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on our back truckers
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we're driving straight into it now under siege
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it's like a massive tropical storm bearing down on us
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with no place to hide
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real real slippery
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unnatural disaster
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areas of northern Queensland that haven't seen rain
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for 7 years
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a father and sons mercy dash to help
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we need to keep those farmers out there alive
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and breaking Point Clear lighter
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the last straw for veteran trucker Yogi
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sell the truck
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pay off your debts
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walk away from the industry
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fly to the Wind Bay
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listen out to the rain
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feel that water looking up a feet
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you can come around wow
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I've been I've been working hard 12 miles a day
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wow top goal
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I'm waiting for the weekend to the brand new times
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I'm back and forth just
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you know I'll be back on the river
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Outback trucking team Nick and Joe
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here we go back into it again
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married to the road married to the job
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married to each other
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not even a domestic
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tackling the roughest of the rough
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bloody narrow guarded Mongol road
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toughing it out together
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been about a 10 hour day today
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and we've made it about 25 km through the good times
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not too many other women that do it anyway
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and the bad disgusting
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pretty rough on the gear
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but you know someone's got to do it
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I suppose we take drugs like this because other
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other people don't always take em
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Nick and Joe's trucking is as tough as it gets
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supplying remote communities
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at the top end of Western Australia
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on a road
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too bad to travel on for half a year
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the route others dread to tread
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more than 500 km from their base at Kalinara
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to the isolated settlements of Columba Route
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and Honeymoon Bay
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the tropical wet season is looming for Nick and Joe
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they have a critical decision to make
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should they risk one last supply run
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before the rain hits and the road becomes a river
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come on old girl
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cutting off some of the loneliest places on the planet
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for months wet
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really really wet
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get it right
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and they're Outback heroes
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every time we need anything
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they just go
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yet we're coming up soon all right
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get it wrong and they could lose their business
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they've sweated for seven years to establish
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must have been a shovel on this one here I think
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in Kananara
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it's all hands on deck in Nick and Joe's loading yard
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handling last minute requests
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to get on the final supply run of the year
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people have just been chuckin things at last minute
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this far in the last trip
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we seem to have ended up with two full loads
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people are scrambling to get their orders on
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big and small
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they said it was a big tractor
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a tractor then rock up with this
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a diesel tank
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a fridge even a garden Rake
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this is an unusual Rake
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we do get some bloody snotty loads
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get some pieces of buddy everything
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but for Nick and Joe
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the biggest incentive to risk this trip
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is to help this couple
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they bend over backwards to give us a hand
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which is quite priceless up here
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Les and Joy Davy
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run the camping ground at Honeymoon Bay
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a dot in the wilderness
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tropical paradise
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but not when you're expecting your third child
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in the stifling
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humid heat of summer
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and the generator that powers your air conditioner
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isn't working
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at the moment
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we've gotta go from solar to generator
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and power back up
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and then back on the solar 500km away
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Nick and Joe are loading up the new generator
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that will bring joy and her family relief
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if it arrives
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it's predicting rain so saying how much buddy rain
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but it is around the body
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it's hot enough to rain too bloody hot
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I reckon it'll be working
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on the road Nick and Joe have to travel
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there's already been heavy rain
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trucks have been bogged and rivers are rising
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they need to get moving soon
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they've got a short amount of time
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if they don't leave
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they may get stuck here for the rest of the wet
