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00:00This time on Outback Truckers.
00:0339 degrees outside.
00:05Can't imagine what it's like in here.
00:07I've got boob sweats.
00:11Heading to a Monday Monday where we're going to install a couple of boards.
00:15It's Sandy.
00:17You've never made it.
00:18Yes I am. Stop saying that.
00:22We have very limited time.
00:24Fretches on.
00:25If the wheels ain't turning, we ain't earning.
00:30Wait!
00:36What's going on there?
00:38We've got oil pressure warning lights.
00:41Big rain's coming pretty quickly and there are people evacuating from the community.
00:48Stop! Stop!
00:49We're f***ing now.
00:50All right, one more chop before this rain comes, Vinny.
01:02Oh, yo.
01:03L98, eh?
01:04Six litre.
01:05Lovely.
01:06Let's chop it.
01:07Car recyclers, Mike Elliott, and his 17-year-old son, Vinny, are working fast, extracting cash from an Outback relic.
01:17The only thing that's worth any money is the engine, transmission, the rest of the car is absolutely rooted.
01:25That engine, that gearbox will be used in another car.
01:29We only take the good components and then the rest of it is for metal recycling.
01:33We've been out here for 10 days.
01:37It's been bloody hard.
01:39The pair have done a deal with the citizens of the tiny town of Billaluna in far north-western Australia to buy and recycle their car wrecks.
01:50We buy all their scrap cars and we clean everything up, so it's a win-win for everyone, to be honest.
01:55That's 120 cars now on here.
01:58Or engines, gearboxes, diffs, that sort of stuff.
02:02Definitely doubled our money.
02:03We outlaid 40 grand and what it's looking like is there's about 80 grand's worth of stock on board.
02:08Perfect.
02:09That's it.
02:10We're going to strap up.
02:11We're going to get out of the Tannemar Desert and we're heading straight back to Perth, 3,000 kilometres.
02:16To get paid, the father-son team must haul their fully loaded rig almost 200 kilometres along the notorious Tannemar Dirt Road to the highway near Halls Creek, then travel over 2,500 kilometres to Perth.
02:34We've kind of left it a little bit too late in the year.
02:36They're forecasting 300 mil for this weekend.
02:39You know, 300 mils of rain means that this whole area will probably be about a foot high in water and that means no trucks are going to move.
02:46No trailer's going to move.
02:47It's going to be absolute chaos for at least four months.
02:50You ready?
02:51Yeah.
02:51We cannot afford to be renting trailers here for four months and truck repayments, that sort of stuff.
02:57But that's ridiculous.
02:58The weather is no joke, really.
03:00You know, there are people evacuating from the community as we talk.
03:03I'm watching cars go down the bloody road right now.
03:05And we should be joining them.
03:08The problem is we're hauling 140 tonne right now with three max trailers.
03:12The more weight, the more stress of traction could be a major issue.
03:16This dust, when you mix it with water, it becomes literally like someone's just poured grease all over the road.
03:23So your truck starts fishtailing down the road.
03:26Now what we're going to do is load our crane truck on our drop deck and we're going to set up the road train and we're going to roll.
03:34One of my mates dropped off my Scania crane truck for me out here a week ago.
03:38It's a big truck.
03:39It's a heavy truck.
03:40It's an old truck.
03:41This thing is just a nightmare.
03:43Every time we load it, it's just an absolute nightmare.
03:45Right now, I'm stressing about getting this thing on board.
03:58Because it's such a low truck, we're using extra rails here as a better leverage to get more clearance.
04:07Like that, eh?
04:09Somewhere there?
04:10Yeah.
04:11Let's go.
04:15Oh, stop, stop.
04:28Where the **** now?
04:38Grab that.
04:40Russia.
04:41Yuck.
04:42Come on.
04:43Where do you want me to put it home?
04:44Just hold them.
04:46I put on driving clothes today and this is one of my good tops, so I don't want to get dirty.
04:51I wasn't planning on playing with grease.
