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This time on Outback Truckers,

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that way the Cummins rage can turn this shit.

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But we can't turn back now.

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It's saying it was coming to town.

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Now I've got to get across this ferry.

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Let's go on in.

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We've got nothing in our breaks to hold us

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on to you.

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If we don't have money coming in the next

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two days, it would look a bit better than Arsenal.

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I've got something going on back there.

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Kind of see smoke.

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What are they doing at this time?

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Shit.

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Good to see New Zealand's night different times.

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The Egyptian sparsely.

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Now I've scammed a warrior.

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Shit, he's in tunnel.

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[bleep]

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They don't give you my room, do they? - See.

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It's the first bit of a hurdle here.

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We've got to get up over Hell's Gate.

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Hunter may be doing his art as we can

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at the moment.

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Well, it just goes dark, constantly trying to hear a bit.

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There we are, we didn didn't want of there.

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We're going to get traction on this hill.

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We're in the world of pain.

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The world of the North Queensland.

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Everything going pretty right for us and went into

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the lowest gear but I think we're just a bit heavy.

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Jim Fuddy has come to a shuddering halt on his mission to be the last road train

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into his hometown, Bamagar, in time for Christmas.

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We were pulling a triple up to Bamagar, about 130 tons.

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We've got a two heavy isoteters,

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cement powder.

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We've got a hell of a man of freight,

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small staff chucked into the mix as well.

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You've got people trying to send Christmas presents up

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to families and things up there.

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Foodie has already traveled 288 kilometers from cans towards

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towards his destination, Famigur, but has met his match

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on the notorious Hell's Gate Pass.

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Right now every break I've got is lost on

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the keep it on the hill.

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There's a part of what our problem is,

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the bitch was bleeding here.

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What's happening?

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We can't get traction in that.

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And the stones all pressed in it.

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What we'll do is leave this trail behind and

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see if we can get going with those two.

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But we may have, we may have difficulty even with that.

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I'm going to attempt.

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They've got.

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Get them out of the forehead of steam up here.

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We've got about 130 tonnes.

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We're dropping about 40 hot tonnes.

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So we might just be able to get going. [music playing]

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What we're going to do now is take this

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route to somewhere up here where I can get

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off the road with it.

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Well, we made the trailer on the hill back

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there, I'd be on the sun.

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Get on like leaving the trailers parked.

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the trailer is parked in the middle of a little busy road, so we've got to scurry back

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out here and get the bloody things.

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Right, we're in the lower right at the moment.

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Right, this is all going to happen pretty quick and we'll get back to get that trailer.

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There we go.

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Right out.

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Pull forward a little bit more forward.

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Yeah, we're gonna get back to get out of the truck.

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We're back in one piece.

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Yeah, it's been a fun of games.

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Well, if this goes for seeing the crime,

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we reckon it was shot in that quarry there.

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I want to go back to the Henry as a former.

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It's taking nice and steady up here.

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(wind blowing)

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We're leading the scene of the crime.

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All we've got to do now is turn around

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with one of that doll and we're going.

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(wind blowing) There we go, we've got a lot. We're back for a triple. I was turning around with one of that doll and we're going.

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There we go, a little walk.

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We're back for a triple.

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We're on our first bit of dirt.

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We've got water in the table, grains, but the

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surface is dry at nothing.

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So there's been a bit of rain but very

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minimal on the look of it.

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We've just got a hope that they don't get

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major rains that flood.

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Heading north, loaded with freight and Christmas presents,

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brings added risk for this outback Santa.

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We're starting to see a little bit of build

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up in the distance there so you know we

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did tough in it rain here and you can't

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travel You can't move, that's all over.

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You know, if you stuck up here,

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get a little bit of water, we'll go at all.

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I definitely didn't want to show you this.

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We just run into a shower rain here and

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we've got some big jump ups.

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We've got a couple of steep little eat climbs

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to get up and it's all dirty.

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And we're just going to have to try and absolutely

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So what are we allowed to time wise before break?

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Oh, so the same, it sounds good.

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Oh, well, I think we're ready to go.

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We pull,

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Sludge Andrews has come back to the land of

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his birth New Zealand to do a job for

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his mate Ricky Rogers There we go, been trying

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to be drawn here with a swamp There's no

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scale or less of not happy This is a

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bit flashed this thing So this is a king

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where this I are limited edition 50th anniversary.

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It's less than a year old.

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Yeah, it's new.

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A lot of years that's all driven a new truck now.

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This is dear, $1million worth of trucks.

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So I don't want to scratch it or I

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don't want to break it.

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I'm just here to help rip it out and

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do a good job.

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When the f*** is the blinkers?

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Oh f***ing out.

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Today we're running a structure for a new building

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in New England.

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So this is about 40 tonne of steel beams.

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From Ricky's yard In Christchurch, sludge will head north for 342 kilometres

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through the South Island's narrow winding and mountainous

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So I can't miss a ferry.

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If you miss a ferry, you're in deep shit.

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We're just coming on to years now since my accident.

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Finance wise,

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it's been a big hit on Apple.

