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00:00This time on Outback Truckers.
00:03The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
00:06Now we're starting the journey.
00:09I have to go through the Outback.
00:13That's the right of passage of being in Australia.
00:16What's up with the coolant?
00:18Nowhere of s***.
00:20Just trying to predict what everyone's going to do.
00:23You've got to have ten sets of eyes.
00:26Look at this idiot.
00:30They don't want to move.
00:32He's going to run straight into the top of the building.
00:36Not much of a road is coming in and out of these places.
00:40Which is where anything's going to go wrong and will go wrong.
00:45Whoa!
00:46Early winds like this.
00:48They're really, really dangerous.
01:00Hey Dale, you've just got to come back over here and just pallet one.
01:04Yeah.
01:06The load I'm doing today is fuel and general freight.
01:11Most of the people I've delivered to run cattle stations and sheep stations.
01:17Robbie Adams is loading up for a critical journey, getting vital supplies to livestock farmers in the parched outback north of Broken Hill.
01:27They were waiting urgently for fuel to run their pumps.
01:31Everyone's running short on water.
01:33I'll end up with seven drops all up, which will roughly take three days.
01:38From his base in Broken Hill, Robbie will follow the highway for just 56 kilometres and then go bush on rough dirt tracks, dropping supplies at several remote stations, before looping around to the small township of White Cliffs and heading back home three days later.
01:57The biggest concern I've got, we've put a new hub on this trailer and this is its first trip.
02:04So we've just got to check that, make sure it doesn't run hot.
02:08This over here is a result of that same problem.
02:12Rept the tyre, which is near new.
02:15That last trip that trailer done, we've virtually done it for nothing.
02:18That's what you're up against.
02:20You don't like that, well you just don't be out here doing it.
02:24About ready.
02:25Just about ready to go, babe.
02:26There you go, you've got morning tea, afternoon tea.
02:30I've got the lot, hey?
02:31Tea, tea.
02:32Enough for three days.
02:34It's been every night.
02:35See ya.
02:35Okay.
02:36Okay.
02:37Bye.
02:38There's a lot of distance between where one station and another station.
02:42Anything could happen out there, I can tell you that.
02:45The roads are crap.
02:49I've been doing this since I was 18 and I'm 63 now.
02:54I've been brought and bred into it.
02:58My grandfather started while I was only a little boy.
03:02I used to come out here with him.
03:05I suppose it's been in the family for near 100 years.
03:10Being an owner-operator, it's very, very costly.
03:17When something goes wrong, it's not hundreds of dollars, it's in the thousands.
03:22The hub we just done, that was around $5,000.
03:26I've blown a gearbox, that's $18,000.
03:31We've rebuilt the motor, which is $90,000.
03:35And it just goes on and on.
03:38Good way to put it, you always know when you're going to break down, you've got some money in
03:42the bank.
03:42You're not only going to stay there.
03:44From here on, you've got to really watch the wildlife.
03:50You've got emus that come straight at you.
03:54You've got goats.
03:56Kangaroos are shocking.
03:57They'll take airlines.
03:59They'll take hubcaps off.
04:01They do some damage.
04:07Whoa!
04:07That was close, that one.
04:14He's very lucky.
04:15It was a nice day.
04:18Emus, they're queer.
04:20They run across the road.
04:23You think they're gone, and all of a sudden, they'll come straight back at you again.
04:28I love animals.
04:29I don't like her.
04:34I just love driving trucks.
04:36Out the open, you're doing your own thing.
04:40Oh, every day is different, put it that way.
04:42You never know what you're going to see.
04:45You just notice the strat dragging.
04:49You can go under the wheel and take some of your load out.
05:00They're taking the light off this side, and take two outriggers off this side.
05:04Otherwise, we're over 5.5.
05:07We're moving a cabin that's 5.5 metres wide.
05:12It'll sit about 4.8 metres high on the truck.
05:15Weighs around 13, 14 tonne.
05:20Oversized specialist Robbie Bush is responsible for hauling $200,000 worth of luxury cabin across Victoria.
05:29There's a lot of cost if we damage them.
05:32Trees, power lines, parked cars, signs.
05:37Customers don't like paying for scratch house.