04:53Just done a wheel bearing on the trailer there, so we've just got a new hub on it.
04:57Hopefully we've got some seals and bearings to go into it.
05:00Anthony and Danielle Haig are rushing to make essential truck repairs in remote Northern Australia.
05:06We are in the middle of the desert on this multi-million acre property, Barclay Down Station.
05:13The Haig's make money finding water on massive outback cattle stations.
05:23We drill water bores for rural, remote cattle stations for stock.
05:29It could be for the homesteads.
05:31The Haig's pretty much go to the places that nobody else wants to go.
05:35We are a few days behind now because of these breakdowns.
05:40Fingers crossed nothing else goes wrong.
05:43Just finishing our wheel bearings in that here.
05:45I'm packed up, ready to go.
05:47Leave Barclay Downs, head up to Mungie Mungie.
05:49I think we've got about 80, 90km of dirt.
05:53The Haig's have just completed a water drilling job at Barclay Downs Station
05:58and now will travel north almost 1,000km before leaving the highway and hitting the dirt
06:05to reach their next job at a Mungie Mungie station.
06:09I have heard it's a bit sandy up there, so I'm just crossing, not getting bogged.
06:14The roads that we drive on, they're not your typical road train bitumen roads.
06:19They're roads that are made for full drives.
06:23We've had a few hiccups this last week,
06:25so it'll be good to get out there and start working again, earning some money.
06:33Such a tight squeeze out of here.
06:35To get the job done, they need two triple road trains.
06:47Anthony is pulling what's known as a BA Triple, 44 metres long.
06:53Danielle's rig is a full A Triple road train, almost 10 metres longer than Anthony's.
06:59Loaded with drilling equipment, their mobile home and supplies,
07:04the mega rigs are essential for their business
07:06and their dream of paying down all their debts.
07:11Drilling, it's our main source of income at the moment.
07:15But we have recently acquired a farm, a fell-out back hideaway.
07:20The farm's still in development stages.
07:23Over three years ago, Anthony and Danielle took a massive gamble,
07:27taking out millions of dollars in loans to develop a run-down outback farm.
07:34When we first bought it, you know, obviously we had to pay it back,
07:36so we're a development need-up,
07:39pay it into a home and pay it successful as well.
07:44We've got two boys.
07:45A bit of a challenge having them.
07:47We have Heath, who's 10, and Theo, who's 5 now.
07:53And our governor's Katie.
07:55I'm going towards you, Katie.
08:02You know, the pressure's on.
08:04We've lost a couple of days.
08:06With all this breakdowns,
08:07these guys are not only a new client,
08:11but, you know, if we don't hit border, that's less money.
08:14It's our reputation.
08:15So we kind of really want to just hurry up and get there and get the job done so we can put some money in the bank.
08:24We are just coming into Callowheel.
08:28It's a tiny, cute little town on the Northern Territory-Queensland border.
08:33Just a servo on a pub.
08:36Yeah, you're right, you're coming.
08:38Yeah, just about to, waiting for this car.
08:43Every year when we come here, I'll freak out.
08:45It's a really tight corner for a road train.
08:51We've got to wait oncoming traffic, because you have to go right out onto the other side on a highway.
08:56Oh, my God.
08:58I hate it when people are filming.
09:01The pressure's on.
09:04I can't see.
09:06Katie, how close am I to those cars?
09:10They look pretty close.
09:12You're almost touching the mirror on that car.
09:15It shouldn't be parked in there.
09:18I just need him to move his mirror.
09:20Quick!
09:26Get ourselves lined up.
09:28I'll just sit out here and Lee gets in there and grabs a powder.
09:31We're about to start loading here in Wagner's Yard with two heavy isotainers of cement powder.
09:4067-year-old Jim Foodie has a hefty payload to deliver.
09:45We'll sort of do a bit of watching here and try and see if we can stop in the right place.
09:50A double trailer load of weighty cement powder transported in cylindrical isotainers.
09:58Righto.
