The BEST episodes of Outback Truckers season 9

Every episode of Outback Truckers season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Outback Truckers season 9!

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!

Last Updated: 4/20/2026Network: 7mateStatus: Continuing
Trials by Fire, Flood, and Shortcuts
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8.07
14 votes

#1 - Trials by Fire, Flood, and Shortcuts

Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/20/2021

Boe Vella takes on fire and flood in the Top End, Steve Grahame's hot shot run to Broome begins to unravel and Mark Pett's short cut becomes a nightmare of diesel and dust.

Sand Dunes and Swamped Roads
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7.95
20 votes

#2 - Sand Dunes and Swamped Roads

Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/20/2021

Car wreckers Mike and Bozza tackle the sand dunes of north-west Australia for a big payday. Long haul truckers Mish and Drew go swimming as wet season flooding swamps Australia's Top End.

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7.74
19 votes

#3 - Final Desert Dash

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/25/2021

Steve Grahame and dog Bella are in a race across the red deserts of Australia's centre from Alice Springs to Perth on one last job before returning home. Harvest time is in full swing with farmers desperate for diesel. For fuel trucker Sludge, this should be the busiest time of year but an urgent repair needed on one of his fuel tankers has cut his ability to earn money in half.

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7.71
17 votes

#4 - Refrigeration Trouble

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/11/2021

In Perth, the refrigerator unit on Woody Bryant's truck is threatening his last supply run of the year, to Punmu, a remote outback community that's under threat of being cut off by the annual wet season. The fix will take time he doesn't have. The Water Drillers, Danyelle and Anthony Haigh are in the middle of one of the toughest jobs they've ever undertaken.

House Up the Mountain and Flooded Tippers
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7.71
17 votes

#5 - House Up the Mountain and Flooded Tippers

Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/13/2021

House mover Robbie MacKay is dragging a house up a mountain and long-haul drivers Mish Aladin and Drew Norman, hauling two massive mining tippers, are trapped by rising floodwaters.

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7.70
20 votes

#6 - Classic Car Quandary

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/1/2021

Almost 700 kilometres from Alice Springs, legendary truck driver Steve Grahame is seriously bogged with a $135,000 load of classic trucks and cars bound for auction. Veteran long haul driver Mick King known as Kingy and his mate Mick Burnett are about to take an 18-metre long road train where no truck this size should ever go, deep into Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

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7.70
20 votes

#7 - Navigating New Roads

Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/8/2021

In the remote Northern Territory, Boe Vella's not just racing the clock, he's navigating roads and challenges, he's never faced before. Mick King's on a mission to rescue two old army trucks to help out a mate in need and house mover, Robbie Mackay confronts his toughest trip ever, taking a 100 year old house - off road.

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7.68
19 votes

#8 - Lost with Equine Cargo

Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/22/2021

With a truckload of valuable horses and a tight deadline to hit Mick Sekulich and Sue Cordell get lost in the Simpson desert, Graham Cockerell leads a mercy hay convoy for drought-stricken farmers when catastrophe strikes and transporting a Mack truck across the Pilbara, Heather Jones heads into a cyclone and highway hell.

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7.63
19 votes

#9 - Success or Bust

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/18/2021

Deep in the wilderness of the Australian Outback, the Water Drillers, Anthony and Danyelle Haigh, are heading further into the unknown. They're also a man down with their second driver and driller quitting on them, and the trip so far has run dry. They have one last bore site to hit the jackpot. Fail and it's an expensive effort, all for nothing.

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7.59
17 votes

#10 - Beyond Limits: Wreckers and Equipment Trouble

Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/29/2021

Car wrecker's Mike Elliott and Michael Bozza are pushing their trucks beyond their limits to reach the remote Gnaraloo station and strike a deal on wrecked cars, but a broken airline hose may mean they wont reach their destination. Jim Walters and his load of heavy equipment are lost 1500 kilometres from home and swapping his fuel tankers for a horse float.

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7.55
22 votes

#11 - Croc-Crossing and Water Drilling

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/4/2021

In the wilds of Australia's Northern Territory, 24-year-old trucker Boe Vella crosses croc-infested rivers to deliver desperately needed goods before the wet season hits. 600 kilometres to the South East the Marranji Water Drillers, Anthony and Danyelle Haigh are preparing to enter one of the loneliest places on earth and search for water from deep underground.

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7.50
16 votes

#12 - Dry Season Dilemma

Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/15/2021

Deep in the Australian wilderness, the Water Driller family, husband and wife team, Anthony and Danyelle are on one of their toughest jobs ever, Mallunpunyah cattle station owners are in desperate need of their water finding expertise and have been hit by an unusually long dry season.

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7.30
20 votes

#13 - Cutting, Hauling, and a Midnight Deadline

Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/6/2021

House movers, Mackay and Sons, are racing to get going on one of their most complex missions ever, the 100 year old house that has to be cut in four and transported on four trucks to a narrow hilltop destination. Adding to their pressure - a midnight deadline.