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This time on outback truckers

We'll all the belt and so jammed up inside the background. Yeah, they're almost done

The big bulldozer's house top heavy if I go to the edge as gas in You did it!

No, no,

no. I hate my trailers dropping at the bounce.

Here we are back at the Duncan Road.

I know well across our fingers it's not going to rain.

Oh my god, there's rain drops on what we do.

Try to be that rain but the lightning keeps

start to fire in front of me.

This is not good.

I'll go forward, you go forward and more.

Go ahead, lift him down,

train up it.

We're going to take this house up to Macau.

We're carrying two pieces of house up there in

the convoy and it was just cut it half,

it was too big.

House Haller Jack Macau has a monster mission ahead of him.

This shift is a little bit different because we're

running two nights in a row.

They won't let us travel the whole way in one hit.

Running straight up the highway.

From Naringberg,

Jack will lead a two-track convoy north past

Guimpi on its recently completed bypass before stopping to

rest at Marmor.

They will then continue to their destination at Makai

using the notorious Bruce Highway.

As soon as you're north of Guimpi, Bruce turns

to single lanes and it's got a real bad

rep for truck crashes.

We'll back it in line in both of them.

I'm going to need to line them both up here.

I run the boys here, so I've got a

couple of crews running.

Got a bit of pressure with the name,

everyone knows us now.

As the team leader,

Jack carries the weight of responsibility representing the company

and supervising the staff.

Jack's my manager,

he's my boss.

We're having the ****.

Jack's pretty challenging sometimes, but he's very smart and

very knowledgeable with his job.

Rocky Driver Andrew Tatno is in just his second year at Macchiun Suns.

Andrew's been going right lately so

the big one from this one's probably the

furthest you've ever been for load.

We don't often do two-nighters

of only done a couple of autumn-old bean here

so we can see how he goes.

It's a bit more bracing,

it's a tad over, it's a lot to the signs

and then that's pretty much it for it.

I just put around check all the tyres,

made sure everything's all strapped down, tied down so

the house doesn't fall off that trailer so we

can get it from point A to point B safely.

And

traffic, we have to be off the road by

6am for permits.

We've got two police in the one pallet out

front, this is what we're going to have on

coming trucks and cars coming up now was yeah

good mate if I get Steve don't either block

it down to the lights please at lead pilot

was out front we use him a lot so

it's always nice to have someone you can trust

I spot it I stop it if I can

now our bridges broken down vehicles kangaroos cows pull

off the road and I'm me to ask them

to make this over there please.

Thank you.

So they're going alongside now.

down the wrong side now.

Oh yeah.

Coming out of here, always get a wrong side

just into this intersection.

Kind of the big signs on the other sides.

Yeah mate, just a tour of my things for that.

Maybe those steels are going to need to be under.

I started driving tracks when I was 19.

My dad's got a contracting company so I started with him.

When I first started driving we were driving no

18 speeds and then we eventually swapped everything out

to these all those which is great.

MacIan Suns used Mac Superliners with specially tuned motors

running 730 horsepower paired with specialist lift trailers.

This trailer we've got now is one of our

new ones so it's got a lot of radios.

So I can tell how high I am.

What angles are wheels around?

The change is all the flyers are drived so

don't have to be checking when asking a pilot any information.

Costing an eye-watering $1.2million,

Jack's computerised trailer is one of the company's largest investments.

That's pretty expensive but you definitely need to make

sure you go to work coming in.

The Gimpy-Vibars would just be being built for last five years whatever it was open

now so it would be nice to see how much time it saves us.

We're just going a little bit of road work.

We're just going to play the morning so there should be pretty good hopefully.

Now we'll just wait here a minute.

They're gonna lead us through.

- You've shifted over these walls in that man?

- Yeah, just a fresh mat next to the problem.

- You'll try if he keeps the right,

he should be able to miss that mat, wouldn't he?

- That's all fresh.

- Oh, the whole lot's fresh.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Bloody hell.

- Yeah, Jack, it's all new asphalt.

- The whole lot's soft.

