Outback Truckers S11E06

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00:01This time on Outback Truckers.

00:03This hill now is very steep.

00:05It's just absolutely wrecking the truck and the trailer and everything around it.

00:11The narrow free crust is just barely the width of the trailer.

00:15Shit, um, buttocks.

00:19There's a desert.

00:20Got a fire up here.

00:21No way to turn around.

00:23The consequences are deadly.

00:26What the f*** happened is there?

00:28The hill guys decided to shit itself.

00:31When you're oversized, you've got to hope everyone else has switched on as well.

00:38He doesn't give a f***.

00:40He's coming in hot.

00:52Once you go, Woods.

00:53Do one all time.

00:56Yeah, I'll just pull up here.

00:58Yeah, we'll just do it like that.

00:59We'll get these knocked out quick.

01:02We're grabbing a crusher, a screen and a 36 tonne digger.

01:06Fair bit of money in all the gear.

01:08A little over $2 million, so we've just got to make sure we do the right thing and look after the customer's equipment.

01:1426-year-old Mason Parkai and his team have a heavy haulage convoy of three trucks to load and prepare for the brutal roads of Cape York.

01:24Hey, Mason, that machine's 2-7.

01:26Yeah.

01:27Yeah, so we'll be three metres, so I should gun them out there.

01:30As team leader, Mason carries the weight of responsibility, including supervising team member and father, Colin.

01:39Hey, Dad.

01:41Second and third from the rear.

01:43Both down, yeah.

01:44I'm travelling with Mason, my second oldest son, and Woody.

01:49Mason's definitely in charge on this job.

01:51He's running the show for sure.

01:54Want to go back a little?

01:56Just back to some money bit.

01:58I'm not going to call myself an expert, but I've got pretty good knowledge of the roads up here and the correct way to drive them.

02:03So that's sort of why I've been given the job of leading the pack.

02:07Although Mason is in charge of this operation...

02:11It's about as good as it's going to get.

02:12Colin owns the company.

02:16We kicked off the business 20 years ago.

02:19Started off in towing, and then we just progressed from there.

02:23The heavy haulage come into play just because of my sons, so we've just grown the business.

02:29Mason does anything on the dirt, and he does anything heavy haulage.

02:34Horrible today.

02:36It's muggy, it's hot.

02:38Sweating, it's only 7am.

02:40We've only really got a small window to get in and out of Weepa.

02:45Mainly because of the weather.

02:47If it gets wet up here, they'd close roads.

02:49Got about a 3-day window max, I'm thinking.

02:53After loading the mining machinery, the team must race the oncoming wet season.

02:59Crossing the rutted and corrugated dirt roads of Cape York before monsoon rain makes them impassable.

03:06Delivering the multi-million dollar load to a business in Mosmouth.

03:09We're in quarrying, mainly quarrying and small-scale mining.

03:14Wet season, you know, can last up to six months, so we don't want that year stuck up there.

03:19It's definitely better to be home and be able to do the maintenance on it over the wet season, so it's ready to go for next drawer.

03:24Well, let's go back out.

03:28I haven't used those long timbers.

03:31Do you want to go two or just one?

03:33Nah, just one beer up.

03:35Woody's been with us for going on seven years now.

03:38Just a bit low at the back, so I built a bit of a ramp for it, easy to get up.

03:42It started just after me and he sort of worked his way up.

03:44Both of them are capable.

03:48They know what they're doing.

03:50Just got to try and outbound as much as I can.

03:55That's as far forward as I can go.

03:58Mason's overheating at the moment, so we've got to try and be quick.

04:06All right, let's see if I f*** this or not.

04:08To cart the 100 tonnes of equipment, they're using three company trucks.

04:16Woody in a Kenworth K200 cabover.

04:20Colin in a Volvo cabover.

04:23And Mason in the bonneted pride of the fleet.

04:29This is my new C509.

04:32Just ticked over 20,000 k's.

04:34Love it. I don't even know where to start.

04:35She's a dream truck.

04:38Heavy spec, six rod suspension, slipper front end.

04:42Planetary dish. Yeah, she's a big girl.

04:45Though it's a little bit too pretty to come up here,

04:47but it's spec the right way for it.

04:51As owner of the company,

04:53Colin had to sign the cheque for the $700,000 truck.

04:57Pretty surprising, actually.

04:58I never thought he'd say yes to letting us order one of these trucks.