09:59We'll get this thing on the road, I suppose.
10:04With the trailers on, we're now sitting around about our legal weight for a double road train, which is 80-odd tonne.
10:13The whole of North Queensland's going mad building at the moment.
10:19And because everybody's trying to get things done before the wet season starts to set in again, way we go.
10:24What we're doing with them is taking them up to Mareeba first and then we break it up and then move it around and we pick up a third trailer.
10:35Because of road train regulations, Foodie will be forced to take the back way from Townsville, pulling the 50-tonne load through a challenging stretch of narrow bitumen and rough dirt roads to reach his first destination at Mareeba.
10:51He'll drop one trailer there before pushing on to Lakeland where he'll swap the second cement trailer for another loaded trailer to bring back to Cairns.
11:02We've got a pretty horrendous day in front of us, time-wise.
11:07We've got a lot to do.
11:09Pressure's on to get into Cairns tomorrow morning.
11:12Otherwise, they don't work on the weekend.
11:14So we're two days late everywhere.
11:18Foodie's next job starts in Cairns tomorrow.
11:22If he misses his deadline, he'll lose two days of income while he waits for the depot to open again on Monday.
11:29Ideally, we need to be on the road early Saturday morning at the latest to make all our pipe commitments.
11:38If the world's earning, we ain't earning it.
11:41It's not just cash Foodie could miss out on.
11:45He has another commitment tomorrow, one more important than money.
11:51My daughter Therese is graduating year 12 at Cairns High School.
11:57Well, you miss out on so many family things we're on the road all the time.
12:01But I have orders from my other two girls.
12:05Do not miss Therese's graduation.
12:09Pressure is on.
12:10With over 1,000 challenging kilometres to do in less than 24 hours, Foodie is putting all his faith into his ageing Western Star.
12:32It has a 15-litre, six-cylinder turbo-diesel motor and almost 2 million kilometres on the clock.
12:40My daughter's an ugly old thing.
12:42And I just say, yeah, well, it's speed, isn't it?
12:45Just up here a little bit further, we'll actually be turning onto U-Tan Road.
12:54Now, this U-Tan Road, it's going to be rough.
12:57It's a bush road.
12:58Yeah, a bit of a handful.
13:01Here's the dirt.
13:02Now, look out.
13:10And my boost pressure's gone.
13:13It's the turbo pressure that generates the boost for the engine.
13:17Without the extra power created by the turbo, Jim has no chance of pulling his heavy load.
13:24We don't need that.
13:26Just a complete disaster.
13:27Oh, no, no.
13:40Stop, stop.
13:44No, go forward, go forward.
13:49That's no good.
13:51Yeah.
13:52My nerves are shot.
13:53Rushing to get loaded in the remote Tanamai Desert before a massive wet season storm hits,
14:01Mike and Vinny have scraped their crane truck's air brake tanks.
14:06The air tanks just click this little corner here.
14:09And just a valve that releases air.
14:12Hey, guess what?
14:13What?
14:13I don't need no air escaping.
14:15The mounts got busted up a little bit, but it's all good.
14:19Hey, Vincent.
14:20Yeah?
14:21Look at this.
14:21Oh, shit.
14:23Yeah, we're going to hold the tyre off.
14:25In a bit of anxiety and going on quickly, I punched it off the condition of the road out
14:31there.
14:31I might almost throw it off the side.
14:34So now, we're going to try to load it again.
14:36All right, we need another rim.
14:37There's one right there.
14:38Look.
14:39Look how bloody...
14:39Let's go.
14:40There we go.
14:41That'll do.
14:42We've just raised the ramps.
14:44We've made a nicer angle, a better gradient for this truck to go up.
14:48And, yeah, we're just going to try and put it on straight this time.
14:54Straighten up.
14:55Straighten up.
15:01That close.
15:02Yeah, that's it.
15:10Shit.
15:10There's rain over there.
15:13Lucky we're loaded.
15:16Already this morning, we've started feeling the sprinkles.