- Oh, shit.

- Apparently, this to the police.

All time delays cost us money.

This is what kills us.

We run out of time, and it's our permits.

This bypass was supposed to save us time,

but that road's close.

There we go.

It's pretty easy to get sick of greasing.

It's not a sabbat move, if you don't force

yourself to keep going.

Because of this hold up with the crane,

I'm losing today the people that I'm contracted to next week.

I have to be on time for them.

And if I'm not, I then have to hire

someone to step in and take my place.

And then it starts to cost me money.

Legendary Aussie trucker Steve Graham has come to an

expensive standstill in the isolated tropical far north of Western Australia.

This job is part of a serious setup to

keep some communities going through the wet season.

What it is is an oversized fuel tank that's

going into a little community called Ringers Soca at

the back of Halls Creek.

Steve is working as part of a team using

an 80-ton crane to install three fuel tanks

in three tiny communities, but there's been a frustrating delay.

Cranes hydraulic tank has been split in it.

They get a bracelet in the

They're going to race it into Halls Creek,

get it well and go back.

Steve has already traveled over 2 ,700 kilometres from

Perth to the Tanemi track turn-off.

His tank needs to be delivered to ring a

soak on the Duncan Road, but he can't unload

until the crane is repaired.

So that will have me sitting here for a

couple of days.

Everything's gonna be loaded with credit if you don't grease it.

It's metal on metal and it'll tear itself to

pieces pretty quick.

That's how a 30-year -old truck stays on

the road and keeps doing its job,

probably. This engine cost me $64 ,000 and then

I spent another $110 ,000 on the installation and

new wiring, new filters,

you know, so much.

After stumping up more than $150 ,000 of his

and cash on upgrading his age in Kenworth,

Steve can't afford downtime.

A lot of it's about money.

Calling subcontractors and friends and making new plans to

cover the jobs that I can't do because I'm

sitting here waiting.

This tank's got to get there and set these

people up for a wet season.

Once the wet comes in properly, they're isolated.

The last 15minutes it's cooled right down and

dropped 10 degrees.

that means there's rain around and lots of it.

You get thunderstorms somewhere on that Duncan road.

The rivers are up.

The black soil's gone to a quagmua.

They've got long-lasting bit of memories of black soil.

That pin got bent and the chain was gouged

into that pin.

It'll be 13 years ago.

On a mission to get into Colambaru in the

far north,

Steve got stuck fast in the infamous saw.

I had two graders in the front end loader

on the front, pull me through.

And guess what I'm looking at out there?

Rain in the sky and black soil.

You wonder, some days I don't sleep at night.

Her name is Vivian.

She's I am.

2019 model C589 Kenworth. She's a 140 ton rated triple road train,

Alback's spec. She's at home, which is on the dirt.

In one of the dustiest, mudiest and most remote locations on earth,

our bag trucker Hibbo insists on a clean machine.

I've heard other drivers probably pick up a clean machine. I'll have a driver's probably think of a bit insane.

It's been known to...

It gets somewhere 2 o'clock in the morning.

It's raining.

You know what, truck's dirty?

I'm going to wash my truck.

I know it'll be 15minutes and it'll be

dirty again, but as long as I'm clean and

I'll leave,

I'm happy.

I think that time when the life has come,

we're just on the hangout of the boots and

just take a step back after 30 years of

long distance driving seven days a week this is

my last run

I'll miss the truck,

I'll miss the job.

Yeah, a bit of motion, bit exciting.

So I'm looking forward to this one.

I've got two fully loaded flat tops,

four trailers in total here.

One stacked up.

A lot of equipment to keep an eye on,

make sure the chain stayed tight.

I always run my ties according to the obviously

Obviously what I've got on I'll go a bit

high load so just for bitters to ability I'll

pump up to 70 Anyone can come on stuff

on that road The central Arden road It should

be called a go track 700 cases that he's

doing so he's pretty extreme Starting in Nulland boy

in Australia's far north Hibbo is in a race

against time to complete the brutal 728 kilometer journey

to Catherine Before the oncoming tropical wet season devastates the dirt roads stopping truck access for months

The wet season

Storms are built up really quick

As soon as the wet season hits that's it

You always got to watch the ride here. Just constant challenges.

