Outback Truckers

Australia is burning, engulfed in one of the worst bushfire seasons in its history. On the south coast of New South Wales, truck driver Mick King has volunteered for an urgent delivery, trucking much needed supplies to fire affected areas.

In North Queensland heavy haulage truckers, Brian Andersson and Athol Martin, are going nowhere. Fog has forced their massive 7 vehicle convoy, transporting two oversized 7 metre wide mining dumpsters to a stand still costing them precious time.

Long distance heavy haulage truckers Brian Andersson and Athol Martin are smack in the middle of a marathon trek cross country. The seven-metres' wide convoy takes up the whole road which makes passing in other vehicles a high-risk manoeuvre.

In Western Australia, Scott Conohan is heading to a drought ravaged town that's fast running out of water. With 500 locals desperate for water, the remote community is struggling to survive. In Central Queensland, house mover, Shane Burgess has been grounded by his police escort.

Steve Grahame is sending one of his best mates, Slick, to face the hostility of the outback. It's the last desert run before Christmas and Slick's promised his family he'll definitely make it home, he just has to do a 1900 kilometre trek through the Central Australian desert first.

In the Northern Territory the Water Drillers, Anthony and Danyelle Haigh, enlist a new team member as family life on the road puts their marriage to the test. Slick's cross country race home for Christmas looks to be slipping out of reach.

The Water Drillers, 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.

In central Queensland, husband and wife team Kylie and David Hornick, are feeling the pressure of a looming deadline on a monster job. In the last two days their convoy of trucks has racked up a whopping 2200 kilometres picking up and delivering 1224 head of cattle.

In Perth, Sludge is prepping in his yard for another trip into the remote outback. He's headed to an isolated mine site with 65,000 litres of desperately needed fuel. He'll head north to Wiluna with the final 200 kilometres on rough dirt roads.

Justin Harrison is caught in the middle of a double disaster, fire and drought, one of Australia's worst since records began in the 1860's. To help farmers Justin's heading out in his double trailer to pick up 30 tonnes of hay to a drought ravaged farm in Casino, New South Wales.

Steve Grahame's been trucking for 46 years, but he's travelling into a new world as a viral pandemic sweeps across the globe. He's about to set out on a journey that will test him like no other. In 4 days time, Western Australian authorities will close the regional borders and Steve's rushing to get ahead of the restrictions.

In COVID-19 times, Steve Grahame needs to cross a hard state border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory and tackle newly created bio security zones. Sludge is also dealing with the new world affected by the virus and low fuel prices means he's busier than ever, carting fuel to farms in the wheatbelt and to the coastal town of Kalbarri.

Steve Grahame is facing a journey filled with dread as a pandemic is stalking the country. The roads are usually busy but since lockdown the highway is empty apart from the police road blocks that have sprung up to enforce regional border controls.