife wants me to go to the gym.
Why do I need to go to a gym?
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67-year-old Jim Foodie is on a mission
to haul vital supplies to his home town,
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Bamaga, on the
northernmost tip of Australia.
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We have big ticket items and
important items that are bulk,
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but so is the little stuff
important to whoever is sending it.
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We take anything.
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All of this stuff is going to Bamaga because
you can see my high legs is a bit full.
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Here we always deal with Jim to take
transport our stuff up back and forth.
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It's a time-critical job as the
approaching tropical wet season
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will bring cyclones and
extreme monsoonal rain.
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It just gets completely cut off
by road during the wet season.
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The road may be out
of action for five months.
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This is level two in Tetris.
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Foodie is filling up
the first of three trailers
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with mixed flammable
gas already loaded.
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We need to have about 50 pallets of gas
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to be able to carry the communities
up there through the wet season.
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If we don't, then it really comes down
to people just having no gas for cooking.
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Hospital also, they rely
on us heavily for gas.
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The cages that hold the gas are
not designed to go up those roads,
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so they come apart sometimes
on the road up to Bamaga.
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Foodie's 1,000 kilometre journey starts
at Cairns, hauling one trailer to Mariba,
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adding a second and then crossing a
steep pass for a third trailer at Lakeland.
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After that, he takes on Cape York,
fighting through winding ranges
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and bone rattling dirt roads
to his destination, Bamaga.
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Accessed only by a ferry that
shuts down at 5pm every day.
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A lot of transport operators just go up,
do one trip and never come back again.
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They reckon the roads
are too rough, they don't
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want the ferry, so they
just don't want to do it.
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Well, if someone's
going to do it, that's us.
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So we're heading up to Mariba.
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We need to be up the mountain and
then hooking up trails about daylight.
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Around a range is notoriously
very narrow winding road,
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so it's a bit of a handful you
really need to keep your wits about.
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Right now, we're going through a
pretty bad, bad batch of home here.
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And it can be greasy and wet when
it rains, so it's not be taken lightly.
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We're about to reach the road
train pad where our trailer of dollar is.
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Somehow I'm going
to do a little tight
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maneuver, a bit hard to
see when we're doing it.
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There's not going to be a few of these
posts there, if we cancel something to do.
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We're good to go.
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This is a 1997 Western Star constellation,
the 600 horsepower, 18 speed gearbox.
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We've got 80 plus tons
on here, you can feel it.
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Actually, it should work a little bit.
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We're going to start heading
up the D'Azalee range.
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Part of the great dividing
range, the Passover
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D'Azalee range rises 120
metres in just two kilometres.
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A challenge for any car, let alone a
27-year-old truck pulling over 80 tons.
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It's what I call a make
or break either, make
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it up for you, and break
something going up.
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We'll see some high temperatures in the
Kim and high temperature in the gearbox.
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Back into low range, I'm going
to go right back to the third here.
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This is our steepest
little hitch right here.
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Now, if it's heating up.
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The diff, or differential, transfers
the power of the engine to the wheels.
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If it overheats, it could
seize, bringing the truck to
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a grinding hot, requiring
repairs that could take weeks.
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We're starting to warm
up a bit, I'm going to
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have to go for another
gear in a normal hurry.
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Yes, we are going hot, so here we go.
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But how are you doing that?
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We've got temperature cells
everywhere at the moment.
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We just gave them fingers crossed.
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Come on, all the help.
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Yeah, you can do it.
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The ramps are shorter
than the trailer, Jesse.
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Come on, that out.
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Yeah.
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Just keep going,
probably a little bit to you.
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That way?
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Yeah.
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Hold it there.
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That looks good, right?
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We're here loading it,
Calabra, in Brooklyn.
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And I'm going to light
two sprays on for Victoria.
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Put one up here on the top
deck and put one in behind it.
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Keep going.
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Oversized load expert,
Yogi, has delicate, high-tech,
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high-value equipment to
safely transport and deliver.
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For innovative Western Australian
engineering company, Calabra Sprayers.
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That look.
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Yep.
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You're looking at over half a
million dollars worth of machinery.
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Two 18-metre boom
sprays with 3,000-litre tanks.
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When you go, you'll get
to his destination over east.
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They will be attached to the Swarm Series
robotic tractor for autonomous spraying.
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So they will no longer need drivers.
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It can just do its own
thing in the paddock.
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And they should be able to do it
all through an app on their phone.
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It's amazing technology.
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I'm happy with that.
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We're going across the Nullibore again.
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This is the critical point.
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We get everything right first.
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We don't want to be shifting
freight on the Nullibore.
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That costs money in time.
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Yogi's epic trip west to
east will take in through
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1,200 kilometres of the
punishing Nullibore play.
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Across South Australia
and finally into Victoria, a
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journey of almost 3,000
kilometres across the continent.
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Alright, let's do it.
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Let's get home.
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This truck is the 90-pilot
model Kenworth T900.
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TJ is in it.
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Just had a major service
done on it there last week.
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It looks a bit old
and a bit rough, a bit
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like me, but underneath
all strong and solid.
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Yogi recently forked out
$55,000 on a new engine for PJ.
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Cash he desperately needs
to regain through transport jobs.
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If it moves, it needs maintenance.
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And that costs money.
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Now, my number one goal is to have
these two machines arrive on farm.
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Unscratched, unmarked,
undamaged in a macular condition.
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Because it's my pride, my reputation.
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Everything's on the line
about how we deliver.
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We hope tonight we'll leave
it sun up in the morning.
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Who are you barking at?
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Oh, my God.
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Hello.
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You get your time off of her?
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Yes, I've got time off, so let's
have a go on a Melbourne.
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Yogi's 15-year-old daughter, Lucinda,
is keen to go trucking with her dad.
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If her mum, Amanda, allows it.
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So you're going to get
back in time for school?
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Probably not.
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That's OK.
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No, that's OK.
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That's OK.
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There's only limited space in
here, one bag, one iPad, one phone.
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All right.
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Bye, mum.
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I'm very excited.
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Having gone across Melbourne with Dad
for a while, so it should be really good.
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And just how much are we going
to be able to learn over this trip?
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Well, you're looking at the next
generation sitting behind me here.
