Excellent skills, and not just from the drivers, planners, banksmen and engineers. The filming on this fly-on-the-wall series, is also excellent.
The camera work and editing is very dramatic.
From the use of every conceivable camera angle, to the brilliant use of dawn til dusk, light.
As for the drivers? My hat is well and truly doffed.
I've drove class 2 for a few years, and to be honest, the thought of driving a 'normal' artic, fills me with dread.
I just ain't interested in the stress and certainly lack the necessary skills. My little 18 tonne tanker is plenty big enough thanks.
15 hour days? Never again.
Sleeping in trucks? See above.
The drivers on this show, have the skills to reverse a 7.5 tonne wheel barrow up a loft ladder. Brilliant stuff. If these lorries were in the wrong hands, there'd be 100s of miles of carnage.
A big thumbs up to the team behind it all too. To organise moving cargo so big, takes some PROPER planning.
As a Brucie bonus, I've a passing interest in history and engineering, so what they're shifting, also gets my attention.
Unfortunately, it's also the reason why it loses a star or 2. The audience for this show is pretty limited to train anoraks, lorry drivers who think the job is romantic and engineering history loving, former photographers and now HGV drivers, like me.
Top work folks 8/10.