05:01When pigs fly, there you go.

05:03That's why I got the pig on the bonnet.

05:06I bought Mason this 509.

05:09Huge investment.

05:11We're mindful of that.

05:13We've got to look after our own equipment,

05:15but the customer's stuff's on the back as well,

05:17and definitely don't want to be damaging the customer's equipment.

05:21Reputation is probably my major focus these days.

05:26We've got customers that we've had for 20 years.

05:34South Bend Mile Creek bypass by three.

05:37Just up ahead, I've got a bridge there, but it's only a 25 ton load limit.

05:41We're obviously a bit heavier than that, so we're going to have to take the bypass.

05:43It's a bypass, Cape York style.

05:48To avoid a rickety wooden bridge, Mason needs to lead the team down an alternative track, through the riverbed.

05:55I'll let you know when I've cleared it.

05:58I'll just get you to stay up sort of at this top corner.

06:01Yeah, cool.

06:03It's pretty rough, so I'll throw it down in the second.

06:06Try and pick the right line.

06:10It's nice and narrow down in here.

06:13Don't want to be cleaning the machine up on any of these branches.

06:26Just pull up there and we'll get the dump truck in behind you.

06:29Keith's just gone setting up the truck and, yeah, getting ready for loading.

06:32Contracting company owner, Liam O'Connor, is under pressure to complete a heavy, high-stakes trucking job.

06:41A lot of the equipment that we deliver is expensive equipment.

06:44There's a lot of money involved in the delivery process alone, so, yeah, you have to be on your game.

06:50Trucking is, it's never easy.

06:52The trucks have to be rolling five to six days a week, at least, to make any money.

06:57The job is taking two 60-tonne articulated dump trucks.

07:02Brand-new trucks work over 1.2 million a piece from dirt all the way to Telfer Gold Mine.

07:09It's a brutal journey of 1,715 kilometres to Marble Bar, Australia's hottest town,

07:17and then another 400 kilometres of rough dirt to deliver $2.4 million worth of dump trucks,

07:24desperately needed at a mine in Telfer.

07:26We've got 400 kilometres of corrugated dirt road. We've got to make sure that we, yeah, stay on the road and get there.

07:34The client is waiting for these trucks for the past couple of weeks. It's important we can on the road and get them delivered.

07:39Liam, where's the keys? Huh? Where's the keys?

07:43Oh, sorry, Andrew. Here under the bunk.

07:46With millions of dollars on the line, Liam's gambling on an all-island team,

07:52putting newly arrived Irish compatriot Keith Flynn behind the wheel of the second truck.

07:57We've got one of our newest truck drivers, um, is Keith. This is going to be his first big load. Definitely a bit of a challenge for him.

08:06I didn't start off with a load as big as this, that's all I can say.

08:10A little bit nervous, yeah, something. It's a lot bigger than what I'm used to.

08:14You really have to be awake when you're doing this kind of stuff. Shit can go bad very fast.

08:23We just checked the weights on the drives, so we're 22 tonne, we're about, yeah, 4 tonne overweight.

08:28Legally, you're only allowed 18 tonne on your drive axles, so we've got to try and transfer some weight backwards.

08:35Whoa! We're still 2 tonne over.

08:38We've got to come up with another plan, see what we can do just to get 2 tonne off the drives.

08:42What about if we pull the turntable forward?

08:48Adjusting the gooseneck hitch position on the 1 million dollar trailer

08:52can vary the proportion of load weight on the truck's drive axles.

08:58Now we're getting places.

09:00By taking the turntable all the way forward, we've just gotten, yeah, down to our 18 tonnes, so yeah.

09:04Get her packed up now, get her chained down and we should be right.

09:07We need to be on the road by 9, yeah, so we're cutting it tight now.

09:12Our pilot has just arrived, so yeah.

09:14We don't want to delay him.

09:18Cutting it a bit tight now, it's gone a bit after 9 with delays and stuff.

09:21I can't wait.

09:23The pilot's very important, everyone needs to know what's happening.

09:26It's just catching the rain now, unavoidable, unfortunately.

09:33It's Ireland every day, yeah.

09:35340 days of the year.

09:38Rain in the city is never good, because all you see is brake lights everywhere, so stuff starts to happen.

09:44You can brake as fast as you want, but it doesn't stop very fast with a lot of waste, yeah.

09:51Shit!

09:52Fucking piece of metal in the road.