15:18300 mil this week, which is crazy rain.
15:20And that's, you know, once every 20 years top rain.
15:26This is the heaviest we've been, the dirty girl, now.
15:29140 tonne, mate.
15:31I'm just walking it through there.
15:33I think I'm doing 15 k's an hour.
15:36We are having to travel at such a slow rate.
15:38And the more chance it is we're going to rain.
15:40The problem with that is we're getting bogged.
15:44Being stuck somewhere means that no one's making money.
15:48There's bills, there's truck regos, there's trailer regos, and none of it's getting paid.
15:55What the going on there?
15:58We've got an oil pressure warning light.
16:01What can I say?
16:02If we're travelling with 140 tonnes of low oil pressure, it means that we're going to ruin a $60,000 engine.
16:10And it basically means that this thing's not getting off the tandem line.
16:18Katie, how close are you onto those cars?
16:21You're almost touching the mirror on that car.
16:23You shouldn't be parking there.
16:26Yeah, just push it in.
16:30How close am I?
16:32No, he's gone now.
16:33You're all good.
16:35Just keep watching for me and scream.
16:39Loaded with water drilling equipment, Danielle Haig is using every ounce of her trucking skills
16:45to thread her 53 and a half metre long rig through a tight corner.
16:51It's because I'm a little bit longer than Anthony.
16:55That's why it's hairy.
16:58You're all right now?
17:00Can't breathe. It's okay.
17:02Yeah.
17:05Normally, I take that corner where those cars are, so that will get the shit out of me.
17:12I'm sweating.
17:15I did it.
17:16I've been shaking.
17:17My friends, my family, everyone's like, who are you, Danielle? You're not the girl we used to know.
17:27I did grow up in the city, and I did have a totally different outlook on life.
17:35Then I met Anthony, and my world was pretty much turned upside down, but a good upside down literally throws me in the deep end each time.
17:45But, hey, mate, living my best life. You don't get adrenaline like that on the goal, guys.
17:50Oh, my God.
17:51Oh, my God.
17:57Yes, I'm on a freaking corner, and he's trying to overtake me.
18:01Hey, if you could hear me in that caravan, I wouldn't do it. There's a car coming.
18:08Oh, my God.
18:14Oh, my God.
18:15Oh, my God.
18:17The police seem to have a bit of an air leak here somewhere.
18:23Boost pressure gauge is showing nothing.
18:26A malfunctioning turbo has Jim Foodie feeling the heat.
18:31He has less than 24 hours to complete his mission and get back to Cairns, or face losing money.
18:38The pressure's really on to keep all the wheels turning, just to keep the cash flow.
18:43And the fittings just come out, popped out.
18:49That's just measuring the boost pressure.
18:52We have a lot of boost pressure coming out there.
18:55Rough roads and things, that's all that is.
18:58A bit of Loctite.
19:01For whatever reason, it seems to want to come out, so we'll try and hold it in.
19:11Well.
19:13We stopped there for 10 minutes to fix that.
19:16Well, that's another 10 minutes.
19:17We weren't up the road.
19:19We have very limited time.
19:22It's 4pm.
19:24Foodie still has another 150 bone-jarring kilometres to get to his first drop-off at Mareeba,
19:30and then almost 200 kilometres after that to Lakeland.
19:35Guessing we're probably about an hour and a half out of Mareeba.
19:38We don't have too many more little hiccups and stuff.
19:42We're still getting the corrugation as we can take us out a bit.
19:50The good thing is, we are nearly through the dirt.
19:53It's not very bad at the end, isn't it?
19:54Jim's fight to get back on schedule is not just about money.
20:03It's personal.
20:04Tomorrow night, my daughter, Mareeba, graduates from Year 12, and I'm on an absolute order that I have to be there.
20:14We're just coming into the edge of Mareeba.
20:23We're going to drop the rear trailer off, and then I'm going to take the lead trailer of Dolly up to Lakeland.
