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00:00This time on Outback Truckers.
00:03Bring that truck up!
00:04Haven't driven a truck in like five years.
00:07I hope it all comes flooding back.
00:10Same as or hook it left.
00:15Go centre and stay in the centre.
00:17Stop going that way.
00:19Stop!
00:22What do you know about the roads that we've got to come across?
00:25I'm dead set reckon we're heading for drama mate.
00:29What's going on here?
00:31I'm going down here.
00:33We don't want to roll one going down there.
00:39We've got a million things all happening here.
00:41It's like trying to muster feral cats at the moment.
00:45Punch it into it as hard as we can.
00:47On a 13% grey, you just can't stop.
00:53Jesus.
00:55F*** me.
00:58We're getting into a bad set of corrugations here now, so we're just going to have to walk through it pretty steady.
01:18Seem to be dragging heavy.
01:22I'm just going to go and have a quick walk.
01:23See the hose pop out?
01:24The air hose will come out.
01:25I think the brakes have been jamming up.
01:26That's where you've got a lot of smoke.
01:27Doesn't smell nice.
01:28As soon as that comes out, it locks the brakes on this trailer.
01:29For the last two or three hundred metres, I've been dragging the brakes down here.
01:45Not supposed to be able to do that, but this one has.
01:48I've got to get him back in his little hole here.
01:55We've driven eight hours from Townsville without incident at all, and now as soon as we hit the dirt, we get something like that.
02:03But anyway, we'll get going again.
02:05Jim Foodie and his young off-sider Q have just started a challenging five-day trucking mission.
02:17We left Townsville at 7am this morning.
02:20We're now heading on our way back to Mareeba with two cement powders.
02:25We have to drop one trailer into Lakeland.
02:30After leaving Townsville, Foodie is now halfway to Lakeland, where he'll park one of his trailers.
02:37He'll then return to Cairns tomorrow for more cargo.
02:41A lot of freight coming into our yard in Cairns.
02:43We've got to try and get it all up before Christmas there.
02:46There isn't any other option.
02:48After loading two trailers in Cairns, Foodie will pick up the trailer he left in Lakeland
02:54and drag a 130-tonne triple road train all the way up Cape York to Bamaga
03:02in a last-ditch attempt to deliver before the tropical wet season hits.
03:06The monsoon kicks in. Cape York typically gets around three metres of rain.
03:12The roads are cut, the rivers are flooded.
03:16Bridges could be six or seven metres underwater.
03:21There's just no hope of getting a truck in there.
03:24We've got to get up there. This will be our last run before Christmas.
03:30The last run always has a great number of Christmas presents on it.
03:34The last thing we want to do is disappoint families.
03:45We've got a million things all happening here.
03:47It's like trying to muster feral cats at the moment.
03:50We're trying to get everybody in the same page and it's not working real well.
03:53We've got to remember how to drive this bloody thing.
03:58We've got our trailer to unload here.
04:01You can see a pretty heavy object sitting up there.
04:04I'm guessing it's probably about 14 or 15 tonne.
04:07I need to have it off and have the trailer loaded.
04:09What I'm going to do here is I'm just going to come right through
04:13and I'm just going to very carefully just try to take the weight.
04:17Now I'll see what we get.
04:19Can we actually pick it up?
04:28You ain't going to lift that.
04:30Let me call Warren.
04:33Yeah mate, the orange one.
04:35Nurse doesn't quite lift it.
04:37It's close.
04:38Do you want to try the Omega, the smaller one?
04:42Oh, just one in each side and then we can drive out from underneath it.
04:47G'day mate, how are ya?
04:49I reckon if I go in and just make a bit of weight,
04:52we sorta, once we get the truck out from underneath it,
04:56then you just give us a signal,
04:58we'll just very carefully go back down to the ground.
05:01Hey Q!
05:02You're driving the truck out from underneath this mess.
05:06So we give you the signal, watch for it, eh?
05:11Just a bit technical here, we're going to have to do it.
05:14We're going to, we've got to coordinate.
05:17Oh, I think just go in the centre mate.