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final weather checks
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you know if I line up 1 Broadway demanding customers
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you can't just add another palette
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you know unless you're gonna know about a day before
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we know where stuff's going
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they have to go and go now
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3,000km south
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Yogi is back on the road
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this joke I love every second of it
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behind the wheel of his truck
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PJ earning $1
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yeah go yeah
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counting along
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yeah nice one
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missing his family on a short trip
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three hours to Perth from his home base of Catanning
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Yogi has a big weight on his mind
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today is the day of checkups
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today we've got to
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get 100,000 major service done on the truck and uh
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I'm going here to get a medical
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every 3 years as a driver in Western Australia
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you need a current medical to drive trucks
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a serious defect in man or machine
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and Yogi will be off the road
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if I don't pass my medical
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I can't run my business
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so it's a really awkward scenario
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like I know the truck is good
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but they might find a crack in something
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I don't know
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so I can't really book anything in until they give me a
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bit of an indication that the truck's gonna be okay
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so I need to be right
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the truck needs to be right
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if they find something else wrong
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you know that'll make me be jumping
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and then I gotta go and have a medical
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and then you sort of getting real jumpy
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so the rest of
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the week does hinge on what they do find today
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if they find something wrong today
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it'll be a bit of a holder
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an expensive day
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even if they don't diagnose a major fault
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I suppose we cut the grand today
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say what while Yogi leaves PJ with the mechanics
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he heads off for his own service
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it's actually quite a lot of pressure dial
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like I might be a little bit jovial about it
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and kind of thinking oh
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your head's a medical
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but it is actually quite full on
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if I don't get the medical
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I don't get the accreditation
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it is a little bit higher
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yeah are you a bit nervous
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yep yeah so I'd say that's what it is
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the doctor will take it again
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yeah it is a little bit higher yeah
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just cover one up widely
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and read me the smallest sign that you see
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H P t P U Z R U Z
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and all scales
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it's not just the medical making Yogi nervous
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a recent brush with the law has him really worried
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ten days ago I got an infringement
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the fine at one stage was around about $120,000
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Yogi was pulled over by transport inspectors
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accusing him of cutting a rest break short
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by six minutes
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so they've deemed that I've started
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my driving time when I was technically on a break
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so which I believe I didn't
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and they slug me with a ten thousand dollar fine
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and then on that particular fine
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it was because I own the company
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it's five times to the company
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so it's 60 thousand dollars
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Yogi's fighting the fine
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it's either that or go broke
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so that 60 grand walks me out
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see you later dump
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sell the truck
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pay off your debts
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walk away from the industry
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my lips have been dry all week
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I've been sleeping well
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you know it's just that mental strain
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I mean like it's been playing on my mind so much I
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I don't know what to do
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4,000km away in central north Queensland
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vast baked and drought ravaged
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this areas of northern Queensland
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that haven't seen rain for seven years
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cattle stations are at crisis point
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we haven't got too much left to keep rational
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station owner Mary Viney is down to her last hay stocks
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it's really hot out here
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you just gotta try and keep looking on
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the positive side and keep working and praying for rain
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2000 kilometres to the south in Victoria
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nature's been kinder
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good Samaritan truckie
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Craig Porter is gearing up for a mercy dash
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we need to keep those farmers out there alive
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he and his nine year old son
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Dakota are planning an epic drive
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3,000 K's out and 3,000 back
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from Craig's property southeast of Melbourne
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up through two states deep into northern Queensland