05:39No damage.
05:40Got a no damage policy, haven't we, Dave?
05:42That's right.
05:43You never relax.
05:45The minute you relax, something goes wrong.
05:47We're going to leave here, and we're going to weave our way through Melbourne,
05:51and hopefully end up in Portland.
05:54From Somerville, Robbie will tow the building west,
05:58straight into the hectic city of Melbourne, population 5.3 million,
06:03before crossing into West Victoria's farmlands to reach the scenic coastal town of Portland.
06:10And he has only seven hours to do it.
06:12The biggest problem we're going during the day is, on certain roads, there's got a curfew.
06:17We're not allowed on there before 9am.
06:18We've got to be off by 4pm.
06:20I'm just extending the trailer.
06:22We'll be around 22 or 3 metres long today.
06:26The truck's a 2007 model, and it's done 2.9 million kilometres.
06:31To Paul his $250,000 trailer, Robbie is relying on his old faithful,
06:37a Kenworth K104B cab-over-engine model, with an 18-speed manual gearbox.
06:45The cab-over Kenworth is great getting into tight spots.
06:48The places we put these cabins, if you've got a truck with a bonnet,
06:52it makes it very difficult.
06:55I mean, everyone likes to drive a truck with a bonnet,
06:57but, I mean, you've got to sort of lose some length somewhere,
07:01so, unfortunately, we push the engine underneath.
07:04About over 400 mil.
07:10Yep.
07:10We're going to just chain it down now, and off we go.
07:17Some people smoke when they're stressed.
07:19I eat chopper chumps.
07:21That's what I do.
07:23All right, ready to go now.
07:28Yeah, pull it out, mate.
07:31I've got two pilots.
07:32Rowan will be my front pilot.
07:35Dave is my rear pilot.
07:37He'll be my eyes and ears at the back.
07:40Bit of a milestone for these guys.
07:42This is Adventure Cabin.
07:44It's the 50th cabin.
07:45Since they've been in business.
07:49Don't want to scratch number 50.
07:52I think I've heard, mate.
07:53Keep going as you are.
07:54Get you clear of the fence on the back, mate.
07:56You're all good.
07:57When you're on a single lane, I'm only about a foot off the fog line.
08:05I'm hanging over both sides, Millie.
08:09Five and a half metres coming at you, mate.
08:11Come on, mate.
08:11Get over.
08:13Five and a half metres, mate.
08:14Can you move right over?
08:15I just had to high beam that, bloke.
08:22If I see an oversized load or something coming at me flushing lights, get out of the way.
08:27But a lot of them go, oh, what's that?
08:29Flushing lights and they just drive straight at you.
08:30We can have all the lights on in the world, mate, and they still ignore us.
08:36I basically grew up around trucks.
08:39My dad was driving fuel tankers.
08:42I got my truck licence when I turned 19.
08:45So I've been at it for quite a while.
08:48I had a seven-year break.
08:51I had an accident back in 2010.
08:55I walked behind a truck with loading ramps on it.
08:59And the loading ramps fell.
09:02Hit me on the back of the head.
09:04End up in the Alfred Hospital.
09:06I signed seven consent forms to have my right leg amputated out of 26 surgeries.
09:12The surgeon said, you'll probably never drive again.
09:15Had a three-week-old baby at home, and I got home 14 months later.
09:21I used to sit out in the front of the hospital and watch all the trucks going past.
09:25It was probably the one thing that kept me going.
09:28Because I thought, I'm going to get back to that.
09:35We're riding the city now.
09:37This is probably the older area of St Kilda.
09:41Just trying to predict what everyone's going to do.
09:44Got to have ten sets of eyes.
09:45I'm looking for the trees.
09:50I'm watching every car.
09:52Look at this idiot.
09:54Where are you going, mate?
09:56They don't want to move.
09:58He's going to run straight into the side of the building.
10:00Now I'm checking for my tyre pressure.
10:09Checking if everything is on point.
10:12Cheers.
10:17Good luck, Padlo.
10:19Your first big interstate trip.
10:21Can't wait.
10:21You look after the gear.
10:23It's got a bit of equipment there worth a fair bit of money.
