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Ice Road Truckers Season 12 Episode 1
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00:00It's a son of a bitch.
00:04Fearless drivers risk everything.
00:06Out here, you can freeze to death.
00:08Either you just try not to die.
00:10Chasing big paydays.
00:12I'll make it work.
00:13If I get back hauls, I get double the money.
00:14To haul in crucial supplies.
00:17I'm ready to roll.
00:18Before the opportunity melts away under their chained tires.
00:25Woo!
00:26This season, veterans return.
00:29No hesitations, no practice run.
00:31Back to bumping up and down.
00:33See if an old man still got what it takes to get the job done.
00:36And rookies emerge.
00:37Here's gonna be one hell of a ride.
00:39Yeah!
00:39Yeah!
00:40A new company reigns.
00:42Musky Creek, we have a very good reputation.
00:44We don't leave a load behind.
00:45While another confronts legacy.
00:48I started this business to pass it down to my boys.
00:50That was always the plan.
00:51I was introduced to trucking probably from birth.
00:55The winter window is shorter than ever.
00:58We gotta get going.
00:59Pull out!
00:59Pull out!
01:00Pull some ass.
01:01Forcing everyone to burn at both ends.
01:03It's exhausting when you can't get warm.
01:06Feel beat up, chewed up, and spit out.
01:08Aww!
01:09Fighting an unrelenting battle.
01:12Ow!
01:12Out of the way open.
01:14Where, where, where, where, where, where?
01:16Against the unforgiving wilderness.
01:18I'm just so afraid that I've got frostbite somewhere.
01:22Out here, it's me versus nature.
01:25On the Western Hemisphere's northern frontier,
01:39the race is on.
01:42You're going into the bush.
01:45It's you against Mother Nature.
01:47Mother Nature is unpredictable.
01:50And the most ambitious company on the ice roads is Muskie Creek.
01:55My problem right now is, is that we have so much forecasted right now, and so many commitments.
02:02I'm short on drivers.
02:04We've got seven loads to load tomorrow.
02:06My name is Bill Dan, and I'm the operations manager here at Muskie Creek.
02:12Apparently there's an air leak on the air tank.
02:15Did anybody do anything about it?
02:17Our primary goal is to service northern communities via winter road access.
02:22With about six weeks of winter roads, we have to slam these loads in as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
02:30Some of the communities that we go to, their only source to get food, building materials, is by winter road.
02:36It's crucial, in that short window that we have, we get as much freight up into those communities so that they can sustain for the next year.
02:52Bill?
02:53Todd?
02:54Nice to meet you, buddy.
02:55Nice to meet you.
02:56Yeah.
02:56I've heard a lot about you.
02:59I'm Todd Dewey, and I come from a little town called Port Angeles, Washington.
03:06Sweet!
03:06After spending five, six years up here being on the ice roads, you know, it becomes a part of you.
03:16I got four beautiful daughters at home.
03:19They were at that age where they needed dad around, so I kind of took a step back from the ice roads a little bit.
03:24The last nine years of my life, I have really focused on family, home.
03:28Now that I'm an empty nester and the daughters are gone, it's like the ice roads have been calling me, Todd, Todd.
03:35I'm taking on this challenge this year because I have a chance to actually make some money, build a nest egg back for me and my wife now, and buying my own big rig.
03:45Musky Creek, we have a very good reputation.
03:49Whatever we commit to, we fulfill.
03:51We don't leave a load behind.
03:52Okay, so Garden Hill is where your load is going to be going.
03:55Okay.
03:55And then from there, you're going to cross the ice.
03:58Then you're going to travel down here to St. Teresa Point.
04:00That's going to be where I need you to pick up the back hole.
04:02Okay, you got it.
04:03Todd's burning 800 miles to Garden Hill.
04:06Then he's crossing Island Lake to pick up his back hole in St. Teresa Point.
04:11It's loaded, it's ready, it's secured.
04:14Just a load of screw piles.
