They drive the biggest trucks on earth along the toughest roads and loneliest highways in the world. They are Australia’s Outback Truckers, men and women in monster rigs, on marathon runs, through some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet. Out here only one thing matters, getting there and back alive!
In Perth, lone trucking operator Steve Grahame is preparing for an epic journey - a 3000km trek to the top of Western Australia. We get to see a former Model now truckie
In the wilds of North Western Australia veteran truckie, Steve Grahame, is in the middle of an epic journey, trying to deliver essential supplies to a remote community, but the weather and roads are conspiring against him, ex-model turned truckie, Deb Drew, is into the fourth day of a 7000 kilometre trek from Melbourne to Darwin and back
Dougal Brett is one unusual truckie, he flies his own helicopter, owns a cattle station the size of a small country and a fleet of live stock trucks. Heavy haulage driver, Mark King is half way through a marathon job. He’s in charge of getting a monster mining truck from Brisbane to the central Queensland. On a lonely dirt road at the top of North Western Australia, veteran Perth’s truckie, Steve Grahame, is a broken man. 50 kilometres short of his destination. Part of a dirt track has collapsed under the weight of his 100 tonne road train.
In far North Queensland, tanker driver Steve Hughes, is loading up for a supply run to remote clients who need fuel before the wet season cuts them off. At a Perth freight depot tempers are fraying. Husband and wife team, Gordo and Shui, have just finished a two-day non-stop drive but bad weather’s caused them delays. Instead of resting at home, the boss has told them to turn around and do it all again. After driving for two days, Mark and Clare have arrived in Adelaide. But the only cargo they’re worried about is Roy. He needs to get to a vet quickly.
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 ashort 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 Nick and Jo risk one last supply to a remote settlement as the wet season looms. Meanwhile, Craig and his son deliver hay to drought-hit stations.
Brother and sister truckers Robbie and Ashleigh Mackay hit house removal hell on a mud-bogged mission.
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.
Russell “Crusher” McDonagh hits problem after problem on a dash for cash.
Long distance legend Steve Grahame battles to get to a remote mining outpost.
Yogi prepares for a showdown with transport police in South Australia.
Steve Grahame navigates flooded highways and washouts in a marathon 6000 km drive.
Trainee trucker Danyelle Haigh gets a brutal driving lesson as her family’s water drilling rig heads for cattle country.
Woody's urgent food delivery to a remote desert community is jeopardised by a leaking fridge unit.
Nick and Jo mount a delicate rescue operation to recover a World War 2 bomber from its outback grave
Russell Crusher runs into trouble taking his new metal muncher to clean up an eyesore at Uluru.
Torrential rain plays havoc with Robbie Mackay's efforts to relocate a home without wrecking it.
Cyclonic weather threatens to stop tanker driver Mick King delivering hazardous chemicals to a desert mine site.
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?
Trucker Brian dodges high tech solar cars and battles heavy haulage blowout. Plus Sludge transports three vintage cars worth $270,000 to a rally in the desert.
Every inch counts as Brian hauls wide loads across narrow bridges. Meanwhile Sharin risks crocodile infested water in a race to feed starving cattle.
House mover Robbie must navigate bumpy terrain to reach his destination. Plus Scotty is pulled over by transport inspectors and Mark faces dangerous oncoming traffic.
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.
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
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.