Lady of the Gobi: trucking coal across the desert to China

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On Mongolia’s coal mining highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial security for her three children.
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But the more she drives her truck up and down this perilous road the more she realises she is working for the very industry that is destroying the livelihoods of many Mongolians. The highway is also riddled with accidents, toxic pollution, poor hygiene and now, amid the Covid crisis, drivers face days of quarantine on the border. Maikhuu is left wondering if the financial gain is worth the cost.
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@l.a.raustadt518 Год назад

Working out of Minnesota hobbled together 42 years trucking. Marriage, relationships in general hard even when you are primary local. This young lady is doing one of the harder driving jobs I have seen.Big respect.

@uulnaas Год назад

On behalf of all Mongolians, I thank you sincerely for the captivating and moving documentary. Must be the first media agency to cover such story in Mongolia. I truly appreciate the great work and transparency of the Guardian Media. Hope the better days are coming for all of us! Godspeed to all of us!

@Strollerist Год назад

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@taterkaze9428 Год назад

Outstanding documentary. Message for Maikhuu: always wear a face mask when unloading or loading coal, or when just standing in a coal yard. Black lung disease will shorten your life.

@meanqueensuperscrimper8908 Год назад

This is heartbreaking. I have been a trucker for 32 years. Being away from your family is part of the job. I hope she is able to go back home to her kids. ilona

@samanthav8728 Год назад

What a different and captivating documentary! I felt the pride and the despair of her trials and tribulations. I hope her dreams of an unbroken family comes to fruition, She is beautiful, inside and out!

@tangbesitangbesi7009 Год назад

Yes, agree

@jeanifstoddgo1194 Год назад

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@pietrojenkins6901 Год назад

@@tangbesitangbesi7009 when did The Guardian start posting documentaries? Wow, i didn't even know they had a YT channel.

@kenhofer8063 Год назад

Inside everybody’s the same nothing but blood and guts and it’s not nice

@monke.2323 Год назад

Lpl0l

@nigelbanksart Год назад

Extraordinarily poignant documentation of personal survival in a harsh (so harsh!) environment - goodness, you have to feel for every one of these drivers. Seeing it all through the daily experiences of a mother seeking her way, her connections to family and sources of meaning is heart rending. To the makers of this documentary: thankyou so much for creating this window through which to reflect on the thousand ways we experience and make meaning in our every moment. Without doubt it is the most moving thing I have watched in RU-vid in weeks. Thankyou 🔆

@tangbesitangbesi7009 Год назад

Indeed well said for us who have being through much of life

@fishrgirl5980 Год назад

Well said. Excellent video.

@michaela4024 Год назад

It was all a fabricated production, yes the truck envoys are real, but it was a written and directed production. I thought the same but when you see the credits saying director and writer at the end you realise what it really is.

@khulanwr8641 Год назад

@@michaela4024 no, you’re wrong.

@mudguts77 Год назад

@@khulanwr8641 dude, outside of surveillance cameras, there hasn't been 10 seconds of video produced in the entire history of the world that wasn't intended to make you think a certain way about a topic.

@Theanvcorporation Год назад

A tough ,compassionate human being and a great mother

@oseibroni3732 Год назад

I give a lot of respect to Maikhuu, a single mother of 3 daughters. She has lost her home, and is now starting life afresh. And she is facing all the challenges of life all by herself. And she is seemingly on course to realize her dreams. This young woman clearly, has exceeded my expectations. I wish you all the best, Maikhuu.

@terobau3444 Год назад

Amazing documentary..big salute and respect to hard working people of Mongolia specially mom.. .. thank you filming team for making and sharing such a beautiful documentary ..✌️

@tinamcswain4758 Год назад

What a great documentary, these miners are incredible people ❤Doing it for there family and a better life. The lady driver is the strongest woman I’ve ever seen. Love and respect 🇦🇺

@abrahamsoto2297 Год назад

As a fellow over the road CDL 🚛driver, I understand perfectly, what this fellow Driver is going through. My heart ♥️ goes out to her I have been doing it for over 11 years pays great got me, my house 🏡my property 🏔and out of financial💸 debt. But it is a lifestyle not a job

@diego787dc Год назад

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@shaunmckenzie5509 Год назад

Enjoyed the Mongolian narration. First time I've heard Mongolian language. Great Doco!