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A lot of customers in Western
Australia, they're long-term farmers.
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They've got succession plans.
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So if I can build a relationship
with their family, I can build,
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you know, Lucy can build a
relationship with their children.
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If Lucy decided to take it over, it might
be the proudest dad in the world, you know?
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Something's going on here.
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Oh, it's a bridge, a bit shady.
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No, we've got a problem, too.
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Ooh, shh.
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I'm 3.4 metres wide.
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There's a lot of money on the trailer.
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Will we make it over this bridge?
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This will be very, very tight.
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If it's been raining out
there on the dirt, that's
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when you get road
closures and/or get bogged.
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Forget down there and there's
a road close, so we're stuffed.
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In Central Australia, Steve
Graham is gambling on a
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quicker journey using dirt
roads through the desert.
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But heavy rain could
make the route impassable.
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We have had some big hold-ups down here.
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Sometimes we lose money on the
load because we're stuck for days.
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We have to recoup that.
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We've just turned on
to the last in a highway
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now, so I get to drive
out past the rock, Uluru.
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But having a look here, there's the information
for me in black and white and green.
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The roads are open.
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That's where we're going,
straight into that man to cloud.
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And it looks like it's rain out there.
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You know, I can make the biggest
plans of the world and the outback.
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And this country here will
decide what's going on to my boat.
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I'll take what it dishes out.
That's our back trucker.
235
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There we go, another day starts.
236
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And there it is in front of me, red dust.
237
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This is a thousand K a
dirt from here to live it.
238
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Oh, there we go, corrugations, straight up.
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I've only got 40 mil between two cars.
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I don't want the
corrugations to loosen straps
241
00:15:40,190 --> 00:15:43,800
and snap chains and wreck
the cars down the back.
242
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You can see people don't want to play it.
243
00:15:46,801 --> 00:15:53,800
Looks like the cloud's gone.
244
00:15:53,801 --> 00:15:57,800
There's a sign that I'm
happy to see, greater ahead.
245
00:15:57,801 --> 00:16:02,800
The difference already is the
quietness, the rattling's gone.
246
00:16:02,801 --> 00:16:05,800
Graded roads are a wonderful thing.
247
00:16:05,801 --> 00:16:12,800
Good to be able to run
the dips at a decent run.
248
00:16:12,801 --> 00:16:15,800
I enjoy this side as a dog.
249
00:16:15,801 --> 00:16:17,800
There's a bit of a ride
through the switchback.
250
00:16:17,801 --> 00:16:19,800
It's like men at the Royal Show.
251
00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,800
Hey, belt.
252
00:16:30,801 --> 00:16:32,800
It is Miller Camel.
253
00:16:32,801 --> 00:16:36,800
Hey, you got a good nose.
254
00:16:36,801 --> 00:16:40,800
These feral camels, if they get panicked,
they're straight out in front of the truck.
255
00:16:40,801 --> 00:16:44,800
And I don't want to be hitting any
wild camels, certainly damage them.
256
00:16:44,801 --> 00:16:47,800
And it doesn't do much good for the truck.
257
00:16:47,801 --> 00:16:52,800
Well, you got rid of him.
258
00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,800
I'd have to say it's a
pretty good day today.
259
00:16:58,801 --> 00:17:01,800
And this will do me for tonight.
260
00:17:01,801 --> 00:17:05,800
We've done probably 600
kilometres on some pretty shabby dirt.
261
00:17:05,801 --> 00:17:08,800
I don't know how I'll go
getting a good nice rest in here.
262
00:17:08,801 --> 00:17:12,800
It's a bloody traffic jam.
Look at them all.
263
00:17:12,801 --> 00:17:17,800
Tomorrow I've still got a bit
under 500k a dirt to get off this road.
264
00:17:17,801 --> 00:17:20,347
We've picked up a big
mob of traffic and the
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00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,800
downside is they're
all wrecking the road.
266
00:17:22,801 --> 00:17:25,373
So where I've had a
really good run today, I'm
267
00:17:25,385 --> 00:17:27,800
expecting to have a
big slow down tomorrow.
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00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:36,800
Here we go.
269
00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:45,800
And the road, which was
beautiful, has just gone downhill.
270
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,800
Every day on a dirt repeat
is the role of the dice.
271
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The way we're going on this road
now, I doubt, we'll get off it tonight.
272
00:17:56,801 --> 00:17:58,800
And that costs money.
273
00:17:58,801 --> 00:18:02,800
You've got to get the gear to
the other end without damage.
274
00:18:02,801 --> 00:18:06,800
And you've got to try
and get it there on time.
275
00:18:06,801 --> 00:18:09,800
The schedule's blown out the gate.
There is no longer a schedule.
276
00:18:09,801 --> 00:18:12,800
There's no longer a reliable time.
277
00:18:12,801 --> 00:18:15,800
It's just dreadful.
278
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I'm 3.4 metres wide.
279
00:18:21,801 --> 00:18:25,800
Will we make it over this bridge?
280
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This will be very, very tight.
281
00:18:28,801 --> 00:18:32,800
Pay attention, son. Pay attention.
282
00:18:32,801 --> 00:18:37,800
Getting there on time is
what you want, but a load.
283
00:18:37,801 --> 00:18:42,800
Getting there in one piece is a
much more important problem.
284
00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,800
Woo!
285
00:18:47,801 --> 00:18:51,800
Right, eh? That was a bit full
on, but anyway, we got it done.
286
00:18:51,801 --> 00:18:56,800
Yogi has narrowly avoided
expensive damage to the high tank.
287
00:18:56,801 --> 00:19:02,800
High value farming equipment, he's hauling
across the vast Australian continent.
288
00:19:02,801 --> 00:19:06,800
Priority, eh, Lucy? We need to just
check everything, make sure it's right.
289
00:19:06,801 --> 00:19:08,800
We've got to stop for a minute, eh?
290
00:19:08,801 --> 00:19:11,800
I want to check the tyres.
291
00:19:11,801 --> 00:19:16,065
Yogi's 15-year-old
daughter, Lucinda, is riding
292
00:19:16,066 --> 00:19:19,800
shotgun, seeing firsthand
how the industry works.
293
00:19:19,801 --> 00:19:23,800
Like, I've learnt so much over
time being in the truck with Dad.