04:15They go into the ground.
04:16You can't start the building until those are in, right?
04:18There's a housing shortage in Garden Hill, so all loads, materials, it's all critical.
04:23Gotcha.
04:2410-4.
04:25My biggest concern is that he may have lost his edge.
04:30I really can't afford any mistakes to happen.
04:34You know, I'm coming up here with a super set of skills that not a lot of guys have.
04:41I'm 51 years old.
04:44I don't know if I've got what it takes anymore to do these roads, but I'm going to hit it
04:47hard, and I'm going to see if I can make myself some good coin.
04:50Am I nervous?
04:52Absolutely.
04:53See if an old man's still got what it takes to get the job done.
04:59600 frozen miles to the north.
05:03I am kind of nervous today to see what we find.
05:06Sean Harris, owner of Harris & Sons Transportation, is checking the ice.
05:11Thickness on Wollaston Lake to see if it's safe for big rigs.
05:15We're going to drill a hole or two and check the thickness, and know how long before we're
05:21going to be able to go across that crossing with large loads.
05:24The Wollaston Lake community is only accessible by boat, or a 25-mile ice road when the lake
05:34freezes.
05:35They've had so much snow into Wollaston, it ended up insulating the ice.
05:39The ice would not thicken up.
05:40It wouldn't form properly.
05:41We're way behind on getting the roads ready to go for our heavy loads to cross them.
05:46My name is Sean Harris, and I'm 51 years old, and I own a trucking business in Prince Albert,
05:57Saskatchewan.
05:58When I started this business, I called it Harris Logging and Transport.
06:03Years down the road, when the boys got involved, I changed it to Sean Harris' sons.
06:07At a young age, 17, 18, I went and got my license, and right out of trucking school, within three
06:15days, I was on the ice roads in northern Saskatchewan, and it was trial by fire.
06:21This is my 32nd winter on the ice roads.
06:24At this point now, we have 12 trucks.
06:27My company would take jobs that other people wouldn't touch with a tensile pole.
06:30I've hauled some of the biggest recorded loads across the ice.
06:37The Wollaston Run is very dangerous, because the water is always moving there.
06:43That's generally where the thinnest ice is.
06:52We're hoping today, when we punch through, we have over 20 inches.
06:56Optimum is 33 to 38 inches to haul what we haul on here.
07:07First and foremost, you're looking at the thickness, to see how much ice there is.
07:11You want to look for the quality of the ice.
07:15You want it to kind of have a nice, clear look to it.
07:18This doesn't look like it's rotten or anything at the top.
07:24On the bottom of the ice, right there.
07:27Right there.
07:2918.
07:30Give or take.
07:30We're in trouble.
07:33We may not get in here this winter.
07:36It's always a stress, business-wise.
07:39I think the biggest stress is just the communities.
07:41And they can't get their stuff in there.
07:43They suffer.
07:44They're out of fuel right now.
07:45They're flying fuel in, because they can't get across here,
07:47when normally we'd be hauling across here weeks ago.
07:50We're running out of time.
07:51Back at Musky Creek, another ice road veteran is joining the team.
08:05Hey, that's me, Bill.
08:06Lisa, finally nice to meet you.
08:08You guys are, like, top dogs in town.
08:10You got, like, the most trucks, the most loads.
08:12We're at 32 trucks, pounding about 500 loads per year.
08:15For, like, the last decade, I've been still trucking on the ice roads,
08:22but I bought my own truck, and I started my own business.
08:25Whoa!
08:27Well, that was interesting.
08:30Freezing wind, endless miles, and jobs that no one else will take.
08:34Well, I can't.
08:35I mean, oh, I'm in a jackknife.
08:38Oh, my gosh.
08:41I got a farm in Wasilla in Alaska, with two acres and 11 horses on it.
08:46Can you move it?
08:49Yay, good girl!
08:51Currently, my truck is sitting broken in the shop in Fairbanks,
08:54and it's not running.