To start we've got 700 Ks to do.

It is very isolated.

You break down, you're on your own.

Easy, s**t, bro.

(distant screaming)

First gear,

just get across these damn corrugations.

Frank can move,

chain brake or,

you know, strap brakes.

Heading my trailers, rocking a bounce.

Just insane tail batter at the moment.

With a high load,

you can try to quite easily.

(Music)

That road's closed, so we've just got to let it is very frustrating.

They're doing task-eating work, so they've got the sh*t everywhere.

They're ricking half an hour.

If it's half an hour, it's all up to them up there.

40 minutes, 50 minutes.

It's a cost money in time.

It's just unneeded.

On a strict night-time driving schedule their 7-metre wide mega loads, Jack and Andrew

Andrew was staring down the barrel of an expensive delay.

We have to be off the road by 6am

for our permits.

We saved the shitload of time missing Gimdi and

now we're just losing it all.

Thank you.

Thank you,

Shit.

I had just been there and I've a little bit of this enough road worker's here that can

sort it out themselves.

[music]

There is it to be a mile before 6 o'clock.

The convoy now has less than five hours to make the remaining 424 kilometres to their

scheduled rest stop at Marmore.

Now we're back into the single lanes.

Now we're through the bypass.

We're gonna have oncoming trucks and cars now.

Single lane road.

We're taking up both lanes.

If you don't give us any road,

we'll get pretty dangerous.

Hopefully, that one's just like...

Coming out here. Check.

This guy's in the guard rails.

He's in a bit of a shit spout.

I just left out a little bit higher,

And then I'll be out of get whatever.

Thanks, man.

So really, I want to tell you this is a f***ing wanker.

A pocket of the God row, but it's going to work.

We're on there.

Can't check the boat breaking Japan.

[engine rumbling]

- Please, Bridges, or a bit of shit.

It's down there.

So make sure you don't put the corner of

your house on the measure goes through Andrew is

pretty fresh on the shifting so that's a bit

of a tease from this one.

It's only 10 to 2 so it was still pretty good.

So it would only be a drive that should

be more than 4.6 to 12.

There needs to be a pilot car.

I think we've done a flight to make this

is where I am now.

Got that, right on the gun?

[BEEP] Zag.

All the felt is all jammed up inside the brake drum.

We run out of time.

Five hour and now we're supposed to be on

the right now.

Not good.

Just watch your eyes,

man.

There's obviously bushfires been started.

There's a lot of smoke in the air this

morning but then there's buildup clouds forecast for the

days of worst for the

The train needed to finish the job.

This is him.

All right.

Right, I make no worries.

Well, I might just wait here at the Lamboo

camp for you then.

Well, that's really good news.

The boys got out to Bill Looner yesterday afternoon

with a welder in the oil and stuff and

started the repairs.

They got the crane fixed last night and they

left early this morning.

I reckon we're going to get unloaded today.

It's now a race against the oncoming monsoonle weather

to get in and out of the infamous Duncan

Road before the storms come.

Just like that, we need to hand in your

rain out there.

Those big wheels will tear at least.

Right, it looks like we're ready to go.

We're best get moving.

We're in the road.

The rain last night seems to be coming from

over in the direction that we've got to go to.

I certainly don't want rain on that road because

it's terrible anyway.

Everyone wants to just get out to ringers,

get this take off and get going.

We're just about to go on the dirt now.

Here we are back on the Duncan Road.

I know well of the olden times,

rough as guts.

I can see all this country has been burnt out, so we've got plenty of dust and smoke,

but I'd rather have dust and smoke to deal with than a big thunderstorm pouring rain down on all this.

By jitters the river is already flowing, and it's up a little bit, which means there's definitely been rain out here.

This is like black soil through here.

It's clay.

This can be very, very slimy.

