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This time, on Outback Truckers.

And there it is in front of me, the 1,000 K and Red Dust.

Every day on the road is the role of the Dyson.

I can see a fair bit of water laying on the road.

This is bloody scary.

But rains, it turns into a cosmon.

We're going across the Nullabore.

This will be very, very tight.

Pay attention to the sun, pay attention.

There's going to be a problem.

If we find someone now, we might have opportunity.

Better than it's what I'd call a make or break.

You need to make an up for you, break something going up.

If a gas power comes over to the side, it could explode.

This is what the Nullabore has held.

So how'd you go, slick?

You got about two inches into between each week.

Shit, they're close, don't they?

When we get out in the dirt, things are rocking and rolling.

No, I think we should be right.

72-year-old Steve Graham and his subcontractor, Slick Serafini

are using every available inch of trailer space to load valuable cargo.

We've got some second-hand mining gear on the front trailer.

But this trailer, here's what worries me.

He's a very good customer in Perth and he's bought some good cars.

He doesn't want them scratched.

You can't handle crease in this job, get out of it.

What we've got in front of us is about 2,700 kilometres,

and I've got 1,100 kilometres of dirt in there, I've desert.

From Alice Springs, Steve will haul the 60-ton loaded rig past all the road,

before hitting the Great Central Road, over 1,000 kilometres of ragged dirt,

crossing into Western Australia, and then onto his destination.

Perth.

It's ominous, the sky like this is not good when you're heading out with the dirt.

If it rains, there's no bitumen out there.

It turns into a fog mine.

And it did rain all yesterday.

People in Alice Springs are saying, "Don't go.

The road will be closed.

" If the Great Central Road is closed,

the alternative route would add over 600 kilometres,

an extra day and over $1,000 in diesel to his journey.

The gamble is, you're then in the hands of the weather.

Sometimes we might lose money on a load.

So, I'm going to get going.

I do like this new motor.

It's settling in now, it's freed up a lot.

I'm driving it a bit harder than what it was before.

Over a year ago, Steve invested almost $200,000,

installing a new motor in his 30-year-old Kenworth C501.

600 horsepower in here, 2,050 foot-pounder torque and better fuel economy.

To claw back some of his huge investment, Steve needs to make money on this run,

delivering his load on time and in pristine condition.

You've got to get the gear to the other end without damage.

You can see people don't want to play here.

If I get no problems, it'll be with these bloody cars.

I've only got 50 mil between some of those bumpers.

Here we go, we've got rain on the windscreen, and we've got water walled race guys.

Those clouds are getting fatter and fuller.

It's starting to look quite ominous.

My gut feeling about this is not good at all.

This is the sort of rain that hangs around for a couple of days.

That's when you get road closures and/or get involved.

This is bloody scary. I can see a fair bit of water laying on the road.

If it's been raining out there on the dirt, it just turns to gutless red mud.

This is not good. This is not good at all.

I'll just go up and throw this in.

Getting me warm warning, working out again.

My wife wants me to go to the gym. Why do I need to go to a gym?

67-year-old Jim Foodie is on a mission to haul vital supplies to his home town,

Bamaga, on the northernmost tip of Australia.

We have big ticket items and important items that are bulk,

but so is the little stuff important to whoever is sending it.

We take anything.

All of this stuff is going to Bamaga because you can see my high legs is a bit full.

Here we always deal with Jim to take transport our stuff up back and forth.

It's a time-critical job as the approaching tropical wet season

will bring cyclones and extreme monsoonal rain.

It just gets completely cut off by road during the wet season.

The road may be out of action for five months.

This is level two in Tetris.

Foodie is filling up the first of three trailers

with mixed flammable gas already loaded.

We need to have about 50 pallets of gas

to be able to carry the communities up there through the wet season.

If we don't, then it really comes down to people just having no gas for cooking.

Hospital also, they rely on us heavily for gas.

The cages that hold the gas are not designed to go up those roads,

so they come apart sometimes on the road up to Bamaga.

Foodie's 1,000 kilometre journey starts at Cairns, hauling one trailer to Mariba,

adding a second and then crossing a steep pass for a third trailer at Lakeland.

After that, he takes on Cape York, fighting through winding ranges

and bone rattling dirt roads to his destination, Bamaga.

Accessed only by a ferry that shuts down at 5pm every day.

A lot of transport operators just go up, do one trip and never come back again.

They reckon the roads are too rough, they don't

want the ferry, so they just don't want to do it.

Well, if someone's going to do it, that's us.