09:54Hit the bottom of the truck.

09:56Damaged airlines, tires, everything.

09:59Let's give the chains a bit of a bang, just make sure everything's seated in, because if you don't, it'll come loose going down the road.

10:18We've picked up some tippers we've ordered a while back.

10:22Cartage business owner and trucker, Rex Riles, has just laid down hundreds of thousands of dollars on new equipment.

10:31They're a roll press side tipper, very well designed, and we've taken them down to Laverton, and we're going to work out in the desert.

10:40The brand new trailers allow cargo to be dumped by tilting the trailer body to one side, perfect for unloading gravel and sand.

10:49They're another big investment for Rex and his business.

10:54Oh look there, 120 grand to 145, 150.

10:58Rex has always got his custom stuff, which is great.

11:01I get off on nice gear.

11:03It's not just the shiny custom-built trailers that turn Rex on.

11:10He's brought one of his favourite trucks to haul them home.

11:14The Marmon, it was built in Galen, Texas in 1995, and then they picked it up in 1997.

11:23The ultra-rare Marmon truck is one of only 22 brought to Australia, and just 20 are still actively working.

11:31It's on its third motor, a 550 horsepower, 15 litre, six-cylinder diesel.

11:39Been in the desert, doing a lot of work.

11:40It's been a good old honest old truck, and yeah, I'm quite fond of it actually.

11:48Thanks very much.

11:49Thank you for your support.

11:50No problem. See you, mate.

11:54It's going to be a lot of challenges, rough roads, problems with tyres and bearings.

11:59From the trailer manufacturers in Darwin, Rex has almost 2,000 kilometres ahead of him via Alice Springs and Uluru,

12:10before hitting the rough dirt of the Great Central Road for over 1,000 kilometres

12:16to reach his hometown, the tiny community of Laverton, on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert.

12:21Rex's business, Desert Sands, is based there.

12:28Started Desert Sands in 1989.

12:31Then I've just been doing whatever we need to do to keep the whole business going.

12:35So, at the moment, cutting water, food and concrete.

12:39A maximum couple of jobs have been sprung on me, so I've got to try and work in for that.

12:43While Rex is under pressure to get back to Laverton and keep the dollars coming in for his business,

12:49he also has another equally important deadline.

12:52We're trying to get back to the races that are on the Sunday,

12:57and we're going to make sure that the track's all right for it before the horses turn up.

13:02We're ready for the Shire of Laverton Springs.

13:04Held only once a year, the Laverton Horse Races is an event of massive importance to the local community.

13:14Rex has committed to preparing the track to make it safe for racing.

13:19Don't add as much as we can.

13:21We're going to try and make sure that the community's getting the support they need.

13:26Yeah, I've got a few people who might know where I am and when I'm getting back.

13:30Compared to what I get back there on time.

13:47We're trying for three ways.

13:49That's where we want to be tonight.

13:51So I want to try and get in there with a reasonable hour.

13:54Still over 600 kilometres away,

13:56the Three Ways Roadhouse is Rex's first planned stop,

14:01before continuing towards Alice Springs tomorrow.

14:04We'll make sure we've got plenty of fuel when we venture out.

14:07From Alice Springs we'll fill everything up and then head to the desert.

14:11We'll see how we go out there.

14:13What the **** happened to you?

14:14What the **** happened to you?

14:17The fuel gas decided to shit itself.

14:23Hopefully enough fuel to get us through the three ways.

14:33Try and pick the right line.

14:35It's nice and narrow down in here.

14:38Don't want to be cleaning the machine up on any of these branches.

14:42Start feeding it out.

14:48You right to bring her up, Deb?

14:54Is he pulling out of there or just normal?

14:58It's a little bit of a pull out.

15:00You'll need a bit of momentum.

15:0126-year-old Mason Parkeye is responsible for guiding a convoy

15:07hauling over $2 million worth of mining equipment through remote Cape York.

15:11You won't need it.

15:12You won't need it.

15:13You won't need it.

15:14You won't need it.

15:15You won't need it.

15:16No, I'm better safe than so.

15:18It's a massive contract for Mason's company.

15:21Colpac, owned by his father, Colin.

15:23We offer a service and our reputation is massive.

15:28I will pretty much do whatever it takes.

15:30If it means I've got to jump in a truck, that's what I'll do.

15:33100%.

15:37Oh, Woody's taking a while.

