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Outback Truckers Season 11 Episode 5
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00:00This time on Outback Truckers.
00:03We might be driving through a fire and we've got damaged gas lines back there.
00:10A pile burning fast towards the road, I really don't want it any closer than that.
00:18Transporting bees, it's as lethal as a load of petrol.
00:21They'll sting you to death.
00:23Oh no!
00:25Jesus!
00:26Shit!
00:27They're getting me!
00:30I'll get in big strides if I don't make it.
00:33It's D-Day.
00:36Jesus.
00:37Car said anything's coming.
00:39F***ing dust.
00:51Jesus.
00:52That's the spare tyre off the trailer.
01:02It's a customer's freight, it's brand new and it's falling apart.
01:05Obviously not designed for these roads.
01:07This is typical what corrugations do, they do this to your truck, they break shit like this.
01:17Jim Foodie is on a time critical mission, delivering vital supplies and volatile gas cylinders to Australia's northernmost town.
01:27You all right?
01:28Bamaga.
01:28Yeah, I'm all right.
01:30Get going.
01:32And he's doing it without any help.
01:35No good asking for sympathy.
01:38They tell me sympathy comes somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.
01:43We've got this trailer starting to fall apart, and the last thing we want to do is start breaking other things here.
01:52You know, that's what we're trying to bounce over here at the moment.
01:54If it's like this here, it's not the bloody hells are going to be like up there.
02:08130 kilometres to go, but they're the hardest 130 you've ever seen.
02:15Foodie left Cairns with his triple trailer load one day ago, travelling north to Cape York.
02:21He's now battling the rough dirt road that leads to the Jardine River Ferry, the only place his truck can cross the river.
02:30Then it's another harsh 42 kilometre stretch of dirt to deliver the freight to his hometown, Bamaga.
02:39We're stockpiling gas for the wet season.
02:41We're going to be five months cut off up here, so we need to build up a big supply of gas.
02:47We supply the hospital.
02:48They rely on us heavily for gas.
02:52And we picked up two very heavy isotopes of cement powders for local building products.
03:00We're meant to unload first light tomorrow morning.
03:03We don't do that.
03:04We're holding up a whole concrete organisation.
03:08We're holding up about half a dozen contractors.
03:09To unload at first light tomorrow, Foodie must get across the river today.
03:17The ferry is only 120 kilometres away, with four hours left before it closes.
03:23But in outback Cape York, 120 kilometres in four hours is a daunting challenge.
03:29Welcome back to the corrugation.
03:38Already we're back down to two kilometres an hour.
03:42But I don't look at the look of what's in front of me there.
03:44I think I might just make a cut to the other side of the road.
03:53So we're now blocking the entire road.
03:55I've got two trailers on that side, and I've got a prime mover and a lead trailer on this
04:00side of the road.
04:01So I just hope nobody covers right around the corner here at the moment.
04:07Welcome to Cape York Peninsula.
04:13We can see some pretty horrendous bloody corrugations back there.
04:16Shaking ourselves to pieces a bit, so we need to go back there and have a damn good look
04:20at what's going on.
04:27That's real shit.
04:28You see the height of this is coming down.
04:33See where it was?
04:35Somewhere in the corrugations, this whole pack of nine bottles are going like this.
04:41You check this.
04:42Look, that's not even remotely tight.
04:45This bottle here has rotated 100 mil at some stage, and that's putting a lot of stress on
04:51these pipes.
04:53But this rotation they're doing, they're going to snap all these copper tubes in here.
04:56The gas could leak.
04:59Worst case scenario is, you get a spark or something, you could have a bloody major catastrophe.
05:05I'm getting too old for this sort of shit, but anyway, I guess we'll keep doing it, because
05:10we don't know any better.
05:11We're still 76 k's out from the ferry.
05:27I've lost precious time.
05:31The businesses that are relying on us, if we don't get them gassed, then their business fails to.
05:35We might be driving through a fire up here somewhere.
05:46We're going directly through there.
05:48We've got damaged gas lines back there.
05:54This is f***ing really bad.
06:01Something's going on there.
06:03Yeah, this is loose.
06:04Oh, that's fine.
06:05Bring it down.
06:07Slide it down.
06:07Beekeeping trucker Tim Holt is taking on the biggest load of his career.
06:14Tonight, we'll be lading about 430 hives.
06:18Your time's up by 50,000.
06:19There's a fair few bees on board.