08:56I need, like, a lot of money really fast to get it going.
08:59These are the hardest ice roads, so I'm going to make more on them,
09:02and that's why I'm here.
09:04The worst case scenario is if I don't make the money to fix the truck,
09:07I'm going to have to start selling horses.
09:12Garden Hill is where you're going to.
09:14There's going to be lots of hills to climb.
09:16Okay.
09:17Most important question, what am I driving?
09:21Dang!
09:23So Kenworth!
09:25Nice!
09:27All that?
09:28Yeah.
09:30Lisa's also running the 800-mile gauntlet
09:32to the remote community of Garden Hill.
09:35I just can't afford to not have the wheels turning.
09:46Plunging deeper into the frozen wilderness.
09:49We've got a lot of miles to go today.
09:51Don Dewey is battling his first winter road in almost a decade.
09:56The road is in rough, rough shape.
09:59You're a plane off.
09:59You see, you can't stop like that right there.
10:03There's a lot of pieces on here.
10:05Heavy items.
10:06If they fall off,
10:08there's no way I'm going to manually and physically put it back on my load.
10:13Getting a lot worse now, buddy.
10:18Feel that right there?
10:20Yeah.
10:21Yeah.
10:21That's getting rough.
10:23And I have definitely got something going on with my load in the back.
10:37Drill bed's sticking out about a foot on the passenger side.
10:40This is not good.
10:46Sheer cold.
10:51Well, this is screwed.
10:54This wood beam has slid out of here almost a foot.
10:58Here's a better visual.
10:59Let's get the wood that's slid this far.
11:01Half the problem is is it's so cold and the deck is so slick
11:05and these pieces of wood are just sliding right on the deck.
11:09If it pushes too hard and slides with too much momentum
11:12and breath busts these straps,
11:14that whole thing's just going to slide right off the side
11:15and this whole pallet of these drill bits are on the middle of the ice road.
11:18That's not good.
11:19Well, I got an idea in my head.
11:24I don't know if it'll work, but it sure is worth a try.
11:30There it goes.
11:32Oh, you've got to love the ice roads, right?
11:33All right.
11:35Okay.
11:36Now, we can link these two together.
11:40It's a double lock.
11:42Pull the flak out.
11:43Double link that.
11:56Those are balanced.
11:58In theory, as I'm backing the truck up,
12:01that chain's going to come tight
12:02and it's going to pull out loads on the trailer.
12:04That's what I'm hoping will happen.
12:07Okay, this is it.
12:08Well, we're going to give her a hell and give her a try.
12:12I hope this works.
12:20In the frigid northern frontier
12:22at Muskie Creek headquarters.
12:29Gentlemen, looking for Bill.
12:31He must be Scott.
12:32Yes, sir.
12:32It's Scooter Ewell's first haul at a new company.
12:36Back home, he's an ice road veteran.
12:38But in these parts, he's a rookie.
12:41Looking forward to working with you this year.
12:42Are you sure about that?
12:43Is there something that you've got to tell me
12:45that I don't know all that?
12:49I live in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
12:52I own a couple trucks.
12:54I've been in business now five years.
12:56Trucking wasn't after calling for me.
12:59For me, being out on the road on a job,
13:00it's a sense of accomplishment,
13:02especially when you deliver to northern communities.
13:05And I also own Harley's Hard Rock Saloon.
13:09It's a bar in Yellowknife.
13:12This is my bar.
13:13You know, it's a community water hole.
13:16A lot of the ice road drivers,
13:18they will come to our bar.
13:19They love it.
13:20They have a great time.
13:22My wife, Kelly, and my daughter, Morgan,
13:24both work at my bar.
13:26And I have two daughters in Nova Scotia,
13:28Bianca and Zoe.
13:30And I'm praying for the best of them all the time.
13:33I really need this season to go well
13:35in order to provide the cash
13:36to do the upgrades up there at the bar.
13:39You are clean and clear to go to Red Sucker Lake.