294
00:19:23,801 --> 00:19:28,800
I think now's the best time to sort
of work out what I want to do in life.
295
00:19:28,801 --> 00:19:32,800
I'd love to go trucking.
I mean, at two more years after school.
296
00:19:32,801 --> 00:19:35,800
I think Dad would be very proud if I
did take over the business for him.
297
00:19:35,801 --> 00:19:37,800
Ah, all good.
298
00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:45,800
It's a really tough battle to figure out
if trucking is financially a good option.
299
00:19:45,801 --> 00:19:50,800
I think it is, but dreams
don't work unless you do.
300
00:19:50,801 --> 00:19:54,800
There's a lot of thinking, "I
should be home with a kid's soccer,
301
00:19:54,801 --> 00:19:58,800
or we should be home for that
Father's Day present which you miss.
302
00:19:58,801 --> 00:20:01,744
You'll miss your wife's
birthday, you'll miss it all.
303
00:20:01,745 --> 00:20:04,800
" I've been home for three
days, it's Christmas time.
304
00:20:04,801 --> 00:20:08,800
I don't know how much into the year.
I've worked a lot in balance.
305
00:20:08,801 --> 00:20:11,800
It's very difficult to get right.
306
00:20:11,801 --> 00:20:15,800
But I've got a very, very,
very understanding family.
307
00:20:15,801 --> 00:20:21,800
It's time to go in there and it's
time for me to get out of here.
308
00:20:21,801 --> 00:20:23,800
Yeah, I'm getting hungry.
309
00:20:23,801 --> 00:20:25,800
Cooking me dinner?
310
00:20:25,801 --> 00:20:26,800
Yeah, I guess so.
311
00:20:26,801 --> 00:20:30,800
All right.
312
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,800
Well, I'd love for you to be
sitting in the passenger seat
313
00:20:35,801 --> 00:20:38,800
and me driving across the
Nullaboth and mum piloting us.
314
00:20:38,801 --> 00:20:40,800
Yeah, it'd be the ultimate.
315
00:20:40,801 --> 00:20:48,800
We're about to go on
to the 90 miles straight.
316
00:20:48,801 --> 00:20:53,800
146.6 kilometres of straight road.
317
00:20:53,801 --> 00:20:54,800
No turns.
318
00:20:54,801 --> 00:21:00,800
Today is the day of point of no return.
319
00:21:00,801 --> 00:21:04,800
Something goes wrong out
here to bring the mechanic out.
320
00:21:04,801 --> 00:21:06,800
500 kilometres of fixed the problem.
321
00:21:06,801 --> 00:21:09,800
It's going to cost me
time and days of money.
322
00:21:09,801 --> 00:21:15,800
A couple of big showers have come
through last night, a bit of a storm.
323
00:21:15,801 --> 00:21:19,800
The rain is a bit of a problem
because the shoulders get a bit wet.
324
00:21:19,801 --> 00:21:23,800
And then we've come into the
narrow section of 90 miles straight.
325
00:21:23,801 --> 00:21:26,800
Not a lot of room to move if
you've seen other other signs.
326
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,800
They say we got four metres.
327
00:21:30,801 --> 00:21:33,800
All right, you are
about to find you a spot.
328
00:21:33,801 --> 00:21:36,800
We don't want to be near any
of the edges when it's wet, Eddie.
329
00:21:36,801 --> 00:21:39,800
Today is one of the dearest
days if something goes wrong.
330
00:21:39,801 --> 00:21:44,800
The edges are soft.
331
00:21:44,801 --> 00:21:48,800
We don't want to give up.
332
00:21:48,801 --> 00:21:54,800
We are going hot.
333
00:21:54,801 --> 00:21:58,800
I'm going to have to go for
another gear in an awful hurry.
334
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:13,800
We made it.
335
00:22:13,801 --> 00:22:16,800
We asked you to hold it in the seat.
336
00:22:16,801 --> 00:22:18,800
I can tell you I don't want
to go through that again.
337
00:22:18,801 --> 00:22:20,800
Because if we stopped on any of those,
338
00:22:20,801 --> 00:22:22,800
well, we're breaking up a
road train to get out of it.
339
00:22:22,801 --> 00:22:24,800
And I really don't want to do that.
340
00:22:24,801 --> 00:22:30,800
You don't want anything going wrong here.
341
00:22:30,801 --> 00:22:34,800
We've got about 85 tonne pushing
us down, a pretty steep incline.
342
00:22:34,801 --> 00:22:36,800
There's no safety vents in this place.
343
00:22:36,801 --> 00:22:39,800
You're just down straight into a rock face.
344
00:22:39,801 --> 00:22:42,494
So if it gets away on
your hair, major chances
345
00:22:42,506 --> 00:22:44,800
are survival are
absolutely bugger all.
346
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:54,800
Foodie is giving his 27-year-old truck
a workout on the Great Dividing Range,
347
00:22:54,801 --> 00:22:57,485
desperate to get
his life-saving load to
348
00:22:57,497 --> 00:23:00,800
communities on the
northernmost tip of Australia.
349
00:23:00,801 --> 00:23:03,800
When it's wet season up
here, the trucks just stop.
350
00:23:03,801 --> 00:23:05,800
All the heavy items.
351
00:23:05,801 --> 00:23:07,800
They're too expensive to ship.
352
00:23:07,801 --> 00:23:09,800
We have to get everything there.
353
00:23:09,801 --> 00:23:13,800
Here we are coming in.
354
00:23:13,801 --> 00:23:15,800
I've got to do a bit of work in here.
I can slow.
355
00:23:15,801 --> 00:23:19,800
So we've got to drop and pick up
trailers and shut up a few things.
356
00:23:19,801 --> 00:23:27,342
Foodie has another hefty 45 tonne
cement trailer to hook up, creating a 53.
357
00:23:27,343 --> 00:23:30,800
5 metre long triple road train.
358
00:23:30,801 --> 00:23:34,800
We're just playing musical
trailers at the moment.
359
00:23:34,801 --> 00:23:41,800
Well, that's the final part of the puzzle.
360
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,800
We're rolling with 130 tonne.
