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!

00:40A 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!

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.

01:09Fighting 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, the race is on.

01:42You're going into the bush.

01:45It's you against mother nature.

01:47Mother nature is unpredictable.

01:48And 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, I'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.

03:52So Garden Hill is where your load is going to be going.

03:55Okay.

03:55Then from there, you're going to cross the ice.

03:58Yep.

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.

04:02You 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.

04:12It's loaded.

04:13It's ready.

04:13It'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.

04:33You know, I'm coming up here with a super set of skills that not a lot of guys have.

04:42I'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.

05:00600 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 thickness on Wollaston

05:12Lake to see if it's safe for big rigs.

05:16We'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.

06:02Years down the road, when the boys got involved, I changed it to Sean Harris & Sons.

06:08At a young age, 17, 18, I went and got my license, and right out of trucking school,

06:15within three days, I was on the ice roads in northern Saskatchewan, and it was trial by

06:19fire.

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.

06:38The 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.

06:55Optimum is 33 to 38 inches to haul what we haul on here.

07:08First 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.

07:17This doesn't look like it's rotten or anything at the top.

07:24Right in the bottom of the ice, right there.

07:27Right there.

07:29The 18, give or take.

07:32We're in trouble.

07:33We may not get in here this winter.

07:36It's always a stress, business-wise.

07:38I 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.

07:58Back at Muskie Creek,

08:00another 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, pound and about 500 loads per year.

08:18For, like, the last decade,

08:20I've been still trucking on the Ice Roads,

08:22but I bought my own truck,

08:24and I started my own business.

08:25Whoa!

08:27Well, that was interesting.

08:30Freezing wind, endless miles,

08:31and jobs that no one else will take.

08:34Well, I can't...

08:35And maybe...

08:36Oh, I'm going to jackknife...

08:37Oh, my gosh.

08:41I got a farm in Wasilla in Alaska,

08:43with two acres and 11 horses on it.

08:47Can you move it?

08:49Yay, good girl!

08:50Currently, 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,

08:59and these are the hardest ice roads,

09:01so 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

09:06to 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?

09:18What am I driving?

09:21Dang!

09:23I still can work.

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

09:54in almost a decade.

09:56The road is in rough, rough shape.

09:59You're a plane off.

10:00You see, you can't get something like that right there.

10:01There'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

10:09and physically put it back on my load.

10:13Getting a lot worse now, buddy.

10:18Feel that right there?

10:20Yeah.

10:21Yeah.

10:22That's getting rough.

10:23And I have definitely got something going on

10:35with my load in the back.

10:37Drill bit's sticking out

10:38about 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

10:56almost a foot.

10:58Here's a better visual.

10:59Let's get the wood that's slid this far.

11:01Half the problem is

11:02is it's so cold

11:03and the deck is so slick

11:05and these pieces of wood

11:06are just sliding right on the deck.

11:09If it pushes too hard

11:10and slides with too much momentum

11:12and breath busts these straps,

11:14that whole thing's just going to slide

11:15right off the side

11:15and this whole pallet of these drill bits

11:17are 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,

11:25but 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,

11:38we can link these two together

11:40to double lock.

11:42Pull the flak out.

11:55Double lick that.

11:56Those are balanced.

11:57In theory,

11:59as I'm backing the truck up,

12:01that chain's going to come tight

12:02and it's going to pull out loads

12:03on the trailer.

12:04That's what I'm hoping will happen.

12:08Okay, this is it.

12:09We're going to give her a hell

12:10and give her a try.

12:12I hope this works.

12:19In the frigid northern frontier,

12:22at Muskie Creek headquarters,

12:26it's Scooter Ewell's first haul

12:34at a new company.

12:36Back home,

12:37he's an ice road veteran,

12:38but in these parts,

12:40he's a rookie.

12:41Looking forward to working

12:42with you this year.

12:42Are you sure about that?

12:43Is there something

12:44that you've got to tell me

12:45that I don't know all that?

12:49I live in Yellowknife,

12:50Northwest Territories.

12:52I own a couple trucks.

12:54I've been in business now five years.

12:56Trucking was a natural calling for me.

12:59For me, being out on the road

13:00on a job,

13:01it's a sense of accomplishment,

13:02especially when you deliver

13:03to northern communities.

