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G'day. I'm Steve Grahame.

I've spent my life driving trucks across Australia.

Bloody pain-in-the-arse camel.

It's a tough job. This is a bastard bit of road.

Now we've got a big problem in the industry.

Aussie trucking is at a crisis point.

26,000 drivers are needed to fill a huge labour-market gap.

Australia relies on us.

Supermarket shelves will be stripped bare.

They need our trucks.

But now, after decades behind the wheel,

a generation of drivers is about to retire.

We have a massive crisis - the driver shortage.

So me and my mates are gonna do what we can

to pass the torch and get the next generation ready.

He reckons he wants to be thrown in the deep end.

I'm throwing him in at 100 mile an hour.

I think I have a problem.

Oh! Why?

Living the dream. HORN BLARES

This is so bloody stressful.

Come on, buttercup, you'll be all right.

I have faith in you.

If the trucks stop, the nation stops.

HORN BLARES

I've been driving these bangers here for 55 years, something like that.

I'm getting up to 10 million kilometres,

the equivalent of ten times to the moon and back.

I've got a couple of good mates coming in today.

My name's Sludge, and I'm 57.

I've done everything.

Dangerous goods, fuel, out in no-man's land.

It's a tough job.

My name is Glenn "Yogi" Kendall, and I'm 48.

I've been trucking for about 27 years.

I've done general. I've done overnight.

I've done parcel freight.

I can go from anywhere in Australia to anywhere in Australia.

It takes a very special type of person

to become a distance truck driver.

'I'm gonna ask 'em to give me a hand.'

Good to see you, fellas. Nice to see you.

Yogi, good to see you, mate, after all this time.

Well, fellas, there's a real problem in our industry.

There's not enough new truckies stepping up to the plate.

There's a lot of jobs, and... And no-one to fill the job.

You know, we're responsible for making sure

that supermarket shelves are full,

that hospitals have got the equipment that they need.

Everything comes on a truck.

Third biggest industry in Australia, truck. Yeah.

We need people to step up and fill the gaps.

Between our three brains, there's so much swimming around in the head.

We've got a lot of knowledge. Let's share it with some people.

I've contacted a few rookies who want to give it a fair go.

We need to go and instil a bit of knowledge.

Spend a bit of time with them. Spend a bit of time.

Let's get these rookies ready for Australian roads.

Some of the harshest environments in the world. Yep.

We will have them on Australian roads doing it the right way.

I'm pleased to have you on the team. Let's pass it on, fellas.

Well, I just finished the job up in Broome,

and I'm on my way south home.

But I'm coming up to Mount Magnet,

and there's a rookie I've got my eye on

that's gonna be in Magnet this afternoon.

Young fella out of Ireland, Eric Scully.

Eric's been here in Australia under a year,

and he's worked his way into quad road trains already.

You know, in Western Australia,

iron ore mining is worth about $140 billion a year,

and there's big money to be made driving the quads that carry it.

We're talking four-trailer road trains, 200 tonnes and plus.

HORN BEEPS

I know that Eric's a bit of a snap-happy character.

He likes to get out on social media.

MUSIC PLAYS

Oh, BLEEP! HORN BEEPING

Telling you, the animals in Australia are BLEEP stupid.

Guys, I swear to God, look at the amount of those chickens, like!

I see straight up, lads. BOOM

Jesus Christ.

Oh, BLEEP bastard.

HORN BLARES

BLEEP.

Mm.

Wanna go and have a chat with him.

He's got one of the biggest rigs around -

200-plus tonnes, 98 wheels on the road.

I've got to be happy in my mind that he's not a loose cannon out there

rattling around on our highways with that sort of gear.

Eric. Ah, nice to meet you.

Good to meet you in person, mate. Very good.

Yeah, so, having fun on social media gave me some impressions

in my mind that I just wanted to straighten out with you.

I hope that's not the real Eric.

Oh, God. No. You pick your moments.

You think you're the king of the road.

You think you know it from being back home.