20:30The two trailers on Jim's 36.5 metre road train are connected with what's known as a Dolly,
20:37a separate hitch with its own wheels.
20:40What the f*** is going on there?
21:10We've got an oil pressure warning line that's saying that it's losing oil pressure.
21:15If we're travelling with 140 tonnes with low oil pressure, it means that we're going to ruin the $60,000 engine.
21:22Loaded with salvaged car parts worth up to $80,000 on the export market,
21:27Mike and Vinnie are fighting to get out of the Tanamai Desert before a fierce tropical storm breaks.
21:34There's big rain coming, and we are, like, trying to get out of here, because big rain coming means we stay here for months.
21:41We're going to have a hook, try and find an oil pressure sensor and see if it is low oil pressure or if it's a sensor issue.
21:47I've got a couple of sensors going into the block and the water pump and stuff here.
21:54We're really hoping, but Dirty Girl's got a lot of sensors hooked up to her, and so far she hasn't been wrong with anything.
22:01It looks like these are our oil pressure sensors going straight into the block.
22:07We've just got to put a bit of spray into them and see if it's just dust in the contacts or something like that.
22:13I think I just felt a couple of drops of rain.
22:15That's no good.
22:16Let's see if she's going to play ball this time.
22:27We've definitely got oil.
22:29We can hear the engine's not banging.
22:31This gauge has just given some trouble.
22:33So we could have an issue with this gauge.
22:36That's great.
22:37That's absolutely fantastic.
22:38It might be a $50 or $60 gauge, but who cares, you know?
22:41At least it ain't a $60,000 engine.
22:46We've got about 175km on dirt to Halls Creek, and then we take a fat left to Perth, and we've got $3,000 to go back home.
23:01It's been a long while since I've been back to real civilisation.
23:06I get to go bloody sleep in my own bed.
23:09I cannot wait to get out of here.
23:11I'm kissing the pavement when we get out.
23:16It's been his signature move.
23:22Got a copy, Dan Triple?
23:24Yeah, mate, copy.
23:25We need to come through Little Hall.
23:27It'll be slippery, eh?
23:28You might have to get a little bit of a run on it.
23:30Thanks, buddy.
23:33We're starting the road, it started.
23:36Reckons the next water crossing that's up here.
23:38Reckons get a bit of a run-up on it,
23:39because apparently it's pretty slippery coming out the other side.
23:43All the dust on the top of the road turns to thick grease,
23:47literally like someone's just poured grease all over the road.
23:51The truck tends to snake.
23:53Biggest problem with that, roll-overs.
23:56We're right on weight limit with our triple.
23:59We're carrying about 140 ton.
24:02We're just going to do our best.
24:06Come on, dirty girl.
24:10Hit it.
24:11I'm on a brick-in' corner, and he's trying to overtake me.
24:27Oh, my God.
24:31Oh, my God.
24:38It's all right.
24:38He went back in behind me.
24:40If you're in the caravan now, you can come around the triple.
24:44It's already coming anyway.
24:46Well, he has got a two-way.
24:48He just doesn't know how to use it.
24:51Danielle and Anthony Haig's dreams of paying off their outback farm
24:55rely on them negotiating Australia's outback highways,
25:00travelling to remote cattle stations to drill water bores.
25:03My best friend just had a baby yesterday and I cannot be there
25:10because I am here trying to make some money.
25:13It's a three-day haul with all their gear and accommodation
25:16to their next paying gig,
25:19stopping to sleep at roadhouses along the way.
25:21We've arrived at Barkley Homestead.
25:26We're going to stop here and camp up the night.
25:29A couple of tyre changes this morning.
25:41I think we've got about 18 spares all up.
25:45This kind of distances that we're doing today
25:47is like a full day.
25:49No shops along the way.
25:50And the kids eat like a bloody horse,
25:52so you need to make sure you have enough food
25:54and enough supplies to do you a good 10-hour day.
25:59It's finally ready.
26:02Oh, well. We're off.
26:09We do need to get this job done, you know, kind of quickly.