Forget, well,

after a day ends up costing that much money,

using other people to do the jobs that you've

looked at,

just... We just cut across our fingers and it's

not going to rain.

That's all I could do.

Oh my god, there's rain drops on what we know.

Wouldn't it slip right?

At around 40 times

40 tonnes,

black soil, black meat.

These deem corrugations, freight can move,

chain break or, you know, strap breaks.

This is where I'll, um, go into my first checks.

If anything is going to come a little bit

loose, these corrugations.

Now, fortunately when you've got loads like this up

You just got to get up here and check it.

We don't carry letters any of this on.

But it's all pretty good.

Hibbo is fighting his way down the rut

and cut up central arm and highway.

Desperate to get his loadout before monsoonal storms hit.

It's a challenge he's taken on hundreds of times over the last two years.

This is probably the most special run of all

because it will be more last run.

I'll definitely miss it.

The part where I don't enjoy much is there's

no train service.

If my daughter is going to get in contact

with me, that's the thing that I can't.

I've got to be in daughter's there 26.

But you see those girls grow up unfortunately.

I don't even see them obviously when I went home.

They're like 24 hours if that's sometimes very proud of the

girls but probably never get back what you would

have been standing on the, you know, at least

I can get that on my green sun now.

I've only seen it once and here we won

the year old next month so I won't actually

do that kind of thing but here's our first birthday.

Here on the central London road this is the

only jump up

Even though it's a bit of an all-we-foot flat to the floor using every bit of torque that I've got.

Some sections of the road have such steep inclines known as jump-ups that have been bituminized.

But with a rig 53.5 metres long and weighing nearly 100 tonnes,

Hibo needs every ounce of his skill to get over. Got three of that trailers on.

Just something so small can bring you unstuck so you can get over it.

if you just miss one good times You pretty

much screw you know bring it to a complete

stop It breaks out working you should roll back

Skiers of shit every, very sick.

We're up.

There's a massive sense of, um, just relief excitement.

You know, you've conquered it again.

Vivi always give her a pat.

You know, well done,

Gil. She's done a good job again.

I've never failed yet, so I must've done something

I must be doing something right out here.

No, no,

no. My number one hate on this road.

Rock.

Ten case.

Nothing but rock.

You know, big, bolder rock sticking out of the

surface up to that height.

So that's where we're running the trouble because the

rocks damage ties like really sidewalls.

There's like pretty side walls.

The bridge will actually be brittle.

I get the hub off all the way from the toes.

It's called itself up inside the drum.

They should have been done ages ago.

Time is ticking away for Jack and Andrew.

If they don't reach their first stop by an

mandatory dawn deadline,

they'll fall behind schedule,

biting into their company's costs and reputation.

Yeah, they're almost done

sit in there not moving.

We've got toilets all the place everyone's preparing.

It's a very rare hour, so not cheap.

It's both two tyres, but it's all the belt

and shit's all jammed up inside the brake drum.

How much is still in there?

Is it going to be a lot on fire?

I'll lift it off the ground, won't I? Really?

OK, I's watch it lock it up.

Yeah, we can get going.

We'll just lift it up for the night.

Watch the trailer be a bit bouncy, but just

have to watch our trailer,

mate. But really watch it.

There'll be bouncy hours.

Does anything come and off?

Nothing come of that.

Just keep it on that left wheel, make sure

it doesn't start smoking.

So we're not going to be there to after seven.

These cops are pretty good.

There's conditions on the permit but they are looking

like they're going to be okay.

We're here.

Time to have a rest mate.

I get a fuel whenever the I'm at 28

and then back here at 9.30.

We've got about four hours to go.

Let's go this slow start coming in to Rocky.

Yeah, coming in to Rocky now.

- Traffic lights and shit.

- Donate room, so I don't know what it was.

- Get it down together or are you gonna do it?

- Yeah, I'll jump the curb.

- I'm gonna try not to be that kind of thing.

- But if you only just call that truck for me.

- I'll be on my...

- I'm gonna go check.

- He just says, "I'm going to get out of my way."