You get humbled when you come out here

cos you don't know anything.

Oh, well, I'm really pleased to hear about that,

cos we don't want loose cannons running around in quads. No.

Coming from a nice little green country like Ireland,

how do you like the vastness of the Australian outback, mate?

How are you handling that?

Being alone in essentially a box,

it's something that you definitely have to build

your mental strength up to.

One thing that I suppose always gets me through my day is

I'm forever on FaceTime with my mother.

I'm never afraid to pick up the phone.

Good on you, mate.

That's a big part of it, being out here on country. Yeah.

That's why I'm annoying you and mentoring you...

Absolutely. ...to try and give you some advice

so that you're out there in the public domain with the rest of us,

and we're all mixing it up safely.

It's been an absolute pleasure.

Take care of yourself out there. You too.

'I'm very upbeat.'

Under that outgoing, extrovert exterior,

there's a sensible, responsible, deep-thinking driver in there.

'It's a good bloke in there.'

First day in the super-quad. First time I've ever pulled one.

So, yeah, it's a massive step up for me.

For the likes of Steve to turn around and say,

"Yeah, nah, you're a good buck, keep the wheels turning,"

it's... it's a really good feeling.

I mean, he's an absolute icon for anybody who loves trucks.

So, yeah, for him to give me the A-OK, it meant an awful lot.

You know, I reckon Eric's got

all the qualities that we need in a rookie.

He hasn't got the experience yet.

My big worry is I wonder how he's gonna go out there

on his own with the isolation.

He's got to be on his game, that boy.

I'll call him later, check on how he's going.

But I'm gonna leave him to it and get this load home.

Check your tyres.

They're silent, that's when you've got a problem.

It will eventually just go bang and rip the whole lot round it off.

Pretty much ready to roll out.

Oh, yeah. One more thing.

We could not possibly go

without giving her the cross to keep me safe.

This is the holy water from Knock back home in Ireland,

renowned for being really holy stuff, powerful.

If it was alcohol, it'd be like vodka.

My mother sent it out with me,

and she made me promise to bless my truck.

She said, "Did you bless the truck?" "I did, Mam. I did."

She's blessed from head to toe.

The Pope would be proud of me.

Hopefully, we won't have any problems on our trip.

Righto. Here we go. First time driving the quad.

Yeah, super-quad rolling out there from the servo.

It's a long truck.

I nearly need my 'noculars to see the back of it.

Time to hit the outback.

Eric will drive 380km from Mount Magnet

to pick up iron ore at Wiluna.

Then it's 530km to drop it off in Kalgoorlie

before returning to Wiluna to repeat the journey.

It's a total of almost 2,500km, taking four brutal 15-hour days.

My God, she's long.

It is twice the size of anything I've ever driven.

That's in weight, length, axles, tyres.

You name it, it's twice the size at least.

In the UK, the biggest trucks are 18.55m long.

In the USA, 24.4m.

Western Australian quad combination trucks are 60m long

and carry 200 tonnes fully loaded.

It feels empowering to be on the road with the super-quad,

the longest combination you'll see on a public road in the world.

To be heading for the mine, pulling something like this...

...it's definitely something I'm proud to be doing.

You've got four trailers behind you swaying.

One thing I was told when I started driving road trains

is your mirrors are for when you're going backwards.

When you're going forwards, don't look at 'em

cos all you'll do is you'll give yourself anxiety

cos you'll watch those trailers bounce and sway.

The more that happens, the more you try and correct it

and the more you're actually making them bounce and sway.

Copy in the oversize.

OVER RADIO:

When you get a clear straight,

let me know, and I'll try and come round.

So, that's a five-metre-long load.

But the trailer itself is four metres wide.

I want a dead straight run that I can see

for at least a kilometre coming up the road.

So, now I have a chance to get

every single part of this truck around him and in

without putting myself under any pressure.

As you get to the right-hand lane,

it might take 30 seconds to a minute.

I don't know, but it feels like a long time.

Here's a prime example of what you wanna avoid.