So we're heading up to Mariba.

We need to be up the mountain and then hooking up trails about daylight.

Around a range is notoriously very narrow winding road,

so it's a bit of a handful you really need to keep your wits about.

Right now, we're going through a pretty bad, bad batch of home here.

And it can be greasy and wet when it rains, so it's not be taken lightly.

We're about to reach the road train pad where our trailer of dollar is.

Somehow I'm going to do a little tight

maneuver, a bit hard to see when we're doing it.

There's not going to be a few of these posts there, if we cancel something to do.

We're good to go.

This is a 1997 Western Star constellation, the 600 horsepower, 18 speed gearbox.

We've got 80 plus tons on here, you can feel it.

Actually, it should work a little bit.

We're going to start heading up the D'Azalee range.

Part of the great dividing range, the Passover

D'Azalee range rises 120 metres in just two kilometres.

A challenge for any car, let alone a 27-year-old truck pulling over 80 tons.

It's what I call a make or break either, make

it up for you, and break something going up.

We'll see some high temperatures in the Kim and high temperature in the gearbox.

Back into low range, I'm going to go right back to the third here.

This is our steepest little hitch right here.

Now, if it's heating up.

The diff, or differential, transfers the power of the engine to the wheels.

If it overheats, it could seize, bringing the truck to

a grinding hot, requiring repairs that could take weeks.

We're starting to warm up a bit, I'm going to

have to go for another gear in a normal hurry.

Yes, we are going hot, so here we go.

But how are you doing that?

We've got temperature cells everywhere at the moment.

We just gave them fingers crossed.

Come on, all the help.

Yeah, you can do it.

The ramps are shorter than the trailer, Jesse.

Come on, that out.

Yeah.

Just keep going, probably a little bit to you.

That way?

Yeah.

Hold it there.

That looks good, right?

We're here loading it, Calabra, in Brooklyn.

And I'm going to light two sprays on for Victoria.

Put one up here on the top deck and put one in behind it.

Keep going.

Oversized load expert, Yogi, has delicate, high-tech,

high-value equipment to safely transport and deliver.

For innovative Western Australian engineering company, Calabra Sprayers.

That look.

Yep.

You're looking at over half a million dollars worth of machinery.

Two 18-metre boom sprays with 3,000-litre tanks.

When you go, you'll get to his destination over east.

They will be attached to the Swarm Series robotic tractor for autonomous spraying.

So they will no longer need drivers.

It can just do its own thing in the paddock.

And they should be able to do it all through an app on their phone.

It's amazing technology.

I'm happy with that.

We're going across the Nullibore again.

This is the critical point.

We get everything right first.

We don't want to be shifting freight on the Nullibore.

That costs money in time.

Yogi's epic trip west to east will take in through

1,200 kilometres of the punishing Nullibore play.

Across South Australia and finally into Victoria, a

journey of almost 3,000 kilometres across the continent.

Alright, let's do it.

Let's get home.

This truck is the 90-pilot model Kenworth T900.

TJ is in it.

Just had a major service done on it there last week.

It looks a bit old and a bit rough, a bit

like me, but underneath all strong and solid.

Yogi recently forked out $55,000 on a new engine for PJ.

Cash he desperately needs to regain through transport jobs.

If it moves, it needs maintenance.

And that costs money.

Now, my number one goal is to have these two machines arrive on farm.

Unscratched, unmarked, undamaged in a macular condition.

Because it's my pride, my reputation.

Everything's on the line about how we deliver.

We hope tonight we'll leave it sun up in the morning.

Who are you barking at?

Oh, my God.

Hello.

You get your time off of her?

Yes, I've got time off, so let's have a go on a Melbourne.

Yogi's 15-year-old daughter, Lucinda, is keen to go trucking with her dad.

If her mum, Amanda, allows it.

So you're going to get back in time for school?

Probably not.

That's OK.

No, that's OK.

That's OK.

There's only limited space in here, one bag, one iPad, one phone.

All right.

Bye, mum.

I'm very excited.

Having gone across Melbourne with Dad for a while, so it should be really good.

And just how much are we going to be able to learn over this trip?

Well, you're looking at the next generation sitting behind me here.

A lot of customers in Western Australia, they're long-term farmers.

They've got succession plans.

So if I can build a relationship with their family, I can build,

you know, Lucy can build a relationship with their children.

If Lucy decided to take it over, it might be the proudest dad in the world, you know?

Something's going on here.

Oh, it's a bridge, a bit shady.

No, we've got a problem, too.