@dr1311 Год назад

Hat’s off to those who made this documentary depicting the day to day activities in the Gobi and Chinese border. Respect for every single soul working in these harsh environments just to keep the industry and city folks live. Bless your soul. Watch this over any blockbuster at any given time.

@guanaart Год назад

What an amazing job documenting this. Congratulations to the cinematographers and reporters who put this together.

@user-wu7jz4kt4s Год назад

Respect of our the Mongolian women. All of women's trying to do best

@scrupulousness.6171 Год назад

Thank you so much! Sitting in our comfortable rooms, watching this made me think a lot!

@chiangsim Год назад

Beautifully done. Helped me to see a different side of Mongolia and her people. Grateful thanks.

@barriewright2857 Год назад

My utmost respect to that lady, mother and bread winner, my heart goes out to you and hope that you will find your way to what you want in life.

@iDelta77 Год назад

❤great mothers always wants to provide for her kids. My heart goes out to her.

@FueledbyJohn Год назад

Great documenting of the working conditions people have within the coal logistics industry. 🙂

@MrBeeMAD Год назад

That's what is a strong woman. Not a yelling creature in the west.

@andrewjenery1783 Год назад

That's the longest line of trucks I've ever seen.

@Mark-gg6iy Год назад

Strong lady, hope she gets to spend more time with her friends and family.

@fhdjshegyshsbsbd Год назад

This documentary makes my blood boil as a fellow Mongolian. Life could be much better for these drivers if only government cared a bit for these people.

@joeovip Год назад

Beautiful filmmaking! Thanks!

@ben_kaiser Год назад

I loved this doc.....these people are unique humans!

@lutomson3496 Год назад

I like how she says they speed racing each other only to hurry up and wait..such terrible inefficiency with the offloading process glad to see they are still mining and using coal

@bltzcstrnx Год назад

Many Asian countries are still mining and consuming coal.

@martthesling Год назад

Mongolian is a beautiful language. Like a wolf and bear in love.

@shaunmckenzie5509 Год назад

I know. Has a very interesting sound to it.

@sachinrv1 Год назад

I salute this brave mother !!

@Theanvcorporation Год назад

A superb documentary an amazing lady

@newton18311 Год назад

What a woman strength and Compassion. Best wishes for her and all she wishes for,

@tomaccino Год назад

We need more Mongolian content! It's a barely explored country.

@k.k.c8670 Год назад

What you mean is it is barely known to westerners. It's been there for a long time and fully explored among the central Asian, the Chinese, the Russians and of course, the Mongolians themselves

@tomaccino Год назад

@@k.k.c8670 Not explored in a geographical sense but in modern daily life. How many people outside of Mongolia know about the Terelj national park, Mongolian State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Playtime music festival, Dunjingarav shopping mall, Narantuul outdoor market, Gandan monastery, Zaisan memorial and other things? All what people know about Mongolia is horseriding in the steppe and who Genghis Khan was but nothing about modern-day Mongolia and what people do every day, like this woman driving a truck.....

@bernardbulwer3158 Год назад

Deeply touching ... Inspiring in the midst of toil and travails ... in the midst of hopes, and hopes dashed. A testimony of our common humanity. Thank you!!!

@BORISKINGDJ Год назад

Wow what a amazing documentary♥️ I’ve been watched almost thousands of Great documentaries this is the only one heartbreaking and Unforgettable feeling😢 Hopefully she’s getting better life soon🤞🏼

@datianlongan5567 Год назад

Great documentary. Should be nominated for awards!

@sureshpersaud27 Год назад

Very brave woman .

@solidbbmx Год назад

My wife used to do railway testing she was away a lot for work driving to sometimes remote areas. I often thought of her and what she must be going through on a given day. Thankfully she doesn't do that anymore and she can be with our son.

