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This time on Outback Truckers,

that way the Cummins rage can turn this shit.

But we can't turn back now.

It's saying it was coming to town.

Now I've got to get across this ferry.

Let's go on in.

We've got nothing in our breaks to hold us

on to you.

If we don't have money coming in the next

two days, it would look a bit better than Arsenal.

I've got something going on back there.

Kind of see smoke.

What are they doing at this time?

Shit.

Good to see New Zealand's night different times.

The Egyptian sparsely.

Now I've scammed a warrior.

Shit, he's in tunnel.

[bleep]

They don't give you my room, do they? - See.

It's the first bit of a hurdle here.

We've got to get up over Hell's Gate.

Hunter may be doing his art as we can

at the moment.

Well, it just goes dark, constantly trying to hear a bit.

There we are, we didn didn't want of there.

We're going to get traction on this hill.

We're in the world of pain.

The world of the North Queensland.

Everything going pretty right for us and went into

the lowest gear but I think we're just a bit heavy.

Jim Fuddy has come to a shuddering halt on his mission to be the last road train

into his hometown, Bamagar, in time for Christmas.

We were pulling a triple up to Bamagar, about 130 tons.

We've got a two heavy isoteters,

cement powder.

We've got a hell of a man of freight,

small staff chucked into the mix as well.

You've got people trying to send Christmas presents up

to families and things up there.

Foodie has already traveled 288 kilometers from cans towards

towards his destination, Famigur, but has met his match

on the notorious Hell's Gate Pass.

Right now every break I've got is lost on

the keep it on the hill.

There's a part of what our problem is,

the bitch was bleeding here.

What's happening?

We can't get traction in that.

And the stones all pressed in it.

What we'll do is leave this trail behind and

see if we can get going with those two.

But we may have, we may have difficulty even with that.

I'm going to attempt.

They've got.

Get them out of the forehead of steam up here.

We've got about 130 tonnes.

We're dropping about 40 hot tonnes.

So we might just be able to get going. [music playing]

What we're going to do now is take this

route to somewhere up here where I can get

off the road with it.

Well, we made the trailer on the hill back

there, I'd be on the sun.

Get on like leaving the trailers parked.

the trailer is parked in the middle of a little busy road, so we've got to scurry back

out here and get the bloody things.

Right, we're in the lower right at the moment.

Right, this is all going to happen pretty quick and we'll get back to get that trailer.

There we go.

Right out.

Pull forward a little bit more forward.

Yeah, we're gonna get back to get out of the truck.

We're back in one piece.

Yeah, it's been a fun of games.

Well, if this goes for seeing the crime,

we reckon it was shot in that quarry there.

I want to go back to the Henry as a former.

(wind blowing)

(wind blowing)

(wind blowing)

It's taking nice and steady up here.

(wind blowing)

We're leading the scene of the crime.

(wind blowing)

(wind blowing)

(wind blowing)

All we've got to do now is turn around

with one of that doll and we're going.

(wind blowing) There we go, we've got a lot. We're back for a triple. I was turning around with one of that doll and we're going.

There we go, a little walk.

We're back for a triple.

We're on our first bit of dirt.

We've got water in the table, grains, but the

surface is dry at nothing.

So there's been a bit of rain but very

minimal on the look of it.

We've just got a hope that they don't get

major rains that flood.

Heading north, loaded with freight and Christmas presents,

brings added risk for this outback Santa.

We're starting to see a little bit of build

up in the distance there so you know we

did tough in it rain here and you can't

travel You can't move, that's all over.

You know, if you stuck up here,

get a little bit of water, we'll go at all.

I definitely didn't want to show you this.

We just run into a shower rain here and

we've got some big jump ups.

We've got a couple of steep little eat climbs

to get up and it's all dirty.

And we're just going to have to try and absolutely

So what are we allowed to time wise before break?

Oh, so the same, it sounds good.

Oh, well, I think we're ready to go.

We pull,

Sludge Andrews has come back to the land of

his birth New Zealand to do a job for

his mate Ricky Rogers There we go, been trying

to be drawn here with a swamp There's no

scale or less of not happy This is a

bit flashed this thing So this is a king

where this I are limited edition 50th anniversary.