361
00:23:45,801 --> 00:23:48,800
In now, we're on the
limit as far as length goes.
362
00:23:48,801 --> 00:23:50,800
We can't be any heavier.
363
00:23:50,801 --> 00:23:55,800
From here, about 700 cows into Bemiga.
364
00:23:55,801 --> 00:24:01,800
We're coming up on a Hell's
Guide, but it's a crazy place.
365
00:24:01,801 --> 00:24:06,800
Ahead, the notorious Hell's Gate Pass.
366
00:24:06,801 --> 00:24:12,800
Foodie needs enough speed to
pull 130 tonnes up the steep incline.
367
00:24:12,801 --> 00:24:17,800
But too much, and he risks driving straight
through the tight turns at the time.
368
00:24:17,801 --> 00:24:21,800
You're actually going uphill, breaking.
369
00:24:21,801 --> 00:24:25,800
We're going to thunder and we're
giving her everything she's got.
370
00:24:25,801 --> 00:24:30,800
We've got 10% grade, reduced speed.
371
00:24:30,801 --> 00:24:33,800
Look at that corner there.
372
00:24:33,801 --> 00:24:35,800
We've just got to judge this corner right.
373
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,800
[MUSIC]
374
00:24:39,801 --> 00:24:46,800
Ten days ago, I was
doing 60 kilometres now.
375
00:24:46,801 --> 00:24:48,800
I'm struggling to get 20.
376
00:24:48,801 --> 00:24:50,800
You can't go fast.
377
00:24:50,801 --> 00:24:56,800
After laying down almost
$200,000 on a new engine install,
378
00:24:56,801 --> 00:25:00,800
Steve is under pressure to
pay it off with profitable jobs.
379
00:25:00,801 --> 00:25:01,800
This is just dreadful.
380
00:25:01,801 --> 00:25:04,800
Fingers crossed, I'm not breaking stuff.
381
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,687
But deep, rutted
corrugations on the brutal
382
00:25:08,699 --> 00:25:11,800
Great Central Road have
slowed him to a crawl.
383
00:25:11,801 --> 00:25:16,800
That means my delivery time goes
out, my schedule goes backwards.
384
00:25:16,801 --> 00:25:18,800
And that costs money.
385
00:25:18,801 --> 00:25:22,800
I can't give my customers
an estimated time for arrival.
386
00:25:22,801 --> 00:25:26,800
I would be foolish to grab that
satellite phone and suggest,
387
00:25:26,801 --> 00:25:28,757
"Look, I'll be there
tomorrow. I don't know that.
388
00:25:28,758 --> 00:25:30,800
" This will get there
while we get there.
389
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,800
[MUSIC]
390
00:25:38,801 --> 00:25:41,800
I was saying that'll
do us for the day, Bill.
391
00:25:41,801 --> 00:25:46,481
In a punishing 11-hour
day, Steve has travelled
392
00:25:46,482 --> 00:25:50,800
less than 500 kilometres
on severe corrugations.
393
00:25:50,801 --> 00:25:52,800
But the end is in sight.
394
00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:57,800
About 500 metres from here is the bitumen.
395
00:25:57,801 --> 00:26:04,800
And by a year after today, I
will be happy to see this stuff.
396
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:11,800
[MUSIC] I'm flogged.
397
00:26:11,801 --> 00:26:16,800
We're going to knock off, light a
fire, cook a feed, and go to bed.
398
00:26:16,801 --> 00:26:24,800
[MUSIC]
399
00:26:24,801 --> 00:26:26,800
This is it, Bill. There's the black stuff.
400
00:26:26,801 --> 00:26:27,800
Bitumen.
401
00:26:27,801 --> 00:26:29,919
[MUSIC] It's alright.
402
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,800
This is the last corrugation.
403
00:26:31,801 --> 00:26:33,800
And then you're going
to have an easy run in.
404
00:26:33,801 --> 00:26:38,800
[MUSIC]
405
00:26:38,801 --> 00:26:40,800
I'm on the home run now.
406
00:26:40,801 --> 00:26:46,800
[MUSIC] Shit.
407
00:26:46,801 --> 00:26:48,800
[MUSIC]
408
00:26:48,801 --> 00:26:50,800
I'm just going to pull up here.
409
00:26:50,801 --> 00:26:55,800
[MUSIC]
410
00:26:55,801 --> 00:26:57,800
I've got a flat tire here.
411
00:26:57,801 --> 00:27:00,800
All that way across, all that dirt,
and you get on a nice bitumen road
412
00:27:00,801 --> 00:27:02,800
and you get a flat tire
within 100 kilometres.
413
00:27:02,801 --> 00:27:04,800
I don't believe that.
414
00:27:04,801 --> 00:27:08,800
[MUSIC]
415
00:27:08,801 --> 00:27:11,800
It's been wet over a kid rolling here.
416
00:27:11,801 --> 00:27:12,800
That edge is very soft.
417
00:27:12,801 --> 00:27:13,800
[MUSIC]
418
00:27:13,801 --> 00:27:15,800
But don't want to get stuck.
419
00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:18,800
It's a very costly recovery.
420
00:27:18,801 --> 00:27:19,800
[MUSIC]
421
00:27:19,801 --> 00:27:22,929
My number one goal is to
have these two machines
422
00:27:22,930 --> 00:27:26,800
arrive on farm in Victoria
in immaculate condition.
423
00:27:26,801 --> 00:27:30,800
[MUSIC] Look at that.
424
00:27:30,801 --> 00:27:31,800
No more vegetables.
425
00:27:31,801 --> 00:27:32,800
I'll see you later.
426
00:27:32,801 --> 00:27:40,800
[MUSIC]
427
00:27:40,801 --> 00:27:44,800
This run across Australia
isn't for the faint-hearted.
428
00:27:44,801 --> 00:27:48,789
If people are going to
do this job, they really
429
00:27:48,790 --> 00:27:51,800
need to know what
their capabilities are.
430
00:27:51,801 --> 00:27:52,800
You need to know it.
431
00:27:52,801 --> 00:27:58,800
It's not something you think I might give
it a go for a week and see what happens.
432
00:27:58,801 --> 00:28:02,800
How long have I got
before I'm sitting next to you?
433
00:28:02,801 --> 00:28:03,800
Ten years?