Ooh, shh.

I'm 3.4 metres wide.

There's a lot of money on the trailer.

Will we make it over this bridge?

This will be very, very tight.

If it's been raining out there on the dirt, that's

when you get road closures and/or get bogged.

Forget down there and there's a road close, so we're stuffed.

In Central Australia, Steve Graham is gambling on a

quicker journey using dirt roads through the desert.

But heavy rain could make the route impassable.

We have had some big hold-ups down here.

Sometimes we lose money on the load because we're stuck for days.

We have to recoup that.

We've just turned on to the last in a highway

now, so I get to drive out past the rock, Uluru.

But having a look here, there's the information for me in black and white and green.

The roads are open.

That's where we're going, straight into that man to cloud.

And it looks like it's rain out there.

You know, I can make the biggest plans of the world and the outback.

And this country here will decide what's going on to my boat.

I'll take what it dishes out. That's our back trucker.

There we go, another day starts.

And there it is in front of me, red dust.

This is a thousand K a dirt from here to live it.

Oh, there we go, corrugations, straight up.

I've only got 40 mil between two cars.

I don't want the corrugations to loosen straps

and snap chains and wreck the cars down the back.

You can see people don't want to play it.

Looks like the cloud's gone.

There's a sign that I'm happy to see, greater ahead.

The difference already is the quietness, the rattling's gone.

Graded roads are a wonderful thing.

Good to be able to run the dips at a decent run.

I enjoy this side as a dog.

There's a bit of a ride through the switchback.

It's like men at the Royal Show.

Hey, belt.

It is Miller Camel.

Hey, you got a good nose.

These feral camels, if they get panicked, they're straight out in front of the truck.

And I don't want to be hitting any wild camels, certainly damage them.

And it doesn't do much good for the truck.

Well, you got rid of him.

I'd have to say it's a pretty good day today.

And this will do me for tonight.

We've done probably 600 kilometres on some pretty shabby dirt.

I don't know how I'll go getting a good nice rest in here.

It's a bloody traffic jam. Look at them all.

Tomorrow I've still got a bit under 500k a dirt to get off this road.

We've picked up a big mob of traffic and the

downside is they're all wrecking the road.

So where I've had a really good run today, I'm

expecting to have a big slow down tomorrow.

Here we go.

And the road, which was beautiful, has just gone downhill.

Every day on a dirt repeat is the role of the dice.

The way we're going on this road now, I doubt, we'll get off it tonight.

And that costs money.

You've got to get the gear to the other end without damage.

And you've got to try and get it there on time.

The schedule's blown out the gate. There is no longer a schedule.

There's no longer a reliable time.

It's just dreadful.

I'm 3.4 metres wide.

Will we make it over this bridge?

This will be very, very tight.

Pay attention, son. Pay attention.

Getting there on time is what you want, but a load.

Getting there in one piece is a much more important problem.

Woo!

Right, eh? That was a bit full on, but anyway, we got it done.

Yogi has narrowly avoided expensive damage to the high tank.

High value farming equipment, he's hauling across the vast Australian continent.

Priority, eh, Lucy? We need to just check everything, make sure it's right.

We've got to stop for a minute, eh?

I want to check the tyres.

Yogi's 15-year-old daughter, Lucinda, is riding

shotgun, seeing firsthand how the industry works.

Like, I've learnt so much over time being in the truck with Dad.

I think now's the best time to sort of work out what I want to do in life.

I'd love to go trucking. I mean, at two more years after school.

I think Dad would be very proud if I did take over the business for him.

Ah, all good.

It's a really tough battle to figure out if trucking is financially a good option.

I think it is, but dreams don't work unless you do.

There's a lot of thinking, "I should be home with a kid's soccer,

or we should be home for that Father's Day present which you miss.

You'll miss your wife's birthday, you'll miss it all.

" I've been home for three days, it's Christmas time.

I don't know how much into the year. I've worked a lot in balance.

It's very difficult to get right.

But I've got a very, very, very understanding family.

It's time to go in there and it's time for me to get out of here.

Yeah, I'm getting hungry.

Cooking me dinner?

Yeah, I guess so.

All right.

Well, I'd love for you to be sitting in the passenger seat

and me driving across the Nullaboth and mum piloting us.

Yeah, it'd be the ultimate.

We're about to go on to the 90 miles straight.

146.6 kilometres of straight road.

No turns.

Today is the day of point of no return.

Something goes wrong out here to bring the mechanic out.

500 kilometres of fixed the problem.