06:21We'll have, once we're laded with the two trucks and trailer, about 21 million bees on board.
06:25This is our hive lader, so this goes under each hive.
06:31That cleat sits on here.
06:34Then I sit one hive up on top of the other one, and then load two at a time with it.
06:38Transporting bees, it's as lethal as a load of petrol.
06:41You tip over with that many bees on board, they'll sting you to death.
06:45Just smoke them as you're stacking them?
06:47Yeah.
06:48We put the smoke on the bees just so it calms them down, and only for a brief period of time.
06:52It doesn't hurt the bees at all, it just calms them.
06:56Usually, we travel probably 600 kilometres from home.
06:59Tonight, tomorrow's trip will be about 1,200 kilometres from here to Alstonville.
07:03After loading up the 21 million stinging insects in Hilston,
07:08Tim will transport the deadly load almost 1,200 kilometres
07:12through the mountainous Great Dividing Range to their destination,
07:18a macadamia farm at Alstonville.
07:20We've got 48 hours.
07:23Flowers are coming out on the macadamia trees.
07:25Flowers only last up there about three weeks.
07:28Every day that we're missing out, we're missing out on honey.
07:31We're missing out on getting an income off the bees.
07:34The biggest trip I've ever done, I haven't travelled this far with bees before.
07:39There you are, there's the first thing I've just got.
07:41One on the eye.
07:43They're just settling in.
07:45They're just finding somewhere to land because their home's been moved.
07:48They're part of the job.
07:49If you hate getting stung by bees, don't be a beekeeper.
07:53Oh, no!
07:54Tim's business depends on the bees producing honey to sell
07:58and fees he charges orchards for the bees' pollination services.
08:03This year's been very hard for every beekeeper in and around Australia,
08:08especially with varroa mite.
08:09First detected in Australia in 2022,
08:13the varroa mite can devastate bee colonies.
08:17To limit the bug spread,
08:19Australian states have introduced strict quarantine laws,
08:23putting immense pressure on Tim's business.
08:25You're not allowed up into Queensland or in Victoria borders being closed.
08:31It's been a very stressful year
08:33and we want to try and get out and make a bit of money
08:35and make a bit of honey.
08:38You've got to fold that front one around.
08:40We get a little bit over $80,000 for doing the job.
08:44I mean, that's only just going to cover some of the running costs
08:47for the last 12 months.
08:49I wouldn't say it's profit in any way.
08:50I don't need to grab this up.
08:55Dan, he's a pretty good mate of mine,
08:58but he hasn't worked for us for a long time.
09:00He's been with us for about 12 months.
09:02The worst thing that can happen when you're transporting bees,
09:06I suppose, is if you lost a load of your boxes
09:10and they all fly out and you get stung to death.
09:13Chuck me up that other snooble.
09:16Oh, no!
09:18Jesus!
09:19Quick, Dan.
09:20They're getting me.
09:23Bastards.
09:24Shut up.
09:26Get me off.
09:33It's only 18 tonnes,
09:35which will probably be about 10 tonnes, 12 tonnes over the dolly.
09:38We're loading two tour buses to go out to Nullamboi,
09:42save them driving.
09:43The road's way too rough.
09:45The corrugations, the bulldust holes,
09:48they're very precious cargo.
09:50I can't go damaging them in any way.
09:53Darren Hibbo-Hibberson has a triple trailer load to haul
09:57out to one of Australia's most remote towns, Nullamboi.
10:02These buses in high demand out there.
10:05There must be a lot of tourism going on out there at the moment,
10:07so we're actually running these out.
10:08On top of $320,000 worth of buses which must be delivered without a scratch,
10:15Hibbo has the time-critical task of getting a full trailer of perishable goods to the remote
10:22Northern Territory outback community.
10:24We've got the fridge van that'll get loaded of chiller produce for the supermarket out at Nullamboi.
10:31I've just got to get it to point A to point B in good condition,
10:34and the rest is good luck.
10:37Anyone can come and stop on that road.
10:39I'm talking about the Central Arnhem Road, which is pretty extreme at times.
10:46From Darwin, Hibbo must head south on the bitumen
10:49before turning onto the notorious Central Arnhem Highway,
10:54a rough, ragged, brutal dirt track
10:57running almost 700 kilometres to the tiny community of Nullamboi.
11:02Let's get moving.
11:11Hibbo's one of our seasoned veers, for sure.
11:14We take pride in making sure that the products actually arrive in good condition.