So, there's a cow on the side of the road.

They are like... Oh, man, there's a flock of them.

Every one of those guys there are liable to run out in front of me.

That's a big unit.

Righto, boys, whenever you're ready,

just give me the heads-up, and I'll come round.

HORN BLARES

This is definitely one of the more challenging aspects of the job.

Righto, I'll start winding her up.

Take it in performance mode, just so I have every bit of beans

to get the speed up and get past him as quick as I can.

Righto, I'm gonna put her

in the right-hand lane there now and come around.

BLEEP, this is definitely not where you wanna to be.

A bend up the road.

Yeah, man, I'm not going for this one on the bend. Not a hope.

I'm gonna just pull in behind you.

So, Steve sent me over here to see Shelley Roseby.

She's starting off tomorrow with a new job.

She's carting hay tomorrow, which she hasn't carted.

Hay's one of the shit things.

The cart, it moves, and it floats around on a trailer.

So he's just sent me over to try and get her up to speed

and help her out.

ROOSTER CROWS Beautiful out here.

My name is Shelley Roseby.

I'm 40, and I'm from Gunnedah, New South Wales.

'I live here with my husband, Matt, and our beautiful children -

'Sam, Harriet, Tilly and Gigi.'

We've got a cropping and livestock farm.

We have beef cattle,

but I'm a PE teacher and primary school teacher by trade.

That's where I've spent the majority of my time.

I've got a lot of history in the family with trucking.

I remember being in the truck from a baby,

and it was always a happy place.

That's the dream - go full-time truck driving.

Hello! How are you? Lovely to meet you.

So, I hear you wanna sort of start your own transport company

and get bigger and better.

That's the plan, so hopefully, this will be the first baby,

and then we'll go onwards and upwards from there.

With our own farming and having to pay for haulage of our grain,

it was becoming too much of an expense

and something that we had to eliminate,

and the only way we could do that is by buying a truck.

We purchased it for $40,000.

It was probably the most stress

that we've ever felt financially as a family,

but we had to take that leap and risk it.

So, the goal now is to actually make money from the truck.

She's got to get it viable.

She's got to get a licence up

and get two trailers on the thing and start making some serious money

and pay the truck off and make it all work.

Shelley's licensed to drive a heavy combination vehicle,

a truck with a trailer connected by a pivot joint.

With Sludge's guidance,

she's aiming for the highest class of heavy vehicle licence

in Australia, a Multi Combination, or MC,

which would allow her to drive B-doubles and -triples.

For fuel efficiency,

it just doesn't make sense to be running one trailer.

We get paid per tonne over here, so it really... Yeah.

I really have to, you know, step it up.

And that's the big goal, the big need, to get the MC licence.

That's the next step. That's the next step.

Two trailers. Yeah, right. Two trailers.

So, have you done some backing and stuff?

With two trailers? Yeah.

No, I've never even driven with two trailers.

Oh, my God. So, that's... Well, that's in its own right.

I heard you're a good teacher. I'm a good teacher. Don't worry.

So, I hear you've got a big job coming up tomorrow.

I've got a couple of firsts to sort of tick off,

so going and picking up some hay,

and my sister's actually coming over.

They'll be in trucks as well.

So we're gonna run that over the mountain to Mum and Dad's.

I haven't carted a full load of hay on a semi before.

Hay's a shit of a thing. The hay just jumps off.

Yeah, no, it's pretty nerve-racking. It's a bit daunting.

Mm, very daunting.

And especially, you know, you haven't been driving that long. No.

Even though it's tied on,

hay's still a shit of a load that can move and slide.

So she's got to be super smooth and gentle.

Oh, here we go. Here we go.

I've got a little test that I wanna play on her.

So I'm gonna fill a drum up with water

and put it on the back of her truck

and get her to take me for a bit of a run,

and she's not allowed to spill the water.

I'll give her shit if she spills the water.

So, when we get up here, the shed,

we're gonna do a lap around the shed.

Ooooh!