15:39Is he okay?

15:41All clear, Russ.

15:42Well done, mate.

15:47Righto, so that's done.

15:50Get back out in the road.

15:53Can't just hope this dirt isn't as bad as I've been told it is.

16:02F***ing sucks, doesn't it?

16:06I think the cows are even quicker than me.

16:07Now we shouldn't be doing this, but we're going to do it anyway.

16:13We've got to sit on the table drain.

16:16It's too rough up on the road there,

16:19so we decided to drop down into the table drain

16:23because it's very smooth down there,

16:25but the issue we've got is maybe trying to get back out.

16:28Sitting on the table drain is a bit of a risky one.

16:32It's a bit softer.

16:34A bit more s*** sitting down in here.

16:35We've got about 36 tons sitting behind us now,

16:38and more likely to catch some of the stuff

16:40that you don't want to drive on.

16:42The potential of rolling it or the load shifting,

16:46but it can save you a s***load of time.

16:50Sorry to do this to you guys. End of the road.

16:54For just a moment, it's not worth sitting down in there,

16:59do our time sitting on the rough stuff.

17:01Well, you've got to take that little wind, boys.

17:05It's a great little wind.

17:09All right, we're on the Benjamin.

17:11I'm still like a cave behind you.

17:13All right, me and Dad will see you later on sometime.

17:14All right, I'll just head down there.

17:15Yeah, you're going to jump out.

17:16Oh, it's open, is it?

17:17Don't know.

17:18It looks like it, though.

17:19Just rolling into Archer River now.

17:20I'm going to pull up, have a shower and a feed.

17:21I've just got the thumbs up from Mason that the shower's open.

17:23Still running on time, maybe half an hour behind, but it's not too bad.

17:25You're on the boat.

17:26Yeah, you're going to jump out.

17:29Oh, it's open, is it?

17:30Don't know.

17:31It looks like it, though.

17:33Just rolling into Archer River now.

17:35I'm going to pull up, have a shower and a feed.

17:36Just got the thumbs up from Mason that the shower's open.

17:39Still running on time, maybe half an hour behind, but it's not too bad.

17:46Half an hour behind, but it's not too bad.

17:55Just sort of getting ready to start our day.

17:57We're on the...

17:59You'd call it the final leg, wouldn't you?

18:00Yeah, last stretch.

18:02And a little day tomorrow morning, unload.

18:07Just out into the bitumen now.

18:09I'll be out in front, so I'll just sort of give Woody a heads up.

18:12If there's anything coming.

18:13I don't really want any surprises.

18:20Oh, it's f***ing pissing now.

18:25F***ing hell.

18:26I thought it was better down south.

18:28It's f***ing...

18:29It's got that little one sitting around here.

18:34Ah.

18:36It's about to just lay down.

18:37This car's on the fix.

18:38Yeah, no, I'm just sitting on 70.

18:40I can't see it.

18:41I've got to roll.

18:43The car probably should have had a geyser once it was in front of it.

18:46Of course, it went for an overtake.

18:49I'm going to be worried about them jamming on the brakes at any second now.

18:59Shit.

19:00Piece of metal in the road.

19:01Hit the bottom of the truck.

19:03That thing gets wound up in something.

19:05It can pull off air lines, cables, yacht tyre.

19:08It can just do unnatural amount of damage real quick.

19:12I'm going to put up and check the load.

19:16Less than two hours into a three-day journey, delivering over $2 million worth of dump trucks

19:22into the Pilbara, Liam O'Connor faces the possibility of serious damage to his seriously expensive trailer.

19:30You're looking at, yeah, hundreds and thousands very quickly on any kind of a breakdown with these trucks and trailers.

19:35Everything looks in order, yeah?

19:39All is good.

19:43Taking Keith with us, one of our newest truckies, first big load for him.

19:49I've only had the license a couple of months, so this is the first time I'm out on the road with a big truck like this and a big load.

19:59Two or four minutes here, mate.

20:00This is coming past that roll over.

20:03Sounds like there's some kind of an accident up ahead.

20:07This is serious shit.

20:08It doesn't sound like anybody's hurt, so that's the good news.

20:20And now we're aiming to get to Magnet before sundown.

20:34We're cutting it tight.

20:36It's very important that we keep our schedule.

20:38It's still almost 500 kilometres to their first overnight stop at Mount Magnet.