10:26Just remember, you've got to be there 10 o'clock on Monday morning to meet the cranes.
10:30Done load.
10:31Cheers.
10:31Good luck.
10:32All the best.
10:33Catch you later.
10:33All right.
10:39Journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.
10:42Now we're starting the journey.
10:43Rookie outback trucker, Pablo Gwadu, is taking on his biggest challenge since arriving in Australia
10:51less than a year ago.
10:53I'm from Zimbabwe, but I've been working as a truck driver in South Africa.
10:59Oh, passing Larry the lobster.
11:03What a big lobster.
11:05We've been looking for workers because there's a shortage of drivers in Australia, and Pablo
11:11applied.
11:12This is me, Pablo's biggest trip that he's had while he's worked for us.
11:17I have to go through the outback.
11:20That's the right of passage of being in Australia.
11:23So hopefully by the time that I pass the outback, I'll be truly and truly in Australia.
11:32It's going to be a 3,600-kilometer journey, like from Cape Town to the equator.
11:37Pablo's journey starts in the far south of mainland Australia at Warrnambool.
11:44He'll then cross the entire length of the continent, pushing through the harsh, arid red centre and
11:51into the tropics to his delivery destination in the northernmost capital city, Darwin.
11:57I have to be there Monday morning.
12:01There's a crane that is booked for 10 a.m.
12:04If I get there late, the company will have to pay more.
12:07The pressure is on.
12:08It's got a metal folding machine on.
12:10It's precise equipment.
12:12It's worth a fair bit of money.
12:13So it's got to be well looked after.
12:17Noel has shown trust in me ever since I started my process.
12:21I cannot afford to let him down.
12:22For me to let him down, that is unthinkable.
12:26I cannot afford to do that.
12:30In Africa, it's a bit different.
12:33The loads that we ferry, they're not as big as the ones here.
12:37So I just said to myself, you know what, there's a challenge.
12:41I think I need to go to Australia.
12:43And ta-da, here I am.
12:47Back in the day when I was still in school, primary, we used to watch Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
12:55That was one of my favourite shows.
12:57And there was Blinky Bill.
12:59Blinky Bill was my favourite.
13:01So I used to watch most of the Australian shows.
13:04When I first started watching Albert Truckers,
13:07I think the very first episode that I saw was Steve when he got bogged for two weeks in Kalamberu.
13:18Oh shit.
13:23Fire!
13:27Ow!
13:28Shit.
13:29The resilience that he showed after being bogged for two weeks,
13:34and he went and delivered that load.
13:37It just motivated me, inspired me to watch and, you know, come and experience how it is tracking in Australia.
13:46So all day today, temperature outside is 40 degrees.
13:57What's up with the coolant?
14:02Coolant is high.
14:04I don't know what's happening.
14:05I need to cool out.
14:06I need to cool out.
14:07I need to cool out.
14:08I need to cool out.
14:09Let me see if there's anything wrong down there.
14:13Yeah, it's a best part.
14:14This is leaking.
14:15I do not need this.
14:19Shit.
14:20Just noticed the scrap dragging.
14:26Righto.
14:27It's only come undone.
14:28Could go under the wheel and take some of your load out.
14:46Yeah.
14:47They're very hard to keep in order.
14:49Right.
14:50Good to go again.
14:53Third generation trucker Robbie Adams has vital supplies to deliver to livestock stations in the desert outside Broken Hill.
15:03It's a tough job with no margin for error.
15:06As an owner operator, the costs are just ongoing.
15:10They give a stop.
15:11You're virtually living from month to month.
15:18We're on the dirt now.
15:19This is where it needs going to go wrong.
15:22It will go wrong.
15:29It's going to get more rugged as we get going.
15:33The Roman style cage is dramatically both hands on the wheel.
15:37You're not going to let it go.
15:39You just can't spill the time.
15:45We're just about ready to do our first drop.
15:47They'll be very relieved.
15:49They'll be waiting for fuel for quite a while now.
15:56We're just sheep.
15:57We've got Hereford cattle.
15:59125,000 acres.
16:01Spanning more than 500 square kilometres, the property Luke Mashford runs with his family requires more than your standard farm ute.