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to deliver two trailer loads of high and oaks
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into the drought areas
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on this job we can't afford to have any breakdowns
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it's a charity situation so
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everything that's been paid for comes out of my pocket
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baked beans
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spaghetti to get ready
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it's a family affair
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did you still want me to make all those
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sausage rolls on this job
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there is no stop on it shops
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there's no stop on it
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anything we bought all our food
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my wife Rachel's cooked the whole heap for us
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and I also cook on the roadside
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um I think that's it food wise
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thank you okay
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Dakota can you give me one of those buckets please
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Dakota is homeschooled
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but he learns just as much when he's out on the road
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with his dad
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Dakota comes on these ones
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he's the special ones
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he spends a lot of time in the truck with me
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yep that's what keeps the truck cool mate
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I can help him if the truck breaks down
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I can help him fix it so you can't replace it
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cheap labor
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he's very good
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he's learning real quickly
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oh everyday that we wait for the truck to come along
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it causes us more stress
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you haven't got too much left
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and you start feeling a bit desperate
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these people um are desperate for their hay
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so from now till Christmas I just won't stop
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I'll just keep going
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4:00am an early start
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it's time to get up to beat the city traffic jams
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you don't move
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you just sit in the gridlock
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been up to five hours to get through teaming
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rain is also going to slow them down
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but not as much as this
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wow there we go bang straight up problem
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I'll flatten me battery
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at the top of Western Australia
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basically going now so no turning back
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Nick and Joe's last road train of the season
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is heading into trouble
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part of my return now
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here you go buddy
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enough it's dry where they are
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you feel a bloody heat coming off that time windscreen
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but up ahead
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early season thunderstorms are wreaking havoc
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before the
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gas
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ah pretty well now
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almost 100%
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we're gonna get bogged
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because everyone else in the last week got bogged
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why would it be any different
288
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that we should get through when everyone else comes
289
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while from 20 k this side from the Castle sounds
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all the way to Columbru
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there's a few big bogholders band
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they've had a fair bit of rain up there so yeah
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that'll be interesting
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see you later
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they can get big
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deep bloody holes
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the water is lazy
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nanny can't get around them either
299
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they're hauling three trailers
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with what could be the last supplies for communities
301
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for six months
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including a generator for a family whose property
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has lost its power
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if we don't get them the generator
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that family could have no power till next may
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I mean how'd you like to raise a family in the bush
307
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you know with
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with several kids and a pregnant missus
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and have no power
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be a fridge or your freezer or you know
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a fan or anything
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they were late leaving
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yes I was sort of running a half a day behind him
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forcing them to consider a night
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crossing of the biggest and most dangerous river
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on their journey
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croc infested river
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not a place to break down
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and have to get out of the cabin
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or for a flash flood can come up overnight
321
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we'll pull up on the outside
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check my tool got no rocks in the bloody fuels
323
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safely across
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but still on the river bank where crocs can lie
325
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Joe now has the job of checking to see
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no river rocks are wedged between the tires
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get one stuck between the Jewish
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and we'll have a flat tire or two within half an hour
329
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so we can do without that tonight
330
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wow there we go
331
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bang straight up problem
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back in Victoria
333
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good Samaritan trucker Craig and son
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Dakota are having a bad early morning
335
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a flattening battery
336
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a disastrous start to a nearly 3,000 kilometer
337
