Trucking Heavy - Episode Guide

A team of experts prepares to transport two gigantic pieces of electric equipment 40 miles using two specially adapted rigs, but from too-small exit gates through multiple roundabouts and ending with a weak bridge, the journey is anything but certain.

A team on the south coast continue to shift a 150-tonne reactor and a 195-tonne transformer across Sussex to an electrical substation in Ninfield.

In Lincolnshire, 36-year heavy haulage veteran Steve Moss's two-day mission is to deliver a 60-tonne reel of electrical cable for an ambitious green energy scheme. Carefully positioning his 60-tonne bespoke trailer, which is longer than a diplodocus dinosaur and about as agile, the hefty load has to confirm its conductivity by having 10,000 volts of electricity sent through it. Supported front and rear by his team and under police escort, Steve takes on all manner of man-made obstacles. A humpback bridge, a railway crossing and overhead phone cables could all bring this oversized convoy to a halt. After overcoming these challenges, trouble arrives in the form of a swan! Cue former chicken farmer and support driver Roger Morris. If anyone can wrangle a piece of posh poultry safely off the road it should be him. With no time for swanning around, Roger swiftly clears the bird from the road and the reel can finally reach its destination. Then after two false starts solved with grease and some gentle persuasion, Roger remotely controls the unspooling of the cable from the mechanised trailer in perfect unison with the construction site's winch. Meanwhile in Warwickshire, the ‘Golden Boys', a three-tonne statue of the fathers of the steam age, needs taking to its new home in the second city's Centenary Square. But James Watt and his colleagues can't go anywhere without being precisely loaded, because for these boys to remain golden, not a single fleck of gold leaf can be damaged in transit. Former Birmingham bus driver Dave Hemmings navigates low-hanging trees to arrive with the statue in one piece. And despite having a centre of gravity to challenge any crane op, precision slinging and careful lifting eventually has the Golden Boys sitting firmly on their plinth. Job done.

To haul a 190-ton reel of steel crane cable, driver Zack steers his 144-wheeled, 60-ton trailer from Warwickshire to Worksop to first load and then take it to Immingham docks.

The crew collects a 255-tonne transformer bound for a substation in Woodmansey. The load is so large that it requires drivers at the front and rear of the cargo.

Veteran driver Col takes on the challenge of not one, but two mammoth moves, including a 63-tonne cable reel that needs transporting from Worksop to the yard at Studley.

Two 94-tonne electrical transformers bound for a green energy project arrive by ferry from Rotterdam. Veteran heavy haulier Gavin and his protégé Rob must transport them from Immingham Dock in Lincolnshire to Aberdeen. The three-day, 450-mile journey will be on 116 wheels, attached to two 630BHP Mercedes trucks and two 27-metrelong trailers. Including support vehicles, this convoy is as long as a football field, and tomorrow they must meet their Police Scotland escort. But getting north of the border today will prove an almost impossible challenge. After an hour on the M180, there's smoke billowing from Gav's trailer. An impromptu hard shoulder stop has Rob getting down and dirty to clean a brake airline. In west Yorkshire, with M62 traffic rushing past, there's another smoking brake that can't be fixed by Rob, so a mechanic is called to pry the brake shoe free. Now the race is on to escape the county's rush hour heavy haulage vehicle embargo. At an average speed of just 30mph, making the county line in time will be touch and go. And today's challenges are by no means over. Meanwhile, in Warwickshire, driver Tom must secure the contents of a Portakabin before lifting it onto his trailer by crane and delivering it to a building site in Battle, east Sussex. Almost as tall as three camels, this load risks being displaced by wind. But the real and present danger is the tricky unload. When Tom arrives, he must deal with an unforgiving slope that proves difficult for his lorry to climb, and he finds it even harder to find a stable position to lift the load without lorry and cabin toppling.

A 450-mile journey threatens to be ruined by repeated blowouts, with the convoy running dangerously low on spare wheels. And struggling up an incline, a cutting passenger car threatens to leave the lorry stuck on a slope

A team struggles just to move massive industrial units from the port to the storage area, leaving the drive ahead looking grim. A driver transports a 400-year-old olive tree.

In the Midlands, heavy haulier Colin has to move a 107-tonne transformer from the outskirts of Walsall to the yard in Studley.

Haulier Ian is sent from Stockport to Essex to shift a 58-ton metal compactor, working with scrapyard owner Leo to move the load in poor visibility and slippery conditions. Ian must avoid hazards in the yard that might puncture his tyres as they direct the remote-controlled compactor onto his truck.