Ooh. Oh! I can see it coming out the top.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

Oh. Not smooth, that's the problem.

Yeah. Wow.

The hay'll fall off if you're not smooth.

Rookie error.

Right before you get to corners and drive around the corner,

you don't brake halfway round a corner.

Gently.

Hey! There you go.

Shelley's truck has a notoriously complicated gearbox,

an 18-speed Eaton Fuller Roadranger.

With a splitter button and a range button,

the gear shifter is used in complex combinations to shift between gears,

high and low range and bottom, middle and top gearboxes.

If you are gearing down and you do cock it up,

jump two or three in one hit.

Don't try and go to the one you were going to.

Bypass it and do two.

Wow. Well done!

Stop! Stop! Whoa!

Now there's water coming out of it.

That was not nice. SHE LAUGHS

But at least I know you can actually use the brakes.

You did well.

Is it still upright? I don't know.

How did we go? Oh, there you go.

It's got a measuring thing on it.

90. So you've lost 20.

What was the worst part?

But I reckon the drum slipped on the floor.

That might have been going around that corner fast.

I'd prefer not to lose any, probably. Right.

There's room for improvement, but I am surprised.

It's better than what I thought. CHUCKLES

I was shitting myself about it. LAUGHS

The hay run is for Shelley's parents,

who need it trucked to their farm.

But it'll be a severe test.

It will take her along some of New South Wales'

most treacherous roads.

From Gunnedah, she's taking on the Oxley Highway,

380km to her parents' farm in Kempsey,

up the steep pass at Moonbi

and along the dangerous, narrow, winding roads

that cross the Great Dividing Range.

I've never driven that road with a semi full of hay,

so that's gonna be a huge learning curve

and a challenge I'm petrified about.

The load she's taking over this road is a tough ask for any trucker,

let alone a rookie that's never done one before.

So it's gonna be a big push for her.

I've got three sisters, and we've always grown up really close,

and still, even though we're a few hundred kilometres apart,

we speak to each other every day.

Hello, nice to meet you.

'And they'll have a truck, and we'll be all going in convoy.

'It gives me more confidence doing it when I have them with me.'

Four sisters that drive trucks, that's a bit of a handful.

It's what we do.

We've got a farm, so we use the trucks to cart the cattle,

to cart the hay.

Yeah, it's not really an optimal time to get the hay,

given the weather, but we've had flooding over it on the coast,

so we need to supplement feed the cows until the grass comes back.

Yeah, but still, everyone's still got to be fed, don't they?

Yeah, they do. They do. That's the trouble.

Yeah, keep coming a bit.

That'll do. Stop there.

Oh, shit.

It's a big load of hay, even for a person like me.

Like, I'd be very careful with that load of hay.

It's a pretty big effort for a first run.

It's too much.

The girls are worried that it's too big a load.

Going out through the mountain path is what they're concerned about.

Being a rookie, she is green. She is learning.

So we don't want anything stupid to happen first time out.

You're the driver. Make your call. What do you wanna do?

Do you think it will unsettle the load too much

to take off the top layer?

If we can get the top layer off, it'll make no difference.

Right, let's look at taking a layer off. Right.

Let's go and see if we can get one off. Yes.

So, the call's been made now to unload the top layer.

That's it. Real slow.

Stop!

Rookie trucker. We'll get her right.

This is just as well I decided to stay

and give her a little hand today.

I reckon that's all right, aye. Let's get it back in the shed.

Wrong way!

Other way! Straighten your truck up.

Just straight now. Straighten your wheel.

Whoa! WHISTLING

Go forward. She has to move. Go forward and come over.

I can't get a BLEEP gear.

Go forward, and you need to move the back of the trailer

over to your right.

'Forward.

'All right, swing out your truck over to the left.'

Righto. Stop there.

OK, now come back in and put the left hand down,

and that'll move the trailer over to the right.

'Bit more. Harder.'

Now straighten up, slow down.

'Chase your trailer. Chase your trailer with the truck.'