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mercy mission to help drought ravaged farmers
338
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had to do this once or twice before
339
00:15:28,866 --> 00:15:30,733
but didn't think it'd be this morning
340
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it's gonna be a long day
341
00:15:34,466 --> 00:15:36,800
just give it a try and see how we go actually
342
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what for up for us
343
00:15:41,766 --> 00:15:43,233
that's what I wanna hear
344
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another job underway put the dogs away
345
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grab the guard dog and we're out of here
346
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now the race is on to beat city traffic
347
00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,200
batteries cost us a bit of time here into the traffic
348
00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:12,666
not much fun now
349
00:16:12,666 --> 00:16:14,166
got a couple of hours to get through this
350
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this isn't good
351
00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,366
this is not good
352
00:16:17,966 --> 00:16:21,500
sit back and relax and just enjoy the car park
353
00:16:23,366 --> 00:16:24,766
pouring down with rain
354
00:16:24,866 --> 00:16:26,666
and we're going to somewhere that has that rain
355
00:16:26,666 --> 00:16:27,900
for seven years
356
00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:36,866
finally through the worst of it and I
357
00:16:36,866 --> 00:16:37,800
I reckon we'll be right
358
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we'll be loading hopefully within the hour
359
00:16:39,933 --> 00:16:42,766
Craig's picking up 82 bales of hay
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weighing in at 44 tons donated by farmer Chris Davey
361
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all good nice early morning for you
362
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oh so you're in in
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00:16:57,733 --> 00:16:59,666
as the bails get higher
364
00:17:02,166 --> 00:17:05,466
Craig realizes he's creating a problem
365
00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,266
20 21 22 23
366
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you can't go over 4.3
367
00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:14,933
and the top files make you go over 4 3
368
00:17:14,933 --> 00:17:18,166
his load could be too high for road regulations
369
00:17:18,166 --> 00:17:20,966
I've been devastated if we can't get that extra load on
370
00:17:20,966 --> 00:17:23,166
with the lives of drought starved cattle
371
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depending on him
372
00:17:24,133 --> 00:17:26,666
it's not as simple as just offloading
373
00:17:26,666 --> 00:17:28,000
the offending bales
374
00:17:28,533 --> 00:17:30,966
those guys up there busting for the load to come in
375
00:17:30,966 --> 00:17:32,000
but at the end of the day
376
00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:32,733
if you can't do it
377
00:17:32,733 --> 00:17:33,166
you can't do it
378
00:17:33,166 --> 00:17:34,900
authorities say where you can go
379
00:17:35,766 --> 00:17:36,866
one by all means a lot
380
00:17:36,866 --> 00:17:37,333
you know and to
381
00:17:37,333 --> 00:17:40,366
to drop 15 squares off is a big thing
382
00:17:44,466 --> 00:17:45,633
no news is good
383
00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:49,000
no hey bud how are you
384
00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:51,466
alright just uh yeah
385
00:17:51,466 --> 00:17:52,733
just a bit of a check in
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00:17:52,733 --> 00:17:53,733
Yogi's truck
387
00:17:53,733 --> 00:17:55,466
pjs in the workshop
388
00:17:55,666 --> 00:17:57,066
see how the big trucks going
389
00:17:57,100 --> 00:17:58,433
obviously no news is
390
00:17:59,366 --> 00:18:01,700
and he's sweating on the results of a medical
391
00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:04,666
that will tell him whether he can keep driving it
392
00:18:04,666 --> 00:18:05,833
is stressing me out
393
00:18:06,066 --> 00:18:07,366
by file today
394
00:18:07,966 --> 00:18:09,466
I have to have a medical every 12 months
395
00:18:09,466 --> 00:18:11,766
because of the pressure I've put under last week
396
00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:14,600
the added pressure comes from a huge fine
397
00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,866
for an alleged logbook oversight
398
00:18:17,466 --> 00:18:18,300
I'm staring at
399
00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:21,333
the barrel of a potential of $60,000 on an infringement
400
00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:23,600
now he's questioning his future
401
00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:24,200
and I am scared
402
00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,466
I've been through all the emotions in the last week
403
00:18:26,466 --> 00:18:28,500
I've been high and I've been like you know
404
00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:30,900
like it's a roller coaster ride truck driving
405
00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,233
and I've been through them all last in the last week
406
00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,200
it went really well like I'm I'm
407
00:18:39,333 --> 00:18:43,166
I'm very relaxed actually now that went really well
408
00:18:45,066 --> 00:18:47,200
next stop the Mechanics Yard
409
00:18:47,366 --> 00:18:49,700
morning lad for PJ's check up
410
00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:51,033
what's going on today
411
00:18:51,133 --> 00:18:55,000
Yogi needs another win here so we can get back to work
412
00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:56,400
jacks up yeah
413
00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,600
have you spoken to the ring last night no
414
00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:00,600
I did speak to him about 2
415
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,933
3:00 and he said it should be right
416
00:19:02,933 --> 00:19:05,766
so I don't even spoke to him anything after that
417
00:19:06,933 --> 00:19:08,833
but yeah yeah right
418
00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:12,300
to Yogi's relief
419
00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:15,900
what did I mean
420
00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:19,933
what did I PJ has a clean Bill of health yeah
421
00:19:19,933 --> 00:19:23,133
they're telling me that brakes are 70% 30% worn yeah
422
00:19:23,133 --> 00:19:24,800
a bit of an oil like the back of the sum
423
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,400
it's only a week otherwise I would have fixed it
424
00:19:29,333 --> 00:19:29,933
let's go to work
425
00:19:29,933 --> 00:19:32,366
we got a good job today we're in front now
426
00:19:32,366 --> 00:19:34,766
it's not very often we actually get in front
427
00:19:37,066 --> 00:19:40,566
Yogi's first job is to pick up a giant tractor bin
428
00:19:40,566 --> 00:19:42,800
130 km away
429
00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,766
he wants this job to go well tonight
430
00:19:45,766 --> 00:19:48,733
his son's playing sport and he wants to be there
431
00:19:48,733 --> 00:19:50,433
he's right in the basketball Ted
432
00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:51,066
that's good
433
00:19:51,066 --> 00:19:52,166
I'm just yeah I'm
434
00:19:52,166 --> 00:19:53,866
I'm he he I'm rat
435
00:19:54,966 --> 00:19:56,166
yeah make money
436
00:19:57,566 --> 00:19:59,300
today is a good day
437
00:20:01,566 --> 00:20:02,933
he's got a game on tonight
438
00:20:02,933 --> 00:20:03,533
I'd say about
439
00:20:03,533 --> 00:20:04,933
about 5 6:00
440
00:20:04,933 --> 00:20:07,533
so my main focus is get loaded
441
00:20:07,533 --> 00:20:09,133
get unloaded and then get home today
442
00:20:09,133 --> 00:20:11,066
it'll be nice to go to his basketball game today
443
00:20:11,066 --> 00:20:13,000
I'll be pretty stoked if we get in there tonight
444
00:20:13,333 --> 00:20:14,600
however too many
445
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,333
too many more elements that could go wrong today
446
00:20:17,333 --> 00:20:18,066
before I go
447
00:20:18,066 --> 00:20:20,100
making a promise to 11 year old kid that I'll get home
448
00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:21,600
watching basketball tonight
449
00:20:22,133 --> 00:20:25,966
cue the roadworks and the stop sign
450
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:27,533
hey roadworks
451
00:20:27,533 --> 00:20:29,800
roadworks are all part of the game
452
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,666
in the far northwest
453
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,933
the threat of massive storms and bogged roads
454
00:20:37,933 --> 00:20:40,833
has Nick worried about his second hand engine
455
00:20:42,166 --> 00:20:44,300
it's done coming 10,000 Canyon
456
00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:45,166
this is a fourth
457
00:20:45,166 --> 00:20:48,200
fifth trip up here now and hasn't really missed a beat
458