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A motorcycle accident near his home in Western Australia

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left sludge with life threatening injuries.

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I've broke my legs.

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I've probably bleeds on the brain.

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This accident's changed my perspective a lot.

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Before starting his trucking job in New Zealand,

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sludge took the opportunity to read the book.

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to reconnect with his roots.

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This was a family business that started and built

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it all here.

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We used to fly down the helicopter,

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come down with Dad and he had a helicopter

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on top of the office plot.

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We've since sold it on and the company still

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runs at his Andrews transport to this day.

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A lot of memories come back, a lot of

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good memories, a lot of sad memories.

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That was one of the trucks that killed him.

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I was about 13 and 14.

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I suppose it doesn't over.

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I followed the truck line.

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So just because he was killed with a truck

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didn't make me stop.

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And I suppose I got the truck patient from that.

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Things are a bit quiet at home at the moment.

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Ricky P .O.

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and Malik's has rang me and asked me if

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I wanted to come over.

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He's just got heaps of stuff on.

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So this was quite a good opportunity to get

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over here and see the kids.

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I've got two kids, Brody's 32-3 and Jamie's

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30-odd and they've both got kids now.

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I thought I'd lived forever but I had a

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big scare and I don't want the kids growing

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up without me like I did without my father.

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My body's good now.

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I still walk with a walking stick sometimes but

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my brain still got a long way to go.

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[bleep] [bleep] Good to see these islands no different time.

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The Egyptians passing you with cars coming towards you

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and avoiding to slide down somebody where they got spashed.

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We're just coming into the uncy ranges now.

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He had right.

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You had run off the hill here real easy.

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I've just got to be super careful and it

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slows you down too but I can't afford to

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not get to the ferry because that'll put it

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a day behind.

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There we go.

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That was hard work.

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Shit's a gentleman.

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This is interesting.

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(BEEP)

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They don't give you my groom, do they?

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(BEEP)

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(BEEP)

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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(BEEP)

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You want to grab a reset saw and a grinder and start shaving all the sides?

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I'll meet you out there.

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Yeah, easy.

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We're in Boringar at the moment, dead standard in the gas tank.

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We've got called out to do about 100 cars

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from Buringar here out of the tip from people's houses.

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Car recycler, Mike Elliott and his 17 year old

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son Vinny are on another mission to salvage wrecked

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cars from a remote community.

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We've paid for all these cars and we've taken

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all of our motors and diffs and gearboxes and

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stuff everything that's good for us and then the

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community gets paid twice on the cars because the

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metal recyclers come through.

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through. In previous years the mental recyclers wouldn't come to communities like this because

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the cars are all spread out all over the community in different places. We go and pick them

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all up, we bring them into one spot and then when we stack them up they're ready for recycling.

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We just trim it all so it all fits within the trailer. Before this we were just bloody

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renting trailers but in December we were going to board

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out a double set and we got it at 80 grand then we probably put another 10 into both trailers

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not cheap.

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Not cheap.

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So almost about 100grand down in a hole.

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We're trying to make that money back with BooneGar.

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So we're doing so much blood either.

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Volume.

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We've got our own road train set up now.

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We're pretty happy about.

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Cost us a hell of a lot though.

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So we're straight back out to work.

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I've sort of planned that we'll have money coming

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in the next two days.

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If we don't then I'm going to look like

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a bit of an ass when I ring up

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everyone and tell them, "Yeah, your money's going to

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be like, you know,

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I'll height that crap.

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[WHISTLE BLOWS] [GROANS]

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This is the fun part where you actually get

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to watch the car completely split in half.

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(music playing)

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115 car done. Let's go.

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Load it up.

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(whistling)

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(whistling)

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That's it.

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All right, let's walk along.

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(music playing)

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We'll just play with it again.

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Downcover creek, through dairy creek.

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Oh, I'm tired.

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Thousand corners of dirt and then four hundred corners of the bitchman to get back to Perk.

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So cash.

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To cash in their car parts, the father's son

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crew must haul their load up to East Lyon's

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river before heading south through the heart of the

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gas-goyne and merchants and districts.

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Then they hit the bitumen for the final push to Perth.

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How bloody good does that rock look? Look out.

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The white furthest name is Mount Augustus.

264
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But the average of people call it Borgara.

265
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Australia's largest rock.

266
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drive for like half an hour and still not be anywhere in the end of it.

267
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We've seen a few puddles around today, sort of know if the road's closed or not.

268
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We've got a drop of cyclone that's been brewing.

269
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There's been electrical storms at night.

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You just don't know what you're in for, you know, that it closed, but lying to the front of you, you don't know it.

271
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You can get stuck somewhere until you're three days at the top.

272
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What do you reckon with that?

273
00:16:07,019 --> 00:16:09,340
Dip logs hit a couple of creeper gears and

274
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try and walk up it.

275
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Yeah.

276
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All right, if we get stuck, we're breaking them down.

277
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Yeah.

278
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You might pull it in late.

279
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You're asking your throat because you know that if

280
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you start where you make a mistake you can

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be expensive and it can be torn into My heart hums, look, fighting them on neck every time we do a jump up like this.