- I'm gonna get that word in the door. - Just call the state that'll curb this one either. You just say that place again or

It's caught a state that over here is on either

We just been incorrect on an out-of -round

track of what?

Just to the gutter.

OK.

40minutes to what I'm down.

We're about to come into the single lines.

From here to we're turning off the highway, a lot of traffic.

We've got two police in the one pilot out front.

And I'm not leaving.

Can't come in through.

Are you not stopping?

Push, shit.

Hard and stop.

Watch out for the car.

Bye bye.

You're so good.

Oh my god, there's rain drops on the window.

Ooh, and it's slippery.

Already behind schedule on their mission to install a

vital fuel tank,

Rain is threatening to stop Steve.

And the massive 80 ton crane he needs to

unload in their tracks.

We just don't want to get involved.

over a rise to see that big machine stop

in the middle of the road.

That would completely destroy my day.

Those clouds seem to have moved away a bit, thank goodness.

They're little showers.

You go through it and now we're back on

the dry again which is good.

Oh shit,

there's a cannon coming in towards me.

We don't want to hit those bastards.

We're winners, so we just dumb a shit.

They're running,

probably. See what I mean?

It's dumb a shit.

They get excited.

They want to be dealing with bloody half dead

cows, and I don't want to damage my truck.

Well, he didn't hit them, that's good.

We should be getting up towards the ringer so turn off shortly.

I get a really good sense of jobs satisfaction out of getting these tanks in

and on the ground before the wet makes a lot of other people's lives a lot more comfortable

and smoother during the wet season.

Well, here we are, invited.

fingers crossed I can get a smooth unload now

that means I can get out get past this

rain before it sets in properly and get back

on the bit you move there's the community over

there hello kids it looks like the local school

population was out to welcome the new fuel tank in.

Could I order a ring or a cyclop?

Thank you for a lovely, lovely welcome.

During what season it's very hard because we get

blocked off for about three to four months.

Now we've got a big tank that would provide

the whole community with enough fuel to power up

each health and restore the clinic, the schools.

Where is the say that off the track?

Without power,

it would be very hard for the people out here.

I'll move forward out of the way, Finish packing up which will take me five minutes and I'm going

The boys know what they're doing

Brilliant team and there it is on the ground and it's millimetre perfect

This chance of rain out of this looking at this guy I've got to beat this rain so I'm going

Thanks for the bitch Thanks, mate. Right, sir. Thanks, mate. Right, sir. Thanks, mate.

Right, sir.

Thanks, mate.

Right, sir.

Thanks, mate.

Right, sir.

Thanks, mate.

[Music]

Shit.

These fire is only in front of us.

Try to be the rain with the lightning keeps starting fires in front of me.

I've just got to get past this fire into the bedroom as soon as I can.

[Music]

I've made it.

I've still got 100k to go.

I certainly do get jobs at this

faction when you can play the job

like this.

All three tanks delivered

and in place

was whatever world

at the meeting we got

at that ring as it's after

all the kids lined up to welcome us

and their new team.

Well, we made a belt.

See, another job done.

Bitch, it's just up here.

The trip's completed as far as I'm concerned.

We've knocked it off.

Oh shit, I'm a stalker.

What do you have there,

car?

[music playing]

Can I get past them?

[music playing]

- Yeah, that car is right there. - Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

- Yeah, that car is right there.

see over here in the knock on the door in the morning.

Yeah, my bad man, the stolen day, I just

like to the lady that had been back door with open

stage, it's almost definitely.

That'll be why the one's stopping.

We'll go get him now.

We're about to turn off the highway, which

is going to be good.

Camping beach we're going to. Bit of a zig-zag through here. good.

Camping beach we're going to,

a bit of a six eggs through here.

[music]

I'm Andrew, your balmy.

Can you say it water about me?

Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm fine.

[music]

It's got a couple of half-hours, it just execs through them.

Let's take it off a little bit more.

[music]

And just keep it on these valves.

Does that riff any damn?

Am I wrong?

just

watched

in

those

wires,

I

should

be

right

now.

They

Andrew

just

became

of

these

wires

on

the

side

here.

