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Old 7th January 2012, 08:48
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World's Toughest Trucker

I just watched the first part of this (on Channel 5 last night at 8pm).

This takes 8 truckers and pits them on the "World's Toughest Roads". The winner is going to take home £100,000. The series runs for 8 weeks. The truckers are in pairs for the events, though next week sees the two slowest eliminated from the competition. There are truckers from the UK, Australia, Canada, USA and (?!) Sri Lanka.

Last nights episode saw the truckers contending with 300 miles of Australian Outback roads in 600 HP Kenworth Conventionals, hauling a double deck trailer with 50 head of cattle. The journey is over 3 days. Results are based on overall time.

One the first day one pair came across a Landcruiser that had rolled over and stopped to help (the time they were there was of course subtracted from their total run time). There were a couple of teams that managed to rkae a miss turns which of course did them no favours. The biggest problem was the lead team getting stuck on some sand. All the trucks caught them up (they start at 15 minutes intervals) and all timings stopped until they could be dragged up (it took a 40 ton Volvo Excavator).

Next week is still in Australia, hauling oversize loads across the Outback.
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Old 7th January 2012, 10:27
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I meant to watch that but didn't get home in time. I'll watch it on Demand 5.
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Old 7th January 2012, 10:34
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No sign of it here yet, but it sounds like my kind of show. I'll be watching it. can't wait.

Sure beats cooking shows!!

Bassman, thanks for pre warning me.
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Old 7th January 2012, 13:48
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No sign of it here yet, but it sounds like my kind of show. I'll be watching it. can't wait.

Sure beats cooking shows!!

Bassman, thanks for pre warning me.
If you can, get yourself a U.K. IP address and watch it on Demand 5, but I don't think it's loaded yet: http://www.channel5.com/demand5
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Old 7th January 2012, 14:50
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http://www.channel5.com/shows/worlds.../episode-1-402
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Old 7th January 2012, 15:02
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Thankyou for that, G-CPTN, I'll watch it tomorrow morning.
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Old 8th January 2012, 15:13
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I've just watched the first episode and I don't care who wins it just as long as it's not that Shane bloke! What a t*sser! I feel sorry for his partner from Sri Lanka.
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Old 8th January 2012, 22:57
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You've not missed any out Bassman, you've said the UK, but they have two one English the other chap is Scottish.
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Old 8th January 2012, 23:16
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I've just watched the first episode and I don't care who wins it just as long as it's not that Shane bloke! What a t*sser! I feel sorry for his partner from Sri Lanka.
"I'm just a good ole HillyBilly, whose never left the U.S.of A." or words to that effect. Doesn't it show?


Can someone post a reminder for me to watch all the rest of these? Please.

PS. Can we have some input from our Aussie experts, about taking 3 days/2 nights to do 300 miles, over that terrain? Only 100 miles a day (average) when they were doing 100kph/62mph at times, does seem strange.
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Old 8th January 2012, 23:26
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As soon as he opened his mouth and said all that I hated him!!

I thought that was strange too. 300 miles can be covered in a day easily, unless it was something to do with the cargo they were carrying.
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