The BEST episodes of Outback Truckers season 8
Every episode of Outback Truckers season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Outback Truckers season 8!
They drive the biggest trucks on earth along the toughest roads and loneliest highways in the world. They are Australia’s Outback Truckers, men and women in monster rigs, on marathon runs, through some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet. Out here only one thing matters, getting there and back alive!
#1 - High-Stakes Decision
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/16/2020
The Water Drillers, Anthony and Danyelle Haigh, tackle a dangerous river crossing, Slick risks a mammoth desert run as he races home for Christmas and rookie trucker, Kylie Hornick, faces a life or death decision.
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#2 - Trucking Through Crisis
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/14/2020
Steve Grahame's been trucking for 46 years, but he's travelling into a new world as a viral pandemic sweeps across the globe. He's about to set out on a journey that will test him like no other. In 4 days time, Western Australian authorities will close the regional borders and Steve's rushing to get ahead of the restrictions.
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#3 - Slipping Christmas Hope
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/9/2020
In the Northern Territory the Water Drillers, Anthony and Danyelle Haigh, enlist a new team member as family life on the road puts their marriage to the test. Slick's cross country race home for Christmas looks to be slipping out of reach.
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#4 - Seven Metres Wide Haul
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/19/2020
Long distance heavy haulage truckers Brian Andersson and Athol Martin are smack in the middle of a marathon trek cross country. The seven-metres' wide convoy takes up the whole road which makes passing in other vehicles a high-risk manoeuvre.
#5 - Delivering Aid Amidst the Flames
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/5/2020
Australia is burning, engulfed in one of the worst bushfire seasons in its history. On the south coast of New South Wales, truck driver Mick King has volunteered for an urgent delivery, trucking much needed supplies to fire affected areas.
#6 - Fueling Expedition
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/30/2020
In Perth, Sludge is prepping in his yard for another trip into the remote outback. He's headed to an isolated mine site with 65,000 litres of desperately needed fuel. He'll head north to Wiluna with the final 200 kilometres on rough dirt roads.
#7 - Biosecurity and Busy Fuel Run
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/21/2020
In COVID-19 times, Steve Grahame needs to cross a hard state border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory and tackle newly created bio security zones. Sludge is also dealing with the new world affected by the virus and low fuel prices means he's busier than ever, carting fuel to farms in the wheatbelt and to the coastal town of Kalbarri.
#8 - 2200 Kilometres of Cattle Chaos
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/23/2020
In central Queensland, husband and wife team Kylie and David Hornick, are feeling the pressure of a looming deadline on a monster job. In the last two days their convoy of trucks has racked up a whopping 2200 kilometres picking up and delivering 1224 head of cattle.
#9 - Navigating the Road Blocks
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/28/2020
Steve Grahame is facing a journey filled with dread as a pandemic is stalking the country. The roads are usually busy but since lockdown the highway is empty apart from the police road blocks that have sprung up to enforce regional border controls.
#10 - Double Disaster Duty
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/7/2020
Justin Harrison is caught in the middle of a double disaster, fire and drought, one of Australia's worst since records began in the 1860's. To help farmers Justin's heading out in his double trailer to pick up 30 tonnes of hay to a drought ravaged farm in Casino, New South Wales.
#11 - Stalled by Fog
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/12/2020
In North Queensland heavy haulage truckers, Brian Andersson and Athol Martin, are going nowhere. Fog has forced their massive 7 vehicle convoy, transporting two oversized 7 metre wide mining dumpsters to a stand still costing them precious time.
#12 - Drought Relief Mission
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/26/2020
In Western Australia, Scott Conohan is heading to a drought ravaged town that's fast running out of water. With 500 locals desperate for water, the remote community is struggling to survive. In Central Queensland, house mover, Shane Burgess has been grounded by his police escort.
#13 - Holiday Promise
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/2/2020
Steve Grahame is sending one of his best mates, Slick, to face the hostility of the outback. It's the last desert run before Christmas and Slick's promised his family he'll definitely make it home, he just has to do a 1900 kilometre trek through the Central Australian desert first.