16:11We get premium unleaded for the plane, for aerial spotting.
16:17Guys like Robbie, they're a dying breed.
16:20So we've got to look after these old fellas and keep them going as much as we can.
16:25This will take the buck out of him.
16:27Thank you, Robert.
16:29Yeah, cost you money every time we come here.
16:31At least you can keep working now.
16:33Thank you very much, Robert.
16:34No, no worries.
16:35Happy to see you.
16:36No, it's good, mate.
16:37And I'll see you in another four weeks.
16:38No worries.
16:39Safe travelling.
16:40All in all, it's been a good day.
16:46It's taken Robbie over eight hours to complete his first delivery.
16:51And his next stop is still more than an hour away, with daylight rapidly fading.
16:56It's full up here.
16:57It's talking it's overnight.
16:59It's starting to be a new day.
17:04Not much of a road is coming in and out of these places.
17:09There are not many trucks coming in and out the way I go.
17:18We're actually travelling.
17:20It's a bit of a shortcut road.
17:23It cuts off probably 20 kilometres.
17:26It's not a very well-used road.
17:28We just got to wing it and make our own sort of thing.
17:33So it's a bit difficult at times picking the line if it hasn't been used for a long time.
17:44Most of the properties down here are sheep and cattle.
17:48There's plenty of gates.
17:50Nine times out of ten they're shut.
17:59Here we go.
18:00We've got our first gate.
18:03We've got a problem.
18:10The gate won't unlock.
18:15They don't want to move.
18:21They live till the last second.
18:23Look at this idiot.
18:25There you go mate.
18:26He's got a right stride into the side of the building.
18:35What a peanut.
18:38Luxury cabin courier Robbie Bush is under the pump.
18:42His $200,000 load needs to be threaded through the frenetic city of Melbourne without a scratch.
18:51When we get on the shelter road, roll and I'll drop back behind.
18:53Then I can just use the whole road.
18:59You can come to your left Rob.
19:00You can come to your left a bit more if you want.
19:02Keep coming.
19:03Keep coming.
19:04Keep coming.
19:05Oh shit.
19:06What do you mean oh shit?
19:08It's ran over a cone.
19:12I'm so busy watching the back of your truck.
19:14That's a pilot.
19:15It's committed.
19:16There's a railway line down the end of the road here.
19:21It's in the permit it states.
19:23I have to call seven days prior to crossing that railway line.
19:26I'm allowed to cross between 10 and 12 today.
19:30If we get delayed, they can stop the whole show.
19:35Lights are going amber now mate.
19:36We're coming.
19:38I can't stop here.
19:39I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming.
19:43Watch the traffic on the right mate.
19:44They're going to flow.
19:45You're right, I'm with you.
19:46Keep going mate.
19:47I'm just watching this bicycle.
19:48It's coming up your left.
19:53We're not far from Melbourne now.
19:54There's some buildings that are there.
20:02We're riding the city now.
20:04Can you just sit on the left mate?
20:06Just shut the back door.
20:07Can they come up your left here?
20:09Shutting the back door means he'll keep that lane shut
20:11so nothing can come past.
20:12Yeah mate, coming through with you.
20:15Copy that.
20:20Alright, onto the freeway now.
20:22About 4.30, 4.40.
20:36We're just coming through Warrnambool now.
20:39About an hour and 10 minutes from Portland.
20:41We have to be off the road before sunset.
20:46So we're just ahead of you somewhere.
20:48There's road work.
20:50Oh God.
20:52So hopefully it won't be too long.
20:56We've got a green light at the moment.
20:57Just going to start tapping some of the bollards on your right hand side.
21:05Sorry Dave, I think I'm knocking them over mate.
21:07No.
21:09No, you're actually not doing too bad mate.
21:10There's a couple knocking down but most of them are bouncing back up.
21:12You were nearly at the other end of it now.
21:13Stop, stop.
21:14You've got one caught up underneath the truck.
21:15If it starts like this before we get to the outback, what about if we get to the outback?
21:31Zimbabwean driver Pablo has just five days to get his load more than 3,600 kilometres to Darwin and succeed in his dream to become an Aussie outback trucker.
21:46No, I've got a bit of a problem.