282
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They don't have any help.

283
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Got a new drag down. (dramatic music)

284
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We've made it.

285
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I thought we'd lose traction there somewhere but just

286
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at the last critical moment the road brought a

287
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little bit there.

288
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Foudy is racing the impending tropical wet season desperate

289
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to be the last road train before Christmas into

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Bamagra before an oncoming cyclone turns the roads into

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impassable boggy streams.

292
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This is a very mixed way. We've got two isotaters to make. We've got a tip-dee tonnex,

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tomatoes, food, heat. We've got cool rooms. We've got Christmas presents. We've got

294
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lights. The Santa Claus looks like Jim Furdier. Some of these animals are going to get up

295
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in time for Christmas. We've made the bitumen now. We've got 40 guys with a bit of an inner talent.

296
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And that's where I'm going to hold him.

297
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And that's it, so let me...

298
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It's time for a bit.

299
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I'm tired, bugger, I've been awake since Christ that went.

300
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A couple of the kids have been made,

301
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and I'll be best sleep and tablet, if ever say.

302
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I couldn't have a shower, I was not. The rain was too bloody cold to get out and have a shower in them.

303
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So yeah, I could do with a tub and a bath and a bit of a clean up.

304
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A main goal here at the moment is to try and get to the ferry.

305
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They'll shut the ferry down at 5 o'clock.

306
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We've got 400 kays to get to the ferry and 11 hours to do it.

307
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And that seems like an easy, easy thing to do but believe me,

308
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it ain't going to be bloody easy.

309
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We're going to have to work ourself today to try and get there at that time.

310
00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,160
We've had a bit over 50millimetres of rain last night.

311
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Brades, a bit dodgy this morning.

312
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Hello, we got in.

313
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Yeah?

314
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Yeah, my name is Sam.

315
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We got this light.

316
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Yeah, I'm going the wrong way out of it.

317
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Yeah.

318
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,798
Yeah, I'm going to try and get out before that rain depression kicks in.

319
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So that'll be moving, scattered, and happy couple of days.

320
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I know you think that's about what I'm getting there.

321
00:19:41,598 --> 00:19:44,598
So, we'll see how we go.

322
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We didn't really want to hear that.

323
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If it's surprised I'm going to eat.

324
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This is going to make life pretty bloody interesting.

325
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If he's right,

326
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The side of a tropical depression when he's coming

327
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in is exactly this sort of builder.

328
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Tropical depression is the first formation of cyclones.

329
00:20:06,259 --> 00:20:07,318
Tom's a heavy rain.

330
00:20:08,578 --> 00:20:10,538
It would take very much to Travis at all

331
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like this road.

332
00:20:12,519 --> 00:20:13,680
We can't turn back now.

333
00:20:14,038 --> 00:20:15,440
He's a mammogram or bus this one.

334
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:26,500
Right now we're coming into the Jardin.

335
00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:31,000
Jardy road works job by Gulf Civil.

336
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,000
Somewhere up here they want these pipes.

337
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000
Yeah you've got the Gulf Civil, got these pipes everywhere,

338
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000
where you want them up there to keep.

339
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:46,000
Yeah right, thanks mate.

340
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We're in the bus number road train.

341
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000
The load is just arrived. If you get up there and get those pipes.

342
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I've decided these lower ones just to get up there.

343
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000
gonna just come dance there.

344
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000
They call, let's see what happens.

345
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000
If I'm rupturing with me in bits,

346
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000
I'm gonna be very disappointed.

347
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000
No problem.

348
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:17,098
Hey, I'm on him.

349
00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:29,880
Now one's going to fly out.

350
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,519
You're going to go up that ladder just wrongly,

351
00:21:34,519 --> 00:21:40,778
mate. Thanks, we got it.

352
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:47,240
Pretty thankful, as always, just got him off quick for me.

353
00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:49,680
Now I'm going to get across this ferry.

354
00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:55,798
Nice way for the ferry's 42.5 and we're 42.5.

355
00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:00,460
It's going to sink in a bit.

356
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,200
The ferry will be grounded and I've got to

357
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,278
run forwards, aim the brakes, come back.

358
00:22:07,740 --> 00:22:10,640
It's a risky high precision maneuver.

359
00:22:11,180 --> 00:22:14,420
Foodie needs enough speed that the truck's momentum pushes

360
00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:17,500
the ferry off the bank when he jams on the brakes.

361
00:22:18,180 --> 00:22:19,558
They've locked trucks off the end of it.

362
00:22:20,460 --> 00:22:21,940
The truck ends up out in the middle of

363
00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:24,118
the Jardé River and I really wouldn't like that.

364
00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:28,980
What's going on here?

365
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,240
Boy, we got nothing in that race.

366
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:34,358
This is the [bleep] Holders on here.

367
00:22:37,078 --> 00:22:41,980
Come on there to go.

368
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,538
When I make it up this hill, wouldn't it

369
00:22:48,538 --> 00:22:50,500
force to break road train down.

370
00:22:50,778 --> 00:22:52,078
Holy shit!

