Outback Truckers Season 11 Episode 7

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00:00This time on Outback Truckers. Getting all sorts of different reports about the

00:05road. The road's pretty crooked places. When you come out here, basically throw the clock out the

00:10window. Ah, shit. We've got a five-meter loader in front of us, driving through dust, and that's

00:17where our accident is at. Shit. The boat is... Expensive. About 3.5 mil. It looks like it was

00:29the worst of it. Your trucks are closed to the road down the end. Shit. Go to me a little bit,

00:37John. Dickheads put in their trailers. Really shits them all. Places for us to pass are really

00:46limited.

00:47Trailer, what's up? Righto, mate. I'm into it. Shit, there's a hole there.

00:56We've got a fire up here. Got a look at it. And I'm a bit concerned with where that fire

01:12is. It's not that far off the road. There's got a bit of ferocity to it. You don't want to

01:20end up on a fire, and then you've got nowhere to turn around. You're stuck there. Consequences

01:27are deadly. Now, this road goes around the southeast, so, yeah, we're going to clear it. It's quite

01:39a release. Rex Riles is racing the clock on a mission to get through Australia's desolate

01:48red centre for a critical deadline. Yeah, I've got a few people wanting to know where

01:55I am and when I'm getting back. He has just two days to complete more than 1,500 demanding

02:00outback kilometres to get back to his home town for the biggest event of the year, the

02:05Laverton Cup. We've got to get the track cleaned up and get the water on the track to make sure

02:16that we've got an optimal running surface. These Laverton races are pretty important to the community.

02:24It's imperative I get back on time. Getting close to Alice Springs now. Just going over the James

02:33Orr overpass. We've picked up some tippers we've ordered a while back, and we've taken them down to Laverton.

02:43Starting in Darwin, Rex has already travelled almost 1,500 kilometres to Alice Springs. Now he's heading west towards Uluru and the notoriously rough dirt of the Great Central Road to get home to Laverton, where he'll use his brand new tipper trailers worth $150,000 each for his cartage business.

03:06It has its highs and lows as like any business. Yeah, a lot of pressures. We've got fuel costs and wages.

03:19Well, right down here at the Lasseners Highway, head out past Ayres Rock.

03:27And we've got Mount Connor on our left hand side.

03:33I love being out in the bush. And I enjoy driving the big girl.

03:40Rex's big girl is a rare Texas-built Marmon truck on its third engine. A 550 horsepower, 15.6 litre diesel.

03:51The Marmon. It's a 1995 truck, and they've done nearly 2 million k's.

04:00Just about coming into Curtin Springs now. Get some fuel and park up and have a cold beer.

04:07Righto, let's do it.

04:16Righto, let's do it.

04:18We've got a lot of corrugations here. As you see, if you're driving it too fast, it does a lot of damage. We start breaking the failures.

04:36If you're trying to read the road, try and dodge the really bad spots. You limit the amount of damage you do. That's the trick.

04:43It takes you a bit more time to get from point A to point B.

04:47Just do it all day today, and then day tomorrow, then we're going to get it.

04:51We're going to try and be in a loader by Friday lunchtime, no later.

04:55If I don't get back there in time, I'm going to be in the shit.

05:04I'm going to get out, have a wander around, just see what things are doing.

05:10Hopefully everything's sitting all right.

05:18That's better.

05:20Will Barron's as cold as, bloody just lukewarm.

05:25Come on.

05:32Bit of loop.

05:37Okay.

05:45Well, that's not going to help.

05:46That's...

05:48That's not good.

05:52That's not good at all.

05:53What's happened is a chain has broken the landing leg away from the strut.

06:01And this was propping the trailer up.

06:04So it's freewheeling.

06:06If it falls over, we'll take this trailer with it.

06:08All right.

06:09I'm about ready to get this show on the road, I think.

06:22This job is part of a serious setup to keep some communities going through the wet season.

06:27What it is, is an oversized fuel tank that's going into a little community called Ringer Soak out the back of Halls Creek.