@paulies5407 Год назад

STRONG WOMAN

@ianyeh75 Год назад

This video is a contrast between tough and tenderness. She is obviously a very tough woman to be doing this job, and knowing she’s among men, who I’m sure treat her as a forever inferior counterpart. But she’s tender because she’s a mom, and being apart from her babies for that long of a time must be heartbreaking. I hope she finds a gig that will let her spend more time with her kids. They need their mom. Much respect, ma’am.

@user-vv9zo4sc4k Год назад

I have the upmost admiration for this woman and a her fellow colleagues what they go through people in the west just wouldn’t tolerate it’s a hard life being a truck driver I know I was one full Kudo is to this woman

@jimmylam9846 Год назад

The Mongolian government is building three railways to China and soon will be completed mainly for coal and rear earth...I hope she could find a better job close to home !

@meanwhileinchina2720 Год назад

Then the next documentary from guardian will tell the story of how China funded railway destroy the local job opportunities

@kolacoker7563 Год назад

Amazing lady…seems like her unique situation and all her contacts in the trucking corridor might lead to a business opportunity that will give her more time at home with family… best wishes…

@dulguunod2844 Год назад

truly appreciate, Thank you for sharing this documentary , Please made more films about Mongolia, You can find a lot of unknown topics from Mongolia l

@paulie2641 Год назад

It is such a tough life to make ends meet. We cannot choose how we born, but need to struggle to survive. I wish her and her family well.

@EdwinaTS Год назад

Trucking coal from Mongolia to China is or will be outdated very soon as rail transport is only 1/4 the cost of trucking, using the newly opened Tavan Togoi railway.

@lajosmolnar7631 Год назад

I working in the Govi-Altai country. We construct iron mining plants. Also the iron go to China. The most amazing project in my life.

@eemoogee160 Год назад

How's the air quality out there?

@lajosmolnar7631 Год назад

@@eemoogee160 The air extra clean. If not have dusty wind. And we middle of the anything. In the Tayan Nuur mountain.

@jamesdee2434 Год назад

You are a wonderful lady working for your family's future. Your family is lucky to have a caring and ambitious in it. And your skills are fantastic driving that huge truk you have achieved great heights. Well Don and congratulations to you and you will be with your family sooooooooon 🙏🌹

@oonoo.a4401 Год назад

so proud of you sister. ❤

@senzen2692 Год назад

All the best to Maikhuu, great documentary.

@giovannicaba8202 Год назад

The lady should be inviting to canada to work here and better life for her and her kids.

@mathewhagg7998 Год назад

great doc! thanks for the upload!

@rishadaffadel9344 6 месяцев назад

True brave. Been seperated with family for couple years with unclear circumtance during outbreak, tough one is there. Hope Maikhuu and all drivers reach out everything they wishes

@dannyshipley7590 Год назад

Great vlog...I hope it all goes well 4 her

@freedomandrantforall Год назад

The never ending struggle to provide something better for your kids is hard to watch sometimes. Life is hard and sometimes full of misery.

@0fficialdregs Год назад

i do agree, but i also love the stories of men and women working in the heavy industrial profession as it help build character just as well

@Tonymontanayayo Год назад

Maybe that’s why I think to myself, if you barely have the means to survive, why burden yourself with children? You make your already hard life only harder. You also can’t provide an appropriate childcare and education to end this cycle of misery and poverty. This applies to all people in all countries on this planet.

@davidemmyg Год назад

This system survives on the human hope that tomorrow might be better, but it makes sure we breed more cheap labor and gun fodder. It doesn't have to be like this it wasn't like this.

@Baldcafe Год назад

Great doc

@MartinBettler Год назад

Permeable, weighty, beautiful. Invading. A wonderful piece of moment, of timelessness, of being and meaning.

@marcob4630 Год назад

In Europe we are spoiled: no one could face such a hard life!

@lemonlimelukey Год назад

a hard life would be carrying the coal on your back and walking on your own feet.

@marcob4630 Год назад

@@lemonlimelukey : LOL! Try to make the same job as this brave woman

@JohnSmith-yt8di 11 месяцев назад

Spoiled? It's because Europeans fought for strong labour rights. It wasn't just given to us. Organised labour had to make it happen.