In Staffordshire, a 25-metre-long, 26-tonne load spreader needs to be lifted and shifted. Seasoned trucker Dek's first challenge is extending the 12-metre-long trailer, so Dek loosens the security pins and drives forwards hoping to extend seamlessly.

At a limestone quarry in Yorkshire, hauliers are tasked with moving a pair of stone crushers, each weighing over 70-tonnes. In Southampton, a boat haulier team prepare a survey vessel.

Smurf and Ian travel to the Scottish Highlands to move a 110-ton metal drum used for industrial paper drying, and in Chester a 5-tonne freezer unit needs shifting to the race course.

In South Wales, Kings Heavy Haulage driver Craig tackles a 60-ton piling rig used in setting foundations for large buildings, which needs to be moved across the River Severn.

Couple Aaron and Becky enlist Kings Heavy Haulage for their literal house move. Their tiny home is set to move from rural Pembrokeshire to its new location near to Wolverhampton.

Dave must haul a 68-tonne transformer through the back roads of Suffolk, avoiding weaker bridges and tackling narrow countryside roads. Smurf faces delays during a time-sensitive job.

Moving a top heavy five-metre tall tram carefully through the streets of Blackpool, and collecting a fire engine from Deeside and driving it over to Cleveland in Teeside.

In Weston-super-Mare a massive demolition machine needs to be dismantled and then transported on five separate trucks to a disused power station 240 miles away in North Yorkshire.

A vintage steam locomotive worth £250,000 is hauled from the Peak District to its new home in Cornwall, negotiating tight roads, hill climbs and impatient road users along the way.

A dilapidated 19-tonne canal boat needs transporting 111 miles to Caversham in Oxfordshire, and a decommissioned passenger jet presents unusual challenges.

Kings Heavy Haulage must move a 19-metre, 44-ton bridge, made of steel and glass, six miles from a yard on the outskirts of Gloucester - right through the city centre.

The challenges of lifting and shifting a steam locomotive in freezing cold temperatures, and moving 15 new excavators with a combined weight of 300 tons.

A 50-ton excavator needs collecting from a farm in north Wales, but road closures hinder plans. And Nick and Oscar must move a life-size metal stegosaurus 25 miles to RHS Garden Wisley.

Two titanic trucks are in Perth, Scotland to load and then deliver to a remote Highland holiday park two halves of a bespoke built holiday lodge worth a whopping two hundred thousand pounds.

Although it includes breath-taking scenery and a picturesque ferry ride, for haulage hero Ewan and his team, this two-day mission will prove anything but easy. Snow falling on a narrow A road makes visibility poor and when you're carrying ten tonnes and likely to meet oncoming heavy plant leaving a quarry, that's plain dangerous. To avoid disaster, Escort Driver Tyler is dispatched to warn of the low loader's presence.

After a night in their cabs to avoid a four-hour detour, the lads must get their rigs onto a tiny ferry and across picturesque Loch Linnhe. While the spectacular mountain views are food for the soul, the hard work of heading to remote Resipole soon begins. A narrow road poses numerous challenges, including a turn where a rockface and telegraph pole conspire to narrow the margin for error to way beyond challenging.

400 miles away in Avonmouth, veteran Kings Heavy Haulage driver Big Andy sets off on his own two-day mission. A crane needs 58 tonnes of heavy ballast delivering to a construction site in Bridgnorth, Shropshire.

After a night in his cab, day breaks and Andy makes it to site but a narrow track forces him to perform the trickiest of reverses, and to trust in the skills of the crane's banksman to remotely steer his trailer.

Once in position strong winds could threaten the unload but Andy can't afford to be late home – it's his partner's birthday so he must be back in the West Country in time for a celebratory fish supper with Karen.

In Manchester, Sam aka Hiab princess, has been tasked with delivering three huge shipping containers to a remote farm near Spalding with a colleague. Her first step is getting a high cube container loaded onto her lorry at a local yard. Payload primed, Sam sets off in the hope of steering clear of any traffic snarl ups, but an unexpected diversion off the A52 soon presents her with some serious obstacles to dodge.

Arriving at her destination's remote location - a slender entrance at the end of a dirt track - means Sam and her chunky truck have a mega tight squeeze to master. And when her colleague arrives with the two additional containers, Sam's clear directions are essential to steer him safely down the road in reverse. Getting this delivery done and dusted will require meticulous manoeuvring so the pressure is on, as Sam primes herself for a power pickup!