20:44We have to be off the road by sundown in a reasonable parking area.

20:48We can only travel in the daylight hours with these oversized loads.

20:59Still a good two to three hours from our destination, but one small misjudgment and, yeah, things get real messy real quick.

21:12We've got some cats up ahead.

21:14We can't do anything.

21:18We can't do anything.

21:21Shit!

21:24What the **** happened here?

21:26Fuel gauge decided to shut us hell out, mate.

21:29We've got a fuel gauge playing up here.

21:31We've got a fuel gauge playing up here so we don't know what's going on.

21:38We're going to drop bay down here and just have a bit of a walk around and check everything.

21:43We've got enough fuel to get us through the three ways.

21:46That's where we want to be tonight.

21:53That's hot.

21:55Check the fuel of the tank.

21:58Do it the old fashioned way.

22:01You can see there's no shortage of fuel.

22:04It's quite a release.

22:07Do the marking so we can keep it on it.

22:11Go around the other side, do the same.

22:14For some reason, the wires come off.

22:18Might help putting the wire back.

22:21So one problem solved.

22:23We've got plenty of fuel.

22:25And it was just the wires had come off the top of the gauge indicator.

22:31So we're right.

22:34We're going to have to keep moving.

22:38On a mission to pull a triple trailer load through the harsh, arid centre of Australia, Rex's 30-year-old hand-built Marmon Prime Mover is testing his trucking skills.

22:51It was down below zero before.

22:53Now it's up to just under half the tank.

22:55So we're back in business there.

22:57Rex's reputation in his hometown, Laverton, is on the line.

23:02He must complete over 3,000 kilometres through the brutally hot desert in just four days to get back in time for an important commitment.

23:12As we've got racehorses running around down there.

23:15So we just want to make sure that they're running on good ground.

23:19Relationships with the community I regard very seriously.

23:23I believe investing in the town to help build your town and get everybody on board.

23:29We're about 40 out there, I suppose.

23:35This time for the year is always challenging because the wheel bearings run hotter, the truck runs hotter, the diffs run hotter.

23:42It's a risk of breakdowns.

23:47We've run a little bit warm.

23:50So, yeah, sort of factored off a bit.

23:52Got that jump up.

23:59Yeah, we've got a bit of heat in the diffs.

24:02The diff, or differential, redirects the truck's power from the engine to the wheels.

24:09Replacing a diff can take days and cost thousands of dollars.

24:14Yeah, it's supposed to be about 80, 85, but it's a bit hot.

24:20And what happens is if the diff heats up, gets too hot, they could fail.

24:39That was a stray cow doing a runner across the road in front of us.

24:43Close enough one, yeah? You have to be watching him.

24:46Irishman Liam O'Connor is feeling the outback heat.

24:52He has less than an hour to get to his first overnight stop at Mount Magnet, or risk missing his critical delivery deadline.

25:01These trucks are north of one million each.

25:05Expensive bit of kit.

25:07Operators are on site waiting, costing the client money, and, yeah, we're losing money when they're sitting on a trailer as well.

25:12And so, yeah, there's a bit of pressure to get these trucks delivered.

25:15Just here on time was a late start, so it's not a bad finish to a day.

25:22Have a bit to ease and maybe a few Guinness.

25:27It's going to start getting hotter as we move up along, so, yeah, we'll be heading on for Marble Bar.

25:37More than 900 kilometres further north, Marble Bar is Australia's hottest town, where temperatures have been known to exceed 50 degrees.

25:48It's a long way from the green, green grass of Liam's home.

25:52Left Ireland in February 2012 and came here and set up my own company.

25:58Knocked on a lot of doors.

26:00Yeah, it's just been a constant battle, I guess.

26:03I drive the truck because I enjoy it.

26:06It's something new to me, something I wouldn't have done back home.

26:22We'll be travelling through the edge of Karajini National Park.

26:26It's a pretty impressive site.

26:28As we come to the top of the steep designs, we would have to get our gear selected and take it all the way down.

26:39Fifth should be our gear, I reckon.

26:41It's going to be definitely a bit of a challenge for a teat.

26:45A little bit nervous.

26:47These trucks are about 45 tonnes empty, so there'll be a lot of weight pushing us downhill.

26:52The main thing is watching tyres blowouts.

27:09Halfway down, so, yeah, we're over the worst of it.

27:12Just got through the Karajini National Park.

27:17It's a lovely place to drive through.