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,166
but the radiators bloody copping a bit of a hardened
459
00:20:52,733 --> 00:20:54,933
we're about to get a buddy shower or two I reckon
460
00:20:54,933 --> 00:20:56,566
pretty much guarantee it
461
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,300
this is long as they're not in the wrong spot
462
00:20:58,300 --> 00:20:59,100
and it does
463
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,266
the pressure's on from the start
464
00:21:01,333 --> 00:21:02,466
wearing a lot
465
00:21:08,666 --> 00:21:09,866
see what the day will bring
466
00:21:09,866 --> 00:21:11,933
could be a nice day could be a complete
467
00:21:11,933 --> 00:21:13,200
not a Mongol of a day
468
00:21:19,866 --> 00:21:20,533
come on girl
469
00:21:20,533 --> 00:21:21,700
gives a nice day
470
00:21:21,733 --> 00:21:25,100
Mick and Joe have 10 hours of hard slog ahead
471
00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:28,200
on a road that gets worse with every kilometer
472
00:21:29,933 --> 00:21:30,800
for the trailers
473
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,500
it's gonna be a wild ride yeah
474
00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:35,266
let's always look at this
475
00:21:35,266 --> 00:21:36,733
different noises on the trailer
476
00:21:36,733 --> 00:21:38,000
if something bloody come loose
477
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,866
or noise is not usually there
478
00:21:40,733 --> 00:21:42,166
I hate October
479
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,100
November runs really you know
480
00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:47,166
it looks amazing outside and then 2:00 this afternoon
481
00:21:47,166 --> 00:21:49,666
these big thunderheads can just build up
482
00:21:51,366 --> 00:21:54,066
it's the most dangerous time of year
483
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,966
but Joe and Nick are willing to risk it
484
00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:59,566
to deliver for the people out here
485
00:21:59,566 --> 00:22:02,500
I feel very sympathetic because I've lived that life
486
00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,266
and I know what it's like to need
487
00:22:04,266 --> 00:22:07,000
need your last lot of stores at the end of the drive
488
00:22:11,133 --> 00:22:12,066
the generator itself
489
00:22:12,066 --> 00:22:13,100
whatever your groceries
490
00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:15,333
the toilet paper that you need for the next six months
491
00:22:15,333 --> 00:22:16,300
now it's yeah
492
00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:18,233
I understand what it's like to
493
00:22:18,266 --> 00:22:20,200
to have or not have those things
494
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,533
you can't get yourself down cause the road's cut
495
00:22:22,533 --> 00:22:24,066
you can't fly it out because
496
00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:26,500
you can't just put a generator on a fixed wing plane
497
00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:28,633
because yours blows up in January
498
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,800
okay buddy quick in the clouds together
499
00:22:37,566 --> 00:22:39,533
and you can feel in the area outside his body
500
00:22:39,533 --> 00:22:42,600
mighty edge making the old truck work hard
501
00:22:45,066 --> 00:22:51,433
bring it on let's go
502
00:22:54,666 --> 00:22:56,500
and play in
503
00:22:59,966 --> 00:23:01,800
the MUD
504
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,933
from the head to building up it's fishing down
505
00:23:08,933 --> 00:23:09,733
right up here
506
00:23:09,733 --> 00:23:11,666
head somewhere closer
507
00:23:11,666 --> 00:23:13,400
we get to the coast with the humidity
508
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,000
and we get into this chilly country up here
509
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:15,766
in the black soil
510
00:23:15,766 --> 00:23:16,733
then it just
511
00:23:16,733 --> 00:23:18,666
it's changing by the hour now
512
00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:24,000
19 9 8 20 21 on a farm in Victoria
513
00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:27,500
Craig and son Dakota have a maths problem to solve
514
00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:28,900
dude I ain't cause that's be
515
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,300
before they can set off with hay
516
00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:33,400
for drought ravaged northern Australia
517
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,066
so they'll take it to 4 4
518
00:23:35,066 --> 00:23:36,166
can't use them
519
00:23:36,166 --> 00:23:39,266
when all the donated bails are stacked on the trailers
520
00:23:39,266 --> 00:23:40,766
the load is too high
521
00:23:40,766 --> 00:23:42,766
the top bails make you go over 4
522
00:23:42,766 --> 00:23:44,433
3 and illegal
523
00:23:45,466 --> 00:23:46,266
at the end of the day
524
00:23:46,266 --> 00:23:46,966
if you can't do it
525
00:23:46,966 --> 00:23:47,400
you can't do it
526
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,166
authority say where you can go
527
00:23:49,766 --> 00:23:53,433
but every bail of this Stockford is precious
528
00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:57,766
right Craig doesn't want to leave any behind
529
00:23:58,733 --> 00:24:01,500
he has to come up with a clever solution
530
00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:05,533
I just worked out that these
531
00:24:05,533 --> 00:24:07,600
older bales that have been on the ground have actually
532
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:08,566
squashed enough
533
00:24:08,566 --> 00:24:10,166
I'll be able to get 4.3
534
00:24:10,166 --> 00:24:12,500
now I just gotta get the right mix of bales on
535
00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:13,633
and we'll have no issues
536
00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:15,300
so from dead on
537
00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:16,700
4.3 jobs done
538
00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:17,733
we can go wherever we want
539
00:24:17,733 --> 00:24:18,400
however we want
540
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:19,333
nice and easy
541
00:24:19,333 --> 00:24:21,900
dad and son are way behind schedule
542
00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:24,866
now it's a race to get the stacking finish alright
543
00:24:24,866 --> 00:24:26,700
it's gonna be a game of just picking them
544
00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:27,733
and choosing them to get it
545
00:24:27,733 --> 00:24:29,366
right picked it up mate
546
00:24:34,866 --> 00:24:36,700
I just got that stunt for you dad
547
00:24:36,700 --> 00:24:38,766
I'll be lost without you wouldn't I huh
548
00:24:38,866 --> 00:24:41,333
we're a bit behind we're about three quarters of a day
549
00:24:41,333 --> 00:24:43,000
which is not great
550
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:43,800
but it is what it is
551
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,900
we'll be able to catch it up along the way hopefully
552
00:24:48,966 --> 00:24:49,866
at the y bridge
553
00:24:49,866 --> 00:24:51,866
it's Dakota doing the maths
554
00:24:51,866 --> 00:24:55,300
and he's not afraid to let the boss know he's messed up
555
00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:55,900
didn't get it
556
00:24:55,900 --> 00:24:57,766
it went way too fast oh
557
00:24:57,766 --> 00:24:58,200
did I alright
558
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,100
I'll back up
559
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,533
he goes hard
560
00:25:00,533 --> 00:25:01,633
I'll give you the tip
561
00:25:01,666 --> 00:25:02,866
there's not much that he can't do
562
00:25:02,866 --> 00:25:05,600
do you want me to take over now no
563
00:25:06,733 --> 00:25:08,866
alright let's get this trailer up to the border
564
00:25:09,666 --> 00:25:13,000
finally they're on their way 3
565
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,700
2 1 a breath of fresh air
566
00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:18,266
but it doesn't last long
567
00:25:18,266 --> 00:25:21,366
a dog needs to get outside and dog stinks
568
00:25:21,566 --> 00:25:24,200
she needs to be outside in a hurry
569
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,466
they've been on the road for two days
570
00:25:27,466 --> 00:25:30,300
and still have 2,000 km to go
571
00:25:30,733 --> 00:25:33,566
go put a fire in his truck's belly and get moving eh
572
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,200
from here they need a smooth run
573
00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:40,766
let's go one of those fittings must have
574
00:25:40,766 --> 00:25:41,766
come off the trailer
575
00:25:41,766 --> 00:25:42,900
I reckon decoder
576
00:25:43,133 --> 00:25:44,566
we're gonna have a quick look
577
00:25:46,866 --> 00:25:48,200
thing is out of air
578
00:25:53,133 --> 00:25:56,366
can you hear escaping in underneath the the bonity
579
00:25:56,366 --> 00:25:59,200
I don't know what's going on can't believe this
580
00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:07,200
if anything's gonna go wrong
581