At Droitwich Spa Marina in Birmingham, Mark's in charge of a massive move of a 57-foot-long canal boat to Mercia Marina. It's recently been purchased by a couple who plan to make it their new home so this precious payload will need some careful handling. To ensure the costly cargo remains stable during its journey, it must be perfectly positioned on the trailer. Once Mark and the team have the colossal consignment loaded, he's ready to hit the road.

But just as he reaches the outskirts of Derby, he hits some choppy water when a tight residential road, restricted by vehicles parked to the side presents him with an extremely narrow pathway to navigate. At the marina, the boat's new owners are keeping a close eye on proceedings, so it's all on Mark to ensure this maritime manoeuvre goes precisely to plan!

A 36-tonne crusher that's been out on hire at a quarry in Anglesey needs collecting and delivering to a depot in Liverpool. Driver Alex has loaded at the site before and knows the best place to perform this tricky pick-up. Pulling up on-site, he parks his trailer in the most level patch of ground, which is crucial to safeguard against any accidents happening during loading. After preparing his trailer, Alex must navigate the crusher on-board, and once it's powered up, he steers it over the ramp. He must line up the caterpillar tracks perfectly with the ramp, otherwise the machine could fall off the side. Safely on the trailer and chained down, Alex hits the highway with his load. He's got a 220-mile journey to a depot in Liverpool ahead of him and he must make it there before 4pm when road restrictions on big loads begin. Alex gets there with a minute to spare, but that's not the end of his challenge.

Caravan haulage hero Ewan has a very different job ahead of him taking a holiday home 320 miles from Hull to the Isle of Arran off the Scottish west coast. Windy weather forces him to check his tethering several times on his journey, and reports come in of a snowstorm brewing, which if it hits landfall during his journey, could cause chaos on the roads. The following morning at 4am, there's a flurry of snow, but as Ewan gets closer to the ferry port at Ardrossan, it becomes clear that snow won't be one of the challenges he needs to worry about. Making it onto the ferry and across to the island, Ewan must navigate the narrow roads of Arran to make it to the drop-off destination.

In Wales, haulier Ian gears himself up for a major cross-country mega-move through the rural Welsh countryside. He's tasked with moving a redundant industrial inlet valve that's been signed off as scrap metal. Ian and his cargo require a police escort at the front and his support driver Anthony at the rear. Ian's controlling a total combined weight of around 100 tonnes, so the rugged Welsh terrain is sure to test his truck to the max.

As the team head off, the rural roads soon throw up a number of difficulties. There's an exceptionally slender stone bridge, barely any wider than the width of the load to navigate. And there's little let up when Ian must master a turn of almost 180 degrees where every angle needs to be absolutely accurate!

In Hull, mega mover Steve is in charge of shifting a 38-tonne screener, a clever contraption used to sift and sort all types of construction waste. Backed up by long-time colleague Carl, Steve uses a control pad to manoeuvre the 38 tonner onto his trailer. But just as he begins rolling the trailer's neck back into place, Carl spots a serious snag. The edge of the screener is sat too close to the neck of the trailer and transporting the cargo in this position would risk sinking the entire shipment. It takes some clever problem solving to get the payload on the move.

However, just after they set off, Carl spots another serious obstacle to a smooth escape – a work crew are doing roadworks on Steve's only exit route. Could this shipment be scuppered before it's even started?

A trio of truckers move a 63-ton train track tamping machine from a siding on the outskirts of Glasgow to a rail yard in Stranraer.

In Berkshire, a convoy of three trucks pick up and deliver a fleet of 15 valuable supercars, ensuring they arrive in precisely the same pristine condition as when they were loaded.

A trawler yacht bought in the USA for just $7, painstakingly refurbished in a Lancashire dock and now valued at a whopping £400,000 needs carefully moving to the Thames. 

Driver Matt's been tasked with shifting a vintage Leyland double decker bus that's just undergone a major overhaul; he's making good headway until he notices something alarming.

A super-truck must travel to Brands Hatch for racing but it's too powerful to be driven on the roads, so Dan is tasked with loading the vehicle. But on the motorway, he spots an issue. 

A newly refurbished 72-foot narrow canal boat must be moved from Leicester to its berth in Macclesfield; can Mark nagivate roads that are barely wide enough to accommodate his truck?

Driver Alex has been tasked with moving not one, but two crushers to different sites, but on the backstreets of Bolton, his driving skills are put under serious pressure. 