@marcob4630 11 месяцев назад

you have a point there @@JohnSmith-yt8di

@Theanvcorporation Год назад

How poignant a video call can be loved the moment with her kids

@popeyesantuy2307 Год назад

She is the wonder woman 👍👍👍👍💪💪💪🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

@OjanMusic Год назад

Beautiful documentary‼️👌🏼

@mikestirewalt5193 Год назад

Beautiful cinematography!!

@royprb1573 Год назад

Thanks to The Guardian for covering this story. 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏

@godlovesudk Год назад

Thank YOU

@d.n3025 Год назад

Proud of you 💪💪

@mattmiller220 Год назад

Wasn’t there a huge scandal over this recently?

@daniellebuehner8441 Год назад

I have a great respect for this lady, who is trying her best to provide for her family and yet she is facing a future that is so uncertain that is not only dragging her down the road to uncertain poverty, and facing difficult decisions to decide not only her fate but the fate of her children. I know in other countries like hers its 10x to 100x far worse then here in the US.. as the poor are getting poorer and the rich getting richer. and with Covid 19, its putting the lives of people into harsh reality of a hard life.

@metallooily7606 Год назад

Beautiful lady, both work hard to eke a living with pairs of hand pair of legs for your three kids, simply wonderful

@Sjalabais Год назад

Heartbreaking. We hear and read about the wealth being brought to Mongolia by its ressources boom, but we already know its distribution is lopsided, and there are lives like this - trapped, only trying to break free.

@2362marshall Год назад

wow what a documentary, fantastic

@StefanBacon Год назад

Looks like a hard, dangerous job. Nothjng but respect for her, her partner and all of the others out there powering China. I'm not jealous, except maybe of that beautiful Beiben tractor.

@jamaljaunes4363 Год назад

Kudos to you Madam driver. please protect yourself from the dust of coal. Use a mask

@chaplainand1 Год назад

Perspective. Thank you.

@wawawswfc4957 Год назад

brilliant documentary

@alexnjuguna3640 Год назад

Amazing and Encouraging

@PaliAha Год назад

I'm a trucker of gasoline to gas stations in Calif. Home every night. But I got no family.

@Shahzadajmal55 Год назад

Great woman in Mongolia ❤️

@atifzaidi8198 Год назад

Hats Off To These Hard Working Mongolian Women And Chinese Infrastructure Roads Also Powerful Yet Cheap Price Trucks. Love From India.

@g41thomas Год назад

Amazing woman 👏

@nickhale2900 Год назад

Looks like it's crying out for a railway there.

@randompers873 Год назад

such a beautiful and strong woman

@kunalsingh_yt Год назад

12:14 *_That little girl don't know that, how lucky she's. Having a such a great mother_* 🙏

@telcelmagdalena6288 Год назад

Exelente documental. La vida de un camionero.

@kewsiyehboah6058 Год назад

Gobi 5th Largest Dessert n the World.. 0.5 Million Sq Miles.. In Swahili.. Ubarikiwe..

@mythbusterUSA Год назад

She is real queen. Brave women make great nations.

@ronjr831 Год назад

Now there’s a real woman. Not afraid of work. Thanks for the video.

@truthuggs Год назад

Proud of you

@mmane257 Год назад

i love watching these documentaries 👍🏿

@oakenshield2621 Год назад

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@hitsongsa Год назад

I like her! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@michaelscordo256 Год назад

That place looks like a concentration camp!

@robertbutts7352 Год назад

Feel so sorry ❤

@marcelturk8780 Год назад

Heartbreaking reality

@bartjaspers240 Год назад

Powerfull woman!

@freedomerkhes Год назад

Pray for Mongolia

@akhilrajt Год назад

Women is more careful than men when they drive

@HikikomoriDev 5 месяцев назад

I mean, I could understand at the ending. But then again her feeling is more quitting rather than persevering and continuing. It's like she doesn't want to be there since the start. This is really why I think women are inept for these lines of work.

@MrCountrycuz Год назад

That coal trailer design has to be the stupidest and most dangerous setup I could imagine. I pulled a Frameless end dump trailer for ten years hauling Demolition materials, c and d, steel beams, asphalt, bricks, concrete. I would be dead with a trailer like the one she pulls .