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,666
it's gonna go wrong in the first hour
582
00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,700
with a clean Bill of health
583
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,500
Yogi and PJ are on their way to pick up farm equipment
584
00:26:14,533 --> 00:26:16,800
my main focus is get loaded
585
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,300
get unloaded and then get home
586
00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:19,900
it's going to be tight
587
00:26:20,066 --> 00:26:22,600
he needs to deliver it in six hours
588
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,600
the machine might not be ready as well
589
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,566
they said it was ready yesterday afternoon
590
00:26:26,566 --> 00:26:28,500
so it might not be ready this morning
591
00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:31,100
so that'll hold us up then
592
00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:34,400
make it home in time to watch his son play basketball
593
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,800
disappointment on the kids eyes
594
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,433
when you can't make something
595
00:26:38,066 --> 00:26:39,966
he's it's unbearable
596
00:26:39,966 --> 00:26:42,866
it's got reaching it changing half his parent
597
00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:46,300
the last thing he needs are any delights
598
00:26:47,366 --> 00:26:49,266
oh now you ring me back Michael
599
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:51,333
yeah Michael
600
00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:52,366
how are you mate
601
00:26:53,266 --> 00:26:55,500
right I can't right I alright
602
00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,900
the load he's picking up isn't ready alright
603
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,100
it was supposed to be ready yesterday afternoon
604
00:27:04,466 --> 00:27:06,600
it's ready at 10:00 o'clock this morning
605
00:27:06,666 --> 00:27:08,066
we've just lost an hour
606
00:27:08,466 --> 00:27:10,666
so that could be the hour of actually
607
00:27:10,666 --> 00:27:12,633
getting to the basketball game this afternoon
608
00:27:15,666 --> 00:27:18,800
hahaha we're up right and now we're down
609
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,200
we're coming on the down now
610
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,000
so I'm a little bit nervous
611
00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:23,433
10:00 o'clock
612
00:27:25,166 --> 00:27:29,400
at the pickup point but there's no sign of the load
613
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,766
half an hour be nice to be loaded
614
00:27:34,066 --> 00:27:35,266
they don't want space
615
00:27:35,266 --> 00:27:36,600
now we're gonna set trailer
616
00:27:36,666 --> 00:27:38,433
so we just get it on set up
617
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,500
everything I can do right now I'm here
618
00:27:41,366 --> 00:27:43,000
everything I can do to get ready
619
00:27:43,566 --> 00:27:44,800
chains out ready
620
00:27:44,866 --> 00:27:46,600
rubbers are off dogs chains
621
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,133
so when it comes flags are out
622
00:27:48,133 --> 00:27:49,000
all we do is back it on
623
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,200
chain it on about five minutes
624
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,766
10 minutes ramps up into it
625
00:27:51,766 --> 00:27:53,466
so the more I can do now
626
00:27:53,466 --> 00:27:54,633
the better off we're gonna be
627
00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:56,533
I can't do anything else
628
00:27:56,533 --> 00:27:58,800
I'm set up I'm um
629
00:28:00,866 --> 00:28:04,100
waiting this is my waiting face
630
00:28:05,466 --> 00:28:07,100
I'm slipping away a little bit
631
00:28:07,733 --> 00:28:10,966
Yogi getting to see Jack play basketball
632
00:28:10,966 --> 00:28:13,866
is looking further away by a minute
633
00:28:13,866 --> 00:28:16,200
some things in life I can't change
634
00:28:16,466 --> 00:28:18,000
sitting and waiting I can't change
635
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,100
there's no point stressing over it
636
00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:20,800
cause it's beyond my control
637
00:28:21,133 --> 00:28:23,266
so yeah it's just it's just an autotime
638
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,000
just a 5 minute autotime
639
00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:27,566
it's been down for 15 minutes
640
00:28:36,866 --> 00:28:38,200
starting to get wet
641
00:28:38,366 --> 00:28:40,166
in the far northwest
642
00:28:40,333 --> 00:28:41,200
Nick and Joe
643
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,166
are watching the road deteriorate in front of them
644
00:28:44,166 --> 00:28:45,066
just feel the truck
645
00:28:45,066 --> 00:28:47,166
just sucking down in the surface of the road
646
00:28:47,166 --> 00:28:48,366
or just pulling
647
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,033
a storm's been through
648
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,066
start to wonder
649
00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:54,500
what the rest of the road will be like further up
650
00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:00,666
and the sky up ahead is ominous
651
00:29:04,066 --> 00:29:06,033
we're driving straight into it now
652
00:29:09,866 --> 00:29:11,133
it's getting blacker and blacker
653
00:29:11,133 --> 00:29:13,166
every kilometer we get near and near to
654
00:29:13,166 --> 00:29:14,300
and the breeze is picking up
655
00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:15,266
and the temperature stopping
656
00:29:15,266 --> 00:29:17,066
you can just feel it's a big storm
657
00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:19,900
ah smell like rain
658
00:29:21,366 --> 00:29:26,466
yes very wet now that's a big cloud of water
659
00:29:27,566 --> 00:29:29,000
very big cloud of water
660
00:29:30,533 --> 00:29:32,300
warnings about the track
661
00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:34,833
have been coming thick and fast
662
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:46,366
it's like a massive tropical storm bearing down on his
663
00:29:46,366 --> 00:29:48,766
those cockatoos up there look so white
664
00:29:48,866 --> 00:29:50,266
against the black sky
665
00:29:51,566 --> 00:29:52,566
gotta get ready
666
00:29:59,866 --> 00:30:01,466
oh it gets bloody slippery along here
667
00:30:01,466 --> 00:30:03,233
so it gets slippery dry crap
668
00:30:04,266 --> 00:30:05,533
it's getting blacker and blacker
669
00:30:05,533 --> 00:30:07,566
so right in the middle of it
670
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:24,700
I only gotta go a kilometre or two
671
00:30:30,133 --> 00:30:30,933
up
672
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,833
ahead a slight rise
673
00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:48,766
but with 70 tons of truck in these conditions
674
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,200
any gradient is going to be a massive challenge
675
00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:04,700
I don't know what's going on
676
00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:06,133
can't believe this
677
00:31:06,133 --> 00:31:08,600
for the second time in two days
678
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,000
Craig and nine year old son Dakota
679
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,300
are stuck with a broken truck
680
00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:15,300
something's gone wrong on the compressor
681
00:31:16,133 --> 00:31:17,466
don't know what it is
682
00:31:19,733 --> 00:31:21,433
pressure relief valve
683
00:31:21,966 --> 00:31:22,866
just have a look at
684
00:31:22,866 --> 00:31:25,000
might have something a little bit of shit in it maybe
685
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,266
hopefully that's all it is
686
00:31:26,266 --> 00:31:27,066
I don't know
687
00:31:27,466 --> 00:31:29,500
it might just be that it's jammed up somehow
688
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,866
pull apart give it a clean up way to go
689
00:31:31,866 --> 00:31:33,366
hopefully that's all the problem is
690
00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:34,100
it's not a biggie
691
00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:35,500
it's just time yet again
692
00:31:40,666 --> 00:31:41,900
can you fix it
693
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,933
sometimes sometimes you can't
694
00:31:44,933 --> 00:31:45,866
there'll be a gap there
695
00:31:45,866 --> 00:31:47,966
I need you to put that screwdriver down in that gap
696
00:31:47,966 --> 00:31:50,433
yeah don't stab me
697
00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:53,500
no we're gonna have to walk it
698
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,500
and just when Craig thought it couldn't get any worse
699
00:31:58,933 --> 00:32:05,233
you shitting me what what just happened to me yep yep
700
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,600
I ended my knee a few months back
701
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,300
God was strapping down the load