05:20We're truing a bit of a complicated thing,
05:22we're doing a double lift,
05:23we're going to bring a forklift in either side
05:25and then carefully go up.
05:27Right up.
05:28And then carefully go up.
05:43Oh, for sake.
05:44Up!
05:45Yeah, we're up!
05:46Okay, around a bit for it.
05:47Hey!
05:48No!
05:49It's the explorer's cutting.
05:50Yeah, I can see it, eh?
05:51Dylan McCarthy and his team are hard at it,
05:52cutting another beautiful wooden house into pieces for transporting.
05:56Today we're loading the house,
05:57but this side will be the bigger beast.
05:58It's about seven and a half metres wide.
05:59The little bit's only small, it's only about three seven.
06:00These big beams are what we use to support the house while it's travelling.
06:01The trailer's only three metres wide and the house is seven and a half.
06:30Essential for the job are the $1.2 million trailers.
06:36Operated by remote control, they can lift to 2.85 metres,
06:41tilt and have independent steering.
06:45I'm going to get it all picked up now,
06:47push the rest of the walls out so I can get it split.
06:50We've already cut the floors here.
06:52So it's going to continue that through here
06:54and up the walls at the front and back.
06:56So we're going to split it straight apart.
07:00Real open everywhere.
07:02It's just that top plate still jammed right up.
07:04It's tighter than it was before.
07:10That got it?
07:11Righto.
07:12That's it, she's all split open.
07:14It's Robbie and Jack's turn now to move it up to Mackay.
07:16Good luck to him, I reckon.
07:23Take straight as long as you can.
07:25Check it on the second axle.
07:26Yep.
07:27Driving this up to Finch Haddon tonight.
07:31Hopefully get halfway tomorrow night to finish her off.
07:34I've got the bigger bit.
07:35So pretty much I make the line and then Robbie will just follow me through.
07:40Joining senior driver Jack McRae for the job is his boss,
07:45company owner Robbie Mackay.
07:47It's definitely a race against the clock.
07:49There's a cyclone that's going to hit Mackay on Wednesdays.
07:52So we're pushing to get up there.
07:54If we didn't move this house tonight, it gets demolished next week.
07:58So the owner was like, I don't care about the rain.
08:00Just bring it.
08:01Otherwise I'm going to lose my house.
08:03In the urgent race to beat the oncoming cyclone, the team must first navigate their extreme loads out of the tight city streets of Brisbane onto the A1 and then travel almost 600 kilometres to their first rest stop at Marmore before sunrise.
08:21The following night, they complete the journey along narrow country lanes and creek crossings to their destination at Finch Hatton.
08:31To pull off the extreme mission, Robbie needs all the help he can get.
08:36I'm Rob's little sister.
08:38Rob rang me, we had a big job, said he needed a hand, so here I am.
08:43Long story is I quit my job, brought up with my boyfriend and had to move into his cool house and no one lives for free, so here I am.
08:51We've got to be off the road before daybreak, which is honestly cutting it pretty fine.
08:55Haven't driven a truck in like five years.
08:58Fingers crossed nothing goes wrong.
09:00It's a pain where we are now.
09:03We're in suburbia.
09:05It is tight coming through here with the trees and that branch is getting snapped off.
09:10We still have a bit of stuffing around with these cars down here, so if everyone listens and does what they're meant to, it'll go good.
09:18Just a couple of cars in the way, but just lift up and over.
09:25All good.
09:26All right.
09:27Keep coming out now, Robbie.
09:29Nice and easy.
09:33Come on.
09:34Yeah.
09:37Nice and easy.
09:38You should be right, Robbie.
09:39You might pass them wires, Jack.
09:40The back ones?
09:41Yeah.
09:42I am.
09:43Hold up, will you put on the brake?
09:44Go.
09:45Stop.
09:46Stop.
09:47All right.
09:48Yeah, I'll put the other one just the other side of that rope, put them back through each other and pull them.
09:53That way you're getting...
09:54That way you're getting the same length either side, right?
09:56Brilliant.
09:57Brilliant, Brody.
09:58Brilliant.
09:59We are now 15 or 16 days from Christmas.
10:02We've got three trailers of construction stuff to go to Alice Springs.
