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.
Documentary following drivers along some of the toughest roads in Australia. Steve Grahame hauls $3million worth of equipment to an isolated community.
A large convoy tries to escape Perth before sunset, and the future of Steve Grahame's trip hangs on a phone call to his mechanic.
Driver Steve Grahame discovers his vehicle has taken a battering during the past three days, over which he has hauled 130 tons of goods across 2,000km.
Turbo embarks on a journey through an area affected by bush fires, and Yogi faces the biggest week of his career.
Turbo risks his life by taking a route through tough terrain, while Yogi struggles to meet a vital deadline.
Macca is sent on an arduous mission to transport a world-famous yacht, and Russell struggles to get his business and health into a state of recovery.
Turbo pushes himself and his truck to the limit, and Mark faces the biggest job of his career.
Turbo's rig begins to overheat midway through a vital run. Meanwhile, Mark Cromwell fights to complete the biggest job of his career to date.
Russell battles waterlogged tracks in the desert as he tries to deliver his load on time, and Yogi's reputation hangs in the balance following the biggest week of his career.
Russell Mcdonough has his work cut out when a track collapses under the weight of his rig, while troubles lie ahead for Yogi.
Experienced dirt-road driver Dennis Dent goes head to head with a lifelong enemy, while Christian Reynolds takes on the wild back country on a vital mission to build a bridge.
Turbo battles to stay on schedule to complete his long journey home, and Euan hitches a ride in Tasmania.
Steve Graham fights torrid weather conditions as he tries to create a road train, while Yogi's truck breaks down on a cross-country journey.
Turbo's on a mission as he takes the biggest gamble of his career. Steve Grahame battles 2000kms of dirt, damage and dramas at the wheel of a monster load Glen Waters faces disaster.
Matt Adams is rustling up his roughest ride ever
The documentary profiling the rig-drivers travelling Australia's toughest highways returns, as Steve Grahame receives a double dose of bad luck during a brutal lap through the red centre. Plus, Turbo is back, battling to get his business out of a rut
Steve Graham's race through the desert takes a sudden turn from make to break. For young trucker Will its hard rock and hard knocks on an urgent run to the races.
Kurt loses his way hauling a hut across Australia while Johnny 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 on a thousand kilometre drag.
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.
On Outback Truckers... 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.
Husband and wife team Nick and Jo face tough driving conditions with volatile cargo. Plus, Yogi makes a costly mistake during a two-week stint on the road.
A house relocation goes off-track when drivers Ross and Jerry are faced with power poles blocking their way. Russel tackles a graveyard of wrecked cars in the heart of the desert.
While preparing for a gruelling trip from Perth to Darwin, Steve faces a malfunctioning clutch. Plus, Robbie and his crew embark on a challenging trip moving a timber house.
Nick and Jo face ongoing mechanical problems as their fully loaded road train's engine fails. Plus, breakdowns and engine problems push Steve behind schedule in the outback.
Mark is under pressure to deliver a fragile electrical control room to a remote mine deep in the outback. Plus, Jeff is confronted with a heavy storm while on the road in Tasmania.
Road flooding means Mark and his crew must work against the clock to deliver a fragile load to a remote gold mine. And Jeff faces a treacherous pass in wet conditions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