Chase. Stop, stop. TYRES SCREECH

CRASHING Ughhhh.

BLEEP, that's a big unit. The trailer is four metres wide.

Yeah, man, I'm not going for this one on the bend. Not a hope.

OVER RADIO:

Ah, righto. No problem. I appreciate that, boys.

This is definitely not where you wanna be.

Say a few Hail Marys.

Ah! CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY

SING-SONG: Don't BLEEP look in your mirrors!

Ohhh, lads.

Oh, lads.

CHUCKLES

I don't ever wanna do that again.

CHUCKLES That's...

That is one of those situations

where you get a cold shiver down your spine.

You're not gonna see something like that in Ireland,

where you have something five metres wide

just barrelling down the road that you have to just deal with.

It's... It's not something that happens.

The dump trucks that'd be that size,

if you were to put one of those in Ireland and fill up the bucket,

we'd have no country left, we'd be swimming.

I'd better check in with Eric and see how he's going, I think.

RINGING TONE

'Steve, how you getting on?' Not bad, Eric. What about you, mate?

'I had to get around a five-metre-wide oversized.

'That was a challenge definitely with the size of a yoke that I am.

'And to be fair, I didn't realise that there was a pilot up the road.

'I actually thought I was communicating with the driver.'

I do understand mistakes will be made,

and we've just got to learn from them.

Establish who you're talking to, and then go from there. 'Yeah.'

Just keep an eye on your fatigue.

You know, you're out there by yourself. 'Yeah.'

Well, that can get you down a bit if you let it get hold of you.

'Yeah, but I just have to, I suppose, keep reminding myself

'that what I'm doing is for me, and it's important.' Yeah.

I'm pleased you're handling it.

You've worked out a way to stay on top of it, and...

...and you're still doing it. Good.

'No problem. I appreciate it.'

Good on you, mate. You take care, hey? 'Bye.'

You can see as far to the horizon.

There's very little to actually look at out here.

You're sat here on your own in a little box...

with nothing to take your mind off your mind.

So you've no choice but to sit here with yourself and stew, think.

So that can... that can play games with your head.

Effectively, what you're doing is you're going into solitary.

Prisoners don't even go into solitary for as long as you do.

It's definitely... It's not a job. It's a lifestyle.

And it's one that has its... its downfalls.

Righty-o. We're pretty much here.

Just pulling into the mine, so...

This is where we've got to put the theory into reality.

It's one thing to pull an empty trailer.

It's a... It's another thing

when there's a 132 tonne of a payload going into.

So, yeah, it's been a...

It's been exciting up until now, but this is where it gets real.

When you're going in and out of the mine,

you wanna try and keep the dust to a minimum.

Obviously, we're in the outback,

so you kind of can't because, well, it's made of dust.

OVER RADIO:

D-C-T-1-4-4-1.

1-4-4-1.

Important as an Irish buck,

when you're trying to communicate with guys,

apparently, we're hard to understand.

I don't see how. We speak perfectly normally.

The rest of the world has the problem, but, yeah.

Slow and steady.

1-4-4-1.

And then they hear us. And sometimes, they don't.

But it's OK cos it means I get to talk to somebody other than myself.

Right. That's done. We're here. We're about to get loaded.

AIR HISSING Drop the air out of my seat,

cos otherwise, I can't reach the controls.

Put it in neutral so that my truck doesn't try

to drive off when I rev it up, and...

Right, now we are being loaded with iron ore in our first trailer.

We are going to get 17 tonnes.

So, in total, we're allowed a payload of 132.96 tonnes.

That's a lot of tonnes.

Now we are onto our final trailer.

Soon enough, we'll be rolling out.

But I have already identified a challenge.

The location we've loaded is right at the bottom of the hill.

This is gonna be painful to even get this thing moving,

let alone getting it up the hill.

Yeah, no, I'll roll her back.

Quads are not something that's been designed to go backwards.

Then again, Irish people aren't exactly designed to drive quads,

so it's a win-win.

Oh, lads, this is not fun.

