How am I supposed to get some sleep here?
I'm seriously scared I'm going to freeze here.
I'm looking forward to meeting nice people,
and seeing the nature, seeing the nice landscapes,
and of course, in this situation, trucks.
Right now, we are in Gällivare.
This is a mining town, and it's just an hour away from the polar circle.
And I am on my way to meet an amazing person, Angelica Larsson.
I'm a huge fan of hers. I am very happy and very excited to meet her finally.
Up here in the north, we have some huge mines,
and we have these huge machines
that we transport back and forth to the different mines.
So we take our truck, load the huge machines,
and just go back and forth and make it work.
Today, we're going to drive trucks, of course,
and we're going to drive some machines,
and also we're going to have a really nice dinner.
-Hi. -Hi.
-Finally! -Nice to finally meet you.
So nice to see you.
How was the trip up here? Was it good?
It was quite tiring but beautiful. It must be fantastic to work here.
-Yeah, it is. -So, what do we do today?
Today, we're going to drive one of these low-beds,
and that's a truck you can load machines on.
-Are we going to load a machine? -Yeah.
I borrowed a special truck for this assignment,
and it's Mad Max.
So we have just disconnected the truck.
Now we need to get the floor ready, start the machine, drive it on,
secure the chains, reverse the truck, connect and we are good to go.
That's perfect. This is precision.
Yes.
-Perfect. Now chains? -Now it's the chains.
Maybe it works.
-OK, I think we're good to go. -Yes. Good.
Let's go.
Are there many women driving in the mine where you are working?
I think it's fifty-fifty.
-Fifty-fifty? -Yeah.
Driving trucks? That's cool.
They like to have girls driving. They are more careful.
And also in the schools, they are almost fifty-fifty too, for truck drivers.
There's a lot happening in this town, because they're moving all of the houses.
I got to move one of the houses, but that was all the way down to Luleå.
So there's a lot of stuff going on, a lot of big transportation.
That's why we need these kind of trucks.
But literally moving a house?
Like literally taking a house up on the truck and moving it somewhere else?
-Yeah, exactly. -That's amazing.
That's sort of transport that you see on the TV shows, not in real life.
No, and they're doing it almost every week up here, just moving them.
It's amazing, because, seriously, I had no idea that we do that in Europe as well.
What is really interesting is that the ore they mine here
is used in steel production.
In the future, this is going to be carbon-emission-free steel
that eventually goes to Volvo Trucks
and is being used in truck production.
That's very nice.
So, Angelica is taking me for a hike,
and we are going to have some local food.
This is a local and traditional Sápmi food.
It's reindeer that you smoke.
You can't compare this, actually, to anything.
I've got to say that the more I eat it, the more I like it.
I was really looking forward to meeting Angelica.
It was very nice to meet her.
I think that I miss women in trucking, I miss women trucking a lot,
and I would be very happy to see more women driving trucks.
Tonight, I'm staying in a very special hotel.
I wonder what can be special about the hotel, but we shall see.
Oh, my God. I have goose bumps. Oh, my God.
I'm so cold already.
I am so excited, and I am a little bit afraid, of course.
Whoa. This is a completely different planet.
Oh, my gosh. It's so beautiful.
It's real ice, actually. It's real ice.
All right, the bed is soft, and there is a mattress, but it's so damn cold.
I'm seriously scared. How am I supposed to get some sleep here?
Good morning. I slept here, really.
Oh, my gosh. That was epic.
At first, I was so cold, I was just about to resign,
and then I thought, no.
So nice that I made it. I made it.
So, right now, we are just about to leave Sweden.
I'm not sure if I want to leave Sweden, actually.
There are so many nice professional truckers,
and the food is amazing.
The landscape keeps changing every hundred kilometers.
Look at that. Everywhere I look, it's so beautiful.
We have just entered Norway, and it's amazing,
because just across the border, the landscape changed significantly.
Everything is different, even the roads.
You need to be very concentrated to drive safely here, but I love it.