11:18We don't lose any of our loads on the side of the road, and Hibbo's all over that.
11:22He's got a great reputation for making sure that everything arrives intact.
11:27But it is a refrigerated trailer that Hibbo has for this particular run,
11:31so it's really important that he keeps to his times
11:33so that the temperatures of those refrigerated trailers stay in good condition.
11:38I pretty much work a living in a truck seven days a week.
11:42She's got the 16-inch studio sleeper.
11:45It's pretty much a really, really nice home away from home.
11:49Most trucks have a nickname.
11:50For some AB reason, I don't know how it come about,
11:52but, yeah, I end up calling her Vivian.
11:54Vivian is a 2019 Kenworth C509 with 600 horsepower,
12:02an extra-large sleeper cabin,
12:03and is rated to a gross vehicle mass of 140 tonnes.
12:09She holds 2,000 litres of fuel,
12:11so she'll get me out to Nullamboi and back quite comfortable.
12:16We'll be actually turning off the Stuart Highway onto the Central Arnhem Road.
12:20And that's where the fun starts, on the dirt.
12:37Welcome to the red dirt.
12:39Literally out back Australia.
12:42Pretty isolated out here.
12:44So, from here on in, she's all focused on the road ahead.
12:58Now we've done 10 Ks.
13:00I'm just going to go and double-check all those chains.
13:03Make sure I'm happy with everything.
13:05Check the Fitch motor temp.
13:08Log that.
13:10Bam, bam.
13:14Oh, it looks pretty hot at the moment, like, around 36, 37 out here.
13:20Even though it's got a good aircon in this truck,
13:23ice-cold water and sprayer, always...
13:26Ah.
13:28That, the aircon, beautiful.
13:35If you're running this much dirt, like, things can go wrong.
13:39Oh, Jesus.
13:42These corrugations are getting pretty, um...
13:44pretty wild.
13:48Just have to shut it down again.
13:50I'm just going back to about 4 Ks an hour.
13:53So, it makes you wonder,
13:55how do I get...
13:57700 Ks from Darwin out to here
14:01with time-sensitive freight
14:03doing 4 Ks an hour?
14:06There's a lot of stuff in that chiller.
14:09A lot of produce.
14:11So, if it goes bad,
14:12then you're talking about big dollars.
14:21We've got damaged gas lines back there.
14:24A fire was coming through,
14:26burning fast towards the road
14:28to now where we're barely crawling.
14:30I really don't want it any close to the map.
14:43They're going for their life
14:44trying to catch the ferry.
14:46The tourists, they're following
14:4714 pallets of LPG gas
14:50through a bushfire,
14:51so that'll make them,
14:52surely make them a bit nervous.
14:56I think we're actually overtaking it now.
14:58We're a little bit lucky there
15:00that we've got a slight westerly drift
15:02at the moment
15:02that's pushing the flight
15:04back that way a bit.
15:06After narrowly avoiding
15:08a deadly bushfire,
15:09Foodie is desperate
15:10to make the last ferry
15:12across the Jardine River,
15:14which leaves at 5pm sharp
15:16or risk missing
15:17his critical delivery deadline.
15:19Four or five k's
15:24from the ferry
15:24and we're short of gas supplies
15:28and they're waiting on that cement.
15:29Pretty worried
15:30whether we're going to
15:31actually get there or not.
15:33For me to make the ferry,
15:35I need every second down.
15:39So close to the ferry.
15:40Shit, we missed it.
15:47Not by March.
15:49Bugger it.
15:51Everybody wants to go home,
15:52so yeah, look,
15:53we've just got to draw a line
15:55in the sand and say,
15:56nah, stuck here for the night.
16:01Right now,
16:02I've had enough for the day.
16:03We planned just to start
16:14breaking up all the trailers
16:15and get him across the ferry
16:17and happy days,
16:19we're into town and home.
16:21Probably mid-morning
16:22before we deliver.
16:33Shit.
16:40This is, uh,
16:43a bit of an issue.
16:49I can't have started.
16:57F*** off!
16:59F*** off!
17:00Come here,
17:01I'll smoke you.
17:02Jump up in front of you.
17:06Hop up, hop up in the front.
17:16Tim Alt and his off-sider Dan
17:18have 21 million angry bees
17:21to load and deliver
17:22and only a short amount
17:23of time to do it.
17:29I want to go.
17:30I think bees are the last ones.
17:34I know,
17:34we're good to go.