10:03They want this load in Alice Springs so that their men have got work over Christmas.
10:08There's people over there that want the work.
10:09That way you're getting the same length either side, right?
10:13Brilliant. Brilliant, Brody, brilliant.
10:16We are now 15 or 16 days from Christmas.
10:21We've got three trailers of construction stuff to go to Alice Springs.
10:25They want this load in Alice Springs
10:27so that their men have got work over Christmas.
10:29There's people over there that want the work.
10:32Steve Graham is preparing for a high-stakes 2,500-kilometre run
10:38through the arid red centre of Australia
10:40to deliver house frames and construction material.
10:44My grandson Brody's coming along to give me a hand.
10:46He's a good helper these days.
10:48I've done some trips with my grandad before,
10:51but this one might be the most dangerous.
10:53Just 16 days before Christmas,
10:57Steve and Brody are gambling on getting from Perth to Laverton
11:00on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert
11:03and then taking on over 1,000 kilometres of dirt road
11:07to reach the highway into Alice Springs
11:10before a predicted storm cell hits later in the week.
11:16It takes me all of today and all of tomorrow to get to Laverton.
11:20It's 1,000 kilometres from here.
11:22Once I get to Laverton, I'm going to cross my fingers.
11:24It's going to be dry.
11:26If they shut the roads, I'm going to have to shut it down
11:28and it will cost me a lot of money.
11:30Bill, we'll go and do it, Brody.
11:32Are you all right, boy?
11:33All right.
11:33All right, mate, let's go.
11:34All right, Brody, we'll get down here, we'll hook up for double.
11:43We have to do this in stages
11:44because down here we're only allowed to be 36.5 metres long.
11:48Wuburn North, we're allowed to be 53.5.
11:51Local road regulations force Steve to stagger his load,
11:55only adding a second trailer just outside the city
11:58and adding his third trailer after arriving in Wuburn,
12:03265 kilometres north of Perth.
12:06All right, so I'll pull alongside the dog trailer.
12:09We hook up a double here.
12:11He can get out, guide me from this side
12:13and watch the traffic behind you.
12:16Do not step back onto the road.
12:18We're attaching that dolly to this trailer.
12:23My job is to ride him onto the connection point
12:27and then I'll wind the legs up and then we'll be gone.
12:35Just before you wind it, what you always do is check.
12:37See that little flap at the front?
12:39Down.
12:39See that little chain?
12:40That's safe, it's down.
12:41But you always check to make sure that's down
12:43before you wind your legs up.
12:45That means it's locked in, can't go anywhere.
12:46Always just listen to the click.
12:48Yeah, but always check that, don't trust the click.
12:50All right.
12:51You can hear a click and it'll still let you down sometimes.
12:55Brody's pretty handy, he can check the load.
12:57He's done enough trips with me now that he knows what's what.
13:00He'll come and tell me if he finds something
13:02that's not as it should be.
13:03So he's saving me a bit of time there,
13:05all the time I can save is good.
13:08Right up, Brody boy, how'd you go?
13:10A couple of them are loose, but...
13:11Have you tightened them up?
13:12Yeah, they're all tightened up.
13:14At this point in time, I'm eight hours behind,
13:16I'm heading out in peak hour traffic.
13:18And no-one likes driving road trains in peak hour traffic.
13:28So what do you know about the roads
13:29that we're going to have to come across?
13:32I'm dead set, reckon we're heading for drama, mate.
13:36What we're doing is having a little gamble there.
13:38What we're gambling is
13:39that by the time we get to the dirt,
13:41it's dried in front of us.
13:43The only thing that'll play havoc
13:45with my little gamble is for rays.
13:47Oh, for f***ing sake.
13:59Let's do it again.
14:05All right, out of here.
14:09Just signal Q to get the hell out.
14:11Oh, no, I have to go down together,
14:22so we're going down level.
14:29Oh, no.
14:30That went pretty well.
14:33Foodie is racing the oncoming tropical wet season,
14:36desperate to be the last road train into Bamaga
14:39before the monsoons turn the road into boggy streams,
14:44stopping any truck access for months.
