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On this Outback Truckers special it’s only the brave, the experienced or the darn right crazy who dare take on Australia’s toughest roads.
In the land Down Under, where the terrain is tough, the weather extreme and the towns remote we reveal the toughest, the craziest, the most epic loads of all time.
When the going gets tough, sometimes the tough stuff up! The break downs, nightmares and bad decisions in the longest, heaviest trucks in the world.
Two married couples are among the truckers crossing Australia's desert, where exhaustion, rain and breakdowns haunt them on trips that last for days.
While Steve risks everything to keep his rig going on an epic trek, ex-model Deb and driving partner Damo must deal with a mid-trip change of plans.
Mark stretches his heavy hauler to the limit driving over a mountain range. Weather threatens Steve as he hauls supplies to a remote area.
Trucker and rancher Dougal must haul cattle to a faraway market to avoid ruin. Meanwhile Steve's rig is stuck a short distance from his destination.
Gordo and Shui face exhaustion and a cyclone on a turnaround trip. Mark, Clare and dog Roy drive toward Adelaide. Steve can't budge in a driving rain.
Steve travels a long stretch of bad road to deliver pricey cargo. Danny drives his mega-hauler overnight to move one of the world's biggest trucks.
First-time lead driver Dion is under pressure to get supplies to a mine. Corey hauls a triple load of petroleum to gas stations vital to their towns.
Turbo is up for any trucking challenge, but waiting for pay from his last job means this hard driving, hard talking trucker is stuck 4300kms from home.
Scrap metal merchant Russell, is trying to get on the road to recovery. Macka McCreedy hits stormy seas hauling a world famous yacht. And Bluezy and Noelene's routine run turns into a rescue mission.
Turbo's on a mission and the warpath, taking the biggest gamble of his career. Steve Grahame battles 2000kms of dirt, damage and dramas and at the wheel of a monster load Glen Waters faces disaster.
Matt Adams rides a volatile load of bulls into a world of trouble. Yogi tests his truck and his patience to the limit and the Stephens Brothers battle the backwoods to rescue millions of angry bees.
Rustling up a wild load of angry bulls, Matt Adams hits his roughest ride ever. Carrying prized freight, Macka McCready sails into story waters, and the Stephens Brothers battle to rescue their bees.
Hauling a volatile load, larger than life tanker driver Sludge dodges disaster. Steve Grahame heads into unknown territory with busted equipment and Macka McCready sails into wild weather.
Steve Grahame is up the creek without a paddle on a desert island delivery. With a monster load Yogi is running out of time, and concrete kings Jared Baldwin and Jonny Rayner are heading off the map.
On a road to nowhere Jared Baldwin and Jonny Rayner face an epic fight digging in the dirt. Steve Grahame's marathon desert island run hits the deck and Turbo battles bureaucracy to keep on the road.
Jared Baldwin and Jonny Rayner's epic mission grinds to a halt as they climb their way out of disaster.
Carl Andrews is at the wheel of a highly charged monster load. School's out for Russell McDonough as his mobile classroom gets a shake up.
All hell breaks loose for Turbo as his freight and his truck take a hiding, and Greg and Sonya Wise are under the weather and under pressure.
Mark Cromwell is under heavyweight pressure chasing the clock on a $2 million mega-move and cattle trucker Belinda Riehl is moving more than she bargained for.
Mark Cromwell brings a city to a standstill taking a $2 million delivery into the heart of Saturday night.
Sludge tries to keep a truck-full of flammable liquid from ruin and mobile butcher Larry Brewer is on a mission.
Scrapper Russell McDonough is duelling with the desert and battling breakdowns and logging trucker Bob Fraser tackles a mountain of timber.
Steve Grahame gets a double dose of bad on a brutal lap through the red centre. Desert trucker Barnesy heads way off the grid on a desperate rescue mission.
Graham's race through the desert takes a sudden turn from make to break. Turbo's bleeding money as his run lurches out of control.
Kurt Shephard loses his way hauling a hut across Australia. Johnny Dowell drags a stack of steel and a dust cloud up a horror desert track.
There's trouble in the wind for Kurt Sheppard who is struggling with a load causing oversized problems. Bumper Farrell is on a mercy dash, leading a hay convoy into the eye of the storm.
Mark Cromwell and a team of heavyweight champions drag a million dollar shed through the eye of a needle. Fuel trucker Sludge has pressure problems blowing his cool.
Mark Cromwell and the electricity switch room convoy run into freak weather and unexpected roadblocks. Turbo goes head-to-head with an angry customer and an angry road.
It's trial by fire for Russell McDonough hauling a mobile building, down a load-destroying track. The Mackay brothers, race daylight and deadlines, moving a house down the highway.
The Mackay Brothers hit the bush and try to dodge destruction while Steve Grahame takes on an old enemy at the worst possible time of the year.
There are headaches on the horizon for Steve Grahame taking on the Tanami with a trailer load of trouble and it's a wild ride for Nigel Vagg hauling 900 feral goats through a heatwave.
Sludge and the Phantom ride into battle fighting the elements and an old river boat nearly scuttles two truckers along the bumpy road to restoration.