26:13We've got a few more that we've promised to do through this stint.
26:16There's no way we can miss our deadline.
26:18We have to get these done.
26:20We've just had to wind the windows down
26:24because the aircon's a shit itself, so.
26:29Just got to smash it.
26:30I'm saying it's 39 degrees outside,
26:32and you can't imagine what it's like in here,
26:34a freaking hot box.
26:36I've got boob sweats.
26:38It's disgusting.
26:39So close to a Mungie Mungie,
26:52but it's a bit late now.
26:53Just pull up here for the night
26:54and have a rest
26:56and take off early in the morning.
26:58We are heading to a Mungie Mungie
27:06where we're going to install a couple of boars.
27:10I'm excited to get on the red dirt.
27:14First indications, it's sandy.
27:17Anthony has mentioned to me
27:21that it can be a bit of a sandy country up here.
27:24It's a little concerning
27:25because sand and road trains don't mix very well.
27:30Gary, you're probably better off going in front of me.
27:34OK, thanks, mate.
27:34Guided by a station worker,
27:38the Hagues must wrestle their rigs
27:40along a rugged four-wheel drive track
27:43through boggy sand
27:44and over steep inclines known as jump-ups
27:47to get to the drill site.
27:50So if you jump right in like corner, Anthony,
27:52jump up, jump up.
27:53You should be rolling.
27:56I just heard over the radio
27:57that the fellow that's taking us out here
28:00said there's a bit of a jump-up.
28:01It is a bit of a jump-up, isn't it?
28:05You get a bit of a run-up.
28:07Make it up.
28:11Oh, s***.
28:16Whoa.
28:18You're not going to make it last.
28:19Yes, I am.
28:20Stop saying that.
28:22You're not going to make it.
28:23You're making me nervous.
28:26No, you might get off.
28:27No, you're not.
28:29Bye-bye.
28:31The problem is we can't release our dolly
28:40from underneath this trailer,
28:41so I'm going to get a bit of lubrication,
28:43so I'll squirt a bit of s*** around there
28:45and see if we can free it up a little bit.
28:48On an extreme deadline,
28:50Foodie needs to release a jammed dolly
28:52to deliver the first of two cement loads
28:55or risk a crippling 48-hour delay.
29:00This thing is absolutely rampant dust.
29:05It's stuff like this.
29:07That's dust and grease joined together.
29:11I'm going to do a little bit more wriggle and jiggle
29:14and see if I can squirt a bit more spray up in there.
29:17You bastard, I got you.
29:29Got him.
29:31Well, that was unexpected
29:33and I didn't think that would work, to be honest.
29:36I'll go and give it a tug and see what happens.
29:38Yeah, happy days, happy nights.
29:48Foodie can now push through the 186 kilometres
29:52to his next stop at Lakeland,
29:55swapping the second cement trailer
29:57for a load of scrap cars to bring back to Cairns.
30:01I went up last night to Lakeland
30:13and dropped the lead trailer
30:16with the cement powder up there
30:18and picked this trailer up.
30:20They are just purely for scrap
30:22and we don't make much money out of them
30:25at least it's community fee.
30:28Time is very, very critical.
30:31Tonight, my daughter Therese
30:33graduates from Year 12.
30:36Therese helps me in the business of Edna's accounting
30:39and looks after the books a bit fobby
30:42so that's a must-see.
30:47Look at that.
30:49There were three cars wide there from Fog.
30:51This is what this place is like.
31:01We'll get into here and have a very short break
31:06because the pressure's on
31:08and let's get these car bodies off.
31:12We'll get it working.
31:17Hey, you've been a kid.
31:19Thinking about taking new cars up the Cape,
31:21we'll load them the same way, eh?
31:22No, no.
31:25I get into another trouble doing what I do
31:27without giving me one of them to play with.
31:29I wasn't expecting that to get shit out of me.
31:56Danielle Haig is fighting to get her triple trailer load
32:01through a brutally boggy Northern Territory track.