371
00:22:52,598 --> 00:22:54,240
How long are there to go?

372
00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:58,000
We're good.

373
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I've been caught on some really big ones before.

374
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,000
To break the rig down and ditch the trailers and run them up one at a time.

375
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000
We lose half a day there on that hill.

376
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:15,000
Mike Elliott and his 17-year-old son Vinny are holding a heavy load of car parts,

377
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salvaged from a remote community over 1000 kilometres from their destination.

378
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,598
Perth. We've got pretty good.

379
00:23:22,598 --> 00:23:28,960
We've done about 50-560 km/h. I'm just glad they're on the road when you spend two weeks jumping

380
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,078
in 40 plus comes a nightmare.

381
00:23:33,740 --> 00:23:35,200
Maybe a lot of people are still going to

382
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,538
complain when things get hard.

383
00:23:37,660 --> 00:23:38,098
Why dad?

384
00:23:38,798 --> 00:23:39,400
Why dad?

385
00:23:39,660 --> 00:23:41,140
It's worse than the teachers.

386
00:23:42,058 --> 00:23:42,500
Oh.

387
00:23:43,098 --> 00:23:43,598
Why dad?

388
00:23:44,460 --> 00:23:46,858
Doesn't care if it's 44 degrees.

389
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,118
Like 200 flies in my eyeballs.

390
00:23:50,558 --> 00:23:52,318
He'll still tell me what I'm doing wrong.

391
00:23:54,420 --> 00:23:55,640
He nailed it.

392
00:23:56,220 --> 00:23:56,500
Yeah, he nailed it.

393
00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:58,000
Yeah, you know that.

394
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,118
This time of the evening, just around dusk,

395
00:24:05,118 --> 00:24:08,078
we're gonna look out for animals on the boat.

396
00:24:08,078 --> 00:24:10,400
Now here we got a little skippy.

397
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,920
You gotta be careful with these buggers,

398
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,838
because they'll jump beside the truck,

399
00:24:13,838 --> 00:24:16,798
but 20 metres and they'll jump straight into the truck.

400
00:24:16,798 --> 00:24:18,400
They're just bloody stupid.

401
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,400
So we got another kangaroo, just up here.

402
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,640
Oh, f*** off. straight into the truck, they're just bloody stupid. So we got another kangaroo, you just stop here. [bleep]

403
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:23,640
Oh, God.

404
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,640
[bleep]

405
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,500
[engine rumbling]

406
00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:29,000
(engine rumbling)

407
00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:32,680
Just pulled up, dairy creak station.

408
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,598
We're looking at spending the night here.

409
00:24:34,598 --> 00:24:37,278
(engine rumbling)

410
00:24:37,278 --> 00:24:38,960
Too loving.

411
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:39,798
Good day.

412
00:24:39,798 --> 00:24:42,798
(engine rumbling)

413
00:24:42,798 --> 00:24:45,798
(engine rumbling)

414
00:24:45,798 --> 00:24:47,798
(indistinct)

415
00:24:47,798 --> 00:24:50,298
(engine rumbling)

416
00:24:50,298 --> 00:24:59,400
(engine rumbling) (engine rumbling) I'm off the square.

417
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,400
I'll be starting.

418
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,400
I'll be starting.

419
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,400
I'll be starting.

420
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,400
I'll be starting.

421
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:05,400
I'll be starting.

422
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:06,400
I'll be starting.

423
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:07,400
I'll be starting.

424
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:08,400
I'll be starting.

425
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:09,400
I'll be starting.

426
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,400
I'll be starting.

427
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,400
I'll be starting.

428
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,400
I'll be starting.

429
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,400
I'll be starting.

430
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,400
I'll be starting.

431
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,400
I'll be starting.

432
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,400
I'll be starting.

433
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:17,400
I'll be starting.

434
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:18,400
I'll be starting.

435
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,400
I'll be starting.

436
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,400
I'll be starting.

437
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,000
I'll be starting. I'll be starting. I'll be starting. I're getting it. We're getting it.

438
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000
[MUSIC PLAYING]

439
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000
-Parmie and pull tonight.

440
00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:30,000
Oh, you're speaking my language.

441
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,000
We're just pulling in the model now, which is the end of the gravel.

442
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000
So, uh, the bitcher went all the way to Perth now.

443
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,000
We'll be punching on about another hundred kilometres before we pull up for the knife

444
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000
from it a pool in Parmesan.

445
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000
The reason Vinny is with me is because it is really struggling in school.

446
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000
There is more of a hands on a kid today.

447
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000
It is spare time and it will be building cars and it will be building engines.

448
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:58,880
That's the case.

449
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,180
Treat it like a trade's ownership.

450
00:26:01,538 --> 00:26:03,980
The next three to four years he's gonna have

451
00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:06,940
to deal with license and see license, truck license.

452
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,960
And then this kid comes up with some of

453
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,019
the most ingenious inventions sometimes.

454
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,920
Well I can't wait to see what he comes up with.

455
00:26:14,338 --> 00:26:19,500
Just pull into me and you.