434
00:28:03,801 --> 00:28:05,800
And then still let me drop out now?
435
00:28:05,801 --> 00:28:07,800
No, drop out of school.
436
00:28:07,801 --> 00:28:12,800
[MUSIC]
437
00:28:12,801 --> 00:28:15,800
Right in front of us now is
the greatest Australian bike.
438
00:28:15,801 --> 00:28:19,800
So it's a really cool part of the
world, and I get to drive past it.
439
00:28:19,801 --> 00:28:25,800
[MUSIC]
440
00:28:25,801 --> 00:28:28,800
We have to be off-road in some set.
441
00:28:28,801 --> 00:28:30,800
We've had a good day.
442
00:28:30,801 --> 00:28:31,800
Loads have been good.
443
00:28:31,801 --> 00:28:34,800
[MUSIC]
444
00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:41,800
[MUSIC]
445
00:28:41,801 --> 00:28:44,800
A fairly heavy sort of storm
off 'til the doors on this year.
446
00:28:44,801 --> 00:28:46,800
If we hang around, the
rain's going to get heavier.
447
00:28:46,801 --> 00:28:49,800
So my gut feeling is
get up and get galloped.
448
00:28:49,801 --> 00:28:52,800
[MUSIC]
449
00:28:52,801 --> 00:28:55,800
And we're back to 80 Ks in here.
450
00:28:55,801 --> 00:28:57,800
I hate that, eh?
451
00:28:57,801 --> 00:29:00,800
We've got three caravans travelling.
452
00:29:00,801 --> 00:29:02,800
One, two, three.
453
00:29:02,801 --> 00:29:05,114
Now, whenever I
understand why a caravan
454
00:29:05,126 --> 00:29:07,800
would want to be right
behind another caravan,
455
00:29:07,801 --> 00:29:12,800
in a clear day with
good visibility, it's a pain.
456
00:29:12,801 --> 00:29:17,800
[MUSIC] Jesus.
457
00:29:17,801 --> 00:29:19,365
It's going to make it
very, very difficult for me
458
00:29:19,366 --> 00:29:22,800
to get around three of
these years all that close.
459
00:29:22,801 --> 00:29:25,800
[MUSIC]
460
00:29:25,801 --> 00:29:30,800
[MUSIC]
461
00:29:30,801 --> 00:29:36,800
[MUSIC]
462
00:29:36,801 --> 00:29:40,800
It's just a hard day in the office today.
463
00:29:40,801 --> 00:29:43,800
It'd be nice to check the load again.
464
00:29:43,801 --> 00:29:48,800
Ah, we're going to lock in
here on the right-hand side.
465
00:29:48,801 --> 00:29:56,199
[MUSIC] Oh, my God.
466
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:56,800
I've got to punch it.
467
00:29:56,801 --> 00:29:58,800
I'll draw it there.
468
00:29:58,801 --> 00:30:00,800
Oh, there's a massive hole there.
469
00:30:00,801 --> 00:30:03,800
There's something in it, too.
You can see it.
470
00:30:03,801 --> 00:30:06,800
Oh, I don't know what to do, eh?
471
00:30:06,801 --> 00:30:08,800
[MUSIC]
472
00:30:08,801 --> 00:30:12,800
The problem is the long way ahead
in the east, so a lot of people are away.
473
00:30:12,801 --> 00:30:15,800
If I change it, then I don't have
a tyre for the long weekend.
474
00:30:15,801 --> 00:30:17,800
So if I do a tyre tomorrow,
it's going to be worse.
475
00:30:17,801 --> 00:30:18,800
Yeah.
476
00:30:18,801 --> 00:30:24,800
So if we disappoint someone now, fix the
war in town, we might have half a chance.
477
00:30:24,801 --> 00:30:29,800
If you're cold outside of standard business
hours, please leave them in business.
478
00:30:29,801 --> 00:30:31,800
Thank you for calling.
479
00:30:31,801 --> 00:30:35,800
Unfortunately, that's called
outside of our normal business.
480
00:30:35,801 --> 00:30:39,800
[MUSIC]
481
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,800
[MUSIC]
482
00:30:42,801 --> 00:30:45,800
We're going to thunder into it.
We're giving her everything she's got.
483
00:30:45,801 --> 00:30:48,800
Look at that corner there.
484
00:30:48,801 --> 00:30:51,800
[MUSIC]
485
00:30:51,801 --> 00:30:54,800
They've got a major building
program up in Bemburger.
486
00:30:54,801 --> 00:30:57,800
And they've blown up teams of concretes.
487
00:30:57,801 --> 00:31:00,800
We've been engaged to keep
the cement powder up to them.
488
00:31:00,801 --> 00:31:02,800
[MUSIC]
489
00:31:02,801 --> 00:31:05,800
They know when we're
coming and where we're coming.
490
00:31:05,801 --> 00:31:07,800
So we want to try to hold that schedule.
491
00:31:07,801 --> 00:31:10,800
[MUSIC]
492
00:31:10,801 --> 00:31:15,800
We're back in low range and just
barely getting up around the corner there.
493
00:31:15,801 --> 00:31:18,800
So we've got to cross over.
I've had a good call there.
494
00:31:18,801 --> 00:31:21,800
Triple road train northbound Hillsgate.
495
00:31:21,801 --> 00:31:27,800
[MUSIC]
496
00:31:27,801 --> 00:31:29,800
We're up and over.
497
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:42,800
[MUSIC]
498
00:31:42,801 --> 00:31:45,800
And all of a sudden we
run out of the smooth road.
499
00:31:45,801 --> 00:31:53,800
[MUSIC]
500
00:31:53,801 --> 00:31:58,800
I've got a demandable building in
the middle of the road here below.
501
00:31:58,801 --> 00:32:05,800
[MUSIC]
502
00:32:05,801 --> 00:32:08,341
Well, it's not every day
you've triple over takes
503
00:32:08,342 --> 00:32:10,800
a house, going up the
beneath hill, but anyway.
504
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:20,800
[MUSIC]
505
00:32:20,801 --> 00:32:26,800
[MUSIC]
506
00:32:26,801 --> 00:32:29,800
There we are, Mamago, 324 kilometers to go.