Go on!

Agh!

Straighten your truck up now. Straighten your truck.

Slow down. Ride the clutch a bit, Shell.

Straighten the front wheel up.

OK, that's it. Just keep coming back. Steady.

Righto. Steady up.

Ride the clutch a bit. WHISTLING

That'll do. Leave it there, please.

Jesus. What sort of trucker are you?

This is so bloody stressful!

Come on, buttercup. You'll be all right. Grab this here.

We can get up there to do the tarp, so that's all that matters.

Yep. We're back on track again.

So now we're just pulling the tarp down,

getting it all tied up nice and neatly.

We don't need anything happening on her first load,

and it is her first load of hay, so it's got to be right.

It's looking good.

I've got a job that I've got to get done,

so I'll... I'll head off now,

and then I'll get in touch with her tonight or tomorrow

and see how she's gone, just make sure it's all gone well for her.

Thanks for everything. OK. Thank you. Look after yourself.

Thank you for all your help. All right.

See you, girls. ALL: Bye.

Safe travels.

To help warn her of approaching hazards on the journey,

riding in convoy are Shelley's sisters,

Jodie and Amy, and niece Alyssa.

First challenge, Moonbi Range.

From here, we'll head up Moonbi.

Here we go.

First one's a steep one, so it's a really hard, long pull.

It can be so difficult if you don't get the gears right,

and that's what I'm really dreading.

One down.

OK, slipping through the gears, mate.

CHUCKLES

See, now, Sludge told me if I miss it, go to the next one.

And I've missed it again.

Oh, come on, babe. Work with me!

GROANS

Right, rev. Rev. Gear.

BLEEP. INAUDIBLE

I can't get a gear. Just keep working through.

I f... I found third.

You're all right. Just keep it going.

As long as you've got a gear and your temperature's right,

you'll be fine.

There's nothing wrong with the gearbox.

It's the driver.

It's a fair bit steeper.

'Hey, hey, hey. Not too hard on her.

'Keep your revs down into an appropriate level.'

Nearly missed it coming up.

Keep an eye on those gauges.

'She's almost there. Can't you taste the finish line?'

And that's Moonbi Range accomplished.

Rookie Shell all done and dusted, mate. Well done.

My foot is just, like, BLEEP shaking.

'You were looking for the truck.'

My foot is, like... LAUGHS

...you know, from nerves.

Ohhh! 'Little cherry pop there.'

Whoo! Holy dooley!

Shelley has no time to celebrate.

Now she has to negotiate the notorious Walcha Mountain.

This is the biggest challenge of the day.

The pull over Walcha Mountain, there's so many blind corners.

It can be a really dangerous road.

It's unfortunate, but it has killed a lot of people.

Really tight, windy, hilly, lot of corners.

You're on the wrong side of the road

getting around the corners with the flat-top 45-foot.

Getting over this mountain will be interesting,

and especially, you know, she hasn't done it before.

I am nervous, definitely. 100%, I'm nervous.

It's a road that I've not driven with such a big load on

and such a long trailer.

The length of the trailer will really change

my course of trajectory around those corners.

Trailer cuts across the corner,

so if I'm not out far enough when I take that corner,

then the trailer will cut across straight behind me.

They're so tight.

Always got to be really vigilant about what's coming the other way.

We've got Jode up ahead.

She'll call anything that's coming around

any of those tight corners that I need to sort of hug the line

or get over the other side of the line for.

And then Amy's behind us.

She'll let us know if anything's behind.

Car, van. And Land Cruiser and caravan.

Roger.

On a bad, bad corner.

'Keep it high, Shell. Keep it high.'

Keep her up, Shell. Keep her up.

BLEEP!

Oh, shit.

'That's it. Keep going.' It's very bloody narrow.

Thanks, mate.

I could see. I should have... I should have been in the gutter.

But, look, that's my error.

I need that side, boys.

Oh, mate, careful. Yeah, he had to readjust then.

Far out. He was coming very fast.