456
00:26:20,098 --> 00:26:21,740
Just as well as stock for the night.

457
00:26:22,740 --> 00:26:23,798
When and when, apart me, did it?

458
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,000
Oh, I've ruined it.

459
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,118
All right, good go.

460
00:26:37,098 --> 00:26:42,798
So last bloody day of the trip,

461
00:26:43,298 --> 00:26:44,759
I don't really want much to go wrong on

462
00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:45,298
the last day.

463
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:46,798
You know, it's like you're that close.

464
00:26:47,180 --> 00:26:49,420
So, you know, hopefully it's all smoother than Danny.

465
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,720
What the hell?

466
00:26:54,038 --> 00:26:56,858
Brights just come out.

467
00:26:57,519 --> 00:26:59,500
Oh, what's that?

468
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,500
What's going on there?

469
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,000
What is going on there?

470
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:04,500
Let's go.

471
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:05,500
Let's work it out.

472
00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:17,500
They don't give you my cream, do they?

473
00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:18,500
Jeez.

474
00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:24,500
Jesus.

475
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,700
to the North Island of New Zealand without putting

476
00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:33,220
a scratch on the half a million dollar truck,

477
00:27:33,338 --> 00:27:34,700
it's been given to drive.

478
00:27:35,259 --> 00:27:37,019
These tunnels are really narrow.

479
00:27:37,220 --> 00:27:40,618
Probably only got a couple foot out inside of your lucky.

480
00:27:41,338 --> 00:27:45,660
But the view, you come around that corner and

481
00:27:45,660 --> 00:27:46,940
it's just so picturesque,

482
00:27:47,358 --> 00:27:48,759
it's bloody holy shit.

483
00:27:49,180 --> 00:27:50,318
Makes me appreciate life.

484
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,000
After almost dying in a motorbike crash,

485
00:27:55,598 --> 00:28:00,858
Sludge is using this opportunity in New Zealand to work and reconnect with family.

486
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,940
This is probably the stuff that I need to do more.

487
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,700
And I'm still making money.

488
00:28:07,338 --> 00:28:09,720
You don't realise life's short until you've had something

489
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,858
that big accident like I've had.

490
00:28:12,380 --> 00:28:15,200
Now I actually realise how short life could have been.

491
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,380
And my kids could have grown up without a father too.

492
00:28:19,558 --> 00:28:21,000
Like I grew up without a father.

493
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,259
So, you know, I'm lucky I got to approve

494
00:28:23,259 --> 00:28:24,180
to have another go.

495
00:28:28,538 --> 00:28:31,818
We're just coming into Picton now.

496
00:28:32,220 --> 00:28:35,420
Where we climb on the ferry to get a well into.

497
00:28:36,180 --> 00:28:41,740
He's narrowed.

498
00:28:42,078 --> 00:28:44,578
Just keep it an eye to see if it's worth anything.

499
00:28:48,420 --> 00:28:50,640
Well, there we go.

500
00:28:50,858 --> 00:28:51,759
We made the theory.

501
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,640
That was a bit nerve-wracking.

502
00:28:55,019 --> 00:29:00,500
to be on the ship for two or three years.

503
00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:02,500
But my buddy, Rokins, stay out.

504
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:04,500
It just helped me with my balance

505
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:06,500
and keeps me from tripping over stuff.

506
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,500
They're just dropping the door down on the ferry.

507
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:22,500
It will be on their line.

508
00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:26,500
The 12-hour journey of the land and sea has pushed

509
00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:28,000
sludge to his limit.

510
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:34,500
He needs to find the nearest truck stop before taking on the next 605 kilometers to Auckland.

511
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:38,380
We've packed up for the night, we're in the back of the Celtics, so we've already

512
00:29:38,380 --> 00:29:41,500
got some miles in the markers, we've got to get out there and get unloaded.

513
00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:53,098
We're on the North Island now, heading up to Jury, which is where we've got

514
00:29:53,098 --> 00:29:54,098
unloaded the steel.

515
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:04,500
Here we go, we've got road closed signs.

516
00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:10,500
So this is the digital world I'm going to take you through the National Park.

517
00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:13,500
It must be doing road work or something up here.

518
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:15,500
But Jesus is the group.

519
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:20,500
I've never been through here and they say it's quite hilly and windy and a bit slower.

520
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:24,500
So, and now I say I want to add this here, just that's a pain in the earth. It's quite hilly and windy and a bit slower so and an hour so on to our schedules.

521
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:26,500
That's a pain in the earth.

522
00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:28,640
We've got to get through the Auckland and get unloaded.

523
00:30:29,078 --> 00:30:31,220
There is no record trying to be the on-time.

524
00:30:32,519 --> 00:30:38,598
Holy shit!

525
00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:41,660
We're at 100 zone and they just slap brakes

526
00:30:41,660 --> 00:30:43,118
on right in front of us.

527
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:50,160
What the hell?

528
00:30:51,278 --> 00:30:52,640
Brakes just come on.

529
00:30:52,858 --> 00:30:56,920
Oh, what the f***?

530
00:30:59,578 --> 00:31:00,900
I can hear the aeroscapings.