06:37Legendary 73-year-old trucker Steve Graham has a massive oversized load to deliver to a remote community in the tropical northwest of Australia.

06:46These people, they ran low on fuel last year, you know, and they've got to keep fridges and freezers running like any other little town.

06:54This tank's got to get there and set them up for a wet season.

06:58Once the wet comes in properly, they're isolated.

07:00They need their 84,000 litres of diesel on the ground, keeping their gensets going.

07:05So we've got no choice.

07:06We've got to do the job now.

07:07The wet's coming.

07:10I'm headed for Ringer Soak out of Halls Creek, and to get to Ringer Soak, I've got to go out the Duncan Road.

07:22From his base in Perth, Steve will lug the tank almost 3,000 kilometres along the Great Northern Highway.

07:29Turning off at Halls Creek onto the rugged dirt of the brutal Duncan Road.

07:36And then travelling another 160 kilometres to reach the tiny community of Ringer Soak.

07:43I've got to liaise with a 150 tonne capacity crane.

07:49There's two other communities, Balgo and Villaluna, have needed an upgrade on their fuel tanks.

07:54We have to meet with this crane at the end of the Tanamai Road.

07:59The crane is being used to install identical fuel tanks in two other remote communities in the Tanamai Desert, just before Steve arrives.

08:09They come back out of the Tanamai Road, meet me, and we go out the Duncan Road, the other way out the back of Halls Creek, and unload me.

08:19So it's all got to go like clockwork, because that big crane costs big bucks.

08:285.5 southbound.

08:31Righto mate, thank you.

08:32We've got one five and a half metre oversize load coming down the hill.

08:39I'm 3.5 wide.

08:42The good news is I'll pass him on the three lane here, and we won't have to get off the road for him.

08:47Now that is one big bulldover.

08:59Today is Supercise Saturday.

09:02They don't want the super-sized stuff to create chaos during the working week when everyone's trying to make a dollar.

09:08I can hear a bit of radio chatter going on. It might be a super-sized load in front of me.

09:19See, I can't understand. That's why I'm not talking. I'm trying to work out what they're saying with that radio chatter.

09:29Communication's key, I guess.

09:31It must be northbound, travelling the same direction as me.

09:35I have a crack, mate.

09:39They're big.

09:43They're really wide. They must be nine metres, I reckon.

09:50With me being a little bit oversize and them being a giant bit oversize, the places for us to pass are really limited.

09:59I could be stuck behind them for 100 kilometres.

10:02What are they doing?

10:06What are they doing?

10:12Come on, mate. You've got that back. You've been around, mate, please.

10:15Come on, mate. Good job.

10:17Righto, mate. Sorry. Glad to understand you. I'm into it, and I'm quick.

10:21It's gonna be tight.

10:25It's gonna be tight.

10:34Don't know if you're coming down. We're fighting it now.

10:37Yeah, but we won't, mate.

10:39Shit. There's a hole there.

10:40We'll get a better idea once we pull up to back in.

10:54Yeah.

10:55Then we'll have a bit of time. If we do need to move in, we'll do it.

10:57Sweet.

10:58House hauler Jack McRae is about to set sail on a high-stakes job with a difference.

11:05The boat is custom-built here. It's about 3.5 mil for this one.

11:10Weighs about 15 ton, 8.5 metres wide, 16 long.

11:13This is the Cure 55 catamaran. Once we get down the other end, as long as these guys can do the trip safely and not hit anything, then we'll be away.

11:26Ours is easier. Boat's a lot more stressful.

11:29Difference between a $40,000 house and a multi-million-dollar boat.

11:34Tap a guidepost or something, you gotta scratch the shit out of it.

11:38Just means I gotta be a bit more careful.

11:41Tonight, 11.30, we'll be here, get the police and pilots in, go for all our paperwork, then we'll take off down to Brisbane.

11:49From the manufacturers in Coolum Beach, Jack must weave the $3.5 million boat through narrow streets to the M1.