13:42You've been to Red Sucker Lake?
13:43No, sir.
13:43I haven't been to any of these ice routes,
13:45so this is all new territory for me.
13:47That's what kind of truck you're going to give me, too.
13:50She hauls ass.
13:51Nice.
13:52Yeah.
13:52This International is a very special truck
13:58to Muskie Creek.
13:59Okay.
14:00The driver that was assigned this truck
14:02he serviced Muskie Creek for a very long time.
14:05Two years ago, Erwin Friesen.
14:08We lost him.
14:10Erwin Friesen was a big part of Muskie Creek.
14:14He is one of the biggest reasons
14:17why Muskie Creek is where we're at today.
14:20He passed away two years ago
14:22when he was on duty doing a load.
14:24Sounds like some pretty big shoes to fill.
14:26I hope to make you proud
14:28and I'll be honored to drive her.
14:30I look forward to working with you.
14:33He's built a little bit of confidence in me,
14:35but talk is cheap.
14:37Scooter's first foray on these ice roads
14:39is an 800-mile adventure
14:41to the northern community of Red Sucker Lake.
14:45Now we're going to check this load out,
14:47see what we're working with,
14:49making sure that nothing has kind of come off.
14:53The key thing is keeping your deck clean.
14:55Imagine that flying that through your windshield.
14:57That'll kill somebody.
14:58And this here has to go.
15:00Each driver is responsible for securing their load,
15:04confirming it's safe and legal.
15:0614-6.
15:08I'm about to ruin Bill's day.
15:10Anything over 12 feet needs a pilot truck.
15:13We can't haul this load.
15:15He's not going to like this.
15:16And none are available any time soon.
15:19We got some problem.
15:21What's the issue?
15:2214-6.
15:22What's the issue?
15:2414-6.
15:26That's the width.
15:2814-6 is how wide we are.
15:30Yes, sir.
15:32Are you sure?
15:33Is that from the tracks or the blade?
15:35It doesn't look 14-6.
15:4214-6.
15:45I really wish you didn't f*** to my car flex this morning, eh?
15:48You're going to learn to hate me or love me.
15:54400 miles to the northwest.
15:56Looking for the crews that are flooding to try and thicken the ice.
16:04Sean Harris is meeting the ice road maintenance crew.
16:08To build the road, the crew spends weeks plowing snow and checking the ice thickness.
16:14Where the ice is thin, they use lake water to thicken it.
16:19The fate of Sean's business depends on their progress.
16:25If the ice doesn't get any thicker, the community, they're not going to be able to get supplies
16:29like that in.
16:30This road is very vital.
16:32It's the only lifeline in the wintertime for this community.
16:37How many holes are you guys going to drill?
16:40Two for now?
16:41So what they're doing here is they've got thin spots where it's only 17 inches.
16:46So they drill holes, and now we're going to fire up the generator, and we're going to
16:49start flooding this section of ice that's thin here, right?
16:51Yeah.
16:52Let's rock and roll.
16:56There we go.
16:59You can see what the boys are doing, putting water on existing ice, and they'll keep doing
17:04that and doing that, and they'll build levels, and that's how we grow the ice.
17:08How long will you guys let this run here?
17:11Until she reaches the engine, and that's all you'll do today, or are you going to drill
17:15another couple of holes and pump some more?
17:17Tomorrow.
17:18Tomorrow?
17:19We are late in the season.
17:22If you went across here loaded, you would absolutely go in the drink.
17:24It's just not thick enough.
17:26These guys are working overtime, trying to get our road open.
17:29So their community can get the supplies that they need.
17:41Halfway through his first run, and not getting any closer.
17:45It's about to get real.
17:46Veteran driver Todd Dewey is gambling on an old trucker trick to slide tons of steel screw
17:52piles back on his trailer.
17:55Come on, you son of a bitch.
17:57The road pounded a pallet of foundation screws over the edge.
18:01That's getting rough.