17:40Bees fly from daylight
17:42till dark.
17:43Why are we coming out
17:44of the farm so late?
17:45You've just got to keep moving.
17:47You can't stop,
17:48otherwise the bees
17:49will start flying.
17:51Copy Dan.
17:52Yeah, mate.
17:52I'm just going to pull up here
17:54and check these straps, mate.
17:55Copy that.
17:59Just tightening the straps.
18:01You're going to lose a hive.
18:02Blokes have lost hives before
18:03and, you know,
18:05someone in the public,
18:07like, if they got
18:08picked up a hive
18:09off the ground
18:10that fell off a truck,
18:11if they're allergic,
18:13you could be dead
18:13in five minutes.
18:15More people die
18:16from bee stings
18:17and shark attacks.
18:19I know,
18:19we're ready to roll again.
18:22Driving at night
18:23fatigue is a big factor.
18:25Then you've got
18:26all your animals
18:27on the road.
18:28You can hit a pig.
18:30Oh, no.
18:31Jesus.
18:33If they hit up your truck,
18:34it'd be a mess.
18:36You've just got to be
18:37very aware.
18:37Just pulled up here
18:43at Tullamore.
18:44We've had enough
18:44for the day,
18:45so we'll head off to bed
18:47and we'll get cracking
18:48in the morning.
18:52I don't want to pull up
18:53for long
18:54for food or anything today.
18:56I just want to try
18:56and keep up
18:57or as much as I can.
19:01We're going up
19:02over the top
19:02of the Nandewall Range
19:03now, Mount Capita.
19:05It's a bit narrow,
19:06winding up through here.
19:07And this road
19:08right through the finger
19:09is a little bit ordinary.
19:11The road's fairly narrow,
19:13the edges are sharp.
19:15If you tipped it
19:16into a ditch
19:17and you broke
19:18a lot of them open,
19:20you're badly stung,
19:20they'd kill you.
19:23Shit!
19:25That's dangerous
19:26passing double lines
19:28around a blind corner.
19:35There's a lot
19:36of loose gravel
19:37that's why I can feel
19:39myself losing
19:40a little bit of traction.
19:43With that chiller van,
19:45everything inside that van
19:47has a use-by date,
19:48so it is critical
19:49that we do get it there
19:51on time.
19:52Hibbo is wrestling
19:55his 53.5 metre long
19:57triple road train
19:58through one of Australia's
20:00most treacherous roads
20:02on a mission
20:03to get vital supplies
20:04through to the remote town
20:06of Nullanboy.
20:07It gives you options, right?
20:11You can choose
20:12corrugations,
20:14you can choose
20:15bulldust holes,
20:16or you can choose
20:17rock.
20:19Hibbo has chosen
20:20the bone-rattling
20:21rutted corrugations.
20:23To do 48 k's of dirt,
20:25which we've done so far,
20:26it's taken us
20:27four and a half hours.
20:28That's just sort of
20:29pretty much average speed
20:30around 8 k an hour.
20:36Hang on, this health
20:37has a big bulldust
20:38right here.
20:39Just a few months ago,
21:00the Central Arnhem Road
21:01was battered
21:02by almost 2 metres
21:04of rain
21:04during the last
21:05monsoonal wet season.
21:09This whole road,
21:16like,
21:17you've got to be
21:18on the ball all the time.
21:23We'll stop up here
21:24and cook up my lunch
21:26slash dinner.
21:27I've got a choice
21:28of pork ribs
21:29or beef sausages,
21:31so I might just choose
21:32a beef sausage,
21:32nice and easy to cook up.
21:37Oh, you...
21:38It's a good thing
21:42we have water
21:43on standby.
21:45Can't waste food out here.
21:51I'll normally stop here
21:52coming out
21:53and, um,
21:55yeah, by the time
21:56I walk around the trailers,
21:57that's pretty much
21:58almost done.
21:59Turn a couple more times
22:00and, yeah,
22:00we'll get out of here.
22:02And that's about
22:03as good as it gets.
22:03About 630km to go,
22:12so that'll be, um,
22:13all day tomorrow.
22:19Driving tonight
22:20probably till about midnight.
22:21Today is D-Day.
22:38We have to make
22:39that supermarket
22:40in Nullaboy
22:41by literally
22:425 o'clock tonight.
22:45I'll get in
22:46big strife
22:46if I don't make it.
22:55Yeah, mate,
22:55if you want,
22:56all the dust is going
22:57out your side.