11:58Then push on down the highway, avoiding low bridges and guardrails, before squeezing it through tight city streets to unload on the Brisbane River.

12:06The super-sized load requires a police escort, paid by the hour. Any delays will cost Jack's company money.

12:14So yeah, it's not a cheap exercise. Keep coming, Corey.

12:21I've got Corey in the truck at the moment, so I'm on the phone with him.

12:25And then we'll just keep jiggling it in like this, just so we don't damage anything.

12:29The trailer's fully hydraulic, so lowest we can go is 900 deck height up to 2.7.

12:37The $1.2 million lift trailer has independent steering on each axle and is also able to caterpillar using a hydraulic ram mounted on the truck.

12:48We've got a remote for my trailer, and then another remote's for the ram on the truck, so that's how we're jiggling it in and knifing slowly.

12:58I've spent a little bit of extra time getting it loaded properly, safely without doing anything, no damage.

13:05Right, right, Corey.

13:07Yeah, we're coming back.

13:09Get it nice and easy.

13:11Just keep pushing that front over.

13:13Nah, we're not going anywhere.

13:16Just turn, just turn, has it got anything on the dash?

13:20Nah, it's not transmission.

13:22It's not going to tow, it's just saying it's not land.

13:25Just rev the out of it.

13:31They don't go on the gear now.

13:37Nah, it's going again.

13:38Okay.

13:39Just shut it down way down.

13:41The truck's .

13:43It's not building up air enough to put it into gear.

13:46With the autos, you need air for the gearbox.

13:49And with no air, got no gears, they can't move.

13:57It's going to be tight.

14:04Shit, there's a hole there.

14:05You're not doing anything.

14:09All the .

14:11Thanks, fellas.

14:19Hang on.

14:22They called me around.

14:24There's a big dip in the road.

14:25We've got to give each other space, but they're all talking about other stuff.

14:28stuff in a situation like that you just want clear direction normally it's a lot more professional

14:35than that we've got this oversized fuel tank it's going to a remote community out the back

14:45of balls creek and i'm on a tight time schedule to link up with the crane i've got the last tank

14:52for ringer soap and i have to meet with that crane on time or it costs big money and big embarrassment

15:00for me stressful but that's my job

15:11i can hear on the wireless that there's two eight meters heading north

15:22yeah 3.5 miles as the day goes along we will catch up with the ones that left early saturday

15:30morning with a bit of luck these pilots will be a bit more clear to understand

15:36that is a serious piece of machinery that's all going up there to cart iron ore i suppose

15:41it's a good day we're going to have ourselves back bring us down

15:47roger

15:49yeah why are you going mate thanks

15:55OK, on the other one.

16:15Thanks, gents.

16:19That's how it's done.

16:20Nice, clear communications.

16:23Everyone understands what's going on.

16:25Oh, shit.

16:26Yeah, mate, you're talking to the oversized with the tank on?

16:27Can we hear you drop this to the road train assembly area, mate?

16:28Yeah.

16:29Righto, mate.

16:30Yep.

16:31Righto.

16:32Thanks, sir.

16:33That's the bloody scaliest.

16:36That's Main Road's inspectors, and they've just asked me to pull into the road train area.

16:43Yeah.

16:44Yeah.

16:45Thanks, sir.

16:46That's the bloody scaliest.

16:49That's Main Road's inspectors, and they've just asked me to pull into the road train area.

16:54So, to quote, they can inspect my permits, load, and truck, et cetera.

17:01I think all my stuff's in order, but it's nerve-wracking.

17:06You just never know.

17:09I'm sweating it now.

17:10So many times in my life, I've come out badly out of these things.

17:16That's not good.

17:17That's not good at all.

17:18What's happened is the chain has broken the landing leg away from the strut, so it's freewheeling.

17:23So what we're going to do, we're going to strap that to that to pull that back into where it should be.

17:30His landing leg, if it falls over, we'll take this trailer with it.

17:37Rex Riles is under the pump, hustling to get back to his hometown, Laverton, to prepare

17:44the horse racing track for their only race of the horse racing track for their only race of the year.