18:03Now, the fastest fix is ice road ingenuity.
18:07Okay, here we go, boys.
18:09F*** yeah.
18:26Looks like it moved.
18:28F*** yeah.
18:30It's slid right here.
18:31You can see this block.
18:32See how far that block is sticking out?
18:35This block was sticking quite out here, so this whole thing is now slid right back into
18:38position.
18:39Now I'm going to re-rig it, and I'm going to try to do the same thing to the front and
18:42get it pulled over.
18:44Tell you what, I'd like being in the bush and figure it out.
18:46That's why I love being on the ice road.
18:51All right.
18:52Re-rigging.
18:53Okay.
18:57Round two.
18:58Round two.
19:23Oh, hell yeah.
19:30We are back on the trailer.
19:32That's what the ice roads are all about, baby.
19:34Figure it out and just get it done.
19:39Get my load strapped and hit back on the road.
19:48I'm ready to roll.
19:49Mission accomplished, baby.
19:51My load is nice and straight back there.
19:54Ready to put some miles on here and get this load into Garden Hill.
19:58Just another beautiful day on the ice roads.
20:14I am hitting the ground and running.
20:16Deep in the frigid wilderness.
20:18No hesitations.
20:19No practice runs.
20:21That first road.
20:22Knock it out.
20:23Lisa Kelly is one of the first drivers facing a freshly frozen river crossing.
20:30Nelson River, East Channel.
20:37I'm not sure where the river begins here.
20:39There's so much snow on the ice, I can't tell what condition the ice is in right now.
20:48If it's clear ice, it's a better quality of ice and holds more weight.
20:55If it's like white ice, there's more air in it, so it's more likely to crash.
21:00First one of a while, so I'm a little nervous on it, you know?
21:07We'll see.
21:08We'll see how this goes.
21:11All right.
21:12Let's do this.
21:13On a frozen northern river.
21:34A deceptive expanse of untested ice separates Lisa Kelly from her offload.
21:43The best strategy I have for a lake crossing is listening for the cracking.
21:48I'm going to go with slower.
21:55I'd rather be safe than sorry.
21:58The ice is supposed to make cracking sounds, but how much is too much cracking, right?
22:02Because it's got a crack to fall through, so there's got to be a certain limit on cracking sounds.
22:09Thin ice sign.
22:11Do you see that?
22:12A blanket of fresh snow covers the road and thin ice surrounding her, obscuring the border between safety and certain death.
22:23Danger.
22:24Open water.
22:25Good gosh.
22:26It's like that whole section is like open water.
22:32What makes this any thicker here?
22:42Don't go fast.
22:45I'm almost there.
22:46Don't go fast.
22:47Don't go fast.
22:51First ice crossing of the year out of the way.
22:55Here we come for more.
22:56Back at Musky Creek.
23:12It's 14-6 wide.
23:13What's the?
23:15Scooter's stuck in the truck yard until his wide load is legal.
23:19If we take the blades off, we're no trouble.
23:22Beautiful.
23:24That's why you're the pro.
23:25You're talking about a wide guy with a wide load.
23:28I know my wings.
23:28So then where are your flags?
23:30I'm wearing them right here.
23:33Get the wings off, boys.
23:37On the road, problems start to arise.
23:39Man, there's only so much I can do from the office.
23:42It's up to the driver.
23:43They have to be the solution to the problem.
23:47And we're golden.
23:54Where's my sage?
23:55I always keep a smudge kit with me.
23:58What's back home?
23:59Sweet grass.
24:00I'm new to smudging.
24:04I've been doing it for the last few years now.
24:06I've been digging into my history, and I'm pretty proud of it.
24:10I'm Mick Mack.
24:12Mick Ma, actually, it's pronounced from the East Coast.
24:15There's a reason why they were called the First Nations.
24:18They were the first ones, and they know how to survive off the land.
24:21And I like learning from it.
24:22For me, it keeps me grounded, it keeps me centered, it keeps me going, and it gives me hope.