21:49One of the pipe from the radiator is spilling out the coolant.
21:53The bridge that is just before the parking bay here.
22:02Oh no.
22:04Thank you mate.
22:06I think he's going to send someone.
22:07No, it's going to delay me because I don't know how long these guys will take to get here.
22:12I don't want to let them all down.
22:14Let the customer down because they're counting on me.
22:19Here comes the mechanic now.
22:23Looks like just the coolant lines has come off.
22:32These things take about 40 leases or so.
22:38I think it's all fixed now.
22:40Thanks mate.
22:41Cheers.
22:42Saved me a lot yesterday.
22:46Alright.
22:47We've lost quite a bit of time so we need to catch up.
22:50So here we go now.
22:58We can't afford to be late.
22:59We have to make sure that Monday at 10 o'clock we are there.
23:05I want to be there by 9 o'clock the latest.
23:07Once we leave Port Augusta, we will be officially in the outback.
23:16Outback.
23:25Outback.
23:26Outback.
23:27Now we are in the outback.
23:28Outback.
23:29Outback.
23:30Outback.
23:31Outback.
23:32Outback.
23:33Outback.
23:34Outback.
23:36Outback.
23:37Now we are pulling into Glen Dambo.
23:38Pulling out for the 9.
23:39Pulling out for the night.
23:52This is the outback.
23:58What I've been praying for, now I'm here.
24:02The dream come true.
24:04Hopefully tomorrow no breakdowns.
24:06The gods of the place will smile on me.
24:09I can feel the aura of the outback.
24:18We've got a problem.
24:20The gate won't unlock.
24:24It won't come around far enough.
24:26It hasn't been used for that long.
24:30I'll undo it here.
24:34Well, that's got that.
24:39Big importance to keep the gates.
24:48If you find them closed, close them.
24:51If you find them open, leave them open.
24:55It's a funny thing.
24:56I have a medical every year.
24:58Doctor says I've got to do, I should exercise.
25:01Well, I would have thought this was an up exercise.
25:05I've been shutting gates all day.
25:07The big risk today is dry bolt.
25:12The road to that, powered it up.
25:15It doesn't rain much out here.
25:17Our second delivery, they're really waiting for this pipe.
25:24They've got water problems and they're hanging out with this pipe just to get the water back to the stock.
25:32Go up there, see where they're going to want it.
25:37How lucky!
25:38They've got, yeah, 120,000 acres, 5,000 or 6,000 sheep and 500 cows.
25:45Water's running out.
25:46It's always water.
25:47You always seem to be fixing water or a fence out here.
25:50Robbie, I've known him since I was a little tacker.
25:53So, yeah, he's been delivering stuff here my whole life.
25:56Just, yeah, glad to see him when he gets here.
25:59I'm loaded.
25:59Just checking everything out now.
26:01Oh, well, you've got a snake track here.
26:06The snake comes through here somewhere.
26:09So, what do you reckon that one is, Locke?
26:11Oh, it's a bit of brown snake, a big brown snake.
26:13If you're getting bitten by a snake out here, you'll probably be dead before the flying doctor got to you.
26:19Brown snake.
26:19Go on that way.
26:20Yeah.
26:20Under your tyre.
26:27Stop, stop, stop, stop.
26:28You've got one underneath your tyre.
26:30Stop, stop.
26:31Copy that.
26:33I've stopped, Rowan.
26:34We've got a bowline.
26:35We're doing the wheels, mate.
26:36Righto, copy.
26:47Righto, mate.
26:48Keep rolling.
26:49Copy, mate.
26:50On the move.
26:52You've got a couple of big ones coming through, Rob.
26:54I'm just going to crawl through here.
27:01I'm just going to crawl through.
27:04I'm just going to crawl through here.
27:04I'm just going to crawl through here.
27:05I'm just going to crawl through here.
27:06Robby Bush has just one hour left to reach his destination before his oversized permit runs out, forcing him to pull over.
27:14Tomorrow, we'll be meeting 150 ton crane.
27:18If we happen to be delayed, there's extra cost.
27:21Customers don't like paying for cranes, unnecessarily.
27:26Once we go over this little rise here, we turn right.