17:51But although it's free to drive, the brutal Great Central Road is still taking its toll.

17:57I'm prepared that we'll get back on time.

18:11How are you?

18:13Nothing we can do to help you?

18:16Nah, I can knock this out pretty quick.

18:19See you later. Take care.

18:20You're all the best.

18:23People sort of look out for each other if there's any problems.

18:26You're a long way out.

18:28You're pretty isolated.

18:30And a long way from a flying doctor also.

18:33Can you imagine a blind doctor trying to land on these roads?

18:36It's not going to happen.

18:38A bit of common courtesy out here goes a long way.

18:41And that's all part of the outback way.

18:45Well, that's cross-chain, it's back, that's coming this way, so...

18:49That's basically, it should not move.

18:52But we'll just keep an eye on it, check it every hour.

18:56Back on the road.

18:57The trails seem to be travelling okay.

18:58Yeah, it seems pretty good.

18:59As you can see the transformed WA sign there on the left, the outback way.

19:01We are now officially in WA.

19:03We're a long way from home yet.

19:04Just going to eye the back here a bit.

19:05And we'll just roll in, nice and quiet.

19:36Tomorrow.

19:37It's around 5km to go to get home.

19:51Hopefully being there before 4 o'clock.

19:54Depends on the conditions of the road, of course.

19:57We're getting all sorts of different reports about the road.

20:01The road's pretty crooked places.

20:04We had a massive amount of rains out here early in the year.

20:10And it's done a lot of damage.

20:12It gets worse as it goes further on.

20:15It's pretty rough up there.

20:16It's a bit of a plan in your head, a bit of an idea what you're going to do.

20:20But everything out here is subject to change, minute by minute.

20:24When you come out here, basically throw the clock out of the window.

20:29Oh, for sake.

20:33This limestone shit.

20:35Start ripping your tyres.

20:37I'm worried you're going to miss the labour and racism.

20:40If something's happened to me, it's not going to happen.

20:50Hey, yeah, we can't even move this truck now.

20:53All right, I'll see you soon.

20:55Jack McRae is sweating on the delay caused by the breakdown of his truck,

21:00while under pressure to shift a $3.5 million catamaran.

21:05So I've got an ear leak and it's dropping out of gear, so I can't move.

21:10Waiting for the mechanic, he's close by.

21:18A lot of ear lines under there, so it could just be a broken one,

21:21and get it popped off.

21:28Why don't you be a mechanic?

21:33Oh, is this your ear leak?

21:35Is this your ear leak?

21:36Oh, she's fixed, looks like it, so back around her, pick it up.

21:48Straighten up.

21:50Time to get off these cradles and into the water.

21:57Yeah, get rid of them now if you want.

22:00This is picked up now, that's where it's staying on the trailer.

22:03So we'll get rid of these cradles, pull it out so you can tie it down.

22:07This is the crucial fit, getting it out of the factory without any scratches or bumps.

22:17100mm each side to get out the doors.

22:20They definitely made them as big as they could.

22:23Step straight up, Corey.

22:25This is tight.

22:28I mean, another two, Corey.

22:30Two straight forward, then turn hard.

22:34Lift the whole trailer up, straight over these bollards here.

22:37Stupid place to put a bollard, I'll tell you now.

22:43Right, nice and easy.

22:46Woo!

22:47Let's swap it over.

22:49She's out in one piece.

22:51It's hiding, a bit tight.

22:53Got it out.

22:56Time begins tonight.

23:02Just getting ready to move this catamaran.

23:04It's the first time I've been back in a truck in about six years,

23:08so let's see if I remember what to do.

23:12Jack's co-driver for the journey is Ashley Mackay,

23:16part of the family that owns Mackay & Sons.

23:19I moved up north for the last six years.

23:21I've been driving coal trains.

23:23You can run from the family business, but you can't hide, so here I am.

23:28Ashley has been tasked with helping Jack by the company's boss,

23:32her brother, Robbie.