14:47Just come in to see what's in this container
14:49that we've got to go.
14:51And, hey, look, here's kids' Christmas presents.
14:54I don't want to repeat it.
14:55A couple of years ago,
14:56when we were all loaded with presents for kids
14:58and the road was closed and we had to turn back,
15:01those kids didn't get Christmas till April that year.
15:03We've got one trailer loaded, fully loaded, in Lakeland.
15:09We took up the other day.
15:10We're now going to load two trailers here.
15:12We've got a hell of amount of freight.
15:15I'm going to tell them to be ready to catch it.
15:18Lift up!
15:20Yeah, it's going to get a bit funny, this load,
15:23because we're going to be stacking things on top of things.
15:26Trying to get these third pipes up.
15:29All right, just please stay there for a minute.
15:36We're going to be maximum weight, maximum width,
15:39and maximum height.
15:41Five metres and 50 millimetres.
15:43It's absolutely on our linden.
15:46Yeah, grab that out of the way, for Christ's sake.
15:48I'm running over it.
15:55Why don't they make pallets all the same size?
16:00These idiot suppliers, they make weird-sized pallets.
16:03We've got to try and get it in a container.
16:13That's not good.
16:14I'm supposed to be able to drive in these things.
16:19Heavy pallets, a bit of a bad floor.
16:21It's all kind of the excitement.
16:36All right.
16:38Done deal.
16:39Hard to strap down.
16:47Everything moves.
16:48Hard to watch.
16:50That girl had a bloody load of pus.
16:54And that's pretty well described what we've got.
16:58We're right up on our maximum height limits.
17:01You don't want to start damage at the top of the pipes
17:04and things there with tree branches.
17:06If we scrape one off or drop it on the car behind us,
17:10that'll be way up to all.
17:13Once we get to Lakeland, we're going to have a team
17:16and we'll assemble a triple road train early in the morning
17:19and then the real business starts.
17:22We are now a triple.
17:45We can actually start the trip now.
17:54We're coming right down to the wire.
17:55There's no time left in anything.
18:05Really don't need this shit.
18:11Hold up.
18:12Are you from the break?
18:12No.
18:13Stop.
18:13Come past that ferrata now.
18:19Go forward slowly.
18:24I've only just been past that car at that.
18:33Yep, that's it.
18:35I'll give Jack a hand with this next one.
18:36Robbie Mackay and his team have just two nights
18:41to get a massive house more than 1,000 kilometres north.
18:46I'll get round, man.
18:47You're on the side.
18:48We've got a triple gable Queenslander that we're taking here.
18:52One section is on eight metres.
18:55Moving that size down any road,
18:57let alone hundreds of kilometres,
18:59is difficult.
18:59Good job, Ben Ash.
19:02All right, let's get the f*** out of your rod behind me.
19:09Yeah, I'm good?
19:10Yeah, you're good.
19:14I'm going in these three turning lanes to make me u-y.
19:17Anxious to make their deadline,
19:20the team have hit their first obstacle.
19:22The access road to the highway
19:24is too tight for the nine metre wide load.
19:28They're forced to find an alternative route,
19:30closing lanes and crossing the median strip.
19:33You want me to steer it or you got me wrong?
19:40No, you just spot for me.
19:41I can steer it in here pretty bitter.
19:43When we get going,
19:44I'll get you to jump in and just follow us along.
19:53You want to stay up to this post
19:54and then f***ing look it across.
19:57That's high enough, yeah?
19:58120?
19:59Yep.
20:00First axle coming up.
20:01You're all right.
20:05And just hug that gutter.
20:07You're all right.
20:08You're all right.
20:10You're good, man.
20:10You're like heaps.
20:12Hey, Ash, bring that truck up!
20:15Robbie's little sister, Ashley,
20:17hasn't driven a truck in over five years.
20:21It's definitely been a while.
20:23Let's hope I'm not the reason something goes wrong.
20:25Start looking around.
20:27Yep.
20:27All right.
20:31You guys got a copy on the police cars?
20:46Yep, they're coming up, Jack.
20:48Two of them coming past you now.
20:52Sweet.
20:52Rollin'.