22:57You've got to come
22:57on the other side.
22:58Shit, mate.
23:08F***ing dust.
23:11We can't see
23:12if anything's coming.
23:17Shit!
23:20That's dangerous.
23:21We can jeopardise
23:23a load of these
23:23real quick.
23:24You just shake
23:28your head
23:29and you go,
23:29really?
23:30You know,
23:31that's the dangers
23:31of it.
23:32They just get
23:33impatient car drivers
23:34and they've got
23:34no idea, really.
23:37Tim and Dan
23:38are taking on
23:39winding mountain roads
23:40and dangerous drivers
23:42in a desperate
23:43attempt to keep
23:44Tim's beekeeping
23:45business alive.
23:47We need the money
23:48for our business.
23:49The last 12 months
23:50has been one
23:50of the hardest years
23:51ever, ever, ever
23:53in beekeeping.
23:54I don't think
23:55we've ever run
23:56out of honey
23:56and we have
23:57this year
23:57for the first
23:58time ever.
24:00Hauling 21 million
24:01bees more than
24:021,000 kilometres
24:03is a massive
24:05logistical challenge.
24:06This is the biggest
24:07bee shift I've done
24:08ever.
24:10Requiring planned
24:11stops with their
24:12potentially lethal
24:13load.
24:14Copy, Dan.
24:17Yeah, mate.
24:18When we get to
24:19pull into the fuel
24:20station, I'll let you
24:21go first.
24:21Just get in,
24:24fuel up, jump in
24:25the truck and drive
24:26off.
24:26We've already rung
24:27ahead and tell them
24:28what you'll be doing
24:29so they're aware of it.
24:31Then I said, I'll go
24:31in and pay for it once
24:32I've fueled my truck
24:33up.
24:35I don't like pulling
24:36up and fueling up in
24:37the middle of the day
24:38but sometimes you've got
24:39to, when you're getting
24:40low on fuel, you haven't
24:41got a choice.
24:42You can't run on fresh
24:43air.
24:43The worst thing that
24:46can happen is you could
24:46lose a lot of bees and
24:47they could all, you
24:48know, land on the
24:49bowser and get people
24:51stung.
24:52You don't want to get
24:52people stung.
24:53That's the worst thing
24:54that can happen.
24:55Going in this first
24:56money event, but I
24:58can't stress enough.
25:00Be as quick as you can
25:01over here.
25:03Whenever you're
25:03travelling, you're not
25:04losing too many.
25:05As soon as that truck's
25:06stationary, that's when
25:07they start flying.
25:08Yeah, I hope no members
25:11of the public are
25:12walking past.
25:15Get ready to jump in,
25:17Dan.
25:17There's a few coming
25:18in.
25:26She's just dead as a
25:27doornail.
25:30I suspect we've got a
25:32bit of contaminated
25:33fuel overnight.
25:36Bacteria forms a black
25:37sludge.
25:38In your fuel filters.
25:39And I'm pretty much
25:41guaranteed when I take
25:42the secondary fuel
25:43filter off, I'm going to
25:45be looking at a black,
25:46ugly looking substance
25:46in the filter.
25:48Loaded with critical
25:49supplies for one of
25:50Australia's most
25:52isolated towns, Foodie's
25:5427-year-old truck has
25:56called it quits, putting
25:58him at risk of failing to
25:59meet his delivery deadline.
26:01This morning, in around
26:03about two hours time, we
26:05were going to be
26:06delivering this lead
26:07trailer with the cement
26:08powder in it.
26:09We've certainly put that
26:09in jeopardy unless we can
26:11get a quick solution here
26:12somewhere.
26:13Ferry's going to be open
26:14soon and we're not going to
26:16be on it apparently.
26:18What have we got in here?
26:21Yeah, look at it.
26:23There's certainly sludge in
26:25that filter.
26:27Hopefully that's all it is.
26:28If something goes wrong on the
26:31ferry, how the hell do you
26:32fix it?
26:33You're on a ferry in the
26:34middle of the river.
26:36We've just got to make sure
26:37this is right, otherwise I'm
26:38blocking the entire road
26:40going into Bamaga and out of
26:41Bamaga.
26:43We'll put our filter on and
26:45give it a go.
26:51Look at the squirt coming out
26:53here.
26:54It's coming out that far.
26:55So, yeah, fuel pressure, we've
26:57got plenty.
26:59Jesus.
27:01I've got a face full of
27:02diesel now.