23:33I don't know if you call her a helper.

23:36She's Robbie's sister, so she gets easy jobs and doesn't do much.

23:41Right, let's f***ing go.

23:46Don't brush me in any trees or nothing.

23:51It's going to be a slow run to the highway.

23:56Just trying to get rid of a sign there, so get through.

23:59Just trying to get through.

24:02Driver not hit anything with the boat.

24:05It's a $3.5 million boat, so we don't want to brush a twig with it.

24:11There'd be a big tax deduction from Jack's pay, is what it would be.

24:15Hey, Corey, watch that tail swing on that sign there.

24:18Yeah, I'll do it.

24:20Yeah, I'll do it.

24:22Yeah, I'll do it.

24:23Yeah, I'll do it.

24:24Yeah, I'll do it.

24:25Yeah, I'll do it.

24:26Shit.

24:33Oh, for f***ing sake.

24:38Bit's choppy at the moment.

24:40Just tipped on the wrong ears.

24:42Trying to find the right speed so you're not knocking the gear around.

24:45That's the hard part.

24:47I'm pulling up a bit here now just to try and reset what I'm doing.

24:53Rex Riles is racing the clock, desperate to get his valuable tipper trailers back home

24:59with enough time to prepare the local race course for the labour to come.

25:03I'm going to try and be in labour today, no later.

25:06He's a five-metre up there in front of you, mate.

25:10Oh, s***.

25:11We've got a five-metre loader in front of us.

25:13He's going pretty slow.

25:15Let's see if we can get some conversation going.

25:18Maybe we can get around him.

25:20There's a fair bit of a hand out there.

25:22We've just got to keep talking to each other.

25:24Just communication is a key word here.

25:26All right, I'll start building her up a bit.

25:28I'll come back to you.

25:29I'll start building her up a bit.

25:31I'll come back to you later.

25:32I'll go a little bit quicker than them.

25:33Yeah, right up, I'll come around now.

25:35Yeah, just got to watch it through here.

25:37Try and point them blowouts and stuff like that.

25:39Everyone's happy.

25:40Yeah, right, I might come around now.

25:47Yeah, just gotta watch it through here.

25:51Try and point them blowouts and stuff like that.

26:01Everyone's happy.

26:03It's all done.

26:04Honest and safe.

26:07We're past, and I'm trying to keep the dust out of his face too if I can,

26:12so I'll just whip it back over here, the bin has changed again.

26:23There is a trucker sitting behind me.

26:26All those fellas that are travelling west,

26:28I'm gonna pull over to the right outside the road,

26:30you're gonna come around, you can.

26:32I can move over and take the dust with me,

26:37so they're gonna clear and light up inside,

26:40and they can come around.

26:41Nice habit.

26:47No worries, mate.

26:50Dust is a big issue.

26:52You drive through dust, and that's where accidents happen.

26:55I'm gonna go back to the sample.

26:59Ah, shit.

27:00There is a truck coming.

27:07The main road's inspectors just asked me to pull into the road train,

27:11the terminal up here,

27:12so they can inspect by permits, load, truck, etc.

27:19I'm sweating it now.

27:21So many times in my life I've come out badly out of these things.

27:27I'll just grab those permits, alright?

27:29Steve, are you aware that we now do this stuff on the iPad now, matey?

27:41All we do is I just feed you a thing to your email,

27:44and it comes up when you find dinner there, mate.

27:46Right, well, it doesn't really,

27:47because I don't do emails, the missus does,

27:49but that's alright.

27:51What's our weight, you reckon, when we're running?

27:53We'd be running more than 22, would we?

27:55No, that's 15 tonne, that tank.

27:57Oh, that's fine.

28:01Oh, there you go, 508.

28:03What have you got?

28:0451, there you go.

28:06Thank you, sir.

28:07Larpy.

28:09This truck's had $200,000 spent on it in the last 12 months.

28:12Wouldn't it be cheaper just to actually have retired,

28:14and said, mate, we'll just sort of, you know,

28:16save the money, put it towards the old Steve's benching fun?