702
00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:23,166
and slipped down and just got my knee twisted up and uh
703
00:32:23,166 --> 00:32:26,366
I've torn my medial ligament don't pull don't pull
704
00:32:28,166 --> 00:32:29,366
just every once in a while
705
00:32:29,366 --> 00:32:31,133
you just get in the wrong spot like I did
706
00:32:31,133 --> 00:32:32,166
then getting up
707
00:32:33,733 --> 00:32:35,200
gives you an instant pain
708
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,766
just grabs you as just what happens aye
709
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,500
a dodgy knee and a sick truck
710
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,866
but Dakota's on the case down in there well done
711
00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:51,133
second crack at it and it just pops straight away
712
00:32:51,133 --> 00:32:52,000
the boy gets onto it
713
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,400
flips it and it's done
714
00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:53,966
see how it goes
715
00:32:53,966 --> 00:32:55,833
sometimes you just gotta take a breath
716
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:56,533
what's this
717
00:32:56,533 --> 00:32:57,966
whacking back on and checking
718
00:32:57,966 --> 00:32:59,566
hopefully that was the issue
719
00:33:04,566 --> 00:33:06,500
Craig's back in business
720
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,100
in a bid to claw back time
721
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:13,533
he's looking for the fastest possible route
722
00:33:13,533 --> 00:33:16,133
uh this next little stretch is a bit of rough gravel
723
00:33:16,133 --> 00:33:17,200
from what I can understand
724
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,766
never been on the road before
725
00:33:18,766 --> 00:33:19,933
it's a little bit of a risk
726
00:33:19,933 --> 00:33:21,200
I suppose in one fashion
727
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,400
but it's gonna pick us up a hell of a lot of time
728
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,966
by taking this and we're already down a day
729
00:33:25,966 --> 00:33:27,766
we need to try and get it from somewhere
730
00:33:28,266 --> 00:33:31,666
a single lane gravel road could be the answer
731
00:33:31,933 --> 00:33:34,400
but what state it's in is unknown
732
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,366
find a bit of wet up here over the winter
733
00:33:36,366 --> 00:33:38,566
so it could be pretty rutted out of
734
00:33:38,566 --> 00:33:39,633
not cleaned out
735
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,900
just hope that the upkeeps been put on to it
736
00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:45,666
otherwise we're gonna find ourselves in a fair old mess
737
00:33:50,666 --> 00:33:53,333
it's just another job to die in
738
00:33:53,333 --> 00:33:55,800
a farm machinery yard near Perth
739
00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:57,966
Yogi's still waiting
740
00:33:58,100 --> 00:33:59,800
would be nice to be loaded sir
741
00:34:00,566 --> 00:34:01,866
and we're just cutting it forward
742
00:34:01,866 --> 00:34:03,500
this afternoon's adventure
743
00:34:03,966 --> 00:34:06,233
tyranny umbloke on in his basketball game
744
00:34:06,466 --> 00:34:10,000
the tractor bin he's here to load has failed to show
745
00:34:10,166 --> 00:34:12,600
it's a 22 ton chaser in
746
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,166
so I reckon it's just that I can finish off at the back
747
00:34:16,166 --> 00:34:17,300
and I'll bring it around the front
748
00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:19,000
while he's anxious to get going
749
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,200
there's no point stressing over it
750
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,333
but we just gotta keep
751
00:34:21,333 --> 00:34:22,200
keep pushing
752
00:34:22,266 --> 00:34:23,100
keep pushing
753
00:34:23,266 --> 00:34:24,966
be ready make it happen
754
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,266
suddenly a worrying thought
755
00:34:27,266 --> 00:34:29,033
yeah I'm hoping it doesn't need a pilot
756
00:34:29,966 --> 00:34:31,100
haven't thought about that
757
00:34:33,166 --> 00:34:35,900
no one said but I didn't think either
758
00:34:36,933 --> 00:34:40,000
if the bins more than 3.5 meters wide
759
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000
he'll need an escort or 3.51
760
00:34:44,466 --> 00:34:46,433
he's a parlor yeah
761
00:34:48,366 --> 00:34:50,466
the big 37 tunnels and at their 3.8
762
00:34:50,466 --> 00:34:51,866
you know they're four meters wide
763
00:34:51,866 --> 00:34:54,366
so that 30 tunnel is 3.8
764
00:34:54,866 --> 00:34:57,766
a pilot means more delays
765
00:34:57,766 --> 00:34:59,066
yeah we'd have to call someone
766
00:34:59,066 --> 00:35:01,100
but it's got away for a pilot
767
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:01,766
yeah which is wreck
768
00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:03,166
that wreck said I yeah
769
00:35:03,466 --> 00:35:04,133
when it turns up
770
00:35:04,133 --> 00:35:04,966
if it looks a bit ugly
771
00:35:04,966 --> 00:35:05,800
I'll have a bit of a look
772
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,900
they generally say if we do need a pilot
773
00:35:08,666 --> 00:35:11,200
but this a bit of a rush won't say Yogi
774
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,500
can't relax until he gets an answer to the big question
775
00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:15,566
there we go mate
776
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,866
how the wheels three and a/2
777
00:35:25,866 --> 00:35:27,100
a close call
778
00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:30,200
but finally he can load up and get out of here
779
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:34,566
alright
780
00:35:36,166 --> 00:35:39,000
definitely fair to say that I've lost me Buffer's eye
781
00:35:39,133 --> 00:35:42,300
Yogi's desperate to get to his son's basketball
782
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:45,700
but he can't afford to speed and risk another fine
783
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:48,333
but there's some good news
784
00:35:48,333 --> 00:35:50,666
about the 60 thousand dollar penalty
785
00:35:50,666 --> 00:35:53,033
for his alleged logbook violation
786
00:35:53,566 --> 00:35:55,400
the fine got dramatically reduced
787
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,566
I don't know why
788
00:35:56,566 --> 00:35:58,866
at the moment it's 220 dollars
789
00:35:59,266 --> 00:36:01,766
but Yogi's still in a fighting mood
790
00:36:01,766 --> 00:36:03,766
I got a full book appoints I'm very
791
00:36:03,766 --> 00:36:06,300
very proud of my driving record
792
00:36:07,066 --> 00:36:10,166
we will fight this until we can't fight it anymore
793
00:36:10,533 --> 00:36:11,800
are you guilty
794
00:36:17,733 --> 00:36:19,566
the drop off goes well
795
00:36:20,533 --> 00:36:23,600
now to see if he can make Jack's basketball game
796
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,300
we're definitely not getting their chickens
797
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:26,100
they're not actually net
798
00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:27,866
they're still rolling in incubator
799
00:36:30,533 --> 00:36:32,033
we are empty
800
00:36:32,266 --> 00:36:33,700
we're heading home
801
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,533
there's no greater feeling than being empty
802
00:36:35,533 --> 00:36:36,433
and heading home
803
00:36:38,733 --> 00:36:41,100
oh yeah let's go watch basketball
804
00:36:47,066 --> 00:36:47,866
how
805
00:36:50,766 --> 00:36:52,533
are you saving
806
00:36:52,533 --> 00:36:54,633
I feel really good because I'm high
807
00:36:54,666 --> 00:36:57,366
here we go on Jack big jump
808
00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:00,000
on Jack
809
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:04,400
well done
810
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:12,033
yeah haha made it home for basketball
811
00:37:12,066 --> 00:37:13,866
you give up all the work in the world to see your kids
812
00:37:13,866 --> 00:37:15,766
shoot goals and have fun at a basketball court
813
00:37:17,333 --> 00:37:18,700
haha
814
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:27,500
heading north to drought stricken farmers
815
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:30,400
Craig believes he's on the straight and narrow
816
00:37:31,066 --> 00:37:34,100
it's all been tidied up great this is what we wanted
817
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,300
smooth beautiful luck has changed the luck's changed
818
00:37:42,166 --> 00:37:43,666
back on the blacktop
819
00:37:43,666 --> 00:37:45,400
he's making good time
820
00:37:46,333 --> 00:37:48,900
but it's not all blue skies up ahead
821
00:37:49,766 --> 00:37:50,533
looking up ahead
822
00:37:50,533 --> 00:37:52,733
it seems to be that we're running into a bit of rain
823
00:37:52,733 --> 00:37:54,766
we got a little bit on the screen
824
00:37:54,766 --> 00:37:56,666
and the clouds are looking pretty dark out there
825
00:37:56,666 --> 00:37:58,966
it's not far enough north to help out people
826