It's less than a year old.

Yeah, it's new.

A lot of years that's all driven a new truck now.

This is dear, $1million worth of trucks.

So I don't want to scratch it or I

don't want to break it.

I'm just here to help rip it out and

do a good job.

When the f*** is the blinkers?

Oh f***ing out.

Today we're running a structure for a new building

in New England.

So this is about 40 tonne of steel beams.

From Ricky's yard In Christchurch, sludge will head north for 342 kilometres

through the South Island's narrow winding and mountainous

So I can't miss a ferry.

If you miss a ferry, you're in deep shit.

We're just coming on to years now since my accident.

Finance wise,

it's been a big hit on Apple.

A motorcycle accident near his home in Western Australia

left sludge with life threatening injuries.

I've broke my legs.

I've probably bleeds on the brain.

This accident's changed my perspective a lot.

Before starting his trucking job in New Zealand,

sludge took the opportunity to read the book.

to reconnect with his roots.

This was a family business that started and built

it all here.

We used to fly down the helicopter,

come down with Dad and he had a helicopter

on top of the office plot.

We've since sold it on and the company still

runs at his Andrews transport to this day.

A lot of memories come back, a lot of

good memories, a lot of sad memories.

That was one of the trucks that killed him.

I was about 13 and 14.

I suppose it doesn't over.

I followed the truck line.

So just because he was killed with a truck

didn't make me stop.

And I suppose I got the truck patient from that.

Things are a bit quiet at home at the moment.

Ricky P .O.

and Malik's has rang me and asked me if

I wanted to come over.

He's just got heaps of stuff on.

So this was quite a good opportunity to get

over here and see the kids.

I've got two kids, Brody's 32-3 and Jamie's

30-odd and they've both got kids now.

I thought I'd lived forever but I had a

big scare and I don't want the kids growing

up without me like I did without my father.

My body's good now.

I still walk with a walking stick sometimes but

my brain still got a long way to go.

[bleep] [bleep] Good to see these islands no different time.

The Egyptians passing you with cars coming towards you

and avoiding to slide down somebody where they got spashed.

We're just coming into the uncy ranges now.

He had right.

You had run off the hill here real easy.

I've just got to be super careful and it

slows you down too but I can't afford to

not get to the ferry because that'll put it

a day behind.

There we go.

That was hard work.

Shit's a gentleman.

This is interesting.

(BEEP)

They don't give you my groom, do they?

(BEEP)

(BEEP)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

(BEEP)

You want to grab a reset saw and a grinder and start shaving all the sides?

I'll meet you out there.

Yeah, easy.

We're in Boringar at the moment, dead standard in the gas tank.

We've got called out to do about 100 cars

from Buringar here out of the tip from people's houses.

Car recycler, Mike Elliott and his 17 year old

son Vinny are on another mission to salvage wrecked

cars from a remote community.

We've paid for all these cars and we've taken

all of our motors and diffs and gearboxes and

stuff everything that's good for us and then the

community gets paid twice on the cars because the

metal recyclers come through.

through. In previous years the mental recyclers wouldn't come to communities like this because

the cars are all spread out all over the community in different places. We go and pick them

all up, we bring them into one spot and then when we stack them up they're ready for recycling.

We just trim it all so it all fits within the trailer. Before this we were just bloody

renting trailers but in December we were going to board

out a double set and we got it at 80 grand then we probably put another 10 into both trailers

not cheap.

Not cheap.

So almost about 100grand down in a hole.

We're trying to make that money back with BooneGar.

So we're doing so much blood either.

Volume.

We've got our own road train set up now.

We're pretty happy about.

Cost us a hell of a lot though.

So we're straight back out to work.

I've sort of planned that we'll have money coming

in the next two days.

If we don't then I'm going to look like

a bit of an ass when I ring up

everyone and tell them, "Yeah, your money's going to

be like, you know,

I'll height that crap.

[WHISTLE BLOWS] [GROANS]

This is the fun part where you actually get

to watch the car completely split in half.

(music playing)

115 car done. Let's go.

Load it up.

(whistling)

(whistling)

That's it.

All right, let's walk along.

(music playing)

We'll just play with it again.

Downcover creek, through dairy creek.