27:06Feel the diesel on me
27:07eyelids.
27:12See, most people put a bit of
27:13moose or something through
27:15their hair.
27:16Apparently, I use diesel.
27:17This should pick up if we're on
27:21the money.
27:31Maybe not.
27:37Yeah.
27:39What are we going to do?
27:42Where do we go?
27:43What I'm beginning to think
27:48that it wasn't the bacteria
27:51at all.
27:51Yes, we did have a bacterial
27:53infection.
27:54I was sort of thinking we've
27:56got a gut full of air in here
27:58somewhere.
27:59Probably caused by a crack in
28:03the pickup lines here.
28:06Inside the truck's fuel tanks,
28:08pickup lines suck up the fuel
28:10and deliver it to the engine.
28:12If there's a crack in a pickup
28:14line, when the fuel is low,
28:16air bubbles can enter the line,
28:18which prevents the motor from
28:20firing.
28:21The tanks are very low at the
28:22moment.
28:24We've chewed up about 1,300
28:25litres of diesel in the last
28:27700 k's.
28:29So, I'll be making phone calls
28:31to see whether we might be able
28:33to just borrow some fuel.
28:35Hopefully, that'll solve the
28:36problem.
28:38Hey, Q.
28:40Q, mate, you're walking into a
28:42little bit of problems here.
28:44Q's an aspiring young truck
28:46driver who helps us out a bit.
28:48He's come out this morning to
28:51give us a hand as well.
28:53I'll just do your deal with a bit
28:54of diesel if you've got some.
28:56Okay.
28:57All right.
28:58Hey, thanks, John.
28:59All right.
29:00So, in about an hour, we should
29:02have 1,000 litres of fuel sitting
29:04down here.
29:05And then we're going to go and try
29:07and start it.
29:08Checking where they hide the key.
29:10Q's going to go and jump on that
29:12little forklift over there and make
29:13sure it goes and everything's right
29:15with it because when this fuel gets
29:16here, I want to get it up in a hurry.
29:18We found it.
29:26Good as new.
29:28When I'm old enough, I want to get
29:29my licence, like all my licence, and
29:31start driving the truck for the old
29:34fella so he can just sit back in the
29:36office while we do the hard work for
29:37him.
29:40There's the cabal rig.
29:41So, that's 1,000 litres of diesel.
29:45This will solve our problem.
29:48Well, if we've got any issues in the
29:51tank pickups or anything else, we're
29:53going to take them out of the
29:54inflation by filling the tank.
29:58All right.
29:59Up you go, Q.
30:02We need to get into town today.
30:04We absolutely f***ing have to get
30:05into town today.
30:08Let's just see what we get.
30:11Fingers crossed, legs crossed, toes
30:15crossed.
30:26That does not look good.
30:29Does not look good at all.
30:38Dust.
30:39Oh, you can't see if anything's coming.
30:42Someone might be flying up the other
30:43way and not realising.
30:46If it's going too quick, they could
30:49drop head on into me.
30:50That's worst case scenario.
30:59All good now?
31:02We're heading out to Nullaboy.
31:04We've got two tour buses.
31:06And we've got one trailer full of chiller, which will go to a supermarket out there.
31:11So, I have to get it there.
31:13No heaps or buts.
31:15That's time critical.
31:15Hibbo has just 48 hours remaining to get his load to Nullaboy on time and undamaged, guiding
31:23his triple road train down one of the country's most notorious highways.
31:28Heaps or the Central Arnhem Highway, they call it a highway, but it's more of a goat track.
31:33I've always been, like, a bit OCD when it comes to, um, keeping it inside the cab clean.
31:45Bare feet off socks.
31:46There's no shoes in the cabin.
31:47I actually look forward to getting the truck and trailers dirty, so it gives me an excuse
31:54to wash it again sooner.
31:56She loves the bubble bath, old Vivian.
31:59I'm pretty sure I'm the only bloke in the depot that actually washes his whole truck with
32:04a sponge from top to bottom.
32:06There's no room at all.
32:10At the moment, we're 120km out of Nullaboy.
32:13We call this a 120km jump-up.
32:19Last triple actually lost traction.
32:22You lose momentum so quick, you'll get stuck.
32:26You won't get up there.
32:28There's a lot of stuff in that chiller.
32:30See, for my day late, if it goes bad, not pretty.
32:38Yeesh!
32:43I'll just keep a lookout for people walking past.