13:05I also own Harley's Hard Rock Saloon.

13:09It's a bar in Yellowknife.

13:11This is my bar.

13:13You know,

13:14it'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,

13:23and my daughter, Morgan,

13:24both work at my bar.

13:26And I have two daughters

13:27in Nova Scotia,

13:28Bianca and Zoe.

13:30And I'm praying for the best

13:31of them all the time.

13:33I really need this season

13:34to go well

13:35in order to provide the cash

13:36to do the upgrades

13:37up there at the bar.

13:39You are clean and clear

13:40to go to Red Sucker Lake.

13:42You've been to Red Sucker Lake?

13:43No, sir.

13:43I haven't been to any

13:44of these ice routes,

13:45so this is all new territory for me.

13:47That's what kind of truck

13:48you're going to give me to.

13:50She hauls ass.

13:51Nice.

13:52Yeah.

13:53This International

13:54is a very special truck

13:58to Muskie Creek.

13:59Okay.

14:00The driver that was assigned

14:01this truck,

14:02he serviced Muskie Creek

14:03for a very long time.

14:05Two years ago,

14:07Erwin Friesen,

14:08we lost him.

14:10Erwin Friesen

14:11was a big part

14:13of Muskie Creek.

14:14He is one of the biggest reasons

14:17why Muskie Creek

14:18is where we're at today.

14:20He passed away two years ago

14:22when he was on duty

14:23doing a load.

14:24Sounds like some

14:25pretty big shoes to fill.

14:26I hope to make you proud

14:28and I'll be honored to drive her.

14:30I'm looking forward

14:31to working with you.

14:33He's built a little bit

14:34of confidence in me,

14:35but talk is cheap.

14:37Scooter's first foray

14:38on these ice roads

14:39is an 800-mile adventure

14:41to the northern community

14:43of Red Sucker Lake.

14:45Now we're going to check

14:46this load out,

14:47see what we're working with,

14:49making sure that

14:50nothing has kind of come off.

14:53The key thing is

14:53keeping your deck clean.

14:55Imagine that flying

14:56that through your windshield.

14:57That'll kill somebody.

14:58And this here

14:59has to go.

15:00Each driver

15:01is responsible

15:02for securing their load,

15:04confirming it's safe

15:05and legal.

15:0614-6

15:07from about the ruined

15:09Bill's day.

15:10Anything over 12 feet

15:12needs a pilot truck.

15:13We can't haul this load.

15:15He's not going to like this.

15:16And none are available

15:17anytime soon.

15:19We've got a problem.

15:21What's the issue?

15:2214-6

15:22is the issue.

15:2414-6.

15:26That's the width.

15:2814-6

15:29is how wide we are.

15:30Yes, sir.

15:32Are you sure?

15:33Is that from the tracks

15:34or the blade?

15:35It doesn't look

15:3914-6.

15:4214-6.

15:44I really wish

15:45you didn't

15:46f*** to my car flakes

15:47this morning, eh?

15:48You're going to learn

15:48to hate me or love me.

15:54400 miles

15:55to the northwest.

15:59Looking for the crews

16:01that are flooding

16:01to try and

16:02thicken the ice.

16:03Sean Harris

16:05is meeting

16:05the ice road

16:06maintenance crew.

16:08To build the road,

16:10the crew spends

16:10weeks plowing snow

16:12and checking

16:13the ice thickness.

16:15Where the ice is thin,

16:17they use lake water

16:18to thicken it.

16:19The fate of

16:20Sean's business

16:21depends on

16:22their progress.

16:25If the ice

16:25doesn't get any thicker,

16:27the community,

16:28they're not going to be

16:28able to get supplies

16:29like that in.

16:30This road is very vital.

16:32It's the only lifeline

16:33in the wintertime

16:33for this community.

16:37How many holes

16:38are you guys going to drill?

16:40Two for now?

16:41So what they're doing here

16:42is they've got

16:42thin spots

16:44where it's only 17 inches.

16:46So they drill holes

16:46and now we're going

16:47to fire up the generator

16:48and we're going to start

16:49flooding this section

16:50of ice that's thin here,

16:51right?

16:51Yeah.

16:52Let's rock and roll.

16:56There we go.