Oh, I'm tired.

Thousand corners of dirt and then four hundred corners of the bitchman to get back to Perk.

So cash.

To cash in their car parts, the father's son

crew must haul their load up to East Lyon's

river before heading south through the heart of the

gas-goyne and merchants and districts.

Then they hit the bitumen for the final push to Perth.

How bloody good does that rock look? Look out.

The white furthest name is Mount Augustus.

But the average of people call it Borgara.

Australia's largest rock.

drive for like half an hour and still not be anywhere in the end of it.

We've seen a few puddles around today, sort of know if the road's closed or not.

We've got a drop of cyclone that's been brewing.

There's been electrical storms at night.

You just don't know what you're in for, you know, that it closed, but lying to the front of you, you don't know it.

You can get stuck somewhere until you're three days at the top.

What do you reckon with that?

Dip logs hit a couple of creeper gears and

try and walk up it.

Yeah.

All right, if we get stuck, we're breaking them down.

Yeah.

You might pull it in late.

You're asking your throat because you know that if

you start where you make a mistake you can

be expensive and it can be torn into My heart hums, look, fighting them on neck every time we do a jump up like this.

They don't have any help.

Got a new drag down. (dramatic music)

We've made it.

I thought we'd lose traction there somewhere but just

at the last critical moment the road brought a

little bit there.

Foudy is racing the impending tropical wet season desperate

to be the last road train before Christmas into

Bamagra before an oncoming cyclone turns the roads into

impassable boggy streams.

This is a very mixed way. We've got two isotaters to make. We've got a tip-dee tonnex,

tomatoes, food, heat. We've got cool rooms. We've got Christmas presents. We've got

lights. The Santa Claus looks like Jim Furdier. Some of these animals are going to get up

in time for Christmas. We've made the bitumen now. We've got 40 guys with a bit of an inner talent.

And that's where I'm going to hold him.

And that's it, so let me...

It's time for a bit.

I'm tired, bugger, I've been awake since Christ that went.

A couple of the kids have been made,

and I'll be best sleep and tablet, if ever say.

I couldn't have a shower, I was not. The rain was too bloody cold to get out and have a shower in them.

So yeah, I could do with a tub and a bath and a bit of a clean up.

A main goal here at the moment is to try and get to the ferry.

They'll shut the ferry down at 5 o'clock.

We've got 400 kays to get to the ferry and 11 hours to do it.

And that seems like an easy, easy thing to do but believe me,

it ain't going to be bloody easy.

We're going to have to work ourself today to try and get there at that time.

We've had a bit over 50millimetres of rain last night.

Brades, a bit dodgy this morning.

Hello, we got in.

Yeah?

Yeah, my name is Sam.

We got this light.

Yeah, I'm going the wrong way out of it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to try and get out before that rain depression kicks in.

So that'll be moving, scattered, and happy couple of days.

I know you think that's about what I'm getting there.

So, we'll see how we go.

We didn't really want to hear that.

If it's surprised I'm going to eat.

This is going to make life pretty bloody interesting.

If he's right,

The side of a tropical depression when he's coming

in is exactly this sort of builder.

Tropical depression is the first formation of cyclones.

Tom's a heavy rain.

It would take very much to Travis at all

like this road.

We can't turn back now.

He's a mammogram or bus this one.

Right now we're coming into the Jardin.

Jardy road works job by Gulf Civil.

Somewhere up here they want these pipes.

Yeah you've got the Gulf Civil, got these pipes everywhere,

where you want them up there to keep.

Yeah right, thanks mate.

We're in the bus number road train.

The load is just arrived. If you get up there and get those pipes.

I've decided these lower ones just to get up there.

gonna just come dance there.

They call, let's see what happens.

If I'm rupturing with me in bits,

I'm gonna be very disappointed.

No problem.

Hey, I'm on him.

Now one's going to fly out.

You're going to go up that ladder just wrongly,

mate. Thanks, we got it.

Pretty thankful, as always, just got him off quick for me.

Now I'm going to get across this ferry.

Nice way for the ferry's 42.5 and we're 42.5.

It's going to sink in a bit.

The ferry will be grounded and I've got to

run forwards, aim the brakes, come back.