20:53Coming out.
21:03Coming out.
21:17Robbie's got a f*** out there.
21:19You're a f***ing dickhead.
21:20Oh, my God.
21:25Hold up, f***ing Ardabot.
21:36All right, I was nearly dark, Brody boy,
21:39so we're only just starting the trip, really,
21:43and it's the end of the day.
21:45I've had enough.
21:46I've been on the go since 6 o'clock this morning.
21:48We'll get up in the morning, put the road train together
21:50and get into it from there, fresh.
21:56I think we'll call it quits here, copper.
22:00Here you go.
22:02It's quarter past nine now.
22:04I'll have a feed and go to bed.
22:06It'll be 6 o'clock start in the morning.
22:12It's a new day for Steve and his grandson, Brody,
22:16on their mission to cross over 1,000 kilometres of desert dirt road
22:21before oncoming storms hit.
22:23Well done, Brody boy.
22:25Come on, we're going.
22:29The road train terminal's just up there, 2 kilometres.
22:33The trailer's there.
22:37Yeah, wind down the legs on the front trailer, please, mate.
22:41Brody, you'll get the weight on the trailer legs,
22:43get clearance,
22:45and it should be the right height for the dolly to go under.
22:48Woo, that'll do.
22:49How did we go, Belle-Belle?
23:00So hooked up to your satisfaction?
23:04Good girl.
23:07We've got our triple road train, finally.
23:12Surprisingly, it's a bit cooler where we're going.
23:15It's 36 degrees.
23:16Where we are now will be 41 and 42.
23:21It's also a bit scary.
23:23I can see some clouds starting to build up up there.
23:28I'd like to bet that I'm going to pull this job off.
23:31What will wreck my bet is rain.
23:34If we start heading out there and there's rain out there,
23:37the road will be closer.
23:38We won't be going anywhere.
23:40It either happens now in the next couple of days,
23:43or it doesn't happen.
23:44What's going on here?
24:01Shit, Brody, boy.
24:02It's a truck rollover up here.
24:05Roger, mate.
24:06There's people there helping and all that sort of stuff.
24:09This bloke's obviously got a bit of a sway up.
24:20Might have got a bit tired.
24:22Now what I'm doing is I'm getting a straight line,
24:24trying to get straight onto it.
24:27It's going to be a bastard getting around.
24:29Diff lock in.
24:33Our divider lock.
24:37We don't want to roll one going down there, Brody.
24:46We can actually start the trip now.
24:48We're dragging two trailers with the brakes fully on.
25:05Get off the bloody steep hill.
25:09We've still got a tap down somewhere.
25:13Curious resistance going on here.
25:16Here you go.
25:17Look at this.
25:19That's the same coupling that come off on f***ing U-10 Road.
25:25It's a dodgy coupling.
25:26It's not letting air go to the other trailers,
25:28so we're basically dragging two trailers with the brakes fully on.
25:33Anyway, we'll get out of everyone's way now.
25:35Desperate to be the last road train into Bamaga before monsoon season,
25:43Foodie needs a clean run up Cape York,
25:45or risk having to turn back and wait four months for the roads to open.
25:50I just wish I was like some people and just had three trailers all for the one customer.
25:56I've got three trailers and about 30 customers.
25:59I've got Christmas presents, I've got furniture,
26:03and I've got a couple of gas cages as well.
26:05See, you couldn't get them all mixed bag of lollies, this thing.
26:09Oh, I ain't not got a 40-ton bloody excavator sitting back there.
26:13I was about to be at him.
26:17I'll be through the channel on the road train.
26:22Yeah, mate, what's the problem?
26:24I thought I was going on here to the truck.
26:26I'll be through the road train.
26:27Mate, I can hear you out.
26:31He's calling me if he wants to come around.
26:38Yeah, mate, I'm in the road train.
26:41Can you hear me on this radio?
26:44Mate, I reckon your radio's not working properly, eh?
26:51This thing worked for decades.
26:53It's going to be a long time.
27:03I'm thinking he's warning me about the flapping straps there,
27:07and I got a bit of a fright this morning because the, uh...
27:11Whoa, mate.