16:57You can see what

17:00the boys are doing,

17:02putting water

17:02on existing ice

17:03and they'll keep

17:04doing that

17:04and doing that

17:05and they'll build levels

17:05and that's how

17:06we grow the ice.

17:08How long will you guys

17:09let this run here?

17:11Until she reaches

17:12the edges

17:13and that's all

17:14you'll do today

17:15or will you drill

17:15another couple of holes

17:16and pump some more?

17:17Tomorrow.

17:18Tomorrow?

17:19We are late

17:21in the season.

17:22If you went across

17:22here loaded,

17:23you would absolutely

17:24go in the drink.

17:24It's just not thick enough.

17:26These guys are

17:27working overtime

17:28trying to get

17:28a road open

17:29so their community

17:30can get the supplies

17:32in that they need.

17:41Halfway through

17:41his first run

17:42and not getting

17:43any closer.

17:45It's about to get real.

17:47Veteran driver

17:47Todd Dewey

17:48is gambling

17:49on an old trucker trick

17:50to slide tons

17:52of steel screw piles

17:53back on his trailer.

17:54Come on

17:55you son of a bitch.

17:57The road pounded

17:57a pallet of foundation

17:59screws over the edge.

18:01That's getting rough.

18:03Now,

18:04the fastest fix

18:05is ice road ingenuity.

18:08Okay,

18:09here we go,

18:09boy.

18:09F*** yeah.

18:26Looks like it moved.

18:29F*** yeah.

18:30It's slid right here.

18:31You can see this block.

18:32See how far

18:32that block

18:33is sticking out?

18:35This block

18:35was sticking

18:36right out here

18:36so this whole thing

18:37has now slid

18:38right back into position.

18:39Now I'm gonna re-rig it

18:40and I'm gonna try

18:41to do the same thing

18:42to the front

18:42and get it pulled over.

18:44Tell you what,

18:44I'd like being in the bush

18:45and figure it s*** out.

18:46That's why I love

18:47being on the ice road.

18:51All right.

18:52Re-rigging.

18:56Okay.

18:57Round two.

18:58Round two.

19:28Hell yeah

19:29We are back on the trailer

19:31That's what the ice roads are all about baby figure it out and just get it done

19:39Get my load strap to hit back on the road

19:47I'm ready to roll mission accomplished baby

19:52My load is nice and straight back there ready 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 hit the ground running deep in the frigid wilderness

20:18No hesitations no practice runs that first road knock it out

20:23Lisa Kelly is one of the first drivers facing a freshly frozen river crossing

20:30Nelson River East Channel

20:32I'm not sure where the river begins here

20:41There's so much snow on the ice

20:43I can't tell what condition the ice is in right now

20:47If it's clear ice it's a better quality of ice and holds more weight if it's like white ice

20:57There's more air in it, so it's more likely to crack

21:00First one of a while so a little nervous on it, you know

21:07We'll see see how this goes

21:10All right, let's do this

21:13On a frozen northern river

21:20Wow, that does not look good

21:36A deceptive expanse of untested ice

21:41Separates lisa kelly from her offload

21:43The best strategy I have for a lake crossing is listening for the cracking

21:48I'm gonna go with slower

21:54I'd rather be safe than sorry

21:56The 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?

22:14A blanket of fresh snow covers the road and thin ice surrounding her

22:18Obscuring the border between safety and certain death

22:23Danger, open water

22:25Good gosh, it's like that whole section is like open water

22:32What makes this any thicker here?

22:43Don't go fast, I'm almost there, don't go fast

22:46Shoot, don't go fast

22:51First ice crossing of the year out of the way

22:55Here we come for more

23:00Back at Musky Creek

23:11It's 14-6 wide

23:13What the?

23:15Scooter's stuck in the truck yard

23:16Until his wide load is legal

23:19If we take the blades off, we're no trouble

23:22Beautiful

23:23That's why you're the pro

23:25You're talking about a wide guy with a wide load

23:27I know my wings

23:28So then where are your flags?

23:29I'm wearing my ears

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

23:41It'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?

23:55Can I just keep a smudge kit with me?