It's a risky high precision maneuver.

Foodie needs enough speed that the truck's momentum pushes

the ferry off the bank when he jams on the brakes.

They've locked trucks off the end of it.

The truck ends up out in the middle of

the Jardé River and I really wouldn't like that.

What's going on here?

Boy, we got nothing in that race.

This is the [bleep] Holders on here.

Come on there to go.

When I make it up this hill, wouldn't it

force to break road train down.

Holy shit!

How long are there to go?

We're good.

I've been caught on some really big ones before.

To break the rig down and ditch the trailers and run them up one at a time.

We lose half a day there on that hill.

Mike Elliott and his 17-year-old son Vinny are holding a heavy load of car parts,

salvaged from a remote community over 1000 kilometres from their destination.

Perth. We've got pretty good.

We've done about 50-560 km/h. I'm just glad they're on the road when you spend two weeks jumping

in 40 plus comes a nightmare.

Maybe a lot of people are still going to

complain when things get hard.

Why dad?

Why dad?

It's worse than the teachers.

Oh.

Why dad?

Doesn't care if it's 44 degrees.

Like 200 flies in my eyeballs.

He'll still tell me what I'm doing wrong.

He nailed it.

Yeah, he nailed it.

Yeah, you know that.

This time of the evening, just around dusk,

we're gonna look out for animals on the boat.

Now here we got a little skippy.

You gotta be careful with these buggers,

because they'll jump beside the truck,

but 20 metres and they'll jump straight into the truck.

They're just bloody stupid.

So we got another kangaroo, just up here.

Oh, f*** off. straight into the truck, they're just bloody stupid. So we got another kangaroo, you just stop here. [bleep]

Oh, God.

[bleep]

[engine rumbling]

(engine rumbling)

Just pulled up, dairy creak station.

We're looking at spending the night here.

(engine rumbling)

Too loving.

Good day.

(engine rumbling)

(engine rumbling)

(indistinct)

(engine rumbling)

(engine rumbling) (engine rumbling) I'm off the square.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting.

I'll be starting. I'll be starting. I'll be starting. I're getting it. We're getting it.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Parmie and pull tonight.

Oh, you're speaking my language.

We're just pulling in the model now, which is the end of the gravel.

So, uh, the bitcher went all the way to Perth now.

We'll be punching on about another hundred kilometres before we pull up for the knife

from it a pool in Parmesan.

The reason Vinny is with me is because it is really struggling in school.

There is more of a hands on a kid today.

It is spare time and it will be building cars and it will be building engines.

That's the case.

Treat it like a trade's ownership.

The next three to four years he's gonna have

to deal with license and see license, truck license.

And then this kid comes up with some of

the most ingenious inventions sometimes.

Well I can't wait to see what he comes up with.

Just pull into me and you.

Just as well as stock for the night.

When and when, apart me, did it?

Oh, I've ruined it.

All right, good go.

So last bloody day of the trip,

I don't really want much to go wrong on

the last day.

You know, it's like you're that close.

So, you know, hopefully it's all smoother than Danny.

What the hell?

Brights just come out.

Oh, what's that?

What's going on there?

What is going on there?

Let's go.

Let's work it out.

They don't give you my cream, do they?

Jeez.

Jesus.

to the North Island of New Zealand without putting

a scratch on the half a million dollar truck,

it's been given to drive.

These tunnels are really narrow.

Probably only got a couple foot out inside of your lucky.

But the view, you come around that corner and

it's just so picturesque,

it's bloody holy shit.

Makes me appreciate life.

After almost dying in a motorbike crash,

Sludge is using this opportunity in New Zealand to work and reconnect with family.

This is probably the stuff that I need to do more.

And I'm still making money.

You don't realise life's short until you've had something

that big accident like I've had.

Now I actually realise how short life could have been.

And my kids could have grown up without a father too.

Like I grew up without a father.

So, you know, I'm lucky I got to approve

to have another go.

We're just coming into Picton now.

Where we climb on the ferry to get a well into.

He's narrowed.

Just keep it an eye to see if it's worth anything.

Well, there we go.

We made the theory.

That was a bit nerve-wracking.

to be on the ship for two or three years.

But my buddy, Rokins, stay out.

