They drive the biggest trucks on earth along the toughest roads and loneliest highways in the world. They are Australia’s Outback Truckers, men and women in monster rigs, on marathon runs, through some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet. Out here only one thing matters, getting there and back alive!
In Perth, lone trucking operator Steve Grahame is preparing for an epic journey - a 3000km trek to the top of Western Australia. We get to see a former Model now truckie
Mark King is a heavy haulage specialist that has to haul a monster rig to a coal mine 700 kilometres away. It's too big for the road and there's a mountain range to cross. In the wilds of north Western Australia, veteran truckie Steve Grahame is in the middle of an epic journey, trying to deliver essential supplies to a remote community, but the weather and roads are conspiring against him.
Dougal Brett is one unusual truckie, he flies his own helicopter, owns a cattle station the size of a small country and a fleet of live stock trucks. Heavy haulage driver, Mark King is half way through a marathon job. He’s in charge of getting a monster mining truck from Brisbane to the central Queensland. On a lonely dirt road at the top of North Western Australia, veteran Perth’s truckie, Steve Grahame, is a broken man. 50 kilometres short of his destination. Part of a dirt track has collapsed under the weight of his 100 tonne road train.
In far North Queensland, tanker driver Steve Hughes, is loading up for a supply run to remote clients who need fuel before the wet season cuts them off. At a Perth freight depot tempers are fraying. Husband and wife team, Gordo and Shui, have just finished a two-day non-stop drive but bad weather’s caused them delays. Instead of resting at home, the boss has told them to turn around and do it all again. After driving for two days, Mark and Clare have arrived in Adelaide. But the only cargo they’re worried about is Roy. He needs to get to a vet quickly.
Country boy Anthony and city wife Danyelle, battle bogs and blocked bores to bring water to desperate cattle stations.
Steve Grahame feels the pressure as he heads off the dirt and onto the bitumen and into road closures.
Mark prepares a massive load travelling from South Australia all the way to a tiny island in Micronesia. Plus, Mick transports a curious giraffe through Sydney traffic.
Extreme weather and crumbling infrastructure create tough conditions for Mark in Micronesia. Plus, Sludge travels deep into the Outback for cattle stations in need of diesel fuel.
In the final stages of transporting cargo to Micronesia, Mark faces volatile weather and unstable roads. Plus, Brad contracts to move a road building camp deep in the Outback.
Paul 'Blinky' Cunningham gets the wind put up him as he moves the largest turbines in Australia from the Port of Newcastle to the White Rock Wind Farm.
Arid conditions promise a rough ride for Steve as he travels from Perth into central Australia. Mick has a punishing climb over the Great Dividing Range.
Husband and wife Nick and Jo risk one last supply to a remote settlement as the wet season looms. Meanwhile, Craig and his son deliver hay to drought-hit stations.
Brother and sister team Robbie and Ashleigh hit house removal hell on a mud-bogged mission out of Brisbane. Elsewhere, Nick and Jo battle storms in remote Western Australia.
Yogi prepares for a showdown with transport police in South Australia. Elsewhere, Nick and Jo take on one of their toughest jobs yet on one of Australia's worst roads.
Russell's 30-year-old truck feels the strain on a run from Alice Springs to central Queensland. Meanwhile, Sludge wrestles flooded roads to deliver fuel to farmers.
Yogi risks a showdown with the law as he heads into South Australia. Elsewhere, long distance legend Steve Grahame is under pressure with a truck out of action, and a run to a place he has never been to.
Yogi prepares for a showdown with transport police in South Australia. Elsewhere, Nick and Jo take on one of their toughest jobs yet on one of Australia's worst roads.
Steve Grahame navigates flooded highways and washouts in a marathon 6000 km drive to the Top End where a monsoon has swept away roads and created an inland sea. Later, a Perth heavy haulage crew moves a huge pedestrian bridge.
Steve battles flooded highways when his truck breaks down, leaving him stranded. Later, tensions flare when trainee trucker Danyelle gets a driving lesson from her husband as her family's water drilling rig heads for cattle country.
Tasmanian logging contractors the Bennett Brothers tackle forest tracks to move a huge tree winch. Elsewhere, a leaky fridge halts Woody's urgent frozen food delivery.
Nick and Jo mount a delicate rescue operation to recover a 70-year-old World War 2 bomber from its outback grave. Elsewhere, a delayed flight to an outback town threatens to leave a mobile heart clinic without a doctor.
Russell Crusher runs into trouble taking his new metal muncher to clean up an eyesore at Uluru.
Torrential rain plays havoc with Robbie Mackay's efforts to relocate a home to the Gold Coast without wrecking it. Meanwhile, Graham faces storms and grass fires moving a section of railway 5,000 kilometres in just five days.
Cyclonic weather threatens to stop tanker driver Mick King delivering hazardous chemicals to a desert mine site. Meanwhile, Tasmanian trucker Lindsay transports 80,000 angry bees to a rainforest.
Outback Trucking legend Sludge is on a working holiday in New Zealand, navigating treacherous mountain roads, shocking weather and time critical freight. In the Northern Territory the wet season's about to break and veteran road train trucker Mark Pett is hauling 78 tonnes of cement and steel straight into a disaster zone.
Twenty-year veteran trucker Yogi is on a mercy mission, leading a hay convoy to the drought-ravaged farmers of New South Wales.
