Life On The Line

In a factory in Alaska, a haul of 90,000lbs of halibut is set to arrive. It must be processed in record time and driven 300 miles to the airport.

In a Scottish factory, workers battle to build six huge dump trucks; with jobs and reputations on the line, can the factory deliver the first truck in only 15 days?

Sheffield Forgemasters must make 16 giant oil rig anchors in two months or an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico could get blown away by a hurricane.

JCB's factory in Savannah, Georgia must supply the military with 20 excavators by the end of the month; but mechanics face a tough fight to get them made on time.

Forest-machine factory Ponsse is making the world's biggest lumber trailer but they only have three days to build it; parts don't turn up and workers are pushed to their limits.

Nevz, the biggest train factory in Russia, has three days to get a monster locomotive off the production line, and Prime Minister Putin is visiting to make sure they do.