It just helped me with my balance

and keeps me from tripping over stuff.

They're just dropping the door down on the ferry.

It will be on their line.

The 12-hour journey of the land and sea has pushed

sludge to his limit.

He needs to find the nearest truck stop before taking on the next 605 kilometers to Auckland.

We've packed up for the night, we're in the back of the Celtics, so we've already

got some miles in the markers, we've got to get out there and get unloaded.

We're on the North Island now, heading up to Jury, which is where we've got

unloaded the steel.

Here we go, we've got road closed signs.

So this is the digital world I'm going to take you through the National Park.

It must be doing road work or something up here.

But Jesus is the group.

I've never been through here and they say it's quite hilly and windy and a bit slower.

So, and now I say I want to add this here, just that's a pain in the earth. It's quite hilly and windy and a bit slower so and an hour so on to our schedules.

That's a pain in the earth.

We've got to get through the Auckland and get unloaded.

There is no record trying to be the on-time.

Holy shit!

We're at 100 zone and they just slap brakes

on right in front of us.

What the hell?

Brakes just come on.

Oh, what the f***?

I can hear the aeroscapings.

We're just at all the air drop in the trailers.

Basically, once this airline detaches,

all the brakes will come on in the trailers.

Clamps just giving up just on the inside.

And that's why I can't get a tight seal on there.

That's all right.

We carry heaps of spares.

are detached hose has brought mic and Vinny to

a screeching heart truck and trailer breaks use compressed

air but if the system loses all pressure a spring is released as a file safe

that automatically engages the brakes.

- Leave it done. - All good.

All good.

Back on the road for an uneventful day.

Straight into the perfect, no dramas.

It's quite hard. of this corner weight.

Try to keep steady on this narrow winding bouncy road.

Downcy road, you can't see what's coming up around the corner.

If you're hammering down a hill of 90 and just around the corner,

there's a tractor or something like that.

But there's got to be issues, I guarantee.

All right, we've got something going on back there.

I could see smoke.

That doesn't look good.

It's such a tight narrow road, I'm nowhere to pull over.

Hey, there goes the tar.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Holy shit, we're at 100 zone, and they just

slept with brakes on front of us.

There we go.

Let's see how it's done.

Sludge is closing in on his first delivery drop off

in New Zealand.

In a brand new truck he can't afford to damage,

but erratic drivers have made the job more.

It's the, yeah, some of months and it's full

of tourists,

they've no idea how to drive.

They've just got to be careful.

We got past it.

We're in nearly a year.

We're doing alright.

We're an everyone where I thought it would be. be.

Wheel in here and unload.

So that is the, this is the

that's the top frame.

So it goes over the top with the crane

and all the chains hang in there and go

on to these bolsters which they shove and under

the trailer and then they link all that together.

It'll be interesting to see because we don't do

this at home.

The only thing I don't like about this deal

is scratching the trailer.

They're gonna pick the 22 turn up in one lift.

That's the job done. We're just getting out in the gate.

I'm just going to head down to Rodeo and find a motel, have a night and sleep, and then see

where we'll going next.

See that second one,

though? That top five's one's a bit of a jiggle.

See how it's sort of sticking out of it.

After some much-needed rest,

Sludge has made his way to Talpo,

ready to return to New Zealand South Island with

some farm machinery and timber poles.

That's good, huh,

yeah? That's it?

Beautiful.

It's fully loaded now.

Well, it's an hour there's an hour down the Wellington.

(car engine rumbling)

♪ We're going to my landlord ♪

♪ We're going to this guy ♪

♪ Where the clouds meet the earth ♪

(car engine rumbling)

Light tell by how beautiful is that?

So I'm thinking, since't something a bit tired?

I might pull out here and have a brush bath.

Everyone says like, "Tell Po."

There we go.

Time for a

hot water.

I reckon something might already pull a shit.

It's actually really refreshing.

It's two years since the accident.

I pretty much thought that this injury was the

end of it.

But I'm actually here,

and I'm doing it.

I'm not there yet, but I can see light

at the end of the tunnel.

I'm looking forward to the future.

Oh,

wow. Holy shit.

Whoa.

That is a brand new tour.

How the hell does that happen to a brand new tour?