Sludge takes on foreign roads and strange loads in the land of the kiwi. Turbo's new truck gets busted and bashed, on a tour of destruction.
It's a white knuckle ride for Sludge climbing a mountain with an angry load. Cameron Smith carts a colossal dump truck out of the Nullarbor - and straight into harms way.
Steve Grahame hits the mud with a broken down body and Sludge's mountain mission takes a downhill slide.
Steve Grahame's right-hand man, Slick, rushes to deliver a house to a remote community and get home in time for Christmas.
Nick and Jo can't catch a break with break downs and melt downs in the remote Kimberley.
Outback legend Steve Grahame is back. But his latest haul will test his newly fixed truck and newly fixed shoulder.
The Mackay's monster house moving convoy irritates drivers as they race to make curfew.
Brutal weather and bending roads give Tasmanian trucker Jeff Elliot a run for his money.
Flooding and corrugated roads throw Mark Cromwell and his team off road as they race to deliver a mammoth switch room into the desert.
Country boy Anthony and city wife Danyelle battle bogs and blocked bores to bring water to desperate cattle stations.
Steve Grahame feels the pressure as he heads off the dirt and onto the bitumen and into road closures.
In Sydney, Mick King gets it in the neck as he moves a 15 week Kiwi born giraffe to its new home in Australia.
Extreme weather and crumbling infrastructure make a short journey across a remote Pacific island one of Mark Cromwell's most challenging jobs ever.
In Central Australia, Brad Duckworth's run of bad luck threatens to put the brakes on the construction of an outback airstrip.
Paul 'Blinky' Cunningham gets the wind put up him as he moves the largest turbines in Australia from the Port of Newcastle to the White Rock Wind Farm.
Steve Grahame battles wild animals and deep sand as he takes on the Great Central Road for the first time since the Wet.
Husband-and-wife team Nick and Jo risk one last supply to a remote settlement as the wet season looms. Craig and his son trek 3000 km to deliver hay to drought-hit stations.
Brother and sister team Robbie and Ashleigh hit house removal hell on a mud-bogged mission out of Brisbane. Nick and Jo battle storms in remote Western Australia.
Outback trucking legend Steve Grahame and his faithful canine companion Bella take a monster load cross-country from the red centre to the west coast. Engine issues see Russell struggle to hit a delivery deadline.
Russell "Crusher's" 30-year-old truck feels the strain on a run from Alice Springs to central Queensland. Sludge wrestles flooded roads to deliver fuel to farmers.
Yogi risks a showdown with the law as he heads into South Australia. And, Steve is under pressure with a truck down and a run to a place he's never been to.
Yogi prepares for a showdown with transport police in South Australia. Nick and Jo take on one of their toughest jobs yet on one of Australia's worst roads.
Steve Grahame navigates flooded highways and washouts in a marathon 6000 km drive. And, a Perth heavy haulage crew moves a huge pedestrian bridge.
Trainee trucker Danyelle Haigh gets a brutal driving lesson as her family's water drilling rig heads for cattle country. Steve battles flooded highways when his truck breaks down, leaving him stranded.
Woody's urgent food delivery to a remote desert community is jeopardised by a leaking fridge unit. Tasmanian logging contractors the Bennett Brothers tackle forest tracks to move a huge tree winch.
Nick and Jo mount a delicate rescue operation to recover a World War 2 bomber from its outback grave. And, a delayed flight to an outback town threatens to leave a mobile heart clinic without a doctor.
Russell Crusher hopes to test out his new $200,000 metal muncher at Uluru, but truck troubles pull him up. And Kelly Habel rushes to get 40 tonnes of grapes to the winery.
Torrential rain plays havoc with Robbie Mackay's efforts to relocate a home without wrecking it. Graham faces storms and grass fires moving a section of railway 5,000 kilometres in just five days.
Cyclonic weather threatens to stop tanker driver Mick King delivering hazardous chemicals to a desert mine site. Tasmanian trucker Lindsay transports 80,000 angry bees to a rainforest.
Trucking veteran Steve Grahame's heading to the beach, but it's no vacation.
In Central Australia, 450 kilometres from Alice Springs, outback legend Steve Grahame is hot and bothered.
Owner operator Justin Harrison's on an epic haul up through the red heart of Australia.
Husband and wife trucking team Nick and Jo Atkins are about to embark on a dangerous trek north through one of the world's last wilderness frontiers.
Ross Carrigy is returning from the remote north Queensland community of Kowanyama at the start of the wet season.
In the Northern Territory the wet season's about to break and veteran road train trucker Mark Pett is hauling 78 tonnes of cement and steel straight into a disaster zone.
20 year veteran trucker Yogi is on a mercy mission leading a hay convoy to the drought ravaged farmers of New South Wales.
Livestock trucker Troy Coombe is facing wild weather and wild passengers, transporting two Ostriches to their new home.
Bureaucracy threatens to derail Yogi's mercy mission to drought ravaged famers.
History threatens to repeat itself as Steve Grahame and convoy partner Sy Howells battle the roads and the weather to reach a remote community before the wet season leaves them stranded.