Big Andy is tasked with transporting a massive excavator to its new owner in Somerset but winching it onto his trailer won't be easy; the hydraulics are jammed. 

Ant and Layton must move a former British Rail Shunter Locomotive but reversing round a tight corner and down a country lane will push rookie Layton's steering ability to its limit.

Sam must carefully lift a shipping container that's been converted into a summer cabin over a high hedge and through a narrow gap barely wider than the container itself.

A vintage 1950s Class '08' diesel electric shunter needs shifting cross-country but a traffic snarl up and a couple of tricky roundabouts could make this a challenging delivery.

At Glasson Docks, a cargo ship has arrived at high tide. Haulier Lee is part of a convoy of trucks who are helping empty the hold before the tide goes back out and beaches the boat.

Young couple Aaron and Becky enlist the help of Kings Heavy Haulage driver Big Andy for their very literal house move. Their tiny home is set to be transported from rural Pembrokeshire in west Wales to its new location near Wolverhampton. In Northumberland Phelan Haulage boss Peter and his trusty lorry mounted crane must lift a 6 ton, worryingly wide bespoke built glamping hut onto his trailer.

In the North East, Peter, Karl and Daz must travel from their yard to Teesside Airport where they must go air-side to collect an unusual load - a decommissioned passenger jet. A team from Railway Support Services based near Sutton Coldfield are heading northwards to shift a 1950's British Railways Class twenty diesel locomotive from Leeming Bar in North Yorkshire even further north to Brechin in northern Scotland.

After six months of planning, Kings Heavy Haulage Transport Co-ordinator Foxy moves 44-tonne bridge made of steel and glass through the city centre of Gloucester. Hauler Ian moves a 100-tonne industrial valve over rugged terrain in the Welsh countryside and Steve, Bryn and Anthony from Railway Support Services move a five-metre-tall tram through Blackpool.

Crews haul a 63ft train track tamping machine from Glasgow to Stranraer, two 38 ton trains coaches to Glasgow, and a steam locomotive on a 264-mile trek to its new home.

In Southampton Boat Transport's husband and wife team, Geoff and Gillie, are joined by John to take a survey vessel and its cradle to Felixstowe. AS Taylor driver Mark must move a newly refurbished 72-foot narrow canal boat from Leicester to its berth at Bollington Wharf in Macclesfield. Also, A trawler yacht bought in the USA for just $7, refurbished in a Lancashire dock and now valued at £400,000, needs moving to the Thames.

Paul hauls a seriously oversized security hut through tight turns, Amie battles London traffic with a telehandler for a film set, and Craig lifts a 63-tonne rig.

In Wales, RSS driver Ant faces the formidable challenge of transporting a 35-ton vintage steam locomotive built in 1932. One misstep during loading and this historic train could become scrap metal. AS Taylor driver Rowan takes on a daunting task of his own - he is in charge of relocating a 16-ton narrowboat with surgical precision.

Becky must transport 25 elite racehorses worth millions without a hitch, while Dan races to save his boss' super-truck from roadside disaster before a big event at Brands Hatch.

Jay battles a ramp issue with a 47-ton crusher, Sam secures 25 tons of straw for a risky run to Cumbria, and Tom delicately lifts a 400-year-old olive tree with precision and care.

Sam battles busy roads and a narrow gateway to deliver a wide porta-cabin, while Birmingham's beloved 'Floozy in the Jacuzzi' sculpture is carefully returned to its city centre home.

Ant manoeuvres a huge 50-ton engine out of a tight yard, Darren lifts a hot tub over a house and precicion is key as a massive 190-ton steel reel is lifted using heavy duty jacks.

Ewan hauls a 6-ton mobile lodge 150 miles across Scotland's tricky roads to Loch Linnhe, while heavy haulage legends Allelys move a priceless 3-ton bronze statue back to Birmingham.

Mark hauls a 23-ton canal cruiser 180 miles to Gloucester, the Red Kestrel Ferry transports HGVs to the Isle of Wight, and Allelys moves a massive 137-ton cylinder in Barrow.

Mark moves retired Glasgow Subway carriages, known as the 'Clockwork Orange', through tight city streets, while Dave hauls a 68-tonne transformer to Rochdale - but it's no simple drive.

Sam battles winding Welsh roads with a tricky cabin load, Fox Brothers race against time with heavy machinery, and Dek tackles a massive girder on a high-stakes haul.