About this season
Jump in the cab with some of the men and women behind the wheel of monster road trains and reveals what life is really like on the wide-open road. Highly dramatic, often humorous, Outback Truckers reveals the true blue heart and soul of Aussie trucking.
Episodes (13)
1. Episode 1
Aired 6 May 2016 • 44 min
Steve Grahame gets a double dose of bad on a brutal lap through the red centre. Desert trucker Barnesy heads way off the grid on a desperate rescue mission.
2. Episode 2
Aired 13 May 2016 • 44 min
Graham's race through the desert takes a sudden turn from make to break. Turbo's bleeding money as his run lurches out of control.
3. Episode 3
Aired 20 May 2016 • 44 min
Kurt Shephard loses his way hauling a hut across Australia. Johnny Dowell drags a stack of steel and a dust cloud up a horror desert track.
4. Episode 4
Aired 31 May 2016 • 44 min
There's trouble in the wind for Kurt Sheppard who is struggling with a load causing oversized problems. Bumper Farrell is on a mercy dash, leading a hay convoy into the eye of the storm.
5. Episode 5
Aired 7 June 2016 • 44 min
Mark Cromwell and a team of heavyweight champions drag a million dollar shed through the eye of a needle. Fuel trucker Sludge has pressure problems blowing his cool.
6. Episode 6
Aired 14 June 2016 • 44 min
Mark Cromwell and the electricity switch room convoy run into freak weather and unexpected roadblocks. Turbo goes head-to-head with an angry customer and an angry road.
7. Episode 7
Aired 21 June 2016 • 44 min
It's trial by fire for Russell McDonough hauling a mobile building, down a load-destroying track. The Mackay brothers, race daylight and deadlines, moving a house down the highway.
8. Episode 8
Aired 28 June 2016 • 44 min
The Mackay Brothers hit the bush and try to dodge destruction while Steve Grahame takes on an old enemy at the worst possible time of the year.
9. Episode 9
Aired 5 July 2016 • 44 min
There are headaches on the horizon for Steve Grahame taking on the Tanami with a trailer load of trouble and it's a wild ride for Nigel Vagg hauling 900 feral goats through a heatwave.
10. Episode 10
Aired 12 July 2016 • 44 min
Sludge and the Phantom ride into battle fighting the elements and an old river boat nearly scuttles two truckers along the bumpy road to restoration.
11. Episode 11
Aired 19 July 2016 • 44 min
Sludge takes on foreign roads and strange loads in the land of the kiwi. Turbo's new truck gets busted and bashed, on a tour of destruction.
12. Episode 12
Aired 26 July 2016 • 44 min
It's a white knuckle ride for Sludge climbing a mountain with an angry load. Cameron Smith carts a colossal dump truck out of the Nullarbor - and straight into harms way.
13. Episode 13
Aired 2 August 2016 • 44 min
Steve Grahame hits the mud with a broken down body and Sludge's mountain mission takes a downhill slide.