24:30It's been a hard-do in a truck.
24:31We're going to pray the rest of our trips are blessed.
24:39Spirit of urban, better keep on my good side.
24:42Scooter, we've got to get going.
24:44Let's get out of here.
24:45Pull out.
24:46We're rolling out.
24:52Copy.
25:04First mode.
25:06Finally.
25:08We're feeling much alive.
25:09We're feeling much better.
25:12We're feeling happy now.
25:13Heading into Garden Hill in the remote island lake region.
25:28Garden Hill.
25:29Finally made it.
25:30Todd's racing to offload 45,000 pounds of steel so he can cross the lake and pick up another
25:37load by the end of the day.
25:38I'm going to get this thing unloaded, right back out on the ice roads.
25:43I've got to turn and burn.
25:46I've got another load.
25:46I've got to get picked up and delivered right away.
25:50Let's get this load off of here.
25:54I don't know how this is going to work.
25:55We're about to find out.
25:57The problem with unloading this is the forklift is not big enough to move these pallets off
26:00the back of this trailer.
26:02We're going to grab this whole pallet and see if we just slide a whole pallet at one time
26:05right onto the ground.
26:06I guess we'll try that.
26:12See what happens.
26:16Go fast!
26:17In the remote northern community of Garden Hill, veteran driver Todd Dewey is racing to
26:42turn and burn so he can pick up his next load.
26:45It's a little messy, but it works.
26:47Can't damage these things due to the fact they're just solid steel.
26:50We thought this was the only way we're going to be able to get it unloaded with the machines
26:53that we had.
27:06Let's get the hell out of here.
27:07I've got another ice road to do.
27:10Came up with a good solution for the bus, didn't we?
27:13Nicely done.
27:14450 miles to the west.
27:22John Harris is strategizing with his business partners, sons Riley and Zach.
27:34My boys, they've both been driving since they were five years old, and at 15, probably knew
27:39more than guys who've been doing it 20 years.
27:41They need a plan to salvage the season if the Wollaston Lake Crossing doesn't open.
27:47Wish I could sit in Mexico as much as you do.
27:49Riley is a mini-me, and that's not generally a good thing.
27:54One day when you have 32 years under your belts, then you can go to Mexico too.
27:58I had that under my belt before I was 20.
28:01Oh, this guy.
28:03He is hot-tempered, but he's a hard worker, and he'll do whatever he has to do to get
28:09the job done.
28:11You've got to have a couple handsome, capable sons for you who can do that.
28:15Zach is the exact opposite to myself and his younger brother, Riley.
28:21Zach is probably one of the most relaxed, easygoing guys you'll ever meet.
28:25We've had lots of snow up north, so we should go.
28:29Chris!
28:30Piss off!
28:32Crispy, my third son, is a pot-belly pig.
28:35When we got him, he was no bigger than a loaf of bread.
28:39Keep going.
28:40Now he's about 250 pounds.
28:42And he used to ride in the semi with me all the time.
28:45He absolutely loved it.
28:46He'd put his little feet up on the dash and look out the window.
28:49Like, I don't have enough problems in my life.
28:50Walston is absolutely closed right now, and I'm getting extremely nervous.
28:58The season is going to be a short one.
29:01We've had an ungodly amount of snow this year.
29:04When you get a lot of snow early, it insulates the water, so then those cold temperatures can't
29:10absorb to freeze as fast and as hard as we need it.
29:14So I think right now we're going to do some things that we don't normally do this time of
29:16year.
29:17Yep, no, we'll do what we've got to do.
29:19We're going to have a tough one right here.
29:26Approaching Island Lake, outside Garden Hill.
29:30Ice crossing just opened up.
29:32It's only open for light traffic, which means it's not open for full weights yet.
29:36Veteran driver Todd Dewey is facing a 13-mile lake crossing on ice barely thick enough to
29:43hold his empty truck.