507
00:32:29,801 --> 00:32:32,800
[MUSIC]
508
00:32:32,801 --> 00:32:39,800
Well, my name today is Make the Dam
Ferry before it closes down for the day.
509
00:32:39,801 --> 00:32:42,800
To have any chance of making his deadline,
510
00:32:42,801 --> 00:32:46,398
Foodie must cross the
Jardin River, almost 300
511
00:32:46,399 --> 00:32:50,800
kilometers away, before
the ferry shuts at 5 p.m.
512
00:32:50,801 --> 00:32:55,800
We're also anxious eyes on
the fuel gauge here at Parliament.
513
00:32:55,801 --> 00:33:01,800
We've chewed about three corners of our
400 odd liters that we were in the tank.
514
00:33:01,801 --> 00:33:04,800
[MUSIC]
515
00:33:04,801 --> 00:33:07,800
There's no end of my
fuel up in, a beer on end.
516
00:33:07,801 --> 00:33:12,800
[MUSIC]
517
00:33:12,801 --> 00:33:16,800
Hidden corrugations all over the place.
518
00:33:16,801 --> 00:33:19,800
[MUSIC]
519
00:33:19,801 --> 00:33:22,800
Very, very severe corrugation.
520
00:33:22,801 --> 00:33:23,800
[MUSIC]
521
00:33:23,801 --> 00:33:27,800
The tankers that hold the gas
come apart sometimes could explode.
522
00:33:27,801 --> 00:33:28,800
[MUSIC]
523
00:33:28,801 --> 00:33:32,800
We can't do much more than
just waddle our way through them.
524
00:33:32,801 --> 00:33:34,800
[MUSIC]
525
00:33:34,801 --> 00:33:37,800
We're about two cays an hour at the moment.
526
00:33:37,801 --> 00:33:40,800
We're putting our delivery
schedule in jeopardy.
527
00:33:40,801 --> 00:33:45,800
This is basically what
is locally known as hell.
528
00:33:45,801 --> 00:33:49,800
[MUSIC]
529
00:33:49,801 --> 00:33:52,800
I've got a puncture right there.
530
00:33:52,801 --> 00:33:55,800
If I change it now, then I don't
have a tyre for the long weekend.
531
00:33:55,801 --> 00:33:56,800
[MUSIC]
532
00:33:56,801 --> 00:33:57,800
[MUSIC]
533
00:33:57,801 --> 00:34:01,800
Unfortunately, our cooldown
partner now is determined.
534
00:34:01,801 --> 00:34:02,800
[MUSIC]
535
00:34:02,801 --> 00:34:07,800
A dangerous puncture on his truck's drive
tyre has Yogi scrambling to get a repair,
536
00:34:07,801 --> 00:34:11,800
or risk changing it,
leaving him without a spare.
537
00:34:11,801 --> 00:34:16,800
I have a spare trailer tyre, but
I don't have a spare truck tyre.
538
00:34:16,801 --> 00:34:19,800
He still has more than 800
kilometres in front of him,
539
00:34:19,801 --> 00:34:24,800
on his mission to deliver
two high-tech crop sprayers.
540
00:34:24,801 --> 00:34:27,800
[MUSIC]
541
00:34:27,801 --> 00:34:29,800
I reckon I change it.
542
00:34:29,801 --> 00:34:32,800
[MUSIC]
543
00:34:32,801 --> 00:34:35,800
Hey, I'll do it properly,
I'll span two feet.
544
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:45,800
[MUSIC]
545
00:34:45,801 --> 00:34:54,800
[MUSIC] We got it done.
546
00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:57,800
An hour and a half, hour
that we've been stuck here.
547
00:34:58,100 --> 00:34:59,800
Let's go.
548
00:34:59,801 --> 00:35:01,800
[MUSIC]
549
00:35:01,801 --> 00:35:10,800
Well, I have no spare truck tyres left,
so I've taken the risk to get the reward.
550
00:35:10,801 --> 00:35:15,800
If something goes wrong, we
will have to wait for a call out.
551
00:35:15,801 --> 00:35:19,800
It's very costly and time-consuming.
552
00:35:19,801 --> 00:35:21,800
[MUSIC]
553
00:35:21,801 --> 00:35:23,800
Yeah, that's trucking.
554
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:34,800
[MUSIC]
555
00:35:34,801 --> 00:35:38,800
I'm day four, three nights in a swag.
556
00:35:38,801 --> 00:35:40,800
We lost time yesterday.
557
00:35:40,801 --> 00:35:43,800
Today, I just want to get there.
558
00:35:43,801 --> 00:35:49,800
[MUSIC]
559
00:35:49,801 --> 00:35:53,800
Right now, we're on proper country
roads, county to country Victoria.
560
00:35:53,801 --> 00:35:55,800
[MUSIC]
561
00:35:55,801 --> 00:35:59,800
Most of the roads that don't go to
Melbourne, don't give me maintenance on them.
562
00:35:59,801 --> 00:36:04,800
[MUSIC]
563
00:36:04,801 --> 00:36:05,800
It's rough here.
564
00:36:05,801 --> 00:36:08,800
[MUSIC]
565
00:36:08,801 --> 00:36:11,800
Look, you know, this is your
dad's peaking or so your captain.
566
00:36:11,801 --> 00:36:15,800
I just want to let you know that
we've reached their destination, okay?
567
00:36:15,801 --> 00:36:17,800
I'm about time.
568
00:36:17,801 --> 00:36:22,800
[MUSIC]
569
00:36:22,801 --> 00:36:25,800
What do you want me to do, Bob?
570
00:36:25,801 --> 00:36:27,800
We stand back now, fire up the robots.
571
00:36:27,850 --> 00:36:30,800
I've done everything that I
could do to get it to this point.
572
00:36:30,801 --> 00:36:33,460
So we're just going to
connect, wrap them onto that
573
00:36:33,461 --> 00:36:35,800
robot, and then call the
whole thing off together.
574
00:36:35,801 --> 00:36:39,800
The innovative new crop
sprayers Yogi has delivered
575
00:36:39,801 --> 00:36:45,800
are designed to be operated by a
robot tractor, already owned by the farm.
576
00:36:45,801 --> 00:36:47,119
But when you spot
spraying, because you're
577
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,800
going so slow, everyone
hates doing the job.