32:05Man, I'm holding up the steering wheel tight, eh?
32:10I need to put the right bra on for this one today, that's for sure.
32:13Woo-hoo!
32:20We made it, Theo.
32:24The Haigs are desperate to complete a water drilling job
32:27to keep their business alive.
32:30We definitely need to hit water at these ones.
32:33We need to impress them.
32:34We need to make sure that they're happy
32:36so we can get repeat business in the future.
32:38Looks like we have landed.
32:46Just don't go under the pad yet.
32:50Okay, then, why's that?
32:55Anthony would have to be the number one communicator on the planet.
32:59Not.
33:01Hold on, I'll just read your brain.
33:03Oh, that's what you want me to do.
33:06On this side or that side?
33:11Go over there and around that way.
33:14On the other side of that.
33:17So now I've just got the one trailer on with the drill rods.
33:23It's got to line the drill rig
33:25and the rod trailer up perfectly.
33:29It's very particular about that.
33:31Woo-hoo!
33:33Daddy.
33:34No, don't.
33:37Please don't.
33:39Lee, I need you to move your hand down.
33:41Probably a bit difficult doing this with you sitting on me.
33:47And that's it.
33:48She's ready to rumble.
33:49The pipe's just a diverter pipe.
34:05So all the dirt's going to go out the end there and not pile up in so I don't have to shovel it all.
34:09Now we've got that hooked up and we start hammering away, all our dirt will come out down there.
34:15Yeah, I've got some garlic bread for you.
34:30Nice meal.
34:32Beautiful, hey, mum's the best cook.
34:37We're down 90 metres now.
34:40The first 70 metres was a bit of trouble, just a bit of moisture in the clay, so it's sort of slow going.
34:45But the other 20 metres has been pretty quick.
34:47It's been a mammoth trip, but the hardest work is done.
34:53Anthony's expecting to hit water and finish the job tomorrow.
34:58Have a feed and then get up and go shower and get back into it in the morning.
35:02We are on track, we are on plan, it is happening how it's supposed to.
35:09We can get this one smashed out tomorrow and back home really soon.
35:14Our life in general, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
35:18The kids get first hand what it's like to work real hard.
35:22They are out here in the dirt instead of watching a screen.
35:25It might be dirty work, it might be hard work, but it's worth it in the end.
35:32We're on track, we're on track, we're on track, we're on track, we're on track.
35:36Wayne!
35:38Stop!
35:40Stop!
35:46Piece of the car got caught under the little headboard, flicked it out.
35:53Shit happens.
35:55Foodie is desperate to avoid any delays.
35:58He needs his trailer empty so it can be loaded with gas canisters for his next paying job.
36:04And he has to get it all done in time for his daughter's high school graduation.
36:10Just about fully unloaded now, it only takes a couple of minutes in here with all the big gear.
36:16Happy days, we'll be away.
36:17We're going to go and pick up our gas.
36:27It's now Friday afternoon.
36:30If we don't get this gas in the next hour, we are here for the full weekend, mate, and that's just going to blow our timetable out to buggery.
36:38But first, we've got to get around this corner in front of us.
36:45Getting in is easy, it's getting out.
36:48They've figured it out for normal semi-trailers and unfortunately, this trailer of mine is a little bit longer than most trailers.
36:57Around here, we'll just miss that.
36:59Now, our final turn is to get out there.
37:23We're going back again a little bit.
37:25We're going back again a little bit.
37:29Oh, we can just get ourselves out through there.
37:41Jesus, that raises a sweat, that does.
37:52Oh, shit.
37:53Oh, I've got a bit of everything here in front of me.
37:55I've got a bloody farm tractor, a truck that wants to go slow.
37:59You know, I miss my daughter's graduation.
38:04Yeah, that's not a happy place to be.
38:08On a bit of a tight deadline, everybody wants to slow you down.
38:12This is it.
38:23Looking good.
38:24They're putting the gas on the truck out there at the moment.
38:27Happy days.