29:46That's kind of spooky if you think about it.
29:49It's been ice.
30:05It means anything can happen.
30:12Here we go.
30:13He's on a deadline to pick up a backhaul today that's going to Muskie Creek.
30:20And the fastest way to St. Teresa Point is across the lake.
30:26The ice is not as thick as it's supposed to be.
30:28But we have a will in place set up for your family, because most likely you ain't making
30:31her home.
30:32That's what could go wrong.
30:32It's life and death up here.
30:43I'm a little concerned right now.
30:45I'm not hearing a lot of noise out of the ice.
30:48Cracking in the ice is always spooky, but that's part of the ice crossing.
30:55You want to hear cracking.
30:57That actually means that the ice is really, really strong.
31:00When you can't hear any noise at all, that's not a good sign.
31:03Cracking sounds indicate the ice is flexing to relieve stress from the truck's weight.
31:18If the ice is too thin or too weak to flex under the stress, it could shatter, releasing
31:25Todd and his truck into the clutches of the deadly, frigid depths.
31:39And...
31:39Off the ice!
31:42Hell yeah!
31:45Let's go get my next load and turn to burn.
31:55On the other side of the lake...
32:03I'm headed to Garden Hill with some building supplies for the communities.
32:09The hills are very abrupt, because it's not a road.
32:12There's no, like, grades, like they didn't build it to be driven.
32:17So when you come upon a hill, it's not smooth, and it's really abrupt and sharp.
32:21The Musky Creek truck is getting up deep down, as Lisa faces a final series of hills, standing
32:28between her and the offload.
32:30A little rowdy at the moment.
32:32It's supposed to get worse.
32:37What was that?
32:43What a noise.
32:45I gotta check this out, and this is a horrible place to do it.
32:49It sounds like it's under the hood.
32:51It's really loud, right here.
33:07Oh, dear Lord.
33:21Oh, there's the bottle.
33:29Did the hose came up?
33:31The road to Garden Hill...
33:34A little rowdy at the moment.
33:37...battered Lisa in her truck...
33:39...and knocked out the hose that moves compressed air from the turbo to the engine.
33:44Without the turbo, she doesn't have the torque or the power to pull her load over the hills.
33:51Thank goodness the hose clamp is still there.
33:53My gosh.
33:55I actually think I'm going to have to turn the truck off, because there's pressure coming
33:58out of there.
33:59I might not be able to get it on.
34:01But turning the truck off is kind of a bush no-no, because it might not start again.
34:07As the engine cools in the unforgiving temperatures, diesel fuel thickens like day-old Thanksgiving
34:22gravy, preventing the truck from restarting.
34:26Easy, tiger.
34:37Okay.
34:40It's a cold.
34:44I've got to get out of the way.
34:50I'm kind of in a hurry, because I want to get out of the way of the truck...
34:55...you know, I want to make sure my truck cools down too much, and that's going to really
34:59screw me.
35:05Get the truck started here.
35:08All right, love.
35:09You ready?
35:11Because it's cold.
35:17Bye, yeah.
35:21Um, all right.
35:25It's cold.
35:35It's started!
35:38I'm going to get out of this guy's way.
35:44Okay, I feel really bad for holding up on that.
35:47We're a skinny spot, of course.
35:48All right.
35:51Back to bumping up and down here.
36:07Back across the lake.
36:08So I finally made it into St. Therese Point here.
36:13It's always exciting to get in a backhaul.
36:15It'll just mean you're actually getting paid for the way back to you, not just the way there.
36:19So, double paycheck?
36:20I'll take that any day of the week.
36:22Todd's picking up a boat to haul back to Musky Creek for repair.
36:26Hi.
36:27Hi, I'm Todd.
36:28Nice to meet you.
36:29Hi.
36:30This is an isolated community.
36:32We usually go from one community to another community using those boats.
36:37It's very important.
36:39The only way we get things delivered is just like Santa.
36:45The trailer is this wide.