28:19Steady up on the retirement word, son.

28:22Brakes are all pretty reasonable and all that.

28:24The brakes are more than reasonable.

28:26Have you spent money there as well, haven't you, Steve?

28:28Well, you spend money on them all the time.

28:30Well, that's a truck, isn't it?

28:31It's the money pit.

28:32How wide are we, Steve, mate?

28:35Exactly 3.5.

28:363.5 exactly.

28:38Spot the dot.

28:393.5.

28:40Do it.

28:41Honest?

28:42Dead set.

28:43Love it.

28:44Luke, if you want to go across the base,

28:47go across the base.

28:48There we go, Steve.

28:50Pull that there, Bob.

28:51He doesn't like my eyes.

28:53Well, there you go, mate.

28:55It shrunk.

28:56The actual heat shrunk it.

28:573.35 will ask you to do us, buddy.

29:00You've done well.

29:01We'll give you actual cold style on your head

29:03to say thanks for coming.

29:05Right, fellas.

29:07Have a good day.

29:08I'm gonna get moving now.

29:11We're back rolling again.

29:14Those blokes, they were decent blokes.

29:16They're doing their job, but I've lost an AR.

29:20That's 100k I've got to find tomorrow.

29:23Hampered by frustrating delays,

29:26Steve is at risk of missing his rendezvous

29:29with the crane needed to unload

29:31the 84,000-litre diesel tank he's delivering

29:34to a remote community.

29:36Being oversized, I can't make up time.

29:39I'll have to pull up shortly.

29:41Call it the end of day.

29:44We're coming up on Mungina Gorge,

29:46which is a big drop off.

29:49It's getting close to dark.

29:52I've got to pull up and get off the road.

29:54That's the law.

29:56Yeah, I know, dog.

29:59And now I'm really pushing light.

30:05It's time to think about pulling up.

30:08I'll give Tony a call.

30:10I'm really keen to know how the boys have got on out there.

30:13Tony's the bloke with the other tanks and the crane.

30:18All going well, Tony would have been unloaded,

30:21and the crane should be heading over to the second point

30:24if everything's going all right with him.

30:30Yeah, Tony, got you.

30:31Oh, that's good, mate. That's good.

30:33Yeah, no, no, I'm all right.

30:35The dash fell out of it.

30:37You're joking.

30:39All right.

30:41I'll just have to stop at the corner

30:43and wait for Anger and the crane to finish and get out.

30:46All right, mate.

30:48No worries. You have a good one. Thanks.

30:50The road's 20 times worse than what they thought

30:53to the extent that basically the dashboard

30:56fell out of the crane.

30:58The crane and the second tank

31:00have to come out 240-odd K to meet me at the corner,

31:04and that's my worry.

31:06I won't sleep tonight till I can find out where he's at.

31:19Shit.

31:20He's jumping in the gutter.

31:23You can bring her back around slowly.

31:25You know, I can't really see much out of the truck,

31:27so you're relying on them to tell you what's going on.

31:31It makes it fun for me.

31:33I just get to sit here and watch Jack do it all.

31:36Teamwork makes the dream work.

31:43Jack and Ashley are responsible for delivering

31:46$3.5 million worth of carbon fibre yacht

31:50before their oversized permit runs out at daybreak.

31:54Oh, I opened up a little bit, so

31:57got out of the tighter stuff.

31:59Make up a bit of time.

32:01Apart from really, yeah, a few bridges,

32:04there should hopefully be smooth sailing.

32:07I have to do a bit of time.

32:08You have to go on your right.

32:10There's three lanes down under it.

32:12Still steady, Jack.

32:16Someone spot that roof.

32:21Alright, side looks good.

32:24Jump down.

32:36What a trucker.

32:38Another Saturday rear end.

32:52Right, got a trailer on the left, tree and a guardrail on the right, Dylan.

32:56He's got about a foot.

32:58I've got about the same on the left side.

33:04Dickheads, put in your trailers.