23:57What'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

24:08And I'm pretty proud of it

24:10I'm Mick Mack

24:11McMaw actually is pronounced from the east coast

24:15There's a reason why they were called the first nations

24:17They were the first ones

24:18And they know how to survive off the land

24:21And I like learning from it

24:23For me, it keeps me grounded

24:25It keeps me centered

24:26It keeps me going

24:27It gives me hope

24:28It's been a hard do in a truck

24:33We're going to pray

24:35The rest of our trips are blessed

24:39Spirit of urban

24:40Better keep on my good side

24:42Scooter

24:43We gotta get going

24:44Let's get out of here

24:45Pull out

24:50We're rolling out

24:52Copy

24:58First load

25:05Finally

25:08We're feeling much alive

25:09We're feeling much better

25:12Feeling happy now

25:13Heading into Garden Hill

25:25In the remote island lake region

25:27Garden Hill

25:28Finally made it

25:30Todd's racing to offload 45,000 pounds of steel

25:34So he can cross the lake

25:35And pick up another load by the end of the day

25:38I'm going to get this thing unloaded

25:40Right back out on the ice roads

25:45I got to turn and burn

25:45I got another load

25:46I got to get picked up

25:47Delivered 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

25:58Is the forklift is not big enough

25:59To move these pallets off the back of this trailer

26:02We're going to grab this whole pallet

26:03See 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

26:34Veteran driver Todd Dewey

26:41Is racing to turn and burn

26:42So 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

26:50I thought this is the only way we're going to be able to get it unloaded with the machines that we had

26:53Let's get the hell out of here

27:07I got another ice road to do

27:10Came up with a good solution for the bus didn't we

27:13Nicely done

27:20450 miles to the west

27:23John Harris is strategizing with his business partners

27:32Sons Riley and Zach

27:34My boys, they've both been driving since they were five years old

27:37And at 15 probably knew more than guys who've been doing it 20 years

27:40They need a plan to salvage the season

27:43If 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

27:51And that's not generally a good thing

27:54One day when you have 32 years under your belt

27:56Then you can go to Mexico too

27:58I had that under my belt before I was 20

28:00Oh

28:02He is hot tempered

28:06But he's a hard worker

28:07And he'll do whatever he has to do to get the job done

28:10You gotta have a couple handsome capable sons for you can do that

28:14Zach is the exact opposite to myself and his younger brother Riley

28:20Zach is probably one of the most relaxed, easy going guys you'll ever meet

28:25We had lots of snow up north so

28:27Chris, piss off

28:30Chris be my third son is a potbelly pig

28:35When we got him he was no bigger than a loaf of bread

28:40Now he's about 250 pounds

28:43And he used to ride in the semi with me all the time

28:45He absolutely loved it

28:45He'd put his little feet up on the dash and look out the window

28:48Like I don't have enough problems in my life

28:52Wollaston is absolutely closed right now

28:54And 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

29:07So then those cold temperatures can't absorb to freeze as fast and as hard as we need it

29:13So I think right now we're going to do some things that we don't normally do this time of year

29:17Yep, we'll do what we gotta do

29:19We're going to have a tough winter

29:21Approaching island lake outside garden hill

29:30Ice crossing just opened up

29:32It's only open for uh light light traffic which means it's not open for full wage yet

29:36Veteran driver todd dewey is facing a 13 mile lake crossing on ice barely thick enough to hold his empty truck

29:44That's kind of spooky if you think about it

29:59It's been ice means anything can happen

30:07Here we go

30:13He's on a deadline to pick up a backhaul today that's going to musky creek

30:20And the fastest way to saint theresa point

30:23Is 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

30:30Because most likely you ain't making her home

30:31That's what could go wrong

30:32It's life and death up here

30:43A little concerned right now

30:46I'm not hearing a lot of noise out of the ice

30:52The cracking of the ice is always spooky

30:53But that's part of the ice crossing you want to hear cracking

30:57That actually means that the ice is really really strong

30:59When you can't hear any noise at all that's not a good sign

31:06I don't like that I don't like that one single bit not at all

31:11Cracking 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

31:22It could shatter

31:24Releasing Todd and his truck into the clutches of the deadly frigid depths

31:37And off the ice

31:43Hell yeah

31:46Let's go get my next load turn to burn

31:54On the other side of the lake

32:00I'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

32:16So when you come upon a hill it's not smooth and it's really abrupt and sharp

32:22The musky creek truck is getting up deep down as lisa faces a final series of hills standing between her and the offload

32:30A little rowdy at the moment it's supposed to get worse

32:33What was that?