38:27We're done.
38:28We're finished.
38:29And I've kept my date with my daughter's graduation, which is good.
38:35Yeah, well, here we are.
38:48Do I shine up all right?
38:51Here they are, the terrible teas.
38:53You've got Therese, Tiana and Tia.
38:57Hey, do I smell?
39:00What do I smell like?
39:02Dad?
39:02Dad.
39:03That's good.
39:05There's not many people I will ever, ever, ever get dressed up for, including funerals and
39:11weddings.
39:11But my daughter's special.
39:12Yeah, I'll dress up for that.
39:14Dad.
39:14And press the hell out of her, if nothing else.
39:19Fine.
39:29We're about to go through and water crossing up here.
39:33Hit it.
39:44That's it.
39:46We're good.
39:47We're still kicking.
39:49Mike and Vinnie are racing a severe tropical storm, desperate to get out of the Tanamai
39:55Desert before they get stranded with their $100,000 truck and its $80,000 payload.
40:02My heart's in my stomach because I know the condition of the road out there at the moment.
40:06If you leave your truck here for four months, I can guarantee your truck's not going to still
40:11be able to drive.
40:14Looks like a decent downpour has come down here just recently.
40:19And this has become super slippery.
40:22This is exactly what I was worried about hauling 130, 140 tonne out of this crap.
40:28But I've had the throttle flat to the floor.
40:30I think I'm going to have grey hairs by the end of this trip.
40:34Damn it.
40:35Not good, dude.
40:36The hill like this with a triple on board is just asking for trouble.
40:40The tyres are spinning.
40:42We're losing road speed.
40:43Uh-oh.
40:45Come on, dirty girl.
40:51It's bad.
40:53This is the iron fraction.
40:55That was about as close as it was going to get there.
41:12Down to what?
41:13Two, three k's an hour.
41:14Yeah.
41:15Yeah.
41:16Well, I hope there's no more of that shit.
41:23Looks like we've made it through.
41:25We're hitting the bitumen over here.
41:29Woo-hoo!
41:30Bitumen!
41:31This tyre is starting at 65 PSO.
41:46So we need to pump them up because we let them down so that it's less stress on the ride.
41:52But then, as soon as you get back to the bench, the man if you want to pump them up, that's 90.
41:57There's 100 PSI.
41:59I've just done one.
42:00So we've got 61 left.
42:01Let's hope I can get this done before nightfall.
42:03Today, after a long stint in the desert like that, what we're going to do is just have
42:16a nice, crazy day, see how the rig handles on the highway.
42:20If everything's all good, tomorrow we'll kick it up to speed.
42:24We'll probably punch out 1,000 k's tomorrow.
42:30We've got a one-lane bridge coming up here.
42:32One-lane bridges in the top end can be quite a dangerous thing for road trains.
42:37That's why you call it.
42:38Ahead, a narrow single-lane bridge.
42:41A collision with a 140-ton rig travelling at 100 kilometres an hour would be a deadly catastrophe.
42:49All trucks are expected to communicate as they approach.
42:54Southbound road train, one-lane bridge.
42:59Southbound road train, one-lane bridge at 2 Mile Creek.
43:05Southbound road train, one-lane bridge, 2 Mile Creek.
43:12You got your CB on there, Blue Caddy?
43:17How late?
43:22What race are you doing?
43:24That is here now, I'm doing about 1,600.
43:28Bit of diesel or an oil spill on the road, that can make us lose traction.
43:31There'll be no turning around, no back and down.
43:34We're going up a bear zoo.
43:36Got some old-usty stuff here.
43:39What the f***?
43:40Just like saw me down it.
43:45What?
43:45We just had a massive bang, dude.
43:47We really didn't need this one, yeah?
43:49That's the absolute bullshit bottom line of being a sole operator.
43:53This show is my candidate.
43:54Yeah.
44:06Let's go.
44:07We're going to be making a pair of desires.
44:08I'm gonna be going to be making a pair of two drives.
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