27:22Getting close now to the dirt road to Marlborough Bar.

27:27We'll just slow it right down.

27:29And we better start pulling our back now, Kate.

27:31It's about to get fun.

27:32Yeah, I'll be after.

27:42Just absolutely wrecking the truck and the trailer and everything around it.

27:54How's your travelling back now, Kate?

27:56Yeah, it's a bit rocky.

27:58It's pretty different to what Fives at home would be dealing with.

28:02You wouldn't see how many roads like this.

28:05It's kind of raw. Just knocks me years out of the truck and the trailer.

28:08And myself.

28:09Try and find any smooth path ways we can.

28:14To minimise the corrugation and the bouncing and the banging.

28:19Otherwise, things are just going to fall apart.

28:24Worst than I expected.

28:29We're just coming onto a narrow pre-crossing here now.

28:33It's just barely the width of the trailer.

28:35No room for slipping off here.

28:38If the trailer was any wider, we wouldn't have got through.

28:40We've got a tight one here now, Kate.

28:42Yeah, I got it.

28:44I'm even nervous.

28:45That's it. I'm done.

28:46Got a bit of a hill here, all right.

28:47Shit can go wrong here with me because this hill now is very steep.

28:48So yeah, loose ground can turn messy very quick.

28:50Yeah.

28:51Loose ground can turn messy very quick.

28:52Yeah.

28:53Yeah, I got it.

28:54I've got a bit of a hill here, all right.

28:55Shit can go wrong here with me because this hill now is very steep.

28:58So yeah, loose ground can turn messy very quick.

28:59Shit, man.

29:00Bollocks.

29:01We're spinning on the hill.

29:02It's trouble.

29:03Yeah.

29:04Yeah.

29:05Yeah.

29:06Yeah.

29:07Yeah.

29:08Yeah.

29:09Yeah.

29:10Yeah.

29:11Yeah.

29:12Yeah.

29:13Yeah.

29:14Yeah.

29:15Yeah.

29:16Yeah.

29:17Yeah.

29:18Yeah.

29:19Yeah.

29:20Yeah.

29:21Yeah.

29:22Yeah.

29:23Yeah.

29:24Yeah.

29:25Yeah.

29:26Yeah.

29:27Yeah.

29:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.

29:29The big thing, James.

29:31Yeah, yeah.

29:33Yeah, the big thing is on the back of my body, I don't know why I don't want to do this

29:34like a big thing.

29:35Yeah, yeah.

29:36Yeah, yeah.

29:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.

29:38Yeah, yeah.

29:39You've just got to always be prepared for a car driver or a polytruck driver to just do the dumbest thing ever.

29:47I'm just glad that they've all got their lights on for once.

29:56That was bloody short-lived.

29:58That was a bit of a funny one.

30:00A solid rain for about five minutes.

30:03And now absolutely nothing.

30:05Mason Parkai and his team are on their second day hauling over $2 million worth of oversized mining equipment out of the remote Cape York outback.

30:15We've just got a few hours up the road and we're sort of back to civilisation.

30:21It's got a cow like just over our left fog line, don't you?

30:25Stay there, stay.

30:27What are you going to do, bud?

30:34I just couldn't figure out what I wanted to do there for a second.

30:39That's a shiny truck, it's thinking.

30:42Might have been checking out the pig on the bonnet.

30:45Trusted with leading the convoy, Mason is also responsible for a sparkling new $700,000 company truck.

30:54This is my dream truck.

30:56Nice clean floor mats, just a towel on the floor.

30:59That's an operator.

31:00We don't have dirty floors.

31:03It's your pride and joy, you've got to look after it.

31:05It's a bit embarrassing.

31:06Every now and then I get caught out for just staring at it.

31:09I mean, you can't blame me.

31:10Look at the thing.

31:11It's pretty beautiful.

31:18We're parked that night.

31:19Going to have a couple of beers.

31:21Going to kick the barbie in the guts.

31:23Some jobs are better than others, aren't they?

31:25Do you want to chuck these steak on, Woody?

31:27Oh, look at that.

31:30This is living.

31:31Tough gig.

31:42Just got going from our car line.

31:45We've got a bloke meeting us down there in the range.

31:47He's going to give us an escort down.

31:48Ahead, a narrow mountain pass, winding its way down along the edge of Australia's largest

31:56rainforest, the Daintree.