36:47And the boat is this wide.
36:50There's no margin for error.
36:54Okay.
36:55Let's go real slow and easy.
37:00Keep going.
37:01You're good.
37:02That's just making me nervous.
37:05I know, me too.
37:10Go ahead.
37:11You're okay.
37:11Come on.
37:13Keep coming.
37:15Keep coming.
37:15You want it to turn as you're going on like that.
37:18Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
37:21Just hang tight right there for a minute.
37:24Yeah.
37:25We need to get this straightened out.
37:26It's working.
37:27It's working.
37:28It's working.
37:38It's a lot of work.
37:39Who said the ice roads are easy, right?
37:42The boat pickup was a little bit more than what I expected.
37:45Up!
37:46I'm tired.
37:47I'm tired.
37:48Okay, stop.
37:50It's been a long day.
37:52The boat is loaded.
37:53And I'm done.
37:56Gosh, that was a lot of frickin' work.
37:57I do got a lot of ice road left to go to get out of here.
38:12Let's make some tracks.
38:14After a slow start on his first run.
38:16Oh, yeah.
38:17It's going to be a fun run.
38:18Feel it already.
38:20Scooter is finally free in his natural environment.
38:23She's going to be tight.
38:32One oversized inbound.
38:34This is a road that I've never been on.
38:36All these roads I've never been on.
38:39It's going to be all kinds of fun.
38:41Here we go.
38:47Oh, yeah, baby.
38:50Springs are working hard.
38:51Oh, yeah, that felt good.
38:55Right up the stinker on that one.
38:58Holy...
39:03It's rough.
39:11It's terrible.
39:12Is it really?
39:13Oh.
39:14We're just in touch of it in.
39:18And it's terrible.
39:18It's going to be interesting to see what happens here.
39:25Not much room.
39:27It's a narrow-ass road.
39:29And we are wide.
39:31So am I, but so is the load.
39:32Ah!
39:37As Scooter races into the bush,
39:42Todd's heading in the opposite direction.
39:43Get a little bit of shut-eye back up this morning, bright and early.
39:55Oh!
39:58Feel that right there?
40:01This road is really beating the truck around,
40:03really beating the load around.
40:04Ah, son of a bitch.
40:14We're losing air pretty quick.
40:16We got something broke.
40:20The brakes are completely locked.
40:22Hang on.
40:22See, the whole bracket that holds the airline up
40:33is completely laying on the ground.
40:36Oh, my gosh.
40:38This is broke.
40:39That's broke.
40:39This is broke.
40:40This is broke.
40:41That's broke.
40:42And this is broken.
40:43That's my main air supply report.
40:44The trailer's just brakes.
40:47Unbelievable.
40:47It's going to take a while to fix this.
40:52We ain't going anywhere.
40:53We're...
40:53This season...
41:04Oh, gosh.
41:05Oh, gosh.
41:05The ice road truckers battle brutal roads.
41:11Any more bumps,
41:12my boobs are going to smack me in the face
41:14and be lacking my eyes.
41:16Oh!
41:17And all massive loads.
41:21Holy crap.
41:23I don't want to tip this over.
41:26Hey, yo.
41:26Keep going.
41:27Take that.
41:27Perfect.
41:29The main concern is busy ice crossings
41:32being a maximum weight.
41:33Come on.
41:34Come on.
41:34Come on.
41:35You can do it.
41:36You can do it.
41:36You can do it.
41:39The drivers must work together.
41:42Can you not stick around with it
41:43while I'm under here?
41:44Because if this falls, I'm dead.
41:45Don't worry, Zach.
41:46Your little brother's coming to the rescue.
41:50Hey.
41:51Now back up straight.
41:54Or fail alone.
41:55We ain't going anywhere.
41:57Oh, my God.
41:59Come on.
42:00This
42:00is their one shot.
42:04The trick's on fire.
42:05Come on.
42:05Tell me this.
42:06Go get your heart pumping.
42:07Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
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