33:06It's really shit small.

33:17Ah, shit. There is a truck coming.

33:20Well, I can go with the other kind.

33:26One behind you, yeah, one behind me too, Colin.

33:30Everyone's pretty conscious of road conditions and driving at good speed,

33:35but the dust is the one you'd look out for.

33:39On a mission to get his expensive new trailers home undamaged

33:43and have enough time to prepare his local track for the Laverton horse races,

33:48Rex has hit the final stretch after surviving over 1,000 kilometres

33:53of diabolical dirt road.

33:57Bitch, isn't that beautiful?

34:00Like a dream come true.

34:04There's a smile on your face, doesn't it?

34:07Oh, they've got 60 kphs and they hope they might be home.

34:13Looking forward to a cold beer, I think.

34:15Come back with two new tippers.

34:27Home sweet home. It's very good to be back.

34:30Come back.

34:39How you going, fellas?

34:41What a trip.

34:42Oh, what have you got here?

34:43Get that cold into you, mate.

34:45Oh, you're bloody legends.

34:49Yeah, good luck.

34:51Good health.

34:52Thanks a lot.

34:54Here's two years.

34:58We'll break it up tomorrow morning and I've got to get to the race course.

35:11Here we are at Laverton Race Club.

35:13Finally got here.

35:15The job is now to get the water on the track.

35:18Keep the track moist.

35:20So that when the horses get on here, it's good on their hooves.

35:24Trying to keep an optimum track surface.

35:26Rich doesn't only grade the track, he donates all the sand because it's only used once a year.

35:35He's a fantastic little man.

35:37It's just good to be back here in Laverton and be here for the races.

35:41I'm looking forward to the weekend to catch up with all the family and all my mates and friends.

35:47I think it should be good.

35:58Leaves don't really matter.

36:00It's just branches and shit.

36:04You're right on the tree at the moment.

36:07That's right.

36:08You're past that.

36:14How are you looking down the driver side on?

36:17You're good on the driver side.

36:21Jack McRae is in charge of a high-stakes, multi-million-dollar job for Mackay & Sons,

36:27with the help of his boss's sister, Ashley.

36:31Oh, she's about to go to sleep.

36:33She's f***ing useless.

36:35Wake me up when we get there.

36:39Two minutes to four, pretty much perfect.

36:42Less than two k away.

36:44Is this the intersection I turn at?

36:47It's the intersection of four miles.

36:51It's just at the end of this road, that's where it's going.

36:54It's that hard, though.

36:56It looks like it was the worst of it.

36:58It looks like it was the worst of it.

37:02Shit!

37:04Go to me even a little bit, Jack.

37:09Head straight and up.

37:13Copy that, guys!

37:15You got an inch from the driver side, Jack.

37:18What's going on, Jack?

37:19What's going on, Jack?

37:20What's going on, Jack?

37:24Real steady.

37:26Whoa, whoa, whoa!

37:28Right ahead, Jack.

37:32Real steady.

37:39Real steady.

37:4020 mil.

37:42Keep going.

37:47Yeah, you're all tearing it over now.

37:50We're here.

37:51This is where it's going.

37:52Into the yard.

37:55That's it?

37:57Done.

38:00The boys killed it.

38:01They always do well.

38:02There's a reason, you know,

38:03why they have been doing it so long.

38:06Another one ticked off.

38:08Oh, on their stands now,

38:09so pull the trailer out.

38:11You're going home for breakfast.

38:12It's, yeah, five past five.

38:15We made it, mate.

38:16We made it all the way.

38:17No damage.

38:18Nothing to worry about.

38:19They did it again.

38:20Whoo!

38:33Better suck it in here.

38:34We're going to meet on the bridge.

38:38Three foot five, mate.

38:39We should be good.

38:51If I have a good run today,

38:53I should get close to my thousand kilometres.

38:56But, yeah, it's not without its stress.

39:00Steve's racing to deliver a 15-ton fuel tank,

39:04essential for providing power to a remote community.