32:54Daniel, jump in, Dan.
33:07I just can't pay for the fuel and we'll get out of here.
33:14Have a lovely day.
33:15Thanks.
33:16Sorry about the bees.
33:16They will go away.
33:18Okay, thank you.
33:19See ya.
33:24Tim and Dan are racing to deliver their highly volatile load of 21 million bees, while minimising
33:32any danger to the public.
33:33When I ride, there was only probably a handful of bees flying, which was good.
33:40We'll keep pushing.
33:41We'll get to the end of Alstonville and get on site tonight and then they can fly all they
33:46want in the morning because they'll be where they've got to be.
33:49And I'll tell you what, I'll be glad when this trip's over that my stress level can come
33:53back down again.
33:54It's kind of a pretty big job for what we've done.
33:57Yeah, I can't wait to have them off the truck and be rolling home.
34:08Made really good time on this trip.
34:10It's been awesome.
34:11We're here.
34:12Tim's client, Chris Smith, will use the bees to pollinate his 74-acre macadamia nut plantation.
34:42You're staying?
34:43Yeah, just on my nose.
34:44Oh, jeez, that's the worst place in all of the world.
34:48He seems pretty happy.
34:49He got a couple of stings as well.
34:51That's the nature of the beast.
34:53Smoke dance, mate, mate.
34:57It was a big job.
34:58Biggest job, biggest bee-shifting job I've ever done in my life.
35:01Both the honey and a little bit of money we get is really badly needed.
35:04It's been a pretty ordinary year.
35:06Last one!
35:07Woo-hoo!
35:08I've been stressed the last three days, but now the stress level's gone.
35:13Good job, mate.
35:15Done well.
35:16Thank you very much.
35:17It's been a mission, but we got it done.
35:18Yeah, we got it done.
35:19Road train, eastbound.
35:20About to come up over the jump-up.
35:21I think last time I lost a bit of an attraction.
35:26We are up and over.
35:50This truck, Vivian, she will just pull all day.
36:01She loves it.
36:03Averaging just 20 kilometres per hour, over 700 kilometres, on the brutal Central Arnhem Highway,
36:11Hibbo is at risk of missing his deadline.
36:14About 12, 1, 2, 3...
36:17About an hour and a half behind.
36:19Obviously, I've got the fridge van for a supermarket.
36:24That's time critical.
36:25And because of all these corrugations, it slows you down.
36:30As long as I'm here before five, time's ticking.
36:38Once I finish up this season, when it gets too wet to come back in here, that'd be it.
36:44The Hibbo's retiring long-distance trucking and giving yourself a normal life for once.
36:52I've got twin daughters.
36:53You know, they're 26.
36:55Obviously, I wasn't there to see those girls grow up.
36:58I was always on the highway.
37:00And it's not too late.
37:01I've got a good relationship with them.
37:03I've got important things in my life to worry about, which is obviously my daughters, Jade and Caitlin, and my grandson Jake.
37:08I'm actually looking forward to that.
37:09Just down time.
37:10I'll go and hang out at the air place a lot more.
37:13They might say, oh, Dad, you're over too much now.
37:15But you know what?
37:16I don't care.
37:17I'm coming.
37:18I'm coming to hang out.
37:21Hey, we're on the pitchman.
37:28We almost relaxed, hey.
37:31There's no more corrugations, no more bulldust holes, no more rocks.
37:41We're probably about an hour later than what we should be.
37:44But unfortunately, it is what it is.
37:51This is by far the most exciting part of this journey.
37:54Getting this chiller into that door.
37:58And once it's unloaded, my job's done.
38:02He came in with a fridge.
38:03We were out of food completely.
38:05Nothing left at all.
38:07Cold-wise, all the fridges were shut up.
38:09Like, we were empty.
38:10So it was pretty crucial when he got in.
38:12Another epic journey.
38:14Job well done, Hiro.
38:24That does not look good.
38:26If you might get you to jump up in the cab,
38:29when I give you the signal,
38:31just turn the key and start winding for a while.
38:34I just want to see what's actually occurring here
38:36coming back out of the head.
38:38It's make or break time for Foodie.
38:41If he can't get his truck started,
38:43he could be stranded for days,
38:45waiting for a mechanic,
38:46missing his vital delivery deadline.
38:49Look at that.
38:50I couldn't do it.
38:51You got magic fingers, boy.
38:55Good on ya.
38:56We're goers.
38:57That is just one hell of a relief, that is.