27:28And hopefully, we'll end up in Portland.
27:34There's the park there.
27:35It's going in there.
27:37Just got to mount the gutter here and see how it goes.
27:43Got to give way.
27:44So I'm with a couple hundred mil.
27:48How's that line looking?
27:49Robby, go slower, mate.
27:51Go slower.
27:52You're going to have to go over your right-hand side a bit more.
27:57Stop, stop.
27:58Stop, stop.
28:00Nice and easy for me.
28:02Just roll on forward.
28:05Yeah, beautiful.
28:06Coming away nicely.
28:07Start straightening yourself up a little bit if you want, mate.
28:10Got a good hundred and hundred mil over the top of that fence line.
28:15You're all good on this right-hand side, mate.
28:19Thank you, linesmen.
28:20Thank you, ball boys.
28:22Thank you, umpire.
28:24That's it for today.
28:25Tomorrow, we're going to reverse around that corner, right up the end.
28:31We're a long way from finished.
28:33We still have to unload it without hitting anything.
28:42I had a great night, slept like a baby, and I'm ready to hit the road.
28:49Today's Valentine's Day, so I think I'll have to stop by Cuperpedia, buy my wife something,
29:00since I can't be with her.
29:02Chasing his dream of becoming an outback trucker, Pablo is feeling the downside to life on the road.
29:09I think I should only do justice if I can call my wife, and, uh, wish you a happy Valentine's.
29:18Hey.
29:19Hi, how are you?
29:20I'm good, how are you?
29:21I'm good, how's the family?
29:23Good.
29:24All right, I'm here in Cuperpedia.
29:27Happy Valentine's.
29:29Ah, happy Valentine's.
29:31I wish I was there with you.
29:34I'll get you something from the outback to show that I was thinking about you.
29:38I wish you were here.
29:39Ah.
29:40Next time when I come to the outback, I'll make sure I'll bring you with me.
29:43Yeah, next time we'll do that.
29:45Bye, have fun.
29:46All right, have fun, bye.
29:47Uh, but, uh, me see something, I also bought myself a boomerang, sure that I'm an Australian.
30:02I don't want to delay, because I don't want to rush on the last day.
30:09Just about to cross the border into Northern Territory.
30:17Hopefully today, I'm going to be doing, um, 800 kilometres, so that I'll be in time.
30:31Now I'm left with 140 kilometres to get to Three Ways.
30:37After four full days on the road, Pablo has completed over 2,600 kilometres to get to his
30:44next rest stop at the Three Ways Roadhouse.
30:51We are leaving Three Ways for Catherine.
30:54I have to cover at least 650 to the day.
31:00The outback experience has been wonderful.
31:04I've been motivated seeing, uh, road trains.
31:09I think I'd like to drive road trains.
31:14Uh, I'm pulling up to K3 now, uh, we're down about 650 kilometres today.
31:28Now I'm just pulling over, get the famous Catherine Steak.
31:32Next stop is going to be Darwin.
31:42The journey's 300 kilometres.
31:44I've got three hours to get there.
31:46Today is delivery day.
31:48Pablo has to be in Darwin by 10am to meet a crane that's been booked by his boss, Noel.
31:55Noel is counting on me, so I have to make sure that I'm there on time, because I wouldn't want to disappoint him.
31:59We lost a big contract for the company.
32:04Now we're f***ing.
32:08We've got an oversized load, and we can't overtake, because the road is narrow.
32:15Oversized can, uh, I pass.
32:18If you make space, I can come around, mate.
32:21One, I'm off the other one, mate. Come around.
32:24But I can, like, like it.
32:26No, I won't fit.
32:33No, I won't fit.
32:34I won't fit.
32:35My truck is too big.
32:36I won't fit.
32:38I've got that big coming around me all the time.
32:40That's an opportunity you can start there.
32:42You're on.
32:42Our next challenge is reversing it up that road there, roughly 200 metres, and I'm going back blind.
32:59So I'm relying on those pilots to be my eyes and ears.
33:02I'll stop for a tick, Rob.
33:08If you can, uh, go forwards a little bit.
33:12Yep, yep.
33:12Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
33:15Start chasing it hard now, mate.
33:17Keep going.