39:08But the crane required to lift the tank could be delayed,

39:12costing Steve precious time and money.

39:16Yesterday, Tony said to me,

39:18the crane might have some mechanical problems.

39:20This morning,

39:21there was absolutely no sign of any problems with the crane.

39:25It leaves you just stressing and worrying about what's going on.

39:29And all I can do is,

39:30I'll get to the top of the town of my road and wait.

39:33Oh, well, here we go.

39:40We've got a quad to deal with here.

39:42Apart from this beautiful scenery,

39:45you'd know you're in the Pilbara just by the quads.

39:48They're coming at you every five seconds.

39:50You know you're on that big conveyor belt

39:52grinding its way into Port Headland

39:55with thousands upon thousands of tons of iron ore

39:59rolling down the road towards that port.

40:06Coming up behind JT-25,

40:09and I'll get you around.

40:11Yeah, I'll ride you 25.

40:13I'm into it.

40:14So these quads weighing 180 or 200 and something tons,

40:2660 metres long,

40:28carting massive amounts of iron ore.

40:33They're all pretty good money driving them.

40:35They're all seriously good money.

40:37We've got a lady driving this one.

40:40Thank you. Have a good day.

41:02I've left the Pilbara,

41:03I'm into the Kimberley

41:04and on the single lane road

41:06to the single lane bridges.

41:07I'll get up the road here a bit,

41:08I'll pull up to my meeting point.

41:10I might get there right on time.

41:11I haven't got a phone message yet from Tony,

41:13I just hope things are good out there.

41:31I'm still in that void of no interest.

41:33I'm still in that void of no information.

41:40Well, this is the Tadami.

41:43I've just got here.

41:45This is where I'll wait for the boys to come back

41:47from Bilaluna and Balga,

41:49where they've dropped their tanks.

41:51Crane's going to come out.

41:53We go to Ring of Soak,

41:54drop mine.

41:55That is a little bit of a drama.

41:56Yes, sir.

41:57Okay.

41:58All right, mate, no worries, thanks.

42:00Crane's hydraulic tank has got a split in it.

42:03They're going to pull the hydraulic tank out,

42:04race it into Hall's Creek,

42:05get it welded and go back.

42:06Everything that's operated on the crane is operated by hydraulics.

42:07They're great big hydraulic rams that push the boom in and out.

42:08They're hydraulic motors that turn the cable and bring the cable in and out.

42:09They control the steering on the crane.

42:10They've got no choice.

42:11It's going to cost two days,

42:12couple of trips in and out.

42:13They're going to take a gold.

42:14They're going to go into blown up.

42:15You're going to go into the rain,

42:16uzn, uzn, uzn, uzn, uzn, uzn.

42:17to pull a hydraulic tank out, race it into Halls Creek, get it welded and go back.

42:22Everything that's operated on the crane is operated by hydraulics.

42:26They're great big hydraulic rams that push the boom in and out.

42:29They're hydraulic motors that turn the cable and bring the cable in and out.

42:34They control the steering on the crane.

42:36They've got no choice.

42:37It's going to cost two days, couple of trips in and out.

42:43So that will have me sitting here for a couple of days.

42:45And after a day, it starts to cost me money.

42:50There's absolutely nothing I can do.

42:55Absolutely nothing.

42:56Andy, you've blown a car.

43:07It's blown through the tyres, but it's all the belt and shit's all jammed up inside the

43:11brake car.

43:13Car coming through.

43:14Please don't stop it.

43:15Watch out for that car.

43:17It is very isolated.

43:23You break down, you're on your own.

43:25The big board ourselves, because I'm top heavy, I've got to go dead centre.

43:29If I go to the head, the camber, as it goes in, you can control it quite easily.

43:38Here we are back on the Duncan Road I know well.

43:41Cross our fingers that it's not going to rain.

43:43Oh, my God, there's raindrops on the window.

43:47I'm trying to beat that rain, but the lightning keeps starting fires in front of me.

43:51This is not good.

43:53You're on the the

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