31:58Fog like this this time of day is not ideal, especially when you're oversized.

32:03This is Robbie now, Dad.

32:05Yep.

32:06Just caught up with Robbie at the top of the hill here.

32:08He's going to get out and about in front of us.

32:11He's going to want us down the range.

32:12He's got three oversize coming down, mate.

32:16When you're doing oversize like this, it's not really something that I'll tackle without

32:20a pilot.

32:23You should always be careful on hills like this.

32:27There's no safety ramps up here.

32:29If you pick the wrong gear on this hill, you're going straight down the side of that cliff.

32:34When you're oversized, you've just got to give everybody else as much room as possible

32:38and then, uh, hope everyone else has switched on as well.

32:43Jump coming up, mate.

32:49He doesn't give a f***.

32:50He's coming in hot.

32:57Got that jump up.

32:59Yeah, we've got a bit of heat in the, uh, diff.

33:01Yeah, it's supposed to be about 80, 85, but it's hotter than what they should be.

33:04What happens is the deficit heats up and it gets too hot, they could fail.

33:11If that happens, we're in a spot of bother.

33:19Just back that off for about 1,500 revs and we've got a bit of a downhill coast.

33:28Temperatures drop back.

33:30So it's back where it should be, so happy days.

33:34Rex Riles is pushing his rare 30-year-old Marmon truck to its limit,

33:41hauling his brand-new $150,000 bespoke trailers in a desperate race to get back home

33:48in time to fulfil a commitment to his hometown community.

33:52I've got to get back for the racetrack and make sure that's up to optimum conditions.

33:57We've got horses coming from everywhere.

33:59A little bit behind, but we'll just keep lotting along and hopefully we don't have any other

34:05issues down the road here.

34:06What have they got going here?

34:07What's the story?

34:08It's going to turn green shortly, I'm hoping.

34:13Might be here for a while.

34:14Not doing our schedule any favours, that's for sure.

34:20Holy mackerel.

34:21Oh, come on.

34:22I'm so breaking.

34:23Unbelievable.

34:24Hey, are you copying the order, team?

34:25Is it a right to follow you through?

34:26Oh, **** if I'll just sit here all day.

34:27Oh, **** if I'll just sit here all day.

34:28Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

34:29Why, can't it stay all day any favours?

34:30That's for sure.

34:31Holy mackerel.

34:32Come on, you're breaking.

34:38Unbelievable.

34:41Hey, are you copying the order, team?

34:45Are they a right to follow you through?

34:48Oh, **** if I'll just sit here all day.

34:50I don't know if I was sitting here with that.

34:58Oh, thank goodness for that.

35:14Oh, for for sake.

35:17We've got a mob of cattle standing on the causeway,

35:21the approach to the bridge.

35:23He's got to watch them.

35:25If they get spooked, they'll just bolt across the road.

35:29Next minute, you're dealing with a lot of targets,

35:32and that's the last thing you want to be looking at.

35:35And so if it's best for you to try not to upset them.

35:40Shit, you're cheap, you're dead.

35:47We're spinning on the hill.

35:50Struggling to get traction.

35:52Yeah, that was tidy going.

35:53Had to approach the hill slow because of the weight.

35:56If it was any steeper,

35:57we'd be probably having to go back and start again.

35:59Yeah, that was tidy going.

36:02Had to approach the hill slow because of the weight.

36:04If it was any steeper,

36:05we'd be probably having to go back and start again.

36:07Just back in the bitumen.

36:09It's a very big thing.

36:10Yeah, it's a very big thing.

36:11It's a very big thing.

36:12It's a very big thing.

36:13It's a very big thing.

36:14Yeah.

36:15Yeah, that was tidy going.

36:17Had to approach the hill slow because of the weight.

36:20If it was any steeper,

36:22we'd be probably having to go back and start again.

36:25Just back in the bitumen.

36:36It's excellent.

36:38Here we are.

36:43One of the hottest places in Australia.

36:46Mission accomplished for today.

36:48The flies.

36:55The flies.

36:58The flies are right with your men.

37:09I've turned off the main road, now onto the mine road.

37:12200k of dirt from here to the mine.

37:14It's not over yet.

37:15Anything can happen.

37:18It's just getting as rough as guts now.

37:23Just as I expected, it wasn't going to be sweet all the way.

37:27115k to go, yeah, we're down to 5k an hour.

37:32Bit of pressure to get these trucks delivered.