33:17Chase as hard as you can.
33:19That's for a lock, mate.
33:21The cab over Kenworth is great getting into tight spots.
33:25If you've got a truck with a bonnet, it makes it very difficult.
33:29Yeah, yeah, you're on, mate.
33:30I'll keep you off it.
33:31Keep coming.
33:32Keep coming.
33:33Keep coming.
33:34Keep coming.
33:35Keep coming.
33:36Job's done.
33:38Happy there?
33:39We're there.
33:41We'll lift it off now.
33:46Here she comes.
33:50Stop, stop.
33:50We'll start the sink in here.
33:56The outrigger on the crane is now sinking into the garden bed.
34:00He won't risk it.
34:01He'll tip the crane over.
34:03So we're not really sure what he's going to do.
34:05He's either got to bring his steel pads in,
34:07which means I've got to move the cabin back out,
34:09or put more timbers under it.
34:14We should be right now, so we'll, um, set back up,
34:18get the wheels back up,
34:19and we'll, uh, see if we can have a lift.
34:23Can we get someone on that other corner?
34:25Yeah, mate.
34:26I'm going.
34:29Okay, mate, I think we're right to go now.
34:31Yep, we're up here.
34:32That's it, mate.
34:33Nice and easy.
34:34Up you go.
34:35Yeah, you're off the trailer there, mate.
34:37Up you go.
34:39That looked very good, actually.
34:41Put round.
34:42Hold on to it.
34:45Up a touch ball, mate.
34:46Up a touch ball.
34:46Which way?
34:51You got it?
34:52There.
34:54That's string line there, and this one here.
35:00Oh.
35:02About a metre away from where we've got to go.
35:04My end.
35:06Down on the hook.
35:07It's got to go forward.
35:09Slew right attached, mate.
35:10Slew right.
35:11We've just got to get the walls in line with his string line.
35:14This wall here and the far wall.
35:17Come back about, Ken Mill.
35:20There.
35:22The eagle has landed.
35:24That's how we do it.
35:25That's how we do it in Portland, Victoria.
35:27Oh, I love it.
35:30It's just a bit fun.
35:32It's always a good feeling to land the cabin, get it off the truck.
35:36It's a big weight lifted off your shoulders.
35:39Plans at the moment just to keep chipping away and move as many of these cabins before I get too old.
35:45See how much bigger the cabins can get and see how much smaller gaps we can fit them into.
35:50Oversized, can I pass?
36:01If you make space, I can come around, mate.
36:04Oh, is it up off that little one, mate?
36:05Come around.
36:06Nah, I won't fit.
36:07I won't fit.
36:08My truck is too big.
36:09I won't fit.
36:12I've been coming around me all day.
36:13I'm going to see if you can start there.
36:15You're on.
36:15I'm going to try this.
36:17Oh, I think I can fit.
36:42You got it, mate?
36:43All good?
36:45Thanks, matey.
36:46You're the best.
36:47Rookie trucker Pablo has less than an hour to reach his unload destination for his critical
36:55delivery deadline and achieve his dream of succeeding in his first outback trip.
37:01Now, hopefully, I can make it because I was running behind late.
37:10Fine.
37:10We're now in Darwin.
37:18I'm about five kilometers to get to the offloading point.
37:24So here we are now.
37:37Just want to push before the rain comes down.
37:40I'm pretty happy that we've made it in time.
37:56Everybody's happy, and the company just won the tender for transporting more stuff for these guys, so it's a good thing I contributed to that.
38:07It was one of my dreams to come to the outback, and I managed to do it.
38:13I go to see places, experience the outback.
38:17I can't wait to do my next outback trip.
38:21So what do you reckon that one is, Locke?
38:28It's a bit of brown snake, a big brown snake.
38:31Always on the lookout.
38:32The brown snake and taipan, I think they're up there with some of the deadliest in the world.
38:37I'm very careful if you know there's one around.
38:40I think I might just have a quick look onto that trailer at a distance.
38:54He's all good.
38:56He's gone elsewhere, that one.
38:58All right, Locke.
39:00Thank you very much.
39:01Thank you, mate.
39:02Thanks, Robbie.
39:03Good on you.