27:12No, we do have a problem.
27:16I'm just seeing a pipe rolling about up there.
27:21We might really have a problem here.
27:23Did we lose a pipe?
27:27We really, really, really don't want that to happen.
27:30That's going to our day big time.
27:36Oh, my God.
27:38Oh, the f***ing autobots.
27:42What the fuck?
27:46You want to see if you get these cars around you, Jack?
27:48I'm going up the four lanes, yeah.
27:52We've got a copy in the middle pilot, mate.
27:54Yeah, mate, gotcha.
27:55I'll move over to the left and get those cars around the right, please.
27:57Yeah, probably there.
28:05Sweet.
28:05We'll hold everything to a pine river now.
28:09Dawn is rapidly approaching on the first of two nights Robbie Mackay and his team have
28:14to deliver two sections of a house before their oversized road permits expire.
28:20There's been heaps of accidents lately.
28:23That's why they won't let us go during the day.
28:26We've got to get to Marmoor tonight and we're already 11 o'clock.
28:30No f***ing toilet breaks, mate.
28:31It's been spinned.
28:32No.
28:32No.
28:33No.
28:33We're here.
28:43Now we'll just park up.
28:48We'll leave him here during the day.
28:50We'll go get some sleep, get some rest and, yeah, get back here tonight.
29:01Oh, we're not now.
29:03You got to go?
29:05Yeah, mate.
29:05Almost 500 kilometres of narrow single lane highway now lies ahead of the team and their
29:12super wide load.
29:14Nine metres coming in there, mate.
29:16Motorhome.
29:20What a f***ing f*** that f*** was.
29:24It's in any side hand.
29:29Yeah, girl, you're alright?
29:30Cheers, mate.
29:33Turned off, sir.
29:39The final stretch into the tiny rural community of Finch Hatton is accessed only by local farm
29:47laneways.
29:48I've had a bit of rain lately, single lane, kangaroos and wild animals.
29:57That's a rough fridge.
30:00I need a spot for my wheels through here.
30:03Driver's side's good.
30:05How much does he got on that passenger side?
30:07Hold up, Jack.
30:15Wait up.
30:15Whoa, whoa, whoa.
30:16Diff lock in.
30:28Our divider lock.
30:29Because we don't want to roll one going down there, Brodie.
30:32What's he got on there?
30:41He's got some head.
30:42Good.
30:43Thought he had fuelled for a second.
30:47There's no one injured there.
30:48It's only his back trailer that's gone over Brodie.
30:50He looks like a typical dog trailer flick, which might be indicated by the fact that he's gone
30:55down, pulled her back up on the road too quick and flicked her.
31:01Could have blown a tyre.
31:04Could be a bit of inattention.
31:06Could be a bit of fatigue.
31:07Steve and his grandson Brodie are gambling on a Christmas miracle, crossing over 1,000 kilometres
31:17of desert to Alice Springs, before December storms make the dirt road impassable.
31:24It'd be nice to finish this job because a triple to Alice Springs is not a bad earner.
31:33But at this time of the year with these thunderstorms around, anything can happen.
31:37But I'd rather not be spending Christmas sitting out there in a mud hole somewhere.
31:42We'll either pull it off or it's going to go bad on me.
31:51Right, we're going to pull up here, check the tyres and the load.
31:58See, if they feel loose, those, just have a look at your tyres as you're going along, all right?
32:03Yeah, I check theirs and then I go back and check them.
32:05Good on you.
32:07It's good having Brodie with me.
32:10It broadens their experience, but I certainly wouldn't force it on him.
32:14I sort of haven't entertained that idea because Brodie's really into nature and I see him as
32:20being a ranger or a naturalist or that's always been his interests.
32:26He missed that flat tyre.
32:27I'll show him about that.
32:29Hey, Brodie.
32:29How did you go with the tyre check, mate?
32:33Oh, they all look good.
32:35Did you bang them?
32:37I didn't bang all of them.
32:37I did bang a couple and the ones I did banged felt nice.
32:41See the different colour on that inside tyre there?
32:45Run over a nail or it's got a leaking valve or it's...