531
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,140
We're just at all the air drop in the trailers.

532
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,720
Basically, once this airline detaches,

533
00:31:07,598 --> 00:31:09,338
all the brakes will come on in the trailers.

534
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,660
Clamps just giving up just on the inside.

535
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,420
And that's why I can't get a tight seal on there.

536
00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:16,358
That's all right.

537
00:31:16,538 --> 00:31:17,519
We carry heaps of spares.

538
00:31:17,528 --> 00:31:21,078
are detached hose has brought mic and Vinny to

539
00:31:21,078 --> 00:31:24,940
a screeching heart truck and trailer breaks use compressed

540
00:31:24,940 --> 00:31:30,500
air but if the system loses all pressure a spring is released as a file safe

541
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:33,500
that automatically engages the brakes.

542
00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,500
- Leave it done. - All good.

543
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:38,500
All good.

544
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:44,500
Back on the road for an uneventful day.

545
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:46,500
Straight into the perfect, no dramas.

546
00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:54,618
It's quite hard. of this corner weight.

547
00:31:54,618 --> 00:31:58,000
Try to keep steady on this narrow winding bouncy road.

548
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,500
Downcy road, you can't see what's coming up around the corner.

549
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:05,500
If you're hammering down a hill of 90 and just around the corner,

550
00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:07,500
there's a tractor or something like that.

551
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:09,500
But there's got to be issues, I guarantee.

552
00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:15,500
All right, we've got something going on back there.

553
00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:17,500
I could see smoke.

554
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:19,500
That doesn't look good.

555
00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:22,500
It's such a tight narrow road, I'm nowhere to pull over.

556
00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:27,700
Hey, there goes the tar.

557
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,500
[MUSIC PLAYING]

558
00:32:34,980 --> 00:32:38,298
Holy shit, we're at 100 zone, and they just

559
00:32:38,298 --> 00:32:39,980
slept with brakes on front of us.

560
00:32:44,660 --> 00:32:45,980
There we go.

561
00:32:45,980 --> 00:32:48,338
Let's see how it's done.

562
00:32:48,338 --> 00:32:51,578
Sludge is closing in on his first delivery drop off

563
00:32:51,578 --> 00:32:52,500
in New Zealand.

564
00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:55,500
In a brand new truck he can't afford to damage,

565
00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:58,000
but erratic drivers have made the job more.

566
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,078
It's the, yeah, some of months and it's full

567
00:33:02,078 --> 00:33:02,720
of tourists,

568
00:33:03,558 --> 00:33:05,278
they've no idea how to drive.

569
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:06,900
They've just got to be careful.

570
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:14,900
We got past it.

571
00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:17,078
We're in nearly a year.

572
00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:18,298
We're doing alright.

573
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,200
We're an everyone where I thought it would be. be.

574
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,680
Wheel in here and unload.

575
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,000
So that is the, this is the

576
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,098
that's the top frame.

577
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,318
So it goes over the top with the crane

578
00:33:31,318 --> 00:33:33,098
and all the chains hang in there and go

579
00:33:33,098 --> 00:33:35,519
on to these bolsters which they shove and under

580
00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:37,880
the trailer and then they link all that together.

581
00:33:38,380 --> 00:33:40,778
It'll be interesting to see because we don't do

582
00:33:40,778 --> 00:33:41,380
this at home.

583
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,680
The only thing I don't like about this deal

584
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:45,798
is scratching the trailer.

585
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,038
They're gonna pick the 22 turn up in one lift.

586
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:04,500
That's the job done. We're just getting out in the gate.

587
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:18,500
I'm just going to head down to Rodeo and find a motel, have a night and sleep, and then see

588
00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:18,599
where we'll going next.

589
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,099
See that second one,

590
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,039
though? That top five's one's a bit of a jiggle.

591
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:34,960
See how it's sort of sticking out of it.

592
00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:37,559
After some much-needed rest,

593
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,018
Sludge has made his way to Talpo,

594
00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:43,480
ready to return to New Zealand South Island with

595
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,039
some farm machinery and timber poles.

596
00:34:46,579 --> 00:34:47,900
That's good, huh,

597
00:34:48,018 --> 00:34:49,199
yeah? That's it?

598
00:34:49,518 --> 00:34:49,760
Beautiful.

599
00:34:51,139 --> 00:34:53,860
It's fully loaded now.

600
00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:56,340
Well, it's an hour there's an hour down the Wellington.

601
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,900
(car engine rumbling)

602
00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:05,900
♪ We're going to my landlord ♪

603
00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:08,539
♪ We're going to this guy ♪

604
00:35:08,539 --> 00:35:12,539
♪ Where the clouds meet the earth ♪

605
00:35:12,539 --> 00:35:15,980
(car engine rumbling)

606
00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:19,219
Light tell by how beautiful is that?

607
00:35:19,219 --> 00:35:22,500
So I'm thinking, since't something a bit tired?

608
00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:25,500
I might pull out here and have a brush bath.

609
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:27,500
Everyone says like, "Tell Po."