39:04Robbie Adams is on his second day of an extreme delivery run to some of Australia's most remote
39:10livestock stations.
39:11The other downstage is my next one.
39:14It's a little bit of a trail to get into it, but winds and weaves around a bit, hoping
39:23my little well-being committee's going to open this gate for me.
39:27They always know I'm coming, so they opened the boundary for me and let me in.
39:33Thanks, Ken.
39:35See you in there.
39:36There we are at the diesel tanks.
39:37We love it when people come out and play with different people.
39:38He's brought fuel out for us today, which is good because it helps our whole community.
39:40Whoa!
39:41Whirly winds like this takes the roofs off the houses, the wall sheds.
39:48They're really, really, really dangerous.
39:49Hopefully it's not too bad.
39:50Hopefully it's not too bad.
39:51I'll tell you a fair bite.
39:52All right, but let's go.
39:53Tom comes out in the desert.
39:54That was good for us everyones, especially for likely to run the house, but have you
39:55come out somewhere and play with different people.
39:56Oh, he's brought fuel out for us today, which is good because it helps our whole community.
39:57Whoa!
39:58whole community. Whoa!
40:04Whirly winds like this takes the roofs off the houses, the wall sheds.
40:08They're really, really dangerous.
40:15Hopefully it's not too bad.
40:19Taya, fair boy, girls.
40:21On to the next one now.
40:23The last whirly wind that was out here, there was a trailer.
40:28The whirly wind caught it, it was just unhooked out here on its own.
40:32And the wind put it on its side.
40:35That's what those mini tornadoes will do.
40:42Nearing the end of his second day, Robbie has only travelled 316 rough and rugged kilometres
40:49and still has hundreds more ahead of him.
40:52That's the last job of the day.
40:54I'm just pulling off there.
40:58You know the best part of the day?
41:00Selling that key.
41:09I'm just going to unhook this second trailer.
41:12We actually got to come back this way, so I'll pick him up on the way back.
41:23We just pulled them into Wattlevale.
41:27I know they're really desperate for fuel here, I do know that.
41:33He'll be glad I'm here today.
41:35That tank was empty in another couple of days and he would have been ringing and abusing me.
41:40Another happy customer here, which is excellent.
41:51Just coming up to me second trailer now.
41:53I'll just hook it on.
41:54We've got to get into Whitequist.
41:55We'll drop this Dax Tyler.
41:56We can't get him to do the petal with two.
42:12Tight little places in around these small communities.
42:15They've got the annual Yimkhana coming on soon.
42:24It's pretty embarrassing when the town's got no fuel.
42:28We're done.
42:30Hook me trailer up and then I'll kiss them corrugations goodbye.
42:37It's been a good few days.
42:42Everyone's happy.
42:44I'm happy.
42:46I do this job because I absolutely love it.
42:52It is rewarding to see everyone smile when you get there with all the gear intact.
42:58Love it.
42:59Absolutely love it.
43:00Go home and get ready for another one.
43:02Are you driving?
43:06Am I?
43:08Go centre and stay in the centre.
43:11Haven't driven a truck in like five years.
43:14I hope it all comes flooding back.
43:17Stop going that way.
43:19Stop!
43:22I'm dead set.
43:23Reckon we're heading for drama mate.
43:25I've done some trips that we're going to have before.
43:27This one might be the worst.
43:28Dangerous.
43:30Well that's not good.
43:32You can go on a roll.
43:36We've got to try and get it all up in for Christmas.
43:38There isn't any other option.
43:42I've just got to start concentrating here a bit.
43:45Punching into it as hard as we can at the moment.
43:50F*** me.
43:59This ten moment has been stopped.
44:00Through the force of your mother.
44:02That's something I think about.
44:04Is my hair over.
44:05When doing finger over you are running after you.
44:07You can change the trigger, and your body's got to add small representations.
44:09That girl, if you have the medianuse and slowest, it rotate around as well.
44:12Next step like this.
44:14Into that entire movement has to fix your hands up.
44:16Do you hold the hope?
44:18To do it for a rainstorm into yourان?
44:19You can't want to soak it up here anymore.
44:20Yeah but then the point of your life supports to bring up your body full wonder.
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