This is just opened up and de-laminated means

it's taken all the tread pattern off.

It's opened itself straight up to the wire belts.

We're down to our last spare urgently needed cash

to pay off loans for their new trailers.

Mike and Vinny are having to earn it the hard way.

One for the truck,

one for your dad.

Let's go.

I know we save this every time but an

air jacket would be nice.

That'll do, that was a half pump.

Let's go.

It's on.

OK.

Leave me as good as it gets.

400 bucks for a brand new tie to go

like that is absolute bullshit, but hey, it's all good.

No more drummers.

All fixed, ready to roll.

I hope for this last hurdle for the day.

We're back in civilization.

Back in the 16, 17 days of the ride.

Yeah, we made it.

I don't know how to get home, but I

tell you what.

If anyone really loves this type,

we chopped up 116 cars in 10 days and

At that point, I think I realised I'm not a young man anymore.

I'm going to go home and get a good night's sleep

and hopefully be completely reset by tomorrow.

Together, like absolute soldiers, we just smashed it out

and got it over and done with the night.

Yo, good on ya.

Don't look, man. You were bloody hard to shoot.

Cheers, man. I felt like that.

I know. Let's get up to the end.

Yeah, we'll come back in the morning with this.

Let's go.

Let's go. [MUSIC]

Well, we've got nothing to do.

No brakes, it's a fucking homeless or anything.

We've made it.

It's not yet another bullet.

But there is something's here, originally wrong.

The brakes here at the moment on this trail or anyway.

Because of the very grounds, I need a really

good working the slam on it and help the

ferry get off the bottom.

but in this case here I, you know,

sleep in the brake on it and I still

roll forward a little bit at the end of

the ferry's right there so yeah I don't want

to be doing that too much but that's all

right I got the heavy one across that was

a lot easier after that when I've got all

this road train put together I've got an excellent

brakes because there's two of those trailers brakes are

all brand new

After narrowly avoiding sinking into the crocodile infested Jardine

River, foodie is varying all three of his trailers across the water

desperate to be the last road train into Bannagar before Christmas.

That's pretty typical of this place up here.

Expect the

We're on our way into town.

The rate of f***ing get stopped us now.

The contractors and concreters will get their jobs done.

All freight will just be taken off the trucks

left in our yards for people to come and

collect Christmas presents included.

See it of course has come into town,

isn't that the song?

Christmas in Bat my guy.

The roughest looking s*** seal of the day that

went into it.

And he's not that bad.

This is the township of Bamagar.

We've got customers waiting.

The job doesn't end in Bamagar for this sweaty centre.

While some of the freight and the Christmas presents will be collected from his yard,

the cement powder and the shipping container need to be delivered to his clients.

Where this container's got to go is just an old bit of lace.

It's on a high little beaky ridge and you've got to get up underneath.

It's hard to turn around once they get up

there so I've got to reverse up the whole bloody thing.

But yeah,

it's got to get everything down.

Right?

Cheers.

Putting them up by the wire, I think.

It's on the gray on my don't take away anywhere.

Look at that.

We'll get out of your way.

I'll be doing.

Finally, we've got all trailers unloaded.

We're going to start shuffling things around

organising our trip out tomorrow.

Now we've got freight to go back down as well.

So there's a bad way to come.

The greatest worry, and it is a serious one,

is I can't have any trucks left up here.

I've got no way to win, I don't think I'm going to leave it.

I don't think it's being trucks either.

I'm just getting a bit of a weather update at the moment.

This is a seven day prediction of likely cyclones'

rain depressions around us.

That's what we're concerned about.

That's tropical cyclone, forming at midnight tonight.

The ferry closes at five o'clock.

We're not going to be ready to catch the

ferry this afternoon.

We've left at's what I like.

Now we're gonna get Down this mountain, oh God, look at the clouds coming in over there.

That is rain coming.

If we trap that, it's all flared ball, mate.

We're up against the wall.

We've got no options left. We have to get out.

The creeks are flooded. There's no bridges.

We need to have our dollars in the right place.

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Around the corner, we've got the first bridge sludge coming up.

Got that first bridge.

Oh, it's going to shut it first to go across.

All right, bridge is clear.

All right.

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