610
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:33,719
There we go.

611
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:38,260
Time for a

612
00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:54,920
hot water.

613
00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:58,000
I reckon something might already pull a shit.

614
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,659
It's actually really refreshing.

615
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,440
It's two years since the accident.

616
00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:10,780
I pretty much thought that this injury was the

617
00:36:10,780 --> 00:36:11,179
end of it.

618
00:36:12,219 --> 00:36:13,500
But I'm actually here,

619
00:36:14,099 --> 00:36:14,840
and I'm doing it.

620
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,199
I'm not there yet, but I can see light

621
00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:19,059
at the end of the tunnel.

622
00:36:20,159 --> 00:36:22,000
I'm looking forward to the future.

623
00:36:49,780 --> 00:36:49,940
Oh,

624
00:36:49,980 --> 00:36:52,440
wow. Holy shit.

625
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:53,719
Whoa.

626
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,018
That is a brand new tour.

627
00:36:56,199 --> 00:36:58,000
How the hell does that happen to a brand new tour?

628
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,139
This is just opened up and de-laminated means

629
00:37:02,139 --> 00:37:04,039
it's taken all the tread pattern off.

630
00:37:04,518 --> 00:37:06,400
It's opened itself straight up to the wire belts.

631
00:37:07,018 --> 00:37:11,940
We're down to our last spare urgently needed cash

632
00:37:11,940 --> 00:37:14,280
to pay off loans for their new trailers.

633
00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:18,380
Mike and Vinny are having to earn it the hard way.

634
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:19,539
One for the truck,

635
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:20,820
one for your dad.

636
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:21,320
Let's go.

637
00:37:21,579 --> 00:37:23,659
I know we save this every time but an

638
00:37:23,659 --> 00:37:24,579
air jacket would be nice.

639
00:37:25,820 --> 00:37:28,139
That'll do, that was a half pump.

640
00:37:28,539 --> 00:37:28,860
Let's go.

641
00:37:32,119 --> 00:37:34,760
It's on.

642
00:37:35,860 --> 00:37:36,159
OK.

643
00:37:36,820 --> 00:37:38,219
Leave me as good as it gets.

644
00:37:41,179 --> 00:37:43,579
400 bucks for a brand new tie to go

645
00:37:43,579 --> 00:37:46,119
like that is absolute bullshit, but hey, it's all good.

646
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,000
No more drummers.

647
00:37:50,619 --> 00:37:52,699
All fixed, ready to roll.

648
00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:58,000
I hope for this last hurdle for the day.

649
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:08,039
We're back in civilization.

650
00:38:09,260 --> 00:38:12,760
Back in the 16, 17 days of the ride.

651
00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:15,420
Yeah, we made it.

652
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,380
I don't know how to get home, but I

653
00:38:17,380 --> 00:38:17,900
tell you what.

654
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,260
If anyone really loves this type,

655
00:38:21,559 --> 00:38:25,260
we chopped up 116 cars in 10 days and

656
00:38:25,260 --> 00:38:30,380
At that point, I think I realised I'm not a young man anymore.

657
00:38:30,380 --> 00:38:32,179
I'm going to go home and get a good night's sleep

658
00:38:32,179 --> 00:38:34,619
and hopefully be completely reset by tomorrow.

659
00:38:34,619 --> 00:38:37,820
Together, like absolute soldiers, we just smashed it out

660
00:38:37,820 --> 00:38:39,619
and got it over and done with the night.

661
00:38:39,619 --> 00:38:41,018
Yo, good on ya.

662
00:38:41,018 --> 00:38:43,018
Don't look, man. You were bloody hard to shoot.

663
00:38:43,018 --> 00:38:44,260
Cheers, man. I felt like that.

664
00:38:44,260 --> 00:38:45,739
I know. Let's get up to the end.

665
00:38:45,739 --> 00:38:47,699
Yeah, we'll come back in the morning with this.

666
00:38:47,699 --> 00:38:48,699
Let's go.

667
00:38:57,500 --> 00:38:57,599
Let's go. [MUSIC]

668
00:38:58,119 --> 00:38:59,079
Well, we've got nothing to do.

669
00:38:59,219 --> 00:39:00,659
No brakes, it's a fucking homeless or anything.

670
00:39:04,139 --> 00:39:07,860
We've made it.

671
00:39:08,179 --> 00:39:09,659
It's not yet another bullet.

672
00:39:10,699 --> 00:39:12,500
But there is something's here, originally wrong.

673
00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:15,840
The brakes here at the moment on this trail or anyway.

674
00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:23,260
Because of the very grounds, I need a really

675
00:39:23,260 --> 00:39:26,500
good working the slam on it and help the

676
00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:27,599
ferry get off the bottom.