578
00:36:49,801 --> 00:36:53,800
This guy can just do it around the clock.
579
00:36:53,801 --> 00:36:54,800
Joe?
580
00:36:54,801 --> 00:36:56,226
Two o'clock in the
morning when I want to be
581
00:36:56,227 --> 00:37:00,800
sloping, I can keep
working, so that's the plan.
582
00:37:00,801 --> 00:37:03,800
Oh, the eagle has landed.
583
00:37:03,801 --> 00:37:07,800
[MUSIC] Job's done.
584
00:37:07,801 --> 00:37:09,800
[MUSIC]
585
00:37:09,801 --> 00:37:11,800
It's another successful mission.
586
00:37:11,801 --> 00:37:13,800
This is one of the
best trips I've ever had.
587
00:37:13,801 --> 00:37:14,800
It's been fantastic.
588
00:37:14,801 --> 00:37:18,800
I always liked trucks, but
I guess now after this trip
589
00:37:18,801 --> 00:37:23,800
has definitely made my mind up that this
is something I do want to do in a motor.
590
00:37:23,801 --> 00:37:26,800
[MUSIC]
591
00:37:26,801 --> 00:37:29,800
We pack out, heading
for off to the next job.
592
00:37:29,801 --> 00:37:31,800
We do it all again.
593
00:37:31,801 --> 00:37:35,800
[MUSIC]
594
00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:38,800
[MUSIC]
595
00:37:38,801 --> 00:37:40,800
Well, I don't believe that.
596
00:37:40,801 --> 00:37:42,800
I've got to flat tie.
597
00:37:42,801 --> 00:37:45,800
It's only one thing to do,
and that's change the best.
598
00:37:45,801 --> 00:37:46,800
[MUSIC]
599
00:37:46,801 --> 00:37:50,800
Fighting to complete a marathon
job through Central Australia
600
00:37:50,801 --> 00:37:54,800
and make a profit, Steve
has hit another setback.
601
00:37:54,801 --> 00:37:57,800
[MUSIC]
602
00:37:57,801 --> 00:37:59,800
So this is what it is.
603
00:37:59,801 --> 00:38:01,800
Another holdup.
604
00:38:01,801 --> 00:38:03,800
[MUSIC]
605
00:38:03,801 --> 00:38:06,800
And what made you go flat little tyre?
606
00:38:06,801 --> 00:38:09,800
Ah, look at that.
607
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,800
That's what made it go flat,
that bloody bolt through it.
608
00:38:12,801 --> 00:38:13,800
[MUSIC]
609
00:38:13,801 --> 00:38:15,800
Pick up a lousy bolt on
a beautiful bitumen road.
610
00:38:15,801 --> 00:38:17,800
Unreal.
611
00:38:17,801 --> 00:38:21,800
[MUSIC]
612
00:38:21,801 --> 00:38:23,800
Oh, it's not a good day and out.
613
00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:25,800
They're trucking really.
614
00:38:25,801 --> 00:38:26,800
[MUSIC]
615
00:38:26,801 --> 00:38:28,800
There's only 700 or 800 boys.
616
00:38:28,801 --> 00:38:30,800
[MUSIC] Could be worse.
617
00:38:30,801 --> 00:38:33,800
[MUSIC] Right.
618
00:38:33,801 --> 00:38:35,800
[MUSIC]
619
00:38:35,801 --> 00:38:38,516
I'll probably pick
that bolt up out on the
620
00:38:38,517 --> 00:38:40,800
dirt and it's been
working its way in there.
621
00:38:40,801 --> 00:38:43,800
You get on the bitumen, it's a
hard surface bang through the tyre.
622
00:38:43,801 --> 00:38:47,800
[MUSIC]
623
00:38:47,801 --> 00:38:49,800
That's another issue now the road.
624
00:38:49,801 --> 00:38:52,800
[MUSIC]
625
00:38:52,801 --> 00:38:54,800
One with a bloody big dozer on.
626
00:38:54,801 --> 00:38:57,800
He's got a lockup going
on with wheels or brakes.
627
00:38:57,801 --> 00:39:01,800
[MUSIC]
628
00:39:01,801 --> 00:39:03,800
Thanks for having us to go.
629
00:39:03,801 --> 00:39:05,800
You have a good day
when it all gets sorted out.
630
00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:08,800
[MUSIC] Thank you.
631
00:39:08,801 --> 00:39:09,800
[MUSIC]
632
00:39:09,801 --> 00:39:11,800
So we like a bit of respect for Mr. Graham.
633
00:39:11,801 --> 00:39:13,800
We'll do nicely, thank you.
634
00:39:13,801 --> 00:39:18,800
[MUSIC]
635
00:39:18,801 --> 00:39:26,800
[MUSIC] The art starts.
636
00:39:26,801 --> 00:39:28,800
The big city traffic business.
637
00:39:28,801 --> 00:39:30,800
Roundabouts and red lights.
638
00:39:30,801 --> 00:39:34,800
And send me back to the
desert and the corrugations.
639
00:39:34,801 --> 00:39:41,800
[MUSIC]
640
00:39:41,801 --> 00:39:44,800
Right, I consider myself
home when this gate is open.
641
00:39:44,801 --> 00:39:47,800
No, we've all nearly done and dusted.
642
00:39:47,801 --> 00:39:53,800
[MUSIC]
643
00:39:53,801 --> 00:39:58,800
[MUSIC]
644
00:39:58,801 --> 00:40:01,800
What I'm going to do is get sleepy,
come down and give me a handle.
645
00:40:01,801 --> 00:40:03,800
Lift that one off for the fork.
646
00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:04,800
It's always good.
647
00:40:04,801 --> 00:40:05,800
I mean, I get them off.
648
00:40:05,801 --> 00:40:07,800
When we get them off, nothing happens.
649
00:40:07,801 --> 00:40:08,800
[MUSIC]
650
00:40:08,801 --> 00:40:11,800
Slick arrived from Alice Springs a day ago.
651
00:40:11,801 --> 00:40:16,800
Now he can assess how well he
loaded the cars and equipment for Steve.
652
00:40:16,801 --> 00:40:18,800
That is close.