It's going to cost me time and days of money.

A couple of big showers have come through last night, a bit of a storm.

The rain is a bit of a problem because the shoulders get a bit wet.

And then we've come into the narrow section of 90 miles straight.

Not a lot of room to move if you've seen other other signs.

They say we got four metres.

All right, you are about to find you a spot.

We don't want to be near any of the edges when it's wet, Eddie.

Today is one of the dearest days if something goes wrong.

The edges are soft.

We don't want to give up.

We are going hot.

I'm going to have to go for another gear in an awful hurry.

We made it.

We asked you to hold it in the seat.

I can tell you I don't want to go through that again.

Because if we stopped on any of those,

well, we're breaking up a road train to get out of it.

And I really don't want to do that.

You don't want anything going wrong here.

We've got about 85 tonne pushing us down, a pretty steep incline.

There's no safety vents in this place.

You're just down straight into a rock face.

So if it gets away on your hair, major chances

are survival are absolutely bugger all.

Foodie is giving his 27-year-old truck a workout on the Great Dividing Range,

desperate to get his life-saving load to

communities on the northernmost tip of Australia.

When it's wet season up here, the trucks just stop.

All the heavy items.

They're too expensive to ship.

We have to get everything there.

Here we are coming in.

I've got to do a bit of work in here. I can slow.

So we've got to drop and pick up trailers and shut up a few things.

Foodie has another hefty 45 tonne cement trailer to hook up, creating a 53.

5 metre long triple road train.

We're just playing musical trailers at the moment.

Well, that's the final part of the puzzle.

We're rolling with 130 tonne.

In now, we're on the limit as far as length goes.

We can't be any heavier.

From here, about 700 cows into Bemiga.

We're coming up on a Hell's Guide, but it's a crazy place.

Ahead, the notorious Hell's Gate Pass.

Foodie needs enough speed to pull 130 tonnes up the steep incline.

But too much, and he risks driving straight through the tight turns at the time.

You're actually going uphill, breaking.

We're going to thunder and we're giving her everything she's got.

We've got 10% grade, reduced speed.

Look at that corner there.

We've just got to judge this corner right.

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Ten days ago, I was doing 60 kilometres now.

I'm struggling to get 20.

You can't go fast.

After laying down almost $200,000 on a new engine install,

Steve is under pressure to pay it off with profitable jobs.

This is just dreadful.

Fingers crossed, I'm not breaking stuff.

But deep, rutted corrugations on the brutal

Great Central Road have slowed him to a crawl.

That means my delivery time goes out, my schedule goes backwards.

And that costs money.

I can't give my customers an estimated time for arrival.

I would be foolish to grab that satellite phone and suggest,

"Look, I'll be there tomorrow. I don't know that.

" This will get there while we get there.

[MUSIC]

I was saying that'll do us for the day, Bill.

In a punishing 11-hour day, Steve has travelled

less than 500 kilometres on severe corrugations.

But the end is in sight.

About 500 metres from here is the bitumen.

And by a year after today, I will be happy to see this stuff.

[MUSIC] I'm flogged.

We're going to knock off, light a fire, cook a feed, and go to bed.

[MUSIC]

This is it, Bill. There's the black stuff.

Bitumen.

[MUSIC] It's alright.

This is the last corrugation.

And then you're going to have an easy run in.

[MUSIC]

I'm on the home run now.

[MUSIC] Shit.

[MUSIC]

I'm just going to pull up here.

[MUSIC]

I've got a flat tire here.

All that way across, all that dirt, and you get on a nice bitumen road

and you get a flat tire within 100 kilometres.

I don't believe that.

[MUSIC]

It's been wet over a kid rolling here.

That edge is very soft.

[MUSIC]

But don't want to get stuck.

It's a very costly recovery.

[MUSIC]

My number one goal is to have these two machines

arrive on farm in Victoria in immaculate condition.

[MUSIC] Look at that.

No more vegetables.

I'll see you later.

[MUSIC]

This run across Australia isn't for the faint-hearted.

If people are going to do this job, they really

need to know what their capabilities are.

You need to know it.

It's not something you think I might give it a go for a week and see what happens.

How long have I got before I'm sitting next to you?

Ten years?

And then still let me drop out now?

No, drop out of school.

[MUSIC]

Right in front of us now is the greatest Australian bike.

So it's a really cool part of the world, and I get to drive past it.

[MUSIC]

We have to be off-road in some set.

We've had a good day.

Loads have been good.

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A fairly heavy sort of storm off 'til the doors on this year.