677
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,920
but in this case here I, you know,

678
00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:31,179
sleep in the brake on it and I still

679
00:39:31,179 --> 00:39:33,719
roll forward a little bit at the end of

680
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,199
the ferry's right there so yeah I don't want

681
00:39:36,199 --> 00:39:38,480
to be doing that too much but that's all

682
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,219
right I got the heavy one across that was

683
00:39:41,219 --> 00:39:44,699
a lot easier after that when I've got all

684
00:39:44,699 --> 00:39:46,599
this road train put together I've got an excellent

685
00:39:46,599 --> 00:39:49,559
brakes because there's two of those trailers brakes are

686
00:39:49,559 --> 00:39:50,159
all brand new

687
00:39:51,179 --> 00:39:55,840
After narrowly avoiding sinking into the crocodile infested Jardine

688
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,579
River, foodie is varying all three of his trailers across the water

689
00:40:00,579 --> 00:40:05,018
desperate to be the last road train into Bannagar before Christmas.

690
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,500
That's pretty typical of this place up here.

691
00:40:08,420 --> 00:40:09,079
Expect the

692
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,000
We're on our way into town.

693
00:40:32,659 --> 00:40:35,460
The rate of f***ing get stopped us now.

694
00:40:35,940 --> 00:40:39,760
The contractors and concreters will get their jobs done.

695
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,360
All freight will just be taken off the trucks

696
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,340
left in our yards for people to come and

697
00:40:44,340 --> 00:40:46,039
collect Christmas presents included.

698
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,340
See it of course has come into town,

699
00:40:48,420 --> 00:40:49,059
isn't that the song?

700
00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:52,340
Christmas in Bat my guy.

701
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,300
The roughest looking s*** seal of the day that

702
00:40:57,300 --> 00:40:57,780
went into it.

703
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,500
And he's not that bad.

704
00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:05,500
This is the township of Bamagar.

705
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:08,500
We've got customers waiting.

706
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:12,500
The job doesn't end in Bamagar for this sweaty centre.

707
00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:16,500
While some of the freight and the Christmas presents will be collected from his yard,

708
00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:21,500
the cement powder and the shipping container need to be delivered to his clients.

709
00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:24,500
Where this container's got to go is just an old bit of lace.

710
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:28,860
It's on a high little beaky ridge and you've got to get up underneath.

711
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,559
It's hard to turn around once they get up

712
00:41:30,559 --> 00:41:32,860
there so I've got to reverse up the whole bloody thing.

713
00:41:33,739 --> 00:41:34,239
But yeah,

714
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,840
it's got to get everything down.

715
00:41:38,340 --> 00:41:38,980
Right?

716
00:41:42,639 --> 00:41:46,039
Cheers.

717
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,699
Putting them up by the wire, I think.

718
00:41:50,420 --> 00:41:57,579
It's on the gray on my don't take away anywhere.

719
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:58,000
Look at that.

720
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,500
We'll get out of your way.

721
00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:00,500
I'll be doing.

722
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:06,500
Finally, we've got all trailers unloaded.

723
00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:09,500
We're going to start shuffling things around

724
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:11,500
organising our trip out tomorrow.

725
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:14,500
Now we've got freight to go back down as well.

726
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:16,500
So there's a bad way to come.

727
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:19,500
The greatest worry, and it is a serious one,

728
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,500
is I can't have any trucks left up here.

729
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:23,500
I've got no way to win, I don't think I'm going to leave it.

730
00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:26,500
I don't think it's being trucks either.

731
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:29,199
I'm just getting a bit of a weather update at the moment.

732
00:42:29,199 --> 00:42:33,480
This is a seven day prediction of likely cyclones'

733
00:42:33,599 --> 00:42:34,838
rain depressions around us.

734
00:42:35,378 --> 00:42:36,918
That's what we're concerned about.

735
00:42:37,219 --> 00:42:40,278
That's tropical cyclone, forming at midnight tonight.

736
00:42:41,298 --> 00:42:45,119
The ferry closes at five o'clock.

737
00:42:45,338 --> 00:42:46,798
We're not going to be ready to catch the

738
00:42:46,798 --> 00:42:47,699
ferry this afternoon.

739
00:42:49,358 --> 00:42:51,699
We've left at's what I like.

740
00:42:52,059 --> 00:43:03,699
Now we're gonna get Down this mountain, oh God, look at the clouds coming in over there.

741
00:43:03,699 --> 00:43:05,699
That is rain coming.

742
00:43:05,699 --> 00:43:07,699
If we trap that, it's all flared ball, mate.

743
00:43:12,699 --> 00:43:13,699
We're up against the wall.

744
00:43:13,699 --> 00:43:16,699
We've got no options left. We have to get out.

745
00:43:16,699 --> 00:43:19,699
The creeks are flooded. There's no bridges.

746
00:43:19,699 --> 00:43:19,798
We need to have our dollars in the right place.

747
00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:31,699
[MUSIC PLAYING]

748
00:43:34,699 --> 00:43:37,699
Around the corner, we've got the first bridge sludge coming up.

749
00:43:37,699 --> 00:43:38,699
Got that first bridge.

750
00:43:38,699 --> 00:43:41,699
Oh, it's going to shut it first to go across.

751
00:43:41,699 --> 00:43:43,699
All right, bridge is clear.

752
00:43:43,699 --> 00:43:45,699
All right.

753
00:43:45,699 --> 00:43:58,699
[MUSIC]