Livestock trucker Troy Coombe is facing wild weather and wild passengers, transporting two ostriches to their new home.
Bureaucracy threatens to derail Yogi's mercy mission to drought-ravaged farmers.
History threatens to repeat itself as Steve Grahame and convoy partner Sy Howells battle the roads and the weather to reach a remote community before the wet season leaves them stranded.
Fourth generation loggers the Bennet Brothers, Adrian and Neil battle an inferno that's destroying hectares of Tasmania's bush-land, threatening their business and lives.
Tasmanian trucker, Ricky Sutcliffe, lays his life on the line driving into a inferno, rescuing bull dozer drivers trapped as they cut firebreaks in the blazing Huon Valley.
Truck drivers Ash Bryant and Darryl Armfield are on a time critical job shifting 200 cattle over 500 kilometres of bush roads - but have they driven straight into trouble?
In North Queensland heavy haulage truckers, Brian Andersson and Athol Martin, are going nowhere. Fog has forced their massive 7 vehicle convoy, transporting two oversized 7 metre wide mining dumpsters to a stand still costing them precious time.
Long distance heavy haulage truckers Brian Andersson and Athol Martin are smack in the middle of a marathon trek cross country. The seven-metres' wide convoy takes up the whole road which makes passing in other vehicles a high-risk manoeuvre.
In Western Australia, Scott Conohan is heading to a drought ravaged town that's fast running out of water. With 500 locals desperate for water, the remote community is struggling to survive. In Central Queensland, house mover, Shane Burgess has been grounded by his police escort.
Steve Grahame's been trucking for 46 years, but he's travelling into a new world as a viral pandemic sweeps across the globe. He's about to set out on a journey that will test him like no other. In 4 days time, Western Australian authorities will close the regional borders and Steve's rushing to get ahead of the restrictions.
In COVID-19 times, Steve Grahame needs to cross a hard state border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory and tackle newly created bio security zones. Sludge is also dealing with the new world affected by the virus and low fuel prices means he's busier than ever, carting fuel to farms in the wheatbelt and to the coastal town of Kalbarri.
Steve Grahame is facing a journey filled with dread as a pandemic is stalking the country. The roads are usually busy but since lockdown the highway is empty apart from the police road blocks that have sprung up to enforce regional border controls.
In the wilds of Australia's Northern Territory, 24-year-old trucker Boe Vella crosses croc-infested rivers to deliver desperately needed goods before the wet season hits. 600 kilometres to the South East the Marranji Water Drillers, Anthony and Danyelle Haigh are preparing to enter one of the loneliest places on earth and search for water from deep underground.
In Perth, the refrigerator unit on Woody Bryant's truck is threatening his last supply run of the year, to Punmu, a remote outback community that's under threat of being cut off by the annual wet season. The fix will take time he doesn't have. The Water Drillers, Danyelle and Anthony Haigh are in the middle of one of the toughest jobs they've ever undertaken.
Deep in the wilderness of the Australian Outback, the Water Drillers, Anthony and Danyelle Haigh, are heading further into the unknown. They're also a man down with their second driver and driller quitting on them, and the trip so far has run dry. They have one last bore site to hit the jackpot. Fail and it's an expensive effort, all for nothing.
Steve Grahame and dog Bella are in a race across the red deserts of Australia's centre from Alice Springs to Perth on one last job before returning home. Harvest time is in full swing with farmers desperate for diesel. For fuel trucker Sludge, this should be the busiest time of year but an urgent repair needed on one of his fuel tankers has cut his ability to earn money in half.
Almost 700 kilometres from Alice Springs, legendary truck driver Steve Grahame is seriously bogged with a $135,000 load of classic trucks and cars bound for auction. Veteran long haul driver Mick King known as Kingy and his mate Mick Burnett are about to take an 18-metre long road train where no truck this size should ever go, deep into Australia's Great Sandy Desert.
In the remote Northern Territory, Boe Vella's not just racing the clock, he's navigating roads and challenges, he's never faced before. Mick King's on a mission to rescue two old army trucks to help out a mate in need and house mover, Robbie Mackay confronts his toughest trip ever, taking a 100 year old house - off road.
Deep in the Australian wilderness, the Water Driller family, husband and wife team, Anthony and Danyelle are on one of their toughest jobs ever, Mallunpunyah cattle station owners are in desperate need of their water finding expertise and have been hit by an unusually long dry season.
With a truckload of valuable horses and a tight deadline to hit Mick Sekulich and Sue Cordell get lost in the Simpson desert, Graham Cockerell leads a mercy hay convoy for drought-stricken farmers when catastrophe strikes and transporting a Mack truck across the Pilbara, Heather Jones heads into a cyclone and highway hell.
Car wrecker's Mike Elliott and Michael Bozza are pushing their trucks beyond their limits to reach the remote Gnaraloo station and strike a deal on wrecked cars, but a broken airline hose may mean they wont reach their destination. Jim Walters and his load of heavy equipment are lost 1500 kilometres from home and swapping his fuel tankers for a horse float.
House movers, Mackay and Sons, are racing to get going on one of their most complex missions ever, the 100 year old house that has to be cut in four and transported on four trucks to a narrow hilltop destination. Adding to their pressure - a midnight deadline.
When the going gets tough, sometimes the tough stuff up! The break downs, nightmares and bad decisions in the longest, heaviest trucks in the world.