32:44I gotta check this out and this is a horrible place to do it

32:48It sounds like it's under the hood

32:52It's really loud right here

32:54Oh dear Lord

33:06Oh dear Lord

33:08More.

33:26Oh, there's the bottle.

33:29The hose came up.

33:31The road to Garden Hill.

33:34A little rowdy at the moment.

33:37Gattered Lisa in her truck.

33:40And knocked out the hose that moves compressed air from the turbo to the engine.

33:45Without 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. My gosh.

33:55I actually think I'm going to have to turn the truck off because there's pressure coming out 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 gravy, preventing the truck from restarting.

34:25Oh, f**k.

34:33Easy, tiger.

34:37Okay.

34:40It's a cold.

34:41I'm going to get out of the way.

34:50Oh, my.

34:52I'm kind of in a hurry because I want to get out of the way of the truck.

34:55And I want to make sure my truck cools down too much.

34:58And that's going to really screw me.

35:05Get the truck started here.

35:06All right, love.

35:09You ready?

35:11Because it's cold.

35:17Bye, yeah.

35:21Oh, all right.

35:28It's cold.

35:35Started!

35:36I'm going to get out of this guy's way.

35:44Okay, I feel really bad for holding a lot on that.

35:47We're a skinny spot, of course.

35:50All right.

35:51Back to bumping up and down here.

35:53Okay.

36:06Back across the lake.

36:11So I finally made it into St. Therese Point here.

36:13It's always exciting to get in a backhaul.

36:15It just means you're actually getting paid for the way back to you, not just the way there.

36:18So 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.

36:29This is an isolated community.

36:32We usually go from one community to another community using those boats.

36:37It's very important.

36:38The only way we get things delivered is just like Santa.

36:45The trailer is this wide.

36:48And the boat is this wide.

36:50There's no margin for error.

36:51Okay.

36:55Let's go real slow and easy.

37:00Keep going.

37:01You're good.

37:04That was just making me nervous.

37:05I know.

37:06Me too.

37:10Good.

37:11You're okay.

37:11Come on.

37:13You're coming.

37:15You're coming.

37:15You wanted to turn as you're coming on like that.

37:18Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

37:20Just hang tight right there for a minute.

37:24Yeah.

37:25I need to get this straightened out.

37:32It's working.

37:38This is a lot of work.

37:40Who said the ice roads are easy, right?

37:42The boat pickup was a little bit more than what I expected.

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.

38:00You've got a lot of ice road left to go to get out of here.

38:12Let's make some tracks.

38:13After 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.

38:24She's going to be tight.

38:32One oversized in that.

38:34This is a road that I've never been on.

38:36All these roads I've never been on.

38:39This is going to be all kinds of fun.

38:41Here we go.

38:42Oh, yeah, baby.

38:50Springs are working hard.

38:53Oh, yeah, that felt good.

38:55Right up the stinker on that one.

38:58Holy...

39:03It's rough.

39:06It's terrible.

39:12Is it really...

39:13We're just in touch of it in, and it's terrible.

39:20It's going to be interesting to see what happens here.

39:25Not much room.

39:27It's a narrow-ass room, and we are wide.

39:31So am I, but so is the load.

39:36As Scooter races into the bush,

39:42Todd's heading in the opposite direction.

39:48Get 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, really beating the load around.

40:06Ah, 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 is 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...

41:03Oh, gosh.

41:05Oh, gosh.

41:05The ice road truckers battle brutal roads.

41:08Any more bumps?

41:12My boobs are going to smack me in the face and be black in my eyes.

41:16Oh.

41:18And all massive loads.

41:21Holy crap.

41:23I don't want to tip this over.

41:26Hey, you're going to take that.

41:27Perfect.

41:27The main concern is busy ice crossings being a maximum weight.

41:33Come on.

41:34Come on.

41:35You can do it.

41:36You can do it.

41:39The drivers must work together.

41:42Can you not stick around with it while 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 is their one shot.

42:04The truck's on fire.

42:05Come on.

42:05Tell me this.

42:06Go get your heart pumping.

42:07Ah!

42:09Oh.

42:09Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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