00:37:58,966 --> 00:38:00,733
but it may be a pain in the ass for us
827
00:38:00,733 --> 00:38:02,266
we'll have to see what happens
828
00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:05,700
rain could ruin his load of donated hay
829
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:08,633
we get too much water on the hay of it absorbs it up
830
00:38:08,666 --> 00:38:09,400
it will rot
831
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,300
it can turn poisonous to the animals
832
00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:13,433
cause it gets some LG on the inside of it
833
00:38:13,766 --> 00:38:15,200
look it didn't have to be really
834
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,366
really bad rain to to destroy it or do any damage to it
835
00:38:18,866 --> 00:38:20,000
you just never know
836
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:27,633
an overnight pit stop
837
00:38:28,066 --> 00:38:28,600
feeling better
838
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,200
all cleaned up and they've dodged the rain
839
00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:35,300
Burke is the halfway point on their epic journey
840
00:38:35,733 --> 00:38:38,666
but it's a milestone they should have hit a day ago
841
00:38:39,166 --> 00:38:41,933
a phone call from Mary at Janeville station
842
00:38:41,933 --> 00:38:43,500
hey Mary how you going
843
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,400
and Craig's forced to break the bad news
844
00:38:46,766 --> 00:38:49,000
we've had a couple of things go wrong along the way
845
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,900
Mary but when I first started off
846
00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:51,966
I had a flat battery
847
00:38:51,966 --> 00:38:54,266
and we got tangled up in some pretty bad traffic
848
00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:56,100
down in Melbourne and Rara
849
00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:58,600
so she's been a bit of a nightmare going long
850
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,100
but I'm in Berk now
851
00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:04,866
um so I'm down in Berk
852
00:39:09,666 --> 00:39:12,600
yeah but it's a little bit over just yeah
853
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,400
but yeah halfway yeah halfway
854
00:39:15,666 --> 00:39:18,066
Mary is very anxious for our arrival
855
00:39:18,066 --> 00:39:18,733
I think she's
856
00:39:18,733 --> 00:39:19,866
as I say she's
857
00:39:19,866 --> 00:39:21,200
she's one of the ones that have been worse
858
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,900
struck by this whole thing and uh
859
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,966
she ran out of feed a couple of days back
860
00:39:24,966 --> 00:39:26,466
and I haven't seen it yet
861
00:39:26,466 --> 00:39:28,833
but apparently it's better than this car park
862
00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:30,366
everyday Craig's not
863
00:39:30,366 --> 00:39:33,533
there is a day Mary's cattle won't date
864
00:39:33,533 --> 00:39:34,866
so a cattle are doing a really
865
00:39:34,866 --> 00:39:37,266
really hard and they just don't have the coin to go out
866
00:39:37,266 --> 00:39:38,100
and splash on high
867
00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:40,200
it costs an arm and a leg to get it up there
868
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,466
so they're just waiting for this
869
00:39:42,666 --> 00:39:44,100
this is really important to her
870
00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:46,800
so telephone conversations with Maria
871
00:39:47,366 --> 00:39:48,466
and Lightning
872
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:50,800
ah ah
873
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,000
Nick and Joe are battling a violent tropical storm
874
00:39:59,166 --> 00:40:02,633
dumping nearly 15 millimeters of rain in an hour
875
00:40:03,566 --> 00:40:05,700
it's impossible to keep going
876
00:40:18,866 --> 00:40:20,666
did a very good job getting through that
877
00:40:20,666 --> 00:40:22,400
and look blue sky
878
00:40:24,566 --> 00:40:28,000
pull up here for a few hours probably all night
879
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,700
see how it looks in the morning maybe it's dried out
880
00:40:34,466 --> 00:40:36,900
next morning clear skies
881
00:40:37,900 --> 00:40:39,700
but that's not fooling me
882
00:40:39,866 --> 00:40:42,266
I think we're gonna be in a little bit of drama today
883
00:40:42,266 --> 00:40:45,333
I reckon he knows this road too well
884
00:40:45,333 --> 00:40:47,666
it might be a very long long time
885
00:40:49,366 --> 00:40:52,666
up ahead the mother of all bog holes
886
00:40:56,666 --> 00:40:59,300
at least one or two road trains been stuck in it
887
00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,866
and luckily got dry ground but only just got through it
888
00:41:09,533 --> 00:41:14,166
just got out the other side heavy going though isn't it
889
00:41:15,366 --> 00:41:16,466
but it's worse
890
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,700
looks like they've had a shitload of rain through here
891
00:41:20,266 --> 00:41:24,666
much worse as this driver found out
892
00:41:27,266 --> 00:41:27,700
I don't know
893
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:31,066
this might just pull up here of the easiest
894
00:41:39,966 --> 00:41:41,900
this is not real flash at all
895
00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:43,800
and this is where the other trucks have been
896
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:44,366
getting bogged
897
00:41:44,366 --> 00:41:46,700
so there's been a sidetrack put around by the
898
00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:48,700
other guy with the radi yesterday
899
00:41:49,666 --> 00:41:51,366
next is walking around this sidetrack
900
00:41:51,366 --> 00:41:52,900
just to see if it's hard enough that we can
901
00:41:52,900 --> 00:41:56,100
get right around this whole mess here hopefully
902
00:42:00,533 --> 00:42:04,200
it's impossible to get the road train through in one go
903
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,033
yeah I won't get three around it anyway
904
00:42:06,266 --> 00:42:07,466
so I'll give one go
905
00:42:07,466 --> 00:42:08,366
go around there
906
00:42:08,366 --> 00:42:09,900
and I'll come back and get the other ones
907
00:42:10,966 --> 00:42:11,900
that's the plan
908
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:13,133
the other ones I would love to have
909
00:42:13,133 --> 00:42:14,766
just flogged it straight through there
910
00:42:16,066 --> 00:42:16,866
I'm just one of them
911
00:42:16,866 --> 00:42:17,666
lucky fellas that me
912
00:42:17,666 --> 00:42:19,600
walk up along with me and give me a hand
913
00:42:19,866 --> 00:42:21,800
but I don't think most of truck drivers wash
914
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,033
don't go on give me
915
00:42:27,066 --> 00:42:28,400
minus two trailers
916
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,466
they set off on the 500 metre diversion
917
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,200
not fit for a car
918
00:42:33,366 --> 00:42:35,533
let alone a 30 ton truck
919
00:42:35,533 --> 00:42:37,700
it is a patch and go to that solar tracks only
920
00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:39,700
they just pushed in and I don't know
921
00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:41,100
it's pretty soft around there
922
00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:43,500
I lean a lot on Nick
923
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:45,533
you know trust and judgement a lot
924
00:42:45,533 --> 00:42:46,500
weighs on his shoulders
925
00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:47,300
unfortunately
926
00:42:47,300 --> 00:42:49,033
but it's a bit of a risk
927
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:50,833
the wheels are spinning
928
00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:54,566
the speed barely walking pass
929
00:42:56,733 --> 00:42:59,266
but they're through
930
00:43:01,566 --> 00:43:03,400
now for the big test
931
00:43:06,666 --> 00:43:10,100
Nick's decided to double down on his luck and
932
00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:13,833
try to pull the remaining trailers through in one go
933
00:43:14,466 --> 00:43:17,866
50 tons of trucking trouble
934
00:43:25,266 --> 00:43:29,700
get stuck and they could be here for months
935
00:43:34,966 --> 00:43:36,800
what happened about the bird
936
00:43:36,966 --> 00:43:37,800
so frustrating
937
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,166
he never knows this is what he wants keep going
938
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,766
not my favorite part of the job
939
00:43:42,966 --> 00:43:44,000
the slippery shit
940
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,066
you just can't quite get this
941
00:43:47,333 --> 00:43:48,900
he knew how hard it was gonna be
942
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:50,633
he knew how long it was gonna be
943
00:43:50,666 --> 00:43:51,666
my little man
944
00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:53,633
I couldn't be prouder of him
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