The WORST episodes of Outback Truckers
Every episode of Outback Truckers ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Outback Truckers!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Hay Convoy MissionHay Convoy Mission
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/9/2019
Twenty-year veteran trucker Yogi is on a mercy mission, leading a hay convoy to the drought-ravaged farmers of New South Wales.
#19 - Metal Muncher Mishap
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/17/2018
Russell Crusher runs into trouble taking his new metal muncher to clean up an eyesore at Uluru.
#20 - Storms and Fires
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/24/2018
Torrential rain plays havoc with Robbie Mackay's efforts to relocate a home to the Gold Coast without wrecking it. Meanwhile, Graham faces storms and grass fires moving a section of railway 5,000 kilometres in just five days.
#21 - Hazardous Loads and Angry Bees
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/31/2018
Cyclonic weather threatens to stop tanker driver Mick King delivering hazardous chemicals to a desert mine site. Meanwhile, Tasmanian trucker Lindsay transports 80,000 angry bees to a rainforest.
#22 - Gritty Beach Run
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2019
Trucking veteran Steve Grahame's heading to the beach, but it's no vacation. The coast is a bone crunching 600 kilometres away at the very top of Australia and Steve must conquer the treacherous Gibb River Road to get there.
#23 - Desert Marathon
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/2019
In Central Australia, 450 kilometres from Alice Springs, outback legend Steve Grahame is hot and bothered. From the dead centre of Australia, Steve's hauling a heavy load, 2400 kilometres across three treacherous deserts to Perth.
#24 - Final Ride Through the Red Heart
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/2019
Owner operator Justin Harrison's on an epic haul up through the red heart of Australia. Alongside him for one last time is his Dad, John, a trucker himself of 40 years experience. And they will need all the experience they have between them for the notoriously challenging Birdsville Track.
#25 - Legacy and New Beginnings
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2019
Outback Trucker Justin Harrison is taking his father John on one last wild ride, but not before taking on the infamous Birdsville Track with a gruelling 1700 kilometre heavy haul. On the Queensland coast rookie trucker Mick Sekulich is about to tackle his first-ever delivery run…