Our production teams traveled to six "Mega Factories" where everything was super-sized, from plasma cutters and weld guns to the torque tools and hand wrenches. It all started at the hot and humid Machine Company in Amite Louisiana, where they cast the frame, the backbone of the truck. The smell of molten metal permeated everything. Next, we traveled to Lafayette Indiana, where they create the 3550 horsepower engine. Michelin manufactures the five and a half ton tires in Lexington South Carolina. The cab comes to life in Joliet Illinois, the fifty-ton dump box is assembled in Canada. Where does the huge frame and most of the truck components all come together? At Caterpillar's mega-factory in Decatur, Illinois.

It's taken six factories across North America, Four months of filming, including a time lapse camera posted for 20 days, seven hundred tons of material, multiple teams - two producers, one whom was five months pregnant, six camera crews, four editors and about 80 days to assemble this engineering marvel. Finally, teams assemble the truck on site where the monster machine goes to work in Fort McMurray Canada near the sprawling Alberta Oil Sands. The opportunity to watch this monster machine haul and dump ore from the mine site to the processing plants, pushing the earth beneath it, surpasses any stretch of the imagination or any memories of a trusty yellow dump truck one could have. It's an experience I will always remember.

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