They're

(beep)

- Not

covered.

I'm holding it, hold on.

Come back a bit and come to your right of it.

You're on that pale wolf.

Anybody going to call any numbers there?

Like at first I don't know, share the walk.

What am I going to hit that wolf or not?

If you take that line, you'll hit that pole.

Yeah, 100million ways to Westown.

Left down, 50.

Probably got the speaking audio right, Andy.

Hey, keep going, I don't have any.

I'm going to get a buddy.

Back in through it first, put him down the bottom corner.

He hurries the f*** up.

He's looking for the long shot, right, buddy.

Finally, mate.

Got him, he keep it coming.

Think it in awesome easy.

Here I get it going.

We can hold it down to the roof.

It's gone.

Shot down, start again in the morning.

Just crank everything up.

Now we get the last bit of bracing off

and then slurp it together.

So 10minutes and it looks like asking.

Very exciting. The seat all come to fruition. Finally, here on our block.

We're very happy. That's done an amazing job.

We're going to get it. It's coming together.

It's got a beautiful roundabout at the front. There's massive deck out the back to take in.

There's a beautiful scenery.

Really, and a metre and a half to go.

Cool, is that amazing?

pretty happy it seems like.

It's taking access all the way in.

We have a house.

We do have a house.

A few more holes to dig. We'll get some concrete in them tomorrow.

And we'll be pretty much done.

If you're at loads top-heavy drop in quite easily with the trailer, sharp

Sharp rock-style piece,

side walls and toys.

On hippos, last run along the infamous central arm

of highway,

the brutal road is throwing every obstacle it has

in his way.

This whole road, you go to the end of

all the time.

When you get up top of your car,

see the rocks, then I'll'll move out.

Oh, good,

yeah. That's all there is on me.

That's storm phase I mean.

Out here, storms have built up really quick.

Like this is the arm build up near the wet season.

The risk of that is obviously river crossing start

to fill up.

Once they start filling up, they just change this

whole road so quick.

That wind is picking up, like that's a potential

storm filled up there.

Well, I'm stuck up here.

I'll just sleep for a finite day of work's best.

I'm going to keep singling the studio fuck there.

Did it rain

the big border solves that else there fill up

the water So it can be pretty deep I'm talking about

fully that deep Does that top heavy?

I'm gonna go dead center If I go to

the edge the camera is causing Don't choose to

be over On this section there's a really big border hole.

Smack dead center in the road.

There's just one in roads.

It's only 220km to shoot all the way, but that's 220km.

It's still taking me weight but it's right, that's 220 Ks, it's still taking me pretty around the R13, 12 to 13 hours.

And that's purely because it's right.

Our road is getting so corrugated now.

It takes its toll.

But you've all just had enough.

Definitely trying to arm the boots.

I know I'm going to miss it.

No doubt about it.

The first six months will be the hardest.

I'll believe you want to come back and do it.

But definitely look forward to one spin so I'm

going to fail me.

But obviously I'm going to keep moving.

There's corrugations, so I just can't make up to either.

We finally back on the bitumen.

Back in Catherine.

Pretty big trip this one.

That road's getting worse and worse so I think

the trail time is up around there.

Well, it worked out, it's 39.5 L.

It's been my last trip at all.

Couldn't be happier.

I'm not getting any younger, you know, the body doesn't recuperate like it used to.

Well, Viv, Spenner, you're a good relationship we've had.

It's time for a hip-hop to part ways.

How will we help?

She's never let me down.

See the big tower?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

The lead is going to go wrong.

The ball goes wrong.

Whoa!

Whoa!

That was close, that one.

You think they're going to know

what's going to come straight back at you again?

This is the day they've only been waiting for it to get to the object.

I don't know what's happening out here to pull up.

Yeah, it's a bit, but it's just before we

get into the object.

It's got a lot of time for scratch,

yeah. Got a no damage, but it's every day.

That's right.

We're gonna start the sinking here.

Yeah, we're going to

now sinking into the garden bit.

You'll tip the crane over.