Fourth generation loggers the Bennet Brothers, Adrian and Neil battle an inferno that's destroying hectares of Tasmania's bushland, threatening their business and lives.
Tasmanian trucker, Ricky Sutcliffe, lays his life on the line driving into a inferno, rescuing bull dozer drivers trapped as they cut firebreaks in the blazing Huon Valley.
Truck drivers Ash Bryant and Darryl Armfield are on a time critical job shifting 200 cattle over 500 kilometres of bush roads - but have they driven straight into trouble?
Mick King fights off deadly bushfires to deliver to a fire ravaged community, an oversized load drives Athol Martin over the edge. Sludge hauls 3 high value vintage racers to a burn up in the desert.
Brian Andersson and Athol Martin dodge high tech solar cars and battle heavy haulage blow outs, Steve Grahame tackles the bush and all its fury. Sludge races to get an ancient load to the start line
Wide loads & narrow bridges push Brian Andersson to the edge, Sharon Collins risks a croc infested river & Robbie Mackay's team of outback house movers bend steel trying to exit the yard.
As Scott Conohan begins his shift, the long arm of the law strikes. Outback house mover, Robbie McKay, gets rocking and rolling, and Mark Pett faces oncoming traffic.
Steve Grahame has tasked Outback Trucker Slick with one last battle with the desert, all before Christmas. Also, Chaz Butt's drought-busting mercy mission springs a leak.
Anthony and Danyelle Haigh enlist a new team member, Slick's race home for Christmas is slipping out of reach and cattle trucker Kylie Hornick has her first crack at driving a triple road train.
Anthony and Danyelle Haigh, tackle a dangerous river crossing, Slick risks a mammoth desert run as he races home for Christmas and rookie trucker, Kylie Hornick, faces a life or death decision.
A truck killing river crossing traps the water drillers, cattle truckers David and Kylie Hornick battle a blown engine and vintage tractor trucker Mike Partridge makes a crucial wrong turn.
Sludge races to beat a cyclone. After Australia's worst bushfires on record Army trucker Matt is on a mercy mission and for Mike Partridge getting 8 vintage tractors 4000 kilometres is a nightmare.
Justin Harrison is going downhill fast when his gearbox fails, cows play chicken with Sonny Forrest's monster road train and for Mike Partridge's load of vintage tractors a roadblock on a blind bend.
Steve Grahame is racing to beat a border shutdown, Ricki Sutcliffe's timber delivery deadline grinds to a halt and Jacob Marshall dices with bush fires to deliver hay to desperate farmers
Steve Grahame confronts pandemic checkpoints. Sludge in his fuel run across Western Australia encounters a ghost town and car salvage truckers, Michael and Bozza, race to find outback treasures.
In the face of a global pandemic Steve Grahame takes on the deserted roads of Northern Territory. Glenn's giant load gets squeezed by tight bridges, Mike hunts for wrecked gold in Western Australia.
In the wilds of Australia's Northern Territory, 24-year-old trucker Boe Vella crosses croc infested rivers to deliver desperately needed goods before the wet season hits.
The stakes are high as Danyelle and Anthony Haigh battle extreme heat and dust drilling in search of life giving water for one of the most remote cattle stations in Australia.
Jeff Fulwood is taking on one of the most notorious roads in Australia to deliver a vital supply run to a remote community in the Top End… the only problem - it’s missing an essential load.
Steve Grahame and dog Bella are in a race across the red deserts of Australia’s center hauling classic cars to auction but delays in loading and the arrival of the wet season threaten the journey home. English
Veteran long haul driver Mick King is about to take an 18m-long road train into the Great Sandy Desert to rescue two abandoned vintage army trucks for a good cause.
In the Australian Outback when the going gets tough the tough drive trucks. Outback truckers drive the biggest trucks on Earth along the toughest roads and loneliest highways.
In the Australian Outback when the going gets tough the tough drive trucks. Outback truckers drive the biggest trucks on Earth along the toughest roads and loneliest highways.
In the Australian Outback when the going gets tough the tough drive trucks. Outback truckers drive the biggest trucks on Earth along the toughest roads and loneliest highways.
Car wrecker’s Mike Elliott and Michael Bozza are pushing their trucks beyond their limits and swapping his fuel tankers for a horse float, Sludge Andrews is feeling the heat in bush fire country.
With permit deadlines fast approaching Robbie Mackay’s house movers strike the wrong kind of oil. And in the South Australian desert, Karen Ellis struggles to get cankerous camels to the vet.
House mover Robbie MacKay is dragging a house up a mountain and long-haul drivers Mish Aladin and Drew Norman…hauling two massive mining tippers, are trapped by rising floodwaters.
Car wreckers Mike and Bozza tackle the sand dunes of Northwest Australia for a big payday and long-haul truckers, Mish and Drew, go swimming as wet season flooding swamps Australia’s Top End.
Boe Vella takes on fire and flood in the Top End, Steve Grahame’s hot shot run to Broome begins to unravel and Mark Pett’s short cut becomes a nightmare of diesel and dust.