The challenge of this road

really takes over people when they're on their motorbikes.

Crash zone for 40-something kilometres.

Almost hold your breath because I've seen how it ends.

About ten years ago, I was...

I was actually driving this road in a car,

and I was the first responder to a motorcycle accident.

We did CPR for over an hour.

He didn't survive, unfortunately, and it was, erm...

it was really hard to...

...I guess, walk away from that situation knowing that...

...you know, he wasn't going home.

His family were never seeing him again

and that we were the last people to sort of see him alive, so...

And, like, I didn't sleep that night.

I was on my way to Mum and Dad's, and I remember lying there thinking,

you know, that his partner would have been told by then

and what she would have been going through.

Like, you don't want anyone to sort of think about that,

what his children would have been... going through.

Like, it's really awful. I just...

Tragic. Really tragic.

What a view. What a view.

Oh, say it. Say it. "What a view." Oh, yeah, what a view.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

Great feeling knowing that I've come over there

and done it for the first time.

If you've got the ability and the skill to get over there

and drive that road safely, you can navigate anything, really.

So it's good for the next steps that I want to take

in regards to getting that next licence.

So it's really good practice for me and really good experience to get.

Just heading in to Kempsey.

So we're on the home stretch to deliver this hay.

So that's a really good feeling.

Thanks, girls. Can't believe we've made it.

You're welcome, mate. No worries. You had a great trip over.

You drove really well. Yeah, mate.

Thanks for stepping up and bringing this load over for us.

It's a fantastic help for us.

Next time, we can put the extra layer on the top.

HORN HONKS

So good to be here. RINGING TONE

Hey, Sludge. 'Hello. How are you?'

Yeah, good, thanks, mate. 'How you been going?'

We've got over the mountain and conquered it.

'Oh, beautiful.' HE CHUCKLES

Yeah. It was... 'Did you lose any?'

No, didn't lose any.

'Oh, you've done great. Congratulations.'

Thanks for all the advice yesterday to get us over the mountain.

'Ah, that's all good. All right. Have fun.'

See ya. Hooroo, bye.

Thank you. Bye. 'Talk soon. Bye.'

Good to share that and have that positive sort of reinforcement

that you've done the right thing and things went well.

How are you, babe?

I couldn't be prouder.

She's taking these steps

to start her trucking career really by herself,

and probably, she did better than I had expected

because she hasn't had as much driving experience,

especially on that type of road.

But, yeah, I couldn't be prouder.

Yeah, no, it's such a good sense of relief to get it done and dusted.

You know, I'm super impressed and super proud

that she's actually pulled it off.

It's really good. It's good to see.

SHELLEY HUMS

OVER RADIO:

Hold on. I think I might have got something.

Yeah, will do.

So, yeah, we are rolling out, just about.

I very nearly couldn't even get it moving...

...which is a bit embarrassing!

I'm doing it!

I'm here in Australia, driving big, massive roads.

Does this mean that I can now claim to be

the king of the road of Ireland?

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, paperwork is complete.

We are officially leaving the mine.

A full load, which would put us roughly...

...around the 195-tonne mark.

So, yeah, this is where it gets real.

This is it. This is the pinnacle.

This is what I've... I've come to do.

So let's just go and do it. HORN HONKS

HORN BLARES Oh, BLEEP.

That was close.

I'm very, very sorry about that, buddy.

BLEEPING OVER RADIO

I'm in a mock court on my behalf.

This has been an embarrassing run so far, but...

ah, onwards and upwards.

Can't get any worse. CHUCKLES

Problem?

Problem. Problem.

Welcome to BLEEP super-quads, huh?

We've gotten ourselves into this bit of a mess.

If I keep coming, that tri-axle will scrape off

the face of that rock, the very same as the Titanic did the iceberg.

Oh, you... Don't BLEEP do it to me. Argh!

'So, what's up, Eric? Having fun?' I've ran out of fuel.

Oh, and I thought of it and all. And it didn't...

Argh! Why?!

It is never-ending.