37:35Operators are on-site waiting.

37:37This rail will probably reach mine around midnight, maybe.

37:41The maintenance crew doing a bit of grading, so yeah.

37:51Just got to get into his track now and we'll be going a bit better.

37:54Get the speed back up again.

37:58Just arrived now at the gatehouse.

38:12About an hour ahead of schedule.

38:14Get unloaded and turn around and get out of here.

38:17No major breakdowns or mishaps, so yeah.

38:21It's a successful trip.

38:22Loads in one piece.

38:23Trucks in one piece.

38:24Pretty happy with how it is.

38:25Top job keys, yeah.

38:26We're going to get these trucks loaded and get out of here.

38:27A few different jobs up in the air.

38:28We'll get back and see what's most urgent and get back into it.

38:30Shit.

38:47It's a cow on the side of the road.

38:49He had his head down grazing side.

38:52That's not what it's most urgent.

38:53It's just a cow on the side of the road.

38:56He'd set a cow on the side of the road,

38:58and he had his head down grazing,

39:00so you just gotta watch him.

39:03They'll ride your bull bar off, they'll smash your grill,

39:05they'll take out your radiator.

39:07That's if you get off light.

39:21Been on the road for 12 hours,

39:22and yeah, I'll be looking forward

39:24to pull it up down here at three ways,

39:26and first light, attack it again.

39:32The sunsets are just one of the components

39:34that make it worthwhile living out here.

39:38Vast spaces to the outback drive for miles.

39:42Some days you don't even see anyone.

39:46It's a pretty special environment

39:48which I spent most of my life enjoying.

39:54I'm just heading into Alice Springs and grabbed a bit of fuel.

40:09From there we get a bit of tucker,

40:11and then wander out the Curtin Springs.

40:16We still watch the heat,

40:17but my hyper thinks it'll start cooling down a bit.

40:20It's a bit of fuel.

40:22Nah, shit.

40:24We've got a fire up here.

40:27There's got a bit of ferocity to it.

40:30It's not that far off the road, really.

40:33You don't want to end up on a fire,

40:36and then you got nowhere to turn around.

40:39You're stuck there.

40:40The consequences are deadly.

40:42Driving his new $700,000 company truck,

41:0826-year-old Mason Parkeye is leading a convoy.

41:12Loaded with over $2 million worth of oversized mining equipment,

41:17down a dangerously steep mountain road.

41:20What are you, speed are you doing, Woody?

41:23I just knocked it back just about 17.

41:27Felt like 27.

41:29We haven't been down here before, mates.

41:32Lucky we got Robbie, eh?

41:35Yeah, I'm taking up both lanes.

41:37It's just one of those roads, like, ideally you want to use it all, but you can't always.

41:45We're not the only ones out here.

41:49Just got to watch out for cars.

41:50I hate condensation.

41:59Everything just gets flippery.

42:02It's just a pretty steep area.

42:04You hit that little white line and she just locks up.

42:06Didn't know about that one.

42:15All right, I'm at the bottom now.

42:18Well, that was good for the bloody heart.

42:21Our load's just on the right here.

42:23It's good for the home's sakes.

42:30We'll get in, do some maintenance on it, and get it back out somewhere.

42:35The most important thing in business, I think, is having a good relationship with their good lads.

42:40That last stretch was a...

42:42I've never been down this range before, but I'm happy we all made it.

42:45No damage.

42:46I'm just stoked, eh?

42:47Like, I was a little bit anxious about going up in there because of the weather,

42:51but I think that was just an inexperience on my part.

42:54Mason is a great operator.

42:56Like, this business is in good hands.

43:00Everything's going really well.

43:01Just getting the last machine off.

43:03Customer's happy.

43:04It's been bloody awesome.

43:06We'll finish packing up here and then sort of just move on to the next one.

43:10No rest, that's all right.

43:12Truck's got to pay itself off.

43:16No, when you come out here, basically you throw the clock out the window.

43:22Yeah, right up there, come around there.

43:24Drive through dust, and that's where accident's at.

43:28Ah, shit.

43:29There is a truck coming.

43:31No, the boat is expensive.

43:33About 3.5 mil.

43:34We're setting the f***ing dickheads put in their trailers.

43:38Really shit small.

43:42The places for us to pass are really limited.

43:46Righto, mate, I'm into it.

43:49Shit, there's a whole leg.

43:52How are you?

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