653
00:40:18,801 --> 00:40:20,800
Nothing was going to move.
654
00:40:20,801 --> 00:40:23,800
I guaranteed in that, but yeah, yeah.
655
00:40:23,801 --> 00:40:24,800
The job's done.
656
00:40:24,801 --> 00:40:27,800
It wasn't without its challenges
with the road big the way it was.
657
00:40:27,801 --> 00:40:29,800
It's still a good trip.
658
00:40:29,801 --> 00:40:32,800
There's still a little tiny bit of
money in it for me at the end, so.
659
00:40:32,801 --> 00:40:34,800
We'll do another one.
660
00:40:34,801 --> 00:40:37,800
Righto, you're going up the
shed for a grease up truck.
661
00:40:37,801 --> 00:40:39,800
We'll tell you up the
shed, give you a grease up.
662
00:40:39,801 --> 00:40:41,800
See if you can find anything
that's wrong with you.
663
00:40:41,801 --> 00:40:42,800
Good job.
664
00:40:42,801 --> 00:40:50,800
[MUSIC]
665
00:40:50,801 --> 00:40:53,800
Corrugation, rapidly getting worse here.
666
00:40:53,801 --> 00:40:56,800
Speedo's not registering
on the dial anymore.
667
00:40:56,801 --> 00:40:59,800
This here just really takes
a long time to go through.
668
00:40:59,801 --> 00:41:04,800
To do two or three kilometres could
take us an hour to get through this boat.
669
00:41:04,801 --> 00:41:09,800
If you imagine if we've got 20 cows or
this, you know, do the mats, it's not good.
670
00:41:09,801 --> 00:41:13,800
Upside to get concerned
about making the dam very.
671
00:41:13,801 --> 00:41:18,800
In northern Cape York,
foodie is running out of time.
672
00:41:18,801 --> 00:41:21,720
Desperate to catch
the last ferry to Bamega
673
00:41:21,732 --> 00:41:27,800
or risk losing a day and delaying the
arrival of his load of critical supplies.
674
00:41:27,801 --> 00:41:32,800
We've given our customers a commitment
that will be in Bamega nearly evening.
675
00:41:32,801 --> 00:41:35,800
[MUSIC]
676
00:41:35,801 --> 00:41:37,800
Here we go again.
677
00:41:37,801 --> 00:41:39,800
[MUSIC]
678
00:41:39,801 --> 00:41:42,800
I could see the road down
there as I go down here.
679
00:41:42,801 --> 00:41:46,800
[MUSIC]
680
00:41:46,801 --> 00:41:49,789
If I went faster or tried
to do like that guy did
681
00:41:49,801 --> 00:41:52,800
there, I literally wouldn't
have a truck anymore.
682
00:41:52,801 --> 00:41:54,800
It would just shake it for Jesus.
683
00:41:54,801 --> 00:41:58,800
Get it a little bit quick though,
gas pallets could start bouncing in.
684
00:41:58,801 --> 00:42:02,800
They'll think nothing are busting a
two and a half tonne bloody raider strap.
685
00:42:02,801 --> 00:42:06,800
If a gas pallet comes over
the side, could it explode?
686
00:42:06,801 --> 00:42:09,800
[MUSIC]
687
00:42:09,801 --> 00:42:11,800
We've got a tyre back
there, what's happened?
688
00:42:11,801 --> 00:42:13,800
[MUSIC]
689
00:42:13,801 --> 00:42:16,800
I better go and have a look at the
what's going on back there, I think.
690
00:42:16,801 --> 00:42:18,800
I don't know what that is.
691
00:42:18,801 --> 00:42:21,800
I seem to have all the tyres.
692
00:42:21,801 --> 00:42:25,800
That's the spare tyre off the trailer.
693
00:42:25,801 --> 00:42:29,800
Obviously not designed for these roads.
694
00:42:29,801 --> 00:42:31,800
Check that out.
695
00:42:31,801 --> 00:42:37,800
Cape York Peninsula strikes again, look at
that she had a brand new bolt out of there.
696
00:42:37,801 --> 00:42:41,800
But this is typical what corrugations
do, they break shit like this.
697
00:42:41,801 --> 00:42:45,800
Grab a little sink in such a fashion to
start the long walk back to the trailer.
698
00:42:45,801 --> 00:42:48,800
This is starting to really scare me.
699
00:42:48,801 --> 00:42:54,800
If we got an absolute perfect run from
here through, we'd make the ferry easy.
700
00:42:54,801 --> 00:42:57,800
But we've got more corrugations.
701
00:42:57,801 --> 00:43:01,800
This is a very, very unsympathetic road.
702
00:43:01,801 --> 00:43:06,800
Just when you think you might have
got there, it'll throw something at you.
703
00:43:06,801 --> 00:43:07,800
You okay?
704
00:43:07,801 --> 00:43:10,800
Yeah, I'm alright, get going.
705
00:43:10,801 --> 00:43:17,800
[MUSIC]
706
00:43:17,801 --> 00:43:18,800
Transporting bees.
707
00:43:18,801 --> 00:43:20,800
It's as lethal as a later petrol.
708
00:43:20,801 --> 00:43:22,800
You're too babble with
that many bees on board.
709
00:43:22,801 --> 00:43:24,800
They'll sting you to death.
710
00:43:24,801 --> 00:43:25,800
Shit.
711
00:43:25,801 --> 00:43:28,800
Passing double lines around a blind corner.
712
00:43:28,801 --> 00:43:32,800
Condepidised a later bee is real quick.
713
00:43:32,801 --> 00:43:35,800
To run in this much
dirt, things can go wrong.
714
00:43:35,801 --> 00:43:37,800
[MUSIC]
715
00:43:37,801 --> 00:43:39,800
[BLEEP] And dust.
716
00:43:39,801 --> 00:43:41,800
When your car's there, everything's coming.
717
00:43:41,801 --> 00:43:42,800
Shit.
718
00:43:42,801 --> 00:43:46,800
We might be driving through a fire, I mean,
we've got Debbie gas lines back there.
719
00:43:46,801 --> 00:43:50,800
When you get a spark, you get
out of a bloody magic catastrophe.
720
00:43:50,801 --> 00:43:56,800
[MUSIC]
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