If we hang around, the rain's going to get heavier.

So my gut feeling is get up and get galloped.

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And we're back to 80 Ks in here.

I hate that, eh?

We've got three caravans travelling.

One, two, three.

Now, whenever I understand why a caravan

would want to be right behind another caravan,

in a clear day with good visibility, it's a pain.

[MUSIC] Jesus.

It's going to make it very, very difficult for me

to get around three of these years all that close.

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It's just a hard day in the office today.

It'd be nice to check the load again.

Ah, we're going to lock in here on the right-hand side.

[MUSIC] Oh, my God.

I've got to punch it.

I'll draw it there.

Oh, there's a massive hole there.

There's something in it, too. You can see it.

Oh, I don't know what to do, eh?

[MUSIC]

The problem is the long way ahead in the east, so a lot of people are away.

If I change it, then I don't have a tyre for the long weekend.

So if I do a tyre tomorrow, it's going to be worse.

Yeah.

So if we disappoint someone now, fix the war in town, we might have half a chance.

If you're cold outside of standard business hours, please leave them in business.

Thank you for calling.

Unfortunately, that's called outside of our normal business.

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We're going to thunder into it. We're giving her everything she's got.

Look at that corner there.

[MUSIC]

They've got a major building program up in Bemburger.

And they've blown up teams of concretes.

We've been engaged to keep the cement powder up to them.

[MUSIC]

They know when we're coming and where we're coming.

So we want to try to hold that schedule.

[MUSIC]

We're back in low range and just barely getting up around the corner there.

So we've got to cross over. I've had a good call there.

Triple road train northbound Hillsgate.

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We're up and over.

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And all of a sudden we run out of the smooth road.

[MUSIC]

I've got a demandable building in the middle of the road here below.

[MUSIC]

Well, it's not every day you've triple over takes

a house, going up the beneath hill, but anyway.

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There we are, Mamago, 324 kilometers to go.

[MUSIC]

Well, my name today is Make the Dam Ferry before it closes down for the day.

To have any chance of making his deadline,

Foodie must cross the Jardin River, almost 300

kilometers away, before the ferry shuts at 5 p.m.

We're also anxious eyes on the fuel gauge here at Parliament.

We've chewed about three corners of our 400 odd liters that we were in the tank.

[MUSIC]

There's no end of my fuel up in, a beer on end.

[MUSIC]

Hidden corrugations all over the place.

[MUSIC]

Very, very severe corrugation.

[MUSIC]

The tankers that hold the gas come apart sometimes could explode.

[MUSIC]

We can't do much more than just waddle our way through them.

[MUSIC]

We're about two cays an hour at the moment.

We're putting our delivery schedule in jeopardy.

This is basically what is locally known as hell.

[MUSIC]

I've got a puncture right there.

If I change it now, then I don't have a tyre for the long weekend.

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

Unfortunately, our cooldown partner now is determined.

[MUSIC]

A dangerous puncture on his truck's drive tyre has Yogi scrambling to get a repair,

or risk changing it, leaving him without a spare.

I have a spare trailer tyre, but I don't have a spare truck tyre.

He still has more than 800 kilometres in front of him,

on his mission to deliver two high-tech crop sprayers.

[MUSIC]

I reckon I change it.

[MUSIC]

Hey, I'll do it properly, I'll span two feet.

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC] We got it done.

An hour and a half, hour that we've been stuck here.

Let's go.

[MUSIC]

Well, I have no spare truck tyres left, so I've taken the risk to get the reward.

If something goes wrong, we will have to wait for a call out.

It's very costly and time-consuming.

[MUSIC]

Yeah, that's trucking.

[MUSIC]

I'm day four, three nights in a swag.

We lost time yesterday.

Today, I just want to get there.

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Right now, we're on proper country roads, county to country Victoria.

[MUSIC]

Most of the roads that don't go to Melbourne, don't give me maintenance on them.

[MUSIC]

It's rough here.

[MUSIC]

Look, you know, this is your dad's peaking or so your captain.

I just want to let you know that we've reached their destination, okay?

I'm about time.

[MUSIC]

What do you want me to do, Bob?

We stand back now, fire up the robots.

I've done everything that I could do to get it to this point.

So we're just going to connect, wrap them onto that

robot, and then call the whole thing off together.

The innovative new crop sprayers Yogi has delivered

are designed to be operated by a robot tractor, already owned by the farm.

But when you spot spraying, because you're

going so slow, everyone hates doing the job.

This guy can just do it around the clock.