39:01We're gonna start breaking the road train up.
39:02We're gonna be splitting the trailer apart,
39:03because the ferry's gonna take them all at once.
39:05She's ready to rock and roll.
39:07There's a five metre crock lives in here,
39:09so I definitely don't want to go out and go up there.
39:10You got the track.
39:11You got magic fingers, boy.
39:16Good on ya.
39:18We're goers.
39:19That is just one hell of a relief, that is.
39:22We're going to start breaking a row trainer.
39:25We're going to be splitting the tail apart
39:27because the ferry's going to take them all at once.
39:30She's ready to rock and roll.
39:33There's a five-metre croc lives in here,
39:35so I definitely don't want to go for a swim today.
39:38My young kiwi don't want it either.
39:41He'd be a tasty little morsel.
39:44The 43 tonnes, he absolutely moved on the ferry,
39:48and we're about 42.9.
39:52And you watch the ferry start to rise here now.
39:56Up we go.
40:03There's no room for error down there.
40:10We're going to launch him.
40:12There we go, that's a perfect take-off.
40:15We'll drive the ferry as hard as I can up here.
40:19Up we go.
40:20Right-o.
40:25Right-o, one down.
40:27Flash trailer.
40:29Hello, guys. She's all over the number five, eh?
40:41Last trailer.
40:46Hello, guys.
40:47She's all over.
40:48That's number five, eh?
40:49The last trailer.
40:54And we're off.
40:59Home stretch.
41:02Well, happy days.
41:04We're a triple road train again.
41:08From here in, it's about 44, 46 k's into town.
41:13More than five hours behind schedule,
41:15time is running out for Foodie
41:17to deliver the trailer load of urgently required cement powder
41:21to his hometown of Bamaga.
41:24We had hoped to unload this morning around 9 or 10,
41:28but we're going to be doing it at probably about 1 or 2 o'clock.
41:35Guess what? There's no more f***ing dirt.
41:37We're on bitumen.
41:42Right.
41:43We're just going to unload that powder that they really need.
41:50We can go back and get the other two.
41:55We'll be just bringing those trailers home,
41:57and tomorrow we can get the freight out there to the people.
42:01Happy days we're here.
42:02Q, what do you reckon?
42:03Remember all your gear changes?
42:04You good?
42:05Righto, mate.
42:06Let's go do him, mate.
42:07I'm going to get Q to drive up around the back changing gears and that.
42:14Just put your foot in the clutch and just quickly slip it in a second will do.
42:15There you go. Keep heading that way a little bit.
42:20Righto, nice easy one.
42:21That's it.
42:22Right, start to turn hard now.
42:23Just watch the shed corner, mate.
42:24Stay away a bit.
42:26Being a tractor, you can explore the world.
42:28Yeah, about here somewhere.
42:29I'm sitting here.
42:30Let's go.
42:31You got to get that in the middle of the car.
42:32Righto, though.
42:33Just put your foot in the clutch and just quickly slip it in a second will do.
42:34There you go.
42:35Keep heading that way a little bit.
42:36Righto, nice easy one.
42:37That's it.
42:38Right, start to turn hard now.
42:39All right, start to turn hard now.
42:47Just watch the shed corner, mate, stay away a bit.
42:50Being a truck driver, like, you can explore the world.
42:53Yeah, about here somewhere.
42:55Might stick with the old fella until he retires.
42:57There you go.
42:59Then just, like, go out, because I already have my truck lights and I can, like, go out
43:04and look for a job somewhere far away from here.
43:08Jesus Christ, it's been a long couple of days.
43:11You sure you want to be a truck driver, mate?
43:14Yeah.
43:15You've seen the worst of it, mate.
43:25Shit can go wrong here because this hill now is very steep.
43:28Spent around the hill, struggling to get traction.
43:31Shit.
43:32Ah, bollocks.
43:34Head to a visit.
43:35We'll see how we're going.
43:36There we go.
43:37What the **** happened to you?
43:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:39Look at the hill guys inside the show, sir.
43:41How fun.
43:42When you're oversized, you've just got to hope everyone else has switched on as well.
43:46He doesn't give a ****.
43:47He's coming in locked.
43:48He doesn't give a ****.
43:49He's coming in locked.
43:50He doesn't give a ****.
43:51He's coming in locked.
43:53Go broke.
43:54Go.
43:56Go.
43:57Ooh.
43:58bamboo.
43:59Go.
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