It focuses on selected drivers and interesting personalities and shows the problems tackled by some sectors.
Melinda Houston from The Sydney Morning Herald's 'Critics Choice' noted that "they're great stories well told from a part of the country and a way of life most of us will never otherwise experience".
Clare and Mark are a trucking couple who complete one of the longest cross country supply runs in the world.
Gordon and Shui run road-trains to mining outposts in Australia's remote north.
Teeming summer rain is already playing havoc with the schedule of long distance truckie, Mark Bolitho, as he prepares for a marathon five-day trek across the Australian continent.
A severe thunderstorm with hail, gale force winds and flash flooding hits the truck.
On the edge of the Central Australian desert, Richo's convoy prepare to hit the dirt roads.
She and driving partner Damo are about to set off on a trip to the dead centre of Australia, when they get a late change to their destination.
Mark and Clare have swapped drivers but while they were stopped, they were passed by the same wide load they overtook earlier.
On the edge of the Central Australian desert Deb's worried about the number of animals she's passing on the roadside.
Mark King is a heavy haulage specialist that has to haul a monster rig to a coal mine 700 kilometres away.
In the wilds of north Western Australia, veteran truckie Steve Grahame is in the middle of an epic journey, trying to deliver essential supplies to a remote community, but the weather and roads are conspiring against him.
In the central Australian desert on the road to Alice Springs, ex-model turned truckie Deb Drew is into the fourth day of a 7000-kilometre trek from Melbourne to Darwin and back.
He's carrying critical building supplies and food to fill the empty shelves of the local store.
Mark King is a man with a mission – to get an eight-and-a-half-meter-wide, 100-tonne mining dump truck from Brisbane to the booming coalfields of Rollestone.
Deb's got a plan to mix a little pleasure with the business of driving and make an unscheduled stop at a place she's always wanted to see, Uluru (Ayers Rock).
Graders have been working at the hole and the sun has dried it out, to the point where Steve's ready to risk running his road train at it.
He's depending on the sale of his cattle to pay bills that have been piling up since the previous season when a live-export ban crippled the market.
He's in charge of getting a monster mining truck from Brisbane to the central Queensland coal fields, 700 kilometres away.
On a lonely dirt road at the top of north Western Australia, veteran Perth truckie Steve Grahame is a broken man.
After an epic 3000-kilometre trek from Perth to the remote coastal community of Kalumburu, he's fallen just 50 kilometres short of his destination.
Part of a dirt track has collapsed under the weight of his 100-tonne road train, burying the last two trailers up to their axles.
The race is now on to get the cattle rounded up and into trucks before more wet-season rain makes the muddy roads even wetter.
On the road to the Rolleston coal mine in central Queensland, Mark King is worried about the heat.
Mark is worried his rig's 180-tonne weight and 650-horsepower engine could start ripping up the melting road from underneath him.
In far North Queensland, tanker driver Steve Hughes is loading up for a supply run to remote clients who need fuel before the wet season cuts them off.
Husband and wife team, Gordon and Shui, have just finished a two-day non-stop drive but bad weather's caused them delays.
At the edge of the desert of the Nullarbor Plain, long-distance husband and wife trucking team Mark and Clare Bolitho are 8 hours into their weekly cross continent run.