Joe?

Two o'clock in the morning when I want to be

sloping, I can keep working, so that's the plan.

Oh, the eagle has landed.

[MUSIC] Job's done.

[MUSIC]

It's another successful mission.

This is one of the best trips I've ever had.

It's been fantastic.

I always liked trucks, but I guess now after this trip

has definitely made my mind up that this is something I do want to do in a motor.

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We pack out, heading for off to the next job.

We do it all again.

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Well, I don't believe that.

I've got to flat tie.

It's only one thing to do, and that's change the best.

[MUSIC]

Fighting to complete a marathon job through Central Australia

and make a profit, Steve has hit another setback.

[MUSIC]

So this is what it is.

Another holdup.

[MUSIC]

And what made you go flat little tyre?

Ah, look at that.

That's what made it go flat, that bloody bolt through it.

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Pick up a lousy bolt on a beautiful bitumen road.

Unreal.

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Oh, it's not a good day and out.

They're trucking really.

[MUSIC]

There's only 700 or 800 boys.

[MUSIC] Could be worse.

[MUSIC] Right.

[MUSIC]

I'll probably pick that bolt up out on the

dirt and it's been working its way in there.

You get on the bitumen, it's a hard surface bang through the tyre.

[MUSIC]

That's another issue now the road.

[MUSIC]

One with a bloody big dozer on.

He's got a lockup going on with wheels or brakes.

[MUSIC]

Thanks for having us to go.

You have a good day when it all gets sorted out.

[MUSIC] Thank you.

[MUSIC]

So we like a bit of respect for Mr. Graham.

We'll do nicely, thank you.

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC] The art starts.

The big city traffic business.

Roundabouts and red lights.

And send me back to the desert and the corrugations.

[MUSIC]

Right, I consider myself home when this gate is open.

No, we've all nearly done and dusted.

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What I'm going to do is get sleepy, come down and give me a handle.

Lift that one off for the fork.

It's always good.

I mean, I get them off.

When we get them off, nothing happens.

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Slick arrived from Alice Springs a day ago.

Now he can assess how well he loaded the cars and equipment for Steve.

That is close.

Nothing was going to move.

I guaranteed in that, but yeah, yeah.

The job's done.

It wasn't without its challenges with the road big the way it was.

It's still a good trip.

There's still a little tiny bit of money in it for me at the end, so.

We'll do another one.

Righto, you're going up the shed for a grease up truck.

We'll tell you up the shed, give you a grease up.

See if you can find anything that's wrong with you.

Good job.

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Corrugation, rapidly getting worse here.

Speedo's not registering on the dial anymore.

This here just really takes a long time to go through.

To do two or three kilometres could take us an hour to get through this boat.

If you imagine if we've got 20 cows or this, you know, do the mats, it's not good.

Upside to get concerned about making the dam very.

In northern Cape York, foodie is running out of time.

Desperate to catch the last ferry to Bamega

or risk losing a day and delaying the arrival of his load of critical supplies.

We've given our customers a commitment that will be in Bamega nearly evening.

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Here we go again.

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I could see the road down there as I go down here.

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If I went faster or tried to do like that guy did

there, I literally wouldn't have a truck anymore.

It would just shake it for Jesus.

Get it a little bit quick though, gas pallets could start bouncing in.

They'll think nothing are busting a two and a half tonne bloody raider strap.

If a gas pallet comes over the side, could it explode?

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We've got a tyre back there, what's happened?

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I better go and have a look at the what's going on back there, I think.

I don't know what that is.

I seem to have all the tyres.

That's the spare tyre off the trailer.

Obviously not designed for these roads.

Check that out.

Cape York Peninsula strikes again, look at that she had a brand new bolt out of there.

But this is typical what corrugations do, they break shit like this.

Grab a little sink in such a fashion to start the long walk back to the trailer.

This is starting to really scare me.

If we got an absolute perfect run from here through, we'd make the ferry easy.

But we've got more corrugations.

This is a very, very unsympathetic road.

Just when you think you might have got there, it'll throw something at you.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm alright, get going.

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Transporting bees.

It's as lethal as a later petrol.

You're too babble with that many bees on board.

They'll sting you to death.

Shit.

Passing double lines around a blind corner.

Condepidised a later bee is real quick.

To run in this much dirt, things can go wrong.

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[BLEEP] And dust.

When your car's there, everything's coming.

Shit.

We might be driving through a fire, I mean, we've got Debbie gas lines back there.

When you get a spark, you get out of a bloody magic catastrophe.

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