32:48Run over a screw.
32:49Yep, we're good to go.
32:59We'll just keep on heading towards Laverton, you know.
33:06Steve's hoping to make it to Laverton, the gateway to the Great Central Dirt Road, before sundown.
33:14As I get to Laverton, I've got a bit under a thousand k's to get there.
33:18Getting closer to those clouds, Brodie, boy.
33:23They are forecasting severe thunderstorms.
33:31All right, Brodie, just here, mate, is the turn-off we should be taking to go out the Great Central Road, right?
33:37And what do these signs say?
33:41Closed, closed.
33:43Closed to all traffic.
33:47Boy, I buggered him.
33:49I've just burnt up $3,000 worth of diesel.
33:53I won't make anywhere near as much money.
33:55It will eat into my profit just the time alone that I've put into it.
33:59It costs me and the customer money, Brodie.
34:02That's the frustrating thing about it.
34:07I think we've run our race here.
34:13How are you, mate?
34:14G'day.
34:14You're getting out to Great Central.
34:16Well, I was thinking of going out there, but I've just changed my mind.
34:18I just got out of there this morning.
34:21And the road's shutting out all traffic.
34:23Yeah, that's what I've been told, yeah.
34:24These boys have just got out, and there is a truck bogged in the middle of the road.
34:29They only just got around him.
34:31They don't reckon we will.
34:32And regardless of that, the road is closed to all traffic.
34:36If I stick my beak out there, it's a $400 per tyre fine.
34:40I've got 62 tyres on the road.
34:43I'm not up for that sort of a fine.
34:45So, Brodie, boy, come here.
34:48I'll explain it to you.
34:49We're not going to Old Springs.
34:51We rolled the dice, Brodie.
34:53We had a bet.
34:54We had a big punt.
34:55It didn't pay off, mate.
34:57It's a bit sad.
34:59It's the first time in a long time I haven't been able to complete one.
35:03We'll come back and complete it in January.
35:05So, you're right for next year?
35:06Yep.
35:07Good on you, mate.
35:08Can't leave a job unfinished.
35:10Oh, you sound like your granddad.
35:12Can't leave a job half finished.
35:13We'll camp here.
35:20Cook some tea out here.
35:22I don't lose many, Brodie.
35:24I don't lose many bets on this trucking game, but I lost this one.
35:27I'm just more happy to be out here with you.
35:30Oh, good, mate.
35:31I'm glad.
35:32I'm glad you're out here.
35:34You eat your tea.
35:34Cheers.
35:40Hold up, Jack.
35:41Hold up.
35:41Hold up.
35:43Cheers, boys.
35:45The passengers.
35:47I'll just jump out and watch her wait up.
35:51He's got four inches.
35:52He's got four inches on the car on the side.
35:56Just tell him to keep going straight at that.
36:05Am I off it now?
36:09You're all good, mate.
36:10Keep it going.
36:11Are you driving?
36:14Am I?
36:17Racing to deliver a house before his permit expires at sunrise, Robbie has called in his little sister, Ashley, to help.
36:25Go centre and stay in the centre.
36:27I haven't driven a truck in, like, five years.
36:31I hope it all comes flooding back to me.
36:37Go this way.
36:39Not hard.
36:40Just a little bit.
36:43Stop going that way.
36:45Yeah, I'll just tickle on real easy.
37:01Let's go brush through this tree here a little bit.
37:02I gather the poor piece just past this rough way.
37:04Yeah, it's just past it on the ride.
37:05Yeah, I'm just in the water just cruising.
37:08Go to me a bit more.
37:10Yep.
37:11Stay there.
37:11Stay there.
37:12We're here.
37:38We're here.
37:41Woo!
37:44How you going, mate?
37:46Good. You're south?
37:47She's a bit spongy.
37:48I think if I hook onto you from the bird go,
37:51I'm better off pulling you
37:52than you get stuck with me trying to start you again.
37:55After a gruelling journey of over 1,000 kilometres,
37:59the team have finally arrived at their destination.
38:02But the toughest challenge still lies ahead.
38:05The property's driveway.
38:07As you can see, it's pretty wet,
38:09so we'll hook up to this dozer,
38:12get her up the f***ing hill.
38:14Let's go.
38:17I'll just follow the trailer wheels, yeah?
38:19Yep. You're on your trailer.
38:23Here you go, master.
38:32A little bit more.
38:34Mate, my foot has been that far under the floorboards.
38:37Here we go, and don't stop.
38:42A little bit more.
38:43Faster.
38:46Keep going with this chair.
38:48That's it.
38:50Over that way.
38:54Mate, that's it.
38:54You've got a little bit bald.
38:56Hey, Rhys, trying to go down there,
38:58tell them they can drive that one in?
39:00Yep.
39:00You can spin it up here.
39:01Thank you, Andrew.
39:01I hope you, uh, enjoyed the show.
39:05Trace, the owner's really happy with everything, so it's good.
39:09Watching it come up into this beautiful setting has been pretty exciting.
39:13Look, I can already see myself sitting on that front deck having a beer in a very short period of time.
39:18Now, the boys will get cracking, dig some holes, a bit of concrete tomorrow.
39:23Sun's coming out now, which it wasn't meant to the whole time we were here, so it's always a plus.
39:27Hola!
39:28Hola!
39:28Ash went really good.
39:30She was a bit nervous.
39:30It's been a while since she's been in a truck, so she took some, uh, kind words from me to motivate her.
39:38Made good time.
39:40Good shift after, um, not doing it for five years, so Rob only yelled at me a couple of times, so that's always good.
39:46On to the next one.
39:54Whoa, back.
39:55No, we do have a problem.
39:58Did we lose a pot?
40:00But we're really, really, really don't want that to happen.
40:03That's going to f*** today, big time.
40:07What have we got happening here?
40:11I don't think we've got anything happening, but I think that's swinging around a little bit.
40:14I think what I saw was this moving.
40:16The tails and the straps have unrolled themselves, and, uh, I don't feel like climbing up there and re-rolling the bloody things.
40:25We'll just continue on our way, I think.
40:28Foodie is racing to get to the very top of Australia, hoping to fulfil his job as the planet's most unlikely Father Christmas.
40:37In the pool room back there, we've got, uh, things for Christmas dinner, we've got tables, and we've got, uh, chairs and various items in there.
40:49Yeah, we've also got some Christmas presents in there, so we don't want to disappoint the kids.
40:53Christmas comes right in the hottest time of the year, and quite often Christmas Day is the, is the hottest day of the year.
41:02And in North Greenland, it's also about when the monsoon season starts, the whole of a Cape might get half a metre of rain.
41:12And the road's turned into, uh, just turned into mud, and we can't, obviously, drive trucks up there when it's like that.
41:20I've just got to start concentrating here a bit, because this is the first bit of a hurdle here.
41:30We've got to get up over Hell's Gate.
41:33It's a peculiar bit of road.
41:35It's a very steep little short ditch with a right ankle bend at the top of it.
41:40Ahead lies the notorious Hell's Gate Pass, a massive challenge for this Aussie Santa's heavily laden sleigh.
41:49We've got to punch it into it as hard as we can at the moment.
41:54We're, uh, 55 metres long, around about 130 tonne.
42:00A, uh, 13% grade.
42:04You just can't stop.
42:06You're gonna, you're gonna reduce speed, and look at it, look at the hell.
42:19There we don't, what we didn't want to do, we're slipping.
42:49Oh, we're in a world of pain now.
42:57We can't get traction on this hill.
43:01We can't reverse back down the hill.
43:06We're in a world of pain.
43:13If we don't have money coming in the next two days, then I'm gonna look like a bit of an arse.
43:19We've got something going on back there.
43:22I don't see some smoke.
43:28Chip.
43:29Good to see New Zealand's no different to home.
43:32You're dipshits passing you with cars coming towards you.
43:36There's a tunnel.
43:39They don't give you much room, do they?
43:44Santa Claus is coming to town, isn't that the song?
43:46It's gonna be slippery and fog holes here and there.
43:49It's going to be a dead drag, man.
43:51It's going to be a dead drag, man